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How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D
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…
Continue reading...How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mockups Like Jimiyo
21. October 2008
EDITORS NOTE: Jimiyo is showcasing a template from Vol. 2 of Fitted Ladies Apparel Templates, which we’ll have ready for release in November. For now, check out Vol 1. Go Media gave me the chance to test out their new women’s…
Continue reading...Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography
13. October 2008
Hello, my name is Alex Beltechi, a designer that is currently studying in college and working in the print media realm. I would love to explain my vast experience and overwhelming knowledge to you, but due to the fact that…
Continue reading...How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups
7. August 2008
When designing for apparel, presentation of your proofs is very important. A detailed image of a piece simply will not suffice as an adequate proof. You want to hit the design home, and mocking it up on a t-shirt is…
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...Drawing Skulls with a Wacom Tablet
24. May 2008
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 skull in Photoshop…
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...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...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...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...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...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…
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27. October 2008
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