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How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

29. July 2008

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How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

Everyone loves to give away free vectors, but what about teaching a man to fish? Here's how to create your own wings Go Media style. In this tutorial you'll need Adobe Illustrator and some skills with the pen tool.

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Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls

28. July 2008

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Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls

Hey it’s a Monday morning freebie! This one took a little extra time to make, so I really hope you enjoy it. It is (mostly) seamless, so you can drop it into your swatches panel and fill any shape with…

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How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 2: Animation

15. July 2008

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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 a new…

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How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 1: Design

9. July 2008

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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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How to design a t-shirt on a budget and a tight deadline

4. June 2008

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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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Design a 6 Panel CD Package Tutorial

9. May 2008

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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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Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)

2. April 2008

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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 foundational and can be used…

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Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab

22. March 2008

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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 for building and managing…

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A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.

6. March 2008

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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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Ornate Lettering Tutorial 2

3. March 2008

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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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Intricate Patterns in Illustrator

8. January 2008

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Intricate Patterns in Illustrator

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…

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Ornate Lettering Process

1. November 2007

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Ornate Lettering Process

I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by…

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Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

9. October 2007

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Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows you…

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Old School Type - Line Gradients

11. September 2007

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Old School Type - Line Gradients

One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen…

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Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs

23. August 2007

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Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs

We get quite a few people calling every day with trouble opening or using our Vector Packs. I decided to write a tutorial specifically to help out newbies who aren’t exactly sure what they’ve just purchased. It’s amazing to know…

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Revised Tutorial: From Sketch to Vector

15. August 2007

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Revised Tutorial: From Sketch to Vector

For those unaware, our Sketch to Vector tutorial was taken down for legal reasons as per request by our client. But Bill has spent the past few days reworking it with new artwork. We’ve reposted it and it’s back online! Check…

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