Tag Archive | "tutorial"

How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mockups

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…

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How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

Tuesday, July 29, 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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How to make an animated GIF with 8-Bit Characters: Part 2: Animation

Tuesday, July 15, 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

Wednesday, July 9, 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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Go Media User Link Feed

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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Go Media User Link Feed

Hey folks! This is the Go Media User Link Feed. Everyone is allowed to submit a link and give a short description. It will show up in the sidebar on every page on the GOMEDIAZINE. However, all links submitted must…

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Accountants, lawyers, and doctors, oh my! A designer’s guide to business.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

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Accountants, lawyers, and doctors, oh my!  A designer’s guide to business.

Before I get started I want to stress a few things. First and fore most, it should ALWAYS be your goal to run your business 100% legally. This means paying ALL your taxes and following ALL laws. If you truly want…

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

Wednesday, June 4, 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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Painter X Inking and Brush Settings

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

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Painter X Inking and Brush Settings

Switching to Painter X from Ray Frenden on Vimeo. I found this video while reading my friend Ray Frenden’s blog. It’s a different take on doing digital inks. This time he’s using Painter instead of his usual Manga Studio. Notice he’s not using…

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Drawing Skulls with a Wacom Tablet

Saturday, May 24, 2008

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Drawing Skulls with a Wacom Tablet

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…

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Design a 6 Panel CD Package Tutorial

Friday, May 9, 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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Velocity Control in After Effects

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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Velocity Control in After Effects

Velocity Control in After Effects Tutorial from Go Media on Vimeo. This is a short, quick and easy tutorial showing how to use the graph editor to control the velocity of keyframes within after effects. I go over using the easy ease function…

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Create a stunning undersea painting using Vector Packs

Friday, April 11, 2008

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Create a stunning undersea painting using Vector Packs

So Set 10 is out. It’s sort of sentimental because I remember when Set 1 was released and wondering to myself, “Wow, if people dig this and find some real usability out of it… we could keep cranking out sets……

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Ink Bleeding Effect in After Effects (Like Gnarls)

Wednesday, April 2, 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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Essential Strategies to Inking Your Pencil Drawings

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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Essential Strategies to Inking Your Pencil Drawings

Inking your Pencil Drawings by William Beachy from Go Media on Vimeo. In this video I will show you some of the ways that I ink my pencil drawings. This is my first video tutorial, so I would appreciate any advice or tips. …

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Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 6 - Additional Functionality and Resources

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal - Part 6 - Additional Functionality and Resources

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…

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A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.

Thursday, March 6, 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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