A Gallery of GIF Animated Action Heroes from the 80s and 90s

Do you remember those action heroes from the 80’s and early 90s? Names such as Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme and, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger? Well, talented Italian designers Davide Mazzuchin & Matteo Goi have created a gallery of illustrated GIFs, entitled Past Action Heroes, as a tribute to those classic heroes from their younger years. Here are some of our favorites.

Past Action Heroes Illustrations

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HTML & CSS Examples of Material Design in Action

We touched on Material Design a few months ago (Material Design GUI kits, you should check them out!) just as Google’s innovative visual language began building up a head of steam. Since then, we’ve seen many, many sites and apps that have incorporated the visual language successfully. This is going to be the year of Material Design, and we love it

Just in case you haven’t jumped on the Material Design bandwagon or aren’t fully convinced of it’s merits as yet, we’ve collected a small collection of HTML and CSS examples from Codepen that will surely convince you. Here they are:

Drawer Motion

A demonstration of how the app drawer is filled with motion in Android Lollipop. By Himateja and Jovie Brett.

Animated Tiles

A CSS-based prototype of Material Design"s animated tiles. By Sergey Kupletsky.

Morphing Icons

A collection of recreated "morphing" icons in a Material Design style. By Alberto Bonvicin.

Subtle Animation

A CSS-only recreation of Material Design"s flawless and subtle animations. By Michiel Bijl.

Immaculate Transitions

Immaculate examples of Material Design"s transitions. By Andrew Tunnecliffe.

Preloader

A Javascript (jQuery plugin) recreation of the Material Design preloader. By Aaron Lumsden.

Scaling Interaction

A simple recreation of Material Design"s scaling interactions. By Dennis Gaebel.

Form Inputs

Examples of the inputs on a Material Design form. By Sergey.

Swipe Animation

A pure-CSS example of Material Design"s intuitive card swipe animation. By Michiel Bijl.

Clean Navigation

A Material Design menu system that slides the page to reveal a clean and simple navigation. By Lewi Hussey.

Hamburger Menu

A CSS (with a sprinkle of JS) hamburger menu that has been animated in a Material Design style. By Chris Wheatley.

Loading Spinner

A CSS and SVG recreation of Material Design"s loading spinners. By Fran Pérez.

Address Bar UI

A CSS mock-up of Chrome"s Material Design address bar (including meaningful transitions). By David Khourshid.

Slide Tabs

A touch enabled side scrolling tab system that mimics Android Lollipop"s stock app drawer. By Adam Crockett.

Concluding

What are your thoughts on Material Design? Have you used it any of your projects? Also, if know of any other animated examples of Material Design, please do share them as well.

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Free Engraved Illustration Effect Action for Photoshop

My most popular tutorial of 2014 was my guide to creating a realistic money effect in Photoshop, which explained the steps to achieve an authentic engraved illustration style. The process is quite time consuming, so I figured it would be useful to follow it up with a ready made Photoshop Action that produces the effect automatically with just the click of a button. Choose from 3 levels of detail for your image, then the Action will transform your photo into a realistic engraved illustration.

This free Photoshop Action transforms your photographs into realistic engraved illustrations with the click of a button, allowing you to easily create money or wood cut style effects. An unwanted moire effect has appeared on these scaled down preview images, but at 100% scale you can see the fine detail of the engraving lines that build up the illustration with multiple tonal layers. If you want to experiment with this effect yourself, don’t forget to check out my original money effect Photoshop tutorial.

How to use the Engraved Effect Action

The download package contains the Photoshop .atn Action file and a .pat Pattern file. Load the Patterns first of all so the series of Engraving Patterns are available for the Action to use.

Make sure your image is contained on the Background layer, then choose one of the three levels of detail from the Engraved Effect Action. Press the Play button at the bottom of the Actions panel to apply the effect.

The engraved effect layers are neatly contained within a layer group. Unlink the layers with their masks in order to scale the group down in size to produce a more detailed pattern effect.

Download the Engraved Effect Photoshop Action 1mb

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