Last month I had a post on an attractive symbol of the democratic presidential ticket (the Obama logo), this month I have a free vector illustration of an attractive symbol of the republican presidential ticket, and her home state. Enjoy.
I'll show you how to make a vector version of the Barack Obama campaign logo, and just in time for the conventions. In this tutorial we’ll be going over the Pathfinder, Envelope Warps, Opacity Masks, and Gradient Meshes. And we’ll use a drop shadow!
Last month was a really heavy month of work for us, and as a result you may have noticed that we weren’t posting as often. Thankfully, that’s all about to change (hopefully not the work load, just the fact that one way or the other we’ll be posting
This is the second step in my series of Game Design tutorials, the first being Easy Keyboard Controls and Game Design. In this tutorial I will be building on what we already have, adding asteroids and the ability to crash into them.
In this tutorial I will be going over some of the basic elements to making a game in Flash. In this, being the first in a short series of tutorials on the subject, I will cover the main game loop and keyboard controls involved in an "Asteroids" type
These are some Photoshop patterns based on some Indonesian batik fabric. In this Pack there are 6 different color schemes ranging from nice to WEIRD. There is a 500px wide and a 250px wide version of each pattern. Have fun my friends! Let us know if
I have another simple but neat, little tutorial here on Flash CS3 filters. This time I’m not using Tweens at all. Our effect is going to use the MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE event to create the illusion of a light source coming from our cursor.
Theses Illustrator swatches are based on a beautiful Indonesian batik fabric I saw and couldn’t get out of my mind. It’s exotic, a little trippy, and a lot of fun to play around with. I set up three different color schemes: a regal orange and blue,
We managed to get some really useful textures, and we thought you might be able to use some of them as well. This week we have a bunch of brick textures. Let us know if you liked these, and would be interested in some of the other textures we amasse
I’m finishing up a cool vector swatch based on a beautiful Indonesian batik. In anticipation of that freebie, I wanted to offer another one, our first wallpaper offering.
For any dynamic Flash project, XML will be a powerful tool. One of the most common examples (and one of the simplest) is a picture gallery. I will be talking about how to use Flash and XML to make a simple, yet superfly, gallery.
This is the first in a series on turning the Default WP Theme into something wonderful. Today we’re going to go over the basic structure of a Wordpress Theme. If you are having any issues with the install, feel free to contact either through the com
The Twitter feed options provided by Twitter are severely lacking, either an ugly flash feed, or an ugly xhtml feed. So I’m going to show you how to create your own custom twitter feed.
You really lucked out today. For the first time ever, we’re offering free Illustrator pattern swatches. This set is a collection of curved and angled patterns. There are six total: curved and sharp flat b&w, curved and sharp shaded, and curved and s
Hey everyone! Have some free speech bubbles. There’s a rectanglish one, a circley one, 2 puffy bubbles with varying degrees of puffiness, and a straight edged bubble.
Box2DFlash v2.0.0 was finally released on the 17th of this month (April). Box2DFlash is the Flash AS3 port of Erin Catto’s C++ physics engine Box2D. Erin Catto is a physics programmer at Blizzard Entertainment (WarCraaaft!). We'll go over some of th
Creating an MP3 Player in ActionScript 3.0 is fairly straight forward. I don’t plan on getting into ID3 tags here, but otherwise (as you can see) I will be going over the full functionality of a normal MP3 Player with playlist.
Get our your top hats, monocles, and cashmere, because we have some fancy pants vectors this week. Now you can feel like John D. Rockefeller, Audrey Hepburn, or Scrooge McDuck, surrounded by your very own high class vectors. Have fun you swanky peop