Articles by Year: 2008
Vietnam Werewolf shirt printed huge
Pat from Shout Out Loud Prints sent me over the first print of the Vietnam Werewolf shirt I designed. It looks great. He was able to print it huge like that. I’ll post more photos and give you all a…
Drawing Skulls with a Wacom Tablet
Draw a Skull with a Wacom Tablet from Go Media on Vimeo. This isn’t exactly a tutorial, but more of a quick “time lapse” demo of a simple illustration technique I use. In this video, I’m going to draw a…
How to print giant designs onto shirts
I thought this was pretty cool. For those of you who wonder how this kind of printing is done, here is a good example. Just get a machine like this! Demonstration video of the 12 color Workhorse Falcon E Duplex…
User Showcase Highlight: Round 11
As of this writing our Go Media User Showcase has 888 entries and 406 members. Here are a couple pieces that I thought put some of the items in Go Media’s Arsenal to good use. Specifically the Watercolor Textures! This…
Funkrush Shirt printed and up for sale
Remember the Funkrush Tee that I designed a while back? Maybe a year ago? Well, they finally printed it and you can now purchase it from the Funkrush Store. The shirts ship from the UK.
Design a 6 Panel CD Package Tutorial
A few months ago, I wrote a tutorial for Computer Arts Magazine about how I put together the CD Package for the band Hollywood Ave. I wanted to share you the link, since it’s now available for free online in…
Free Vector Pack 10 Sampler
Free vector art! Everyone loves it. So to celebrate the release of Set 10 last month, I wanted to give you all a sampler of the set. It’s got 7 of my favorite pieces. The set includes Tattoos, Lightning, Blood…
The Dreaded Design Lull – 9 Ways to Get Out of a Slump
Recognizing and reacting to a slowdown in design work. I can remember clearly when it was just me alone in my apartment running this design firm. It was easy to stay busily and happily working on a non-stop string of…
2 New Fonts to Help you Win at Life
We just released two new fonts. They are now available to purchase on Go Media’s Arsenal. These two new fonts are sure to help you attract any customer you want and ultimately win at life. Well, maybe only get you…
Velocity Control in After Effects
Velocity Control in After Effects Tutorial from Go Media on Vimeo This is a short, quick and easy tutorial showing how to use the graph editor to control the velocity of keyframes within after effects. I go over using the…
Launch of Cambria Suites Site
Go Media is pleased to present the new website for Cambria Suites. This is not your traditional hotel website with information laid out in a straightforward manner. With the unusual videos taking place in each room, you can see that…
User Showcase Highlight: Round 10
As of this writing our Go Media User Showcase has 734 entries and 358 members. Here are a couple pieces that I thought put some of the items in Go Media’s Arsenal to good use. This piece below has a…
Create a stunning undersea painting using Vector Packs
So Set 10 is out. It’s sort of sentimental because I remember when Set 1 was released and wondering to myself, “Wow, if people dig this and find some real usability out of it… we could keep cranking out sets……
What is a “Vector Pack?”
Ok, so it has come to my attention that some people who purchase stuff from Go Media’s Arsenal surprisingly have no idea what they’re buying. But they buy it anyway. Strange… Vector Packs are NOT software Some people call it…
Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)
Ink Bleeding Effect from Go Media on Vimeo.
Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)
Ink Bleeding Effect from Go Media on Vimeo. ANIMATING WITH INK EFFECTS (software required: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects with Trapcode’s Particular) In this tutorial I’ll recreate a similar look from an older Gnarls Barkley video. The principles I’ll cover are…
WordPress Skinning
Something I enjoy doing and would like to be doing more of is creating custom WordPress themes. I wouldn’t consider myself an expert, but I have managed to create a few themes so far for a few people. The theme…
Shirts for Pyknic finally printed!
Just wanted to share that the clothing company Pyknic, who hired us to design some shirts a few months ago finally has them available to purchase. Young Hollywood (designed by myself) Pyknichands (designed by Dave Tevenal) Both of these shirts…
Essential Strategies to Inking Your Pencil Drawings
Inking your Pencil Drawings by William Beachy from Go Media on Vimeo. In this video I will show you some of the ways that I ink my pencil drawings. This is my first video tutorial, so I would appreciate any…
Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab
Tutorial: Creating fonts in Illustrator and Fontlab – Part 1 from Go Media on Vimeo This video is a brief introduction into how to prepare a font you design in Adobe Illustrator for Fontlab. Fontlab is the program of choice…
12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs
This is an article written by guest author Sean Hodge from AiBURN, a blog about design, creativity, inspiration, tutorials, and vector graphics. Introduction Lettering and Typeface design is a creative endeavor that requires constant sources of motivation, influence, and inspiration.…