Author: Angie Taylor
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Upgraded Video Streaming
New video service is faster and more responsive As you may know I have a video store on my page where you can watch some of my training videos completely free of charge with new upgraded video streaming. If you like them you can buy entire workshops or sign up for a subscription via this introductory…
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Happy 2012 – More free downloads
Well another year almost over. I’m looking forward to 2012, hoping that it’s a better year for our industry and for all my friends. I have a couple of exciting bits of news to share and more free downloads so here’s my final blog for the year.
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Winter Sale!
In my winter sale there’s 30% off all Wacom workshops in my store. This offer includes volumes 1, 2, 3 & the Master Collection. To find out more you can check out the courses here and even watch some free preview movies to get a taster of what’s on offer. (Any links highlighted in black…
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Share training for free!
The folks at video2brain are making last-minute gift buying easy for us! From now through the end of the month, any courses or subscriptions that you buy will come with a special code you can use to share that same training with a friend for free.
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Happy Holidays After Effects Presets
So here is an After Effects project, complete with custom artwork. It contains some interesting techniques to help add a little festive cheer to your seasonal animations. All the effects used are native After Effects plug-ins so no extra software is required and it was created in After Effects CS4 so can be opened in…
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Bargains & “Free Stuff” for Designers
There are bargains & “free stuff” for designers and VFX artists right now in the Holiday sales. I know that may of my readers are students and professionals who are just starting out in their career. Many of you may not be able to afford the full cost of commercial software so these sales give…
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“Style Eyes” – Genarts Sapphire Preset Collection
I’m pleased to announce “Style Eyes” my latest Sapphire preset collection of 25 free presets from the Stylize category of the plug-ins for After Effects and other hosts. Give your footage that something extra! Pre-defined looks designed for music videos, outdoor locations, sport and weddings. Includes “Rubber Nightvision” inspired by a job that I worked on…
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Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography
My new workshop, Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography is due to be released next week, just in time for the festive season! The folks at video2brain have kindly allowed me to give my readers a sneak preview and access to one of the movies from this workshop so here it is. Master the Art of Arranging Text…
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Tip of the Week
Animating Characters with the Puppet Tool from: Adobe After Effects CS5: Learn by Video. Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Week feature in a brand new video format. After Effects has great tools for character animation called the Puppet tool. The Puppet Pin tool places a mesh over your footage using the alpha channel.…
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Training via Subscription Promo
For video training via this subscription promo you can subscribe to the entire video2brain training library for as little as $10.75 per month (Annual Subscription). With this subscription, not only will you get access to all of my workshops but also all the other titles, by other authors that video2brain has to offer. Here are…
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Something’s happening in Europe!
2011 marks another great landmark for video2brain which will be announced this week. I wish I could tell you now but my lips are sealed. All I can say is please keep an eye on the countdown on our video2brain website. And if you want to get an idea about the kind of video training…
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After Effects Light Wipe Tutorial
There was a a question today on Creative Cow about how to create a light wipe effect in After Effects. I wanted to help so I decided to put together a quick After Effects Light Wipe tutorial. This tutorial includes an After Effects project and an eight-minute video tutorial where I explain techniques used.