Tutorials
Become a Master Designer: Rule Five: Add depth to your designs.
Part Five of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Catch up on the first four rules here First, let me apologize for the long hiatus I took from this particular series of articles. It’s been really busy around…
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- Tagged: illustration
How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 2: Animation
In the last post, I showed you how to make 8-bit characters in Adobe Illustrator. In this post, we will animate those characters in Adobe Photoshop using the Animation Window. 1. CREATE A NEW PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT To Begin, open up…
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- Tagged: Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 1: Design
Have you ever wanted to make a kick ass animation of 8-BIT characters tearing each other to shreds? Well now you can. In this tutorial, I will take you through the process of creating vectorized 8-bit characters for use in…
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- Tagged: Illustrator, illustration, Adobe Illustrator
How to design a t-shirt on a budget and a tight deadline
Monday morning. You’re walking into work (or in some of your cases, waking up in your undies and walking 10 feet to your desk). You pound some coffee and peruse your inbox. You have a present. One of your regulars…
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- Tagged: Illustrator, apparel, Adobe Illustrator
Painter X Inking and Brush Settings
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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…
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…
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- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
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…
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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……
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- Tagged: Illustrator, Photoshop
Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)
Ink Bleeding Effect from Go Media on Vimeo.
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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…
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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…
- Categorized: Web Design, Tutorials
- Tagged: web design
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…
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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…
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- Tagged: Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator
Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development
Some of you may know, I’m a typography nut and I have created a few fonts for Go Media’s Arsenal. This article is little precursor to a more extensive article that we’ll submit later on about finding inspiration for typeface…
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Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 6 – Additional Functionality and Resources
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
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- Tagged: web design
A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.
Hey people! It’s Dave again giving you all yet another excuse to get your knowledge on. This isn’t as direct as my previous Gigposter Tutorial (by the way – thanks to everyone who found that helpful!) because I’m actually covering…
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- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Illustrator
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 5 – Drupal Admin
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
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- Tagged: web design
Ornate Lettering Tutorial 2
This tutorial I wrote on Ornate Lettering is now available for free on Computer Art’s website.
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- Tagged: Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 4 – Theming Drupal
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
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- Tagged: web design