DIY Striped T-Shirt in 3 Easy Steps
Barton Damer gave us permission to repost his handy DIY guide on making a striped t-shirt in your own backyard with just a spray bottle, duct tape, some bleach, and some good ole American ingenuity. This weekend I had some fun with duct tape and some bleach making this tee shirt design. Check out [...]
Continue reading...Degree or No Degree?
Friday, June 5, 2009
Barton Damer was kind enough to let us repost this article on the zine. What do you think? Do you need a degree to be a designer these days? There are many potential paths you could follow in the world of “design.” Graphic Art is the term I gravitate towards the most for my [...]
Continue reading...How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D
Monday, October 27, 2008
In this tutorial I will walk through the steps I used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.” While you may not find yourself needing to recreate the word “collide,” I hope you will find useful the techniques I will cover: - extruding text in Cinema 4d - using displacement maps in Cinema 4d - [...]
Continue reading...Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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 foundational and can be used for some incredible animations other than simply imitating a great music video. Some [...]
Continue reading...Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Written by guest author Barton Damer. Introduction: This tutorial will show you step by step on how to create a “Badass Bling Effect” using layer styles in Photoshop. Once you create the layer style, you can easily “blingify” any layer. There is also a video tutorial as well. Video Tutorial STEP 1 Choose an image you want to [...]
Continue reading...Intricate Patterns in Illustrator
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
This tutorial will show you how to create intricate patterns in Illustrator super quickly. Stuff that would take you hours to draw manually with the Pen Tool takes just seconds when you use this technique. This tutorial is special because it was written by a guest author. His name is Barton Damer. [...]
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