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Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 3 - XHTML
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 the bands…
Continue reading...Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop
6. February 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…
Continue reading...Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 2 - Slicing in Illustrator
30. January 2008
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 the bands…
Continue reading...Create a Killer band site in Drupal - Part 1 - Design
16. January 2008
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 the bands…
Continue reading...Create a Killer Band Site with Drupal: A 6-part Tutorial Series
10. January 2008
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 the bands…
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...Tutorial: Extreme Sports Branding
13. December 2007
In issue #142 of Computer Arts Magazine (should be in stores now) you can find Oliver’s tutorial on how to design a logo and print ad for a fictional extreme sports brand. The brand he chose to invent was Yellow…
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...Animating Spray Paint and Stencil Effect in After Effects
8. October 2007
So in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a spray paint effect using After Effects. It’s a fairly simple process but I’ve got a few tricks that you may not have thought of. Here is a…
Continue reading...Create an Old-World Look in Photoshop
17. September 2007
Our friends over at PSDtuts.com wrote a nice tutorial on using some of the Arsenal freebies to create an old-world style look in Photoshop. I thought our readers might learn a little from it so I thought I’d post a link to…
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…
Continue reading...Gigposter Design: The New Sex
3. May 2007
Tutorial Introduction: A lot of people are making them. A lot of people suck. We don’t suck, and neither do you. This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You will however need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and…
Continue reading...From Sketch to Vector Illustration
18. April 2007
Hey everyone! Welcome back to the GoMediaZine. There has been such a wonderful response on my vector art tutorial “Beautiful Vector Illustration” that I thought I better write another one. If you recall in that tutorial I discussed how to…
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12. February 2008
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