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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.
Continue reading...Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls
28. July 2008
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…
Continue reading...How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 2: Animation
15. July 2008
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…
Continue reading...How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 1: Design
9. July 2008
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…
Continue reading...How to design a t-shirt on a budget and a tight deadline
4. June 2008
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…
Continue reading...Design a 6 Panel CD Package Tutorial
9. May 2008
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…
Continue reading...Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)
2. April 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…
Continue reading...Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab
22. March 2008
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…
Continue reading...A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.
6. March 2008
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…
Continue reading...Ornate Lettering Tutorial 2
3. March 2008
This tutorial I wrote on Ornate Lettering is now available for free on Computer Art’s website.
Continue reading...Intricate Patterns in Illustrator
8. January 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…
Continue reading...Ornate Lettering Process
1. November 2007
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…
Continue reading...Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art
9. October 2007
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…
Continue reading...Old School Type - Line Gradients
11. September 2007
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…
Continue reading...Step by Step: Using the Vector Packs
23. August 2007
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…
Continue reading...Revised Tutorial: From Sketch to Vector
15. August 2007
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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- 8 Free Brand Logo Download Websites You Should Know
Companies logos are always needed for client portfolios, mock-ups or presentations. In addition to our first article about downloading logos of companies, here is a collection of 7 more logo websites. The logotypes should be manually sorted and checked. All the files are available in vector formats and most of them are totally free.
29. July 2008
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