January 2014 Freelance Forum

Here is a resource for my students that were at Fridays Art of Freelance forum presentation. I have compiled a PDF of resources that were discussed during the lecture and some others that will help you get started. Enjoy!

http://www.mdsmithdesign.com/FS/FreelanceResources.pdf

Heres a sneak peak of the album layout I have been putting together for Vieniste, a french pop band from Santa Monica. This latest release will be there first full album, compared to their E.P I designed a few years ago. These guys have a smooth chill sound that I love to listen to while designing. I will post pics of the printed layout after its sent off to disc makers. Au Revoir!

Star Wars Celebration VI Photos

Had a really great time this past weekend attending the convention. I went to represent Full Sail University on the exhibit floor for a few days. During my time talking with people, teaching some photoshop techniques on our Cintique and just educating them on what the school is about I met some great people.

Along the way of doing all that I was able to walk around and capture some great pics of the creative and dedicated fans of Star Wars.

The highlight of my weekend was meeting some people that I have been big fans of over the years. Warwick Davis, Jeremy Packer (Zombie Yeti) and Josh Smith (Hydro 74). I was able to hang with long time friend Mark McKenna (comic book artist) as well and just had to buy some great art prints, get some fun toys for my desk and just have a blast. Below is a link to my Flickr page to check out some of the pics. Enjoy!

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Star Wars Celebration VI

Excited to be working the Full Sail University booth for Star Wars Celebration next week! Hope to see some students, peers and fellow nerds around the floor. Stop by the Full Sail booth and say hello!

Lecturing today at Full Sail University, in front of the Finals Department student body (5 classes worth of students) and the faculty. Should be great, have new material and lots more to share to help our students be prepared for starting their careers!

Text Effect in Photoshop

The talented contributors to Abduzeedo, give another great text tutorial to keep up with the Hipster crowd.

http://abduzeedo.com/hipster-text-effect-photoshop-cs6

Gotta love his skills...

Inspirational to see this guy at work, I wonder how long it took to get this style to work.

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