Templates.com continues its weekly action and is glad to present a new Free Illustration of the Week! It’s a high-grade vector illustration of a snowboarder on a sky blue background. Being one of the people’s favorite winter sports, snowboarding becomes more and more popular, especially since it was recognized as an official sport. This illustrations is full of dynamism and energy and is associated with determination, vigor, courage and success.
Use it to personalize your project and stay original and up-to-date!

This image is available in three formats (.PNG, .CDR, .EPS) and in different resolutions: 708 x 514, 1477 x 1071, 2954 x 2142. As it is a vector illustration it’s perfect for printing - from a small card to billboard size! The only thing you need to download it is to register at Templates.com if you haven’t done it yet. The registration is also free. So, don’t miss a chance to get this high quality illustration that will be perfect for any project: multimedia presentations, web pages, desktop publishing, e-mail, posters, t-shirts, sign-making, print-making, etc. With the help of this cute image you may create attractive placemats and decorate greeting cards and invitations for Christmas holidays. By the way, it’s an excellent opportunity to verify the quality of our illustrations and try your skills before purchasing.

Please note: this free product is intended only for your personal or educational use. You are not allowed to use it with commercial purposes.

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2008 seems to have slipped by us in a blink of an eye. And during these holidays we are all full of faith in special wonders. We set our minds on doing something and make resolutions. We dream and hope looking back to the past and recalling every best thing that happened to us and analyzing the mistakes we have ever done in the outgoing year.

The beginning of a new year means a beginning of a new life period, new ideas and plans. And Templates.com wishes all its customers, visitors, contributers, blog readers and subscribers to have in 2009:

12 months of sound health,
53 weeks of creative power,
365 days of happiness,
8760 hours of success,
525600 minutes of love, and
315360000 seconds of pleasant moments.

Open the world of new possibilities for you and achieve the highest results! And Templates.com promises to do its best to help you in it.

Happy Holidays! See you next year!

Winter’s here. And while everyone else is trying to remember where they packed away their skis and snowboards, Templates.com continues its weekly action and is glad to present a new Free Illustration of the Week! It’s a high-grade bright illustration of Christmas presents and decorations. And it’s absolutely free. This image is associated with joy and creativity and represents enthusiasm and happiness. Personalize your project and stay original and up-to-date!

This image is available in two formats (.PNG, .PSD) and in different resolutions: 900 x 606, 1875 x 1263 1875 x 1263 and 1875 x 1263. The only thing you need to download it is to register at Templates.com if you haven’t done it yet. The registration is also free. So, don’t miss a chance to get this high quality illustration that will be perfect for any project: multimedia presentations, web pages, desktop publishing, e-mail, posters, t-shirts, sign-making, print-making, etc. With the help of this cute image you may create attractive placemats and decorate greeting cards and invitations for Christmas holidays. By the way, it’s an excellent opportunity to verify the quality of our illustrations and try your skills before purchasing.

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Templates.com team is glad to announce that Zen Cart templates and Cre Loaded templates of premium quality are already available on the site. Our vast collection contains web templates that will be perfect for any type of business and services, e.g. art and photography, fashion, electronics, cars, sport and travel, music and media, etc.

Zen Cart, being a free, user-friendly open source shopping cart software, can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills. It provides everything needed to maintain a shopping cart web site. But you shouldn’t disregard the design, as it is a face of your store. So, if you want to give your website a design it deserves, then our Zen Cart templates are the perfect solution for you. Just take a look at some of them.

Fashion Zen Cart Template # 139	Fashion Zen Cart Template # 133

Set up an online store in minutes with our Zen Cart Templates - all you have to do is to change the images and texts so they fit your brand.

Food & Drink Zen Cart Template # 116	Zen Cart Template # 138

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Hey, just look around! Christmas is in the air! And I hope, in people’s hearts as well. Everyone is involved in a pre-holiday rush, trying to manage all things and finish the started work. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given — Christmas was and will always be one of the pleasant days of the year!

Wherever you might throw a look at, you will see the catchy and attractive decorations, ornaments and Christmas. All this once again reminds us of the forth coming holidays, brings joy to our hearts, encourages us and inspires vigour in us. Even if you enter some website, you will definitely see the differences in the interface we accustomed to.

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For example, DeviantArt - the largest art community in the world. It was one of the first who prepared for holidays season beforehand.
At DeviantArt you may share and sell your artwork, start your Art Collection and track your favorite artists.

Template Monster - world leading web design company. Of course it should look modern and up-to-date to maintain its reputation.
TemplateMonster provides customers with valuable web design products and services.It’s a pioneer in creating and selling high quality website templates.

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Till Nowak is a 28 year old digital artist, designer and filmmaker from Germany. His work has been exhibited in hundreds of international film festivals, featured at SIGGRAPH 2006 and 2007 and was awarded with more than 35 first prizes, for example in Annecy or at the AFI Fest Hollywood. The shortfilm called “Delivery”, a kind of a science fiction fairy tale, that was created as his graduation work, changed his life having brought him fame and popularity.

Currently Till is working for creative agencies, film productions, and independent projects. Besides his studio work Till has given lectures about his workflows in international events, and worked as jury member in various film festivals. Undoubtedly, he is a gifted person with huge potential! but let him personally tell about himself.

