Design Basic Question

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@hibhardwaj, I will add, there are lots of tutorials within these forums that have helped me with realism, such as:

Shadows:

[TOMAJA Tutorial] Super Simple Basic 3D Effects & Shadows - ONE EFFECT

Hi there, today I will show you a really super simple effect how you could create a 3D effect and shadow (incl. dynamic hand shadows). All of this without any graphic software - using only the basic FACER CREATOR objects (and text as well): [image] As you see I was using only the standard set colors, everybody gets for the first time creating a new own watch face. Just to show the pure 3D & shadow effect. Here is the (simplified) starting position you have at the beginning (one 2D object): …

Snow:

[TOMAJA Tutorial] Snow, Snowflake & Winter Dream for Every Watch Face [How to]

Hello there! I saw in the discussion, that some designers would like to have snow in their watch faces. So here is an easy to do tutorial, how to add snow and winter atmosphere to every watch face. I opened a “sommer” watch face and put some snow to the right places in order to get this: [image] STEP 1 - Adding Static Snow (and Shadows) [image] This is the easiest part of this job. Just preparing some white places, adding texture and putting this on the watch (behind the hands …

Accelerometer:

How the Fly-In-Watchface works with interpAccel

A few people have asked how I made this watchface from the feature announcement: I’m using the new interpAccel function, along with #DWE# here’s how I did it in Facer Studios - Spring into Action! - watch face for Apple Watch, Samsung Gear S3, Huawei Watch, and more - Facer (you can use the dim toggle to see the animation restart) For the second hand (idea could be applied to any element, I reuse this logic on the minute & hour hands): X Position: (interpAccel(#DWE#,0,2,5)*160) Y Position…

[TOMAJA Mini Tutorial] Gyro 3D Interactive Wrist Movement Effects & Animations

Hello to everybody, welcome to my new tutorial, where I show you how easy and simple a super cool wrist movements interactive (2D and 3D) effect could be. We will speak about the accelerometer (gyro) functions. Actually, it is so easy that one picture explains everything [image] As you see one number is everything we need to deal with. In the picture above (most natural movements of a wrist between the angle 0 and 90 degree) this value is increasing smoothly from 0 to 10. Here is the…

Simple realistic display:

[TOMAJA Mini Tutorial] Simple Realistic Digital Display in Only Two Steps

Hi There, here is a next mini tutorial, how to make a nice small or big realistic digital display on your new watch face. Before starting you will need to download an appropriate mono space digital text font in *.ttf format (example). FIRST STEP In the first step I do write the “background”. It’s a small trick to let the old fashion display appears even more realistic. I do use numbers 8888888 and I do set the transparency usually on 10-15%. SECOND STEPS Afterwards I just copy the same “digit…

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