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Congratulations to the Swift3D Winners!

June 18, 2008 | Posted in News | 14 Comments »

The contest is over and the winners have been notified! Congratulations to The Agile Badger, Jessica, and Brian, the 3 lucky winners of their very own copy of Swift3D v5, made possible by Electric Rain Software. It was a great contest with over 700 entries making it the second biggest contest to date. If you didn’t win, but you just have to have a copy, remember that you can get 15% of Swift3D with the discount code of ‘BITTBOX. ‘ Again, congrats to the winners, I hope you enjoy the software, and I hope it makes your life a little easier :)

Free Stuff: 3 Copies of Swift3D V5 Up for Grabs, Comment to Win
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Free Stuff: 3 Copies of Swift3D V5 Up for Grabs, Comment to Win

June 12, 2008 | Posted in Freebies, Software | 721 Comments »

Its time for some more free stuff everyone, and I have a good little giveaway for you! The kind folks over at Electric Rain have offered up 3 copies of Swift3D V5 ($249 value each) to 3 lucky BittBox commenters. If you’re not familiar with Swift3D, it’s a very powerful 3D modeling/animation software that makes it super easy and fast to create stunning 3D animations and import them directly into Flash without writing a single line of code. Even if you don’t win, enter the promotional code “BITTBOX” to save 15% off the regular price. Details and more on the software after the jump.

Free Stuff: 3 Copies of Swift3D V5 Up for Grabs, Comment to Win
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BB Free Font: Fusty Saddle

June 10, 2008 | Posted in BB Free Fonts, Freebies | 53 Comments »

Alright everyone, I’ve just finished up a new font I’ve been working on for your downloading pleasure! My inspiration for this font came from Sideshow, by Harold’s fonts. I hand drew every character on paper before tweaking them on screen. The font contains A through Z and 0 through 9. In case you’re wondering what ‘fusty’ is, it means “Old fashioned in attitude or style.” It was a fun font to make, and I hope you all put it to good use :)

BB Free Font: Fusty Saddle
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Illustrator 101: Escape Text Boxes without the Mouse

June 2, 2008 | Posted in Illustrator | 78 Comments »

This is a quick Illustrator tip, but in my opinion, a priceless one if its new to you. Have you ever been typing in Illustrator and hit the “V” key to select the move tool (or any other tool shortcut for that matter), but instead, Illustrator just types a v? Yeah, it happened to me all the time, until I figured this out. Are you tired of having to click on the move tool, then click on the artboard, then click the text tool, and then click again, just to start another empty text box? It’s truly annoying to be stripped of your tool shortcuts while you’re editing an active text box, but help is only one keystroke away.

Illustrator 101: Escape Text Boxes without the Mouse
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Free Vectors: Hand-drawn Decorative Ornaments II

May 28, 2008 | Posted in Freebies | 34 Comments »

I’m back from about a week-long hiatus, and I wanted to kick things back off with some killer freebies. This is another set of “hand-drawn” decorative ornaments. A lot of you seemed to like the first set and I enjoy making them, so I decided to crank out some more. These were hand sketched on pencil/paper then scanned and converted to vectors. They may not look like vectors, but trust me, they are. Available in EPS and SVG, as always. Preview of what’s inside after the jump.

Free Vectors: Hand-drawn Decorative Ornaments II
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