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Please, tell about yourself, your background and education. How did you get into computer graphics?

I was born in 1980, my parents are artists, too, and so I was always surrounded by art and creativity. As a child I had the chance to play a lot with my fathers videocamera and super8 cameras and do little stop motion films. My mother bought me my first computer when I was 12. The mix of art, film and my PC gave me so many possibilities and thrilled me in so many ways that I began to work professionally very early. When I was 19 I founded my studio “frameboX”. I started as my own boss and I always wanted it to stay that way, so I never worked in another company, not even for one day and not even as an intern. First I did a lot of classical print and web design, but over the years I specialized in computer generated images and animations. Besides my independent artworks and the jobs for TV and creative agencies, I was travelling around the world during the past three years, mainly because of film festival events in which I participated with my shortfilm “Delivery”.

“Can’t Smile without You” by Till Nowak.

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Christmas is a very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing old traditions. And while all people around are busy with holiday preparations, Templates.com continues its weekly action and is glad to present a new Free Illustration of the Week! It’s a high-grade bright cartoon illustration of Santa Claus with tons of gifts. And it’s absolutely free. This image is associated with joy and creativity and represents enthusiasm and happiness. Personalize your project and stay original and up-to-date!

This image is available in four formats (.PNG, .AI, .EPS, .PSD) and in different resolutions: 600 x 901, 1250 x 1877 and 2500 x 3754. As it is a vector illustration it’s perfect for printing - from a small card to billboard size! The only thing you need to download it is to register at Templates.com if you haven’t done it yet. The registration is also free. So, don’t miss a chance to get this high quality illustration that will be perfect for any project: multimedia presentations, web pages, desktop publishing, e-mail, posters, t-shirts, sign-making, print-making, etc. With the help of this cute image you may create attractive placemats and decorate greeting cards and invitations for Christmas holidays. By the way, it’s an excellent opportunity to verify the quality of our illustrations and try your skills before purchasing.

Please note: this free product is intended only for your personal or educational use. You are not allowed to use it with commercial purposes.

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Not so long ago the collection of Templates.com was enriched with free fractal wallpapers. These are awesome 3D Fractal Art Works created by Serdar Camlica and 3D Fiction Studio. His works are captivating and impressive, they provoke our imagination and amaze with their unique beauty and light effects. Each Fractal work, being abstract in its nature, poses some mystery and makes us plunge into another world, world of our imagination.

For those who are not familiar with Fractal art and don’t know how it looks like, it should be mentioned that Fractals are self-similar geometric objects with both aesthetical and scientific uses. Fractal Art is created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, music, or other media. Fractal art is usually created indirectly with the assistance of a computer, iterating through three phases: setting parameters of appropriate fractal software, executing the possibly lengthy calculation and evaluating the product.

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So, today we would like to introduce you the author of these astonishing Fractal works - Serdar Camlica. He gladly agreed to tell about himself and his work.

Serdar Camlica was born in Munich in a working class Turkish family in Germany. In 1977 the family moved to Istanbul, where Serdar attended primary school. During these years he started to discover what he could do with the Basic programming language. Serdar’s first experiments were with trigonometrical shapes, and sound synthesis. Meanwhile he started taking basic piano and jazz lessons because music has always been his passion. He worked on progressive rock and jazz rock compositions and improvisations and played in the high school music band and then in the jazz and rock clubs. Serdar also performed several solo concerts.

Serdar Camlica: “During my first years of studying at Yildiz Technical University, my favorite course was technical perspective drawing. A year later I transferred to Mimar Sinan University Faculty of City Planning. During that time my musical career became more active, and I was improving my skills in computer based music. During my last year of studies in 1993 an older friend who was a very successful engineer introduced me to AutoCAD design, technical drawing and CAD (Computer Aided Design). After reading some AutoCAD books I found myself totally involved in the CAD and CG worlds.”

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Do you like winter? Personally I do. Snow, frosty weather, skating rings, snowball fights, evenings near fireplaces, and of course Christmas and all warm and pleasant feelings related to this magic holiday - everything makes me feel elated and thrilled. At the same time winter is a time when I get homesick what makes me closer to my near and dear ones.

And on this occasion I would like to bring to your notice a wonderful collection of winter illustrations and 3D images that captured my attention and fully reproduce all winter charm and delights. So, wrap yourself warm and enjoy! * * *
Title: Winter’s Kiss
Author: Michelle Ryan
Location: Canada
Portfolio here

This image was created by a Canadian digital artist Michelle Ryan. By the way, it’s a self portrait. The fairy’s snowflake-shaped wings are amazing!

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Title: The Visitor
Author: Susan McKivergan
Location: The United States
Portfolio here

Susan McKivergan is a self taught Digital Artist. She has always been a bit artistic starting from a very early age. She started in Adobe Photoshop 7 and Paint Shop Pro 8 doing signatures & graphics for characters in popular online games. Then gradually began to develop her skills working with 3D software, Fractal software and etc. She got BA in Fine Arts at St. Petersburg College in Florida where she studied drawing, 3D Design, and Ceramics.

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