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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…
Continue reading...How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings
29. July 2008
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...Become a Master Designer: Rule Five: Add depth to your designs.
23. July 2008
Part Five of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Catch up on the first four rules here First, let me apologize for the long hiatus I took from this particular series of articles. It’s been really busy around here. I…
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...Painter X Inking and Brush Settings
27. May 2008
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…
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...Velocity Control in After Effects
16. April 2008
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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7. August 2008
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