Comics, Art, 3D, Web, Tech, Social Media & other stuff by John Garrett
This is a listing of all posts going back to the beginning of time.
Yes, time started at the moment of this blog’s first post.
There was nothing before that…
If you’re familiar with InDesign’s Data Merge, you know how it can take your one design, then “build” the page by creating as many of those designs as it can on your page, at which point it will create a new page and continue building until it has enough pages for all of your data. Illustrator’s Variable Data feature won’t do this, but we can get pretty darn close with this method of creating multiple datasets on the artboard.
SUPER-DUPER Update: I’ve completed a 2.5 hour course on how to use the NEW Variable Importer 8.0 script, and it’s available on Lynda.com! Click to check out more info on the Adobe Illustrator Variable Data Lynda.com course! And now back to our in-progress blog post… Previously, I wrote up a tutorial for an easier method […]
John Garrett Interviewed on Renderstreet.
So it turns out that Marvel is replacing Thor with a woman, and replacing Captain America with a Black man (the Falcon).
Niva finally gets her hands on Onuss!
This is just a quick blurb here to let you know I was interviewed last week over on World Of Black Heroes
In this episode, Niva catches up with Onuss, the alien troublemaker she’s been sent to recover.
Titans|Divinity continues in an episode called “Attack of the Titan Kill-Bots!”
If you’ve ever had to use Adobe Illustrator to set up multiple variations of a single file, then using the “Illustrator Variable Data” feature could save you a lot of time. It’s not very intuitive to set up, though, so I made up this tutorial.
Titans|Divinity: Niva begins her hunting mission.
Just finished up a round of horror movies recently. Honestly these movies end up being comedies for me, since I usually don’t feel much sympathy for the protagonists. Oh well, at least they weren’t “found footage” movies.
So I decided to watch the movie “Her” this weekend. It affected me, but probably in ways the director didn’t mean for it to affect people. Some spoilers follow.
The Titans|Divinity sci-fi comic continues. In this episode, no one gets what they want…
The sci-fi comic Titans|Divinity continues. We finally find out the answer to the question – what the devil is an Ego-Lattice?
Time for another sci-fi episode of the Titans|Divinity saga. This week we introduce the Titan called Niva!
Time for another 3D superhero. This week it’s Batman’s old sidekick Dick Grayson, aka Nightwing!
Episode 2 of last weeks’ Titan’s Divinity comic. Sci-fi action inside!
This is a sci-fi story I’ve had kicking around in my head for years. The Titans are a force of peacekeepers, essentially. I guess a close equivalent would be DC Comics’ Green Lantern Corps, although they Titans are not quite as friendly as the GL’s. They’re very, very far away from Earth, with essentially no hope of ever getting back there, so they have to make do where they are.
There’s a lot of talk going ’round these days about actor Michael B. Jordan, a Black actor, being cast as The Human Torch in the Fantastic Four reboot. The defenders usually jump right to racism as the only reason anyone could have an issue with this. But I think that’s just an easy way for these guys to avoid the real issue.
I wish I could say it was some genius master cracker that tricked Amazon, Apple and Twitter to get into my account, but unfortunately it was just plain carelessness.