Archive for November, 2008
Today we are going to go over Dynamic art, vector art that isn’t destructive to the vector paths. Basically this keeps things like text editable. Why would you do this? Well for example, if your designing a post card that has variable data and is going out to 10,000 people and you want it so the receiver gets their name printed on the card, but you want it to look designed and not just plain tex, then you need Dynamic text. Kodak, Epson, and Cannon either offer or are working on printers that support Variable data and Dynamic text. Today we will look at designing it so the printers can re-type the text on the fly.
Here is the goal of today’s tutorial.
Today marks the birth of a new series of freebies here at BittBox. I’ve collaborated with Caleb at LostAndTaken, and we are going to produce 5 Free High Resolution Textures EVERY TUESDAY OF THE YEAR! Today is the first in that series, so without further ado, happy downloading :)
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Congrats to Alex, Jesse, and Melody. They were the lucky 3 who won 300 Hi Resolution textures from Colorburned. But remember, even if you didn’t win, you can get all 6 texture packs for $25 by using the discount code “BITTBOXFRIEND.” (That’s roughly $0.08 per texture) I’d also like to thank Grant at Colorburned for making the contest possible. Thanks for everyone’s participation :)
On Election Day, I asked everyone what kind of freebies you wanted the most, and the majority of you voted for vectors. So, naturally I made a free vector set for everyone, and here it is. Birds in Flight, 12 vectors available in EPS and SVG formats. Hope you like ‘em! Tweet Tweet :)
Who wants some free stuff? Yeah, I know, we all do. Grant from Colorburned wants to spread the word about his awesome high-res texture packs, and that’s what I intend to help him do. The Colorburned shop has 6 ginormous texture packs, and 3 lucky commenters will be downloading all of them. But wait, I’m not done. Even if you don’t win one of the (3) grand prizes, you can still get a discount on these texture packs, which are already very affordable. Everyone wins! So if you just can’t wait, put all 6 packs in your cart and enter the code BITTBOXFRIEND to take $10 the 50% price, bringing the total price to $25. (That’s roughly $0.08 per texture folks)
1) Pavement Pack
Before I start, let me say that this is by no means the only way to make a hand drawn font. Ever since I began giving away fonts, I’ve had many requests for me to write a tutorial on my font making process, so here it is. This is how I do it, and depending on your responses, I can go deeper into a FontLab Studio tutorial. This tutorial, however, is designed to reveal my process from start to finish. A lot of you may not have FontLab Studio, so you may need to adapt the second half of the tutorial to whatever font software you may have access to. Here we go.
I almost forgot I had this font laying around. It’s called 23rd Street, and it’s another free demo version font for everyone to download. It’s not my best font, but it’s still a font :) Click here if you’re interested in the full version. I just started a big project, so I’ll get on those vectors in a couple days. I’ve also been listening to all of the comments about a portfolio wordpress theme, and I think I might be able to come up with something sufficient. Time will tell. Hope you like the font :)
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