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Win a SOSFactory mascot from BloggingTips

6 May 2007

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Win a SOSFactory mascot from BloggingTips

Hello mates, time for a competition!!! my buddy Kevin from Bloggingtips is running a cool SEO (search engine optimization) competition, the 1st prize: a SOSFactory Mascot and a domain name. Read the whole post to know more… and good luck!! The Prizes 1st Place: A complete mascot from SOSFactory worth $300 plus a free domain [...]

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The Briefing

5 May 2007

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The Briefing

Briefing is a communication instrument between the designer and the client in form of key questions to know their needs at the time of designing any product by order. It will save you time, money and misfortunes. To give the Briefing is the first this you should do, even before the estimate… If you don’t [...]

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Videotutorial: digital color with Photoshop

3 May 2007

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Videotutorial: digital color with Photoshop

To see the video just click on the image. Here is the last step when designing mascots for websites. I did this color job just to do this video, so its a short version, I usually spend around 3h per mascot design when I work from sosfactory, but this would be too long, impossible to [...]

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Videotutorial: digital inking with Photoshop

3 May 2007

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Videotutorial: digital inking with Photoshop

This is a photoshop tutorial where I show how to clean lineart done in a traditional way. Its the usual process we do at time to design mascots for websites from sosfactory. Please click in the image to see it Notice this tutorial is just to clean lineart, if you want to do digital drawing [...]

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How to create a 3d logo in Photoshop

3 May 2007

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How to create a 3d logo in Photoshop

This is an advanced Photoshop tutorial , i’ll give more importance to the procedure here and i’m not going to explain the tools in thoroughness. If you have any difficulties to follow it, i recommend you to practice a bit with some simpler tutorials first… You could also take a look at Photoshop’s Help We [...]

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Principles of Mascot design for the web

3 May 2007

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Principles of Mascot design for the web

In this article we are going to see some general questions about mascot design for websites: composition, lines weight, file formats, styles and color schemes… You will notice that during the text there will be several links to other pages where every topic is explained in more detail. If you have any doubts about this [...]

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