Author: Angie Taylor
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Halloween Video Tutorial
In this free Halloween Video Tutorial from the lovely, generous folks at video2brain, Angie Taylor shows how to use her Blob Brush Sculpture techniques to create a Skull in Adobe Illustrator.
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Halloween Presets for After Effects
I’ve created a new set of Halloween presets for After Effects. These presets are for native After Effects plug-ins and include particle effects, vector shape layers and expressions. You can download these presets free of charge by registering at my new website Effect Cafe – a resource for creative people like you. It’s free to…
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Review of After Effects CS6: Learn by Video
I found After Effects to be intimidating in spite of my strong Adobe Flash background but the Adobe After Effects CS6 Learn by Video training course from video2brain gave me a good solid base upon which to build. The authors Todd Kopriva and Angie Taylor share the instruction with Kopriva covering the technical aspects of…
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Getting Started with Illustrator CS6
In CS6 Adobe Illustrator is more powerful than ever before, and in this course Angie Taylor shows you just how easy it can be to use. You’ll get a tour of the interface, gain an understanding of the workflow, and be introduced to core techniques like working with artboards, understanding layers and objects, and making…
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Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography
Making good decisions in typography — choosing the right typefaces, fonts, sizes, spacing and so on — can have a major impact on the quality of your designs. In this one-of-a-kind workshop, art director, illustrator, and motion graphic designer Angie Taylor introduces you to the essential principles of typography.
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Inspirational motion graphic designs
Here are some Inspirational motion graphic designs. During my talk on “Typography and Dynamic Text animation” in motion Graphics I showed several inspirational examples of opening title sequences that I have been inspired by throughout the years. Here’s a list of links to those movies. Big thanks especially to the “Art of the Title” website…
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Auto Lip Sync
Angie Recommends: Audio-synchronized mouth animations made quickly and easily with this great script from Mamoworld.
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Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist
The book is designed as a one-stop, getting-started guide for anyone new to motion graphic design who wants to get the basic principles under their belt so they can get started quickly, making better design decisions as they go. After reading this book you’ll be comfortable with the basic concepts and principles of design, animation…
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Design Essentials Resources
Design Essentials Resources provides chapter links for Angie Taylor’s book, Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist
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Life as a Motion Graphic Designer
In my life as a motion graphic designer I’ve learned a few important lessons. In this interview with John Dickinson from Motionworