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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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
The Burger Bling
I decided to tryout Go Media’s Bling Tutorial on the Burger King to make him “The Burger Bling“. Even in solid gold form, there is just something about the Burger King that creeps me out.
Photoshop Tutorial: Solarize a Ninja!
This tutorial will show you how to solarize an image.
The unofficial definition of Solarize: Solarizing is this crazy technique photographers use to make images look all crazy.
This is What Happens When Graphic Artists Get Bored at Work
This post holds absolutely no value whatsoever. We found most of these images from Giggle Image Search online, which gave me the idea to come up some on my own, I did the “Server not Found” and the “Mario Fails” images.
HyperNinja Logo: Ninja in Ninjaland
As some of you may noticed, the HyperNinja header looks a little different than before. My good friend Ray Lonsdale, previous featured artist on HyperNinja, created this totally awesome logo. If I were to describe what a hyperninja would look like, this would pretty much be it. The only thing sweeter than a ninja is […]