Messing with Marc Cenedella from The Ladders
So during my job search, I decided to sign up for TheLadders.com. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s like monster but for 100K plus jobs only. As a joke, I signed up thinking I might be able to land me a CEO position somewhere with oh, all 5 whole years of industry experience in graphic design making over 100K. That would be awesome! Here is where TheLadders get crappy. They basically use bait and switch tactics (threw some link love to cheezhead.com for the interesting insight), which allows you to search for those jobs, but to apply for those jobs; you have to pay $30. Lame.
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3d Robot Ninja
A while ago I built the Hyperninja in 3D. I built a low poly version, only 1265 polygons, and just used a diffuse map with the texture. I built this in a crunch, but I plan on building a higher res version eventually.
This Blog Post is Lame :(
Its been a really long time since I published a blog post. Just wanted to let everyone know a few things.
- Yes I am still alive.
- I will be redesigning the site so it may look funny for a little bit
- I built the Hyperninja in 3d, he looks totally sweet
- And thanks for still reading my blog, even though I haven’t updated it in months
Check back later in another 3 months when I write another post 
This Month’s Featured Artist: Derek Bender
This month, Hyperninja is proud to introduce you to Derek Bender. Aside from being one of the best joke tellers east of the Mississippi, Derek Bender is an amazing illustration artist and web designer. You see evidence of Derek’s design is behind such projects as helpmepaymyloans.com, QGalleryart.com and floridadeathmetal.com. We interviewed Bender to find out a little more about him.
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Tutorial: Create Rays in Photoshop
You have seen them everywhere. Vector or vector-like rays are currently a staple across design mediums, appearing consistently in print, web, and television advertising. Here we apply a stealthy ninja technique to quickly knock out some photoshop rays. This technique produces great quick results, however it should be noted that sharper edges can be created through other techniques using vector shapes.
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SEO Rap Song
I think SEO has reached a new level. You can learn all you need to know about SEO by memorizing this rap. And always remember:
follow these instructions when you move into production
your photoshop functions then slice that design
do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned
please don’t use tables even though they work fine
when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time
Word.
Creation of an Underwater Environment
I just posted a tutorial for all you 3d artists out there on how to create an underwater environment. The underwater tutorial has the step by step breakdown, but I also thought it would be useful to write about the process and steps it takes to create such an environment.
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A Favor House Atlantic
For those of you Coheed and Cambria fans out there. A couple friends of mine did an animation for this Favor House Atlantic video. This would have been the actual music video had not Sony decided to go with live action instead. Its amazing how they combined flash, after effects and 3d elements to create this really cool media.
BlueYonder Photoshop Tutorial
Sometimes, as designers we get too caught up into creating these whizzbang over the top effects, and forget that good design does not always have to have flurls, swirls, and crazy glow ribbons. Ray has put together a tutorial on how to create a magnifying glass effect in Photoshop. It’s a pretty good insight into how these simple, but effective techniques are used in creating design elements.
Graphic Design Work: Creation
I did this design, titled “Creation“, a while ago inspired by an outer space tutorial I found. I really hate to admit it but I actually used a lens flare in this piece.