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Greetings everyone! I’m very proud to announce the launch of CG.CreativeFan, a tutorial website aimed at inspiring, educating and helping aspiring and established computer graphics professionals, digital artists and enthusiasts.

We’ll publish frequent tutorials on modeling, texturing, rendering and animation in a variety of 3D software packages. Whether you like Maya, 3D Studio Max, Blender, Cinema4D, Modo, ZBrush, Vue, Terragen or even ones not listed here, we’ll work hard to ensure that all your learning needs are met. Over the future weeks, we’re looking to publish tutorials on architecture visualization and creation, sci-fi element creation, realistic object creation, digital painting (including matte painting), character creation, animation, terrain modeling and generation, fundamentals of composition, and much more.

If you’re a blogger, we also have a community link feed that you can submit your articles to, located on the sidebar. If you’re an author or you want to contribute to the site, please check out our Write For Us page. Lastly, if you’re an advertiser, please consider supporting creativity and promoting your brand to our excellent audience, and check out our available advertisement spots.

We recognize that we’re a new and growing network. Therefore, we need your input on pretty much everything in order to know how to best meet your individual needs. Although we rigorously tested the site before launch, we recognize that new sites occasionally have functionality issues. If you find any, please let us know, and please leave your thoughts on our posts in the comments section, or if you’d like to contact us directly, please check out our contact form.

On behalf of everyone here at CG.CreativeFan, welcome to our community!

A majority of websites designs are based on either white or black backgrounds, and there is a simple reason for it: it works.  Black and white give excellent contrast to place the primary colors against, and they are pleasing and not distracting for the user.  Black or white backgrounds provide extra emphasis to negative space, an important concept in design, and they help provide an excellent base for the design and content.

However, choosing whether to use white or black is a bit more of a challenge.  Mood, tone, product, market demographics, competition and colors all will play an important role in choosing which color to choose.

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Last week, Yasmina from DesignFetish contributed an awesomely cool post about the perfect home and office gifts for designers. In the second part of this series, she has rounded up some perfect clothing and accessory items for geeky designers.  Having a geeky office is great, but when you really want to leave an impression and flaunt your design superiority, well, you just have to have clothing to match.

Whether you’re looking for a sleek and geeky t-shirt, earrings, pins or buttons, you’ll find some neat items and gift ideas below.  Plus, there’s even a baby t-shirt so you can indoctrinate the young ones in the ways of graphic design and ensure a rich and fulfilling life.

Didn’t find what you’re looking for here?  There’s a few sites that these items were found on where you might find other ideas, namely UnconfessableIdeas and TypographyShop, so check them out if you’re craving more.

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Geeky designers are notoriously hard to shop for.  They seem to have every gadget available, from the latest Apple iPhone or iPad, brand new drawing tablet, digital camera, and of course, the newest edition of Adobe Creative Suite.  Buying them clothes is risky, if it doesn’t fit their personal fashion image, they’ll never wear it.  So, what do you buy a geeky designer as a gift?

Well, in this post, Yasmina from DesignFetish has rounded up the perfect home and office gifts for designers.  From iPhone bed sheets to the periodic table of typefaces, you’ll can’t miss with these affordable and designer-friendly gifts.

Let us know what you think in the comments, and if you have any other designer gifts that you have come across, share them with us!

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Last week, we here at CreativeFan teamed up with UPrinting to give away 500 free business cards to one lucky reader.  Well, one week has passed, so we turned to Random.org to pick a winner.

UPrinting offers a wide variety of products that range from business cards to envelope printing. This means that whether you are a small business owner looking to expand your market with flyer printing or a proud parent looking to create holiday greeting cards or postcards from a photo of your kids, UPrinting can help you by offering quality discount printing and online design help. UPrinting’s dedication to quality and strong ties to the design community make them a great choice for all your promotional printing needs.

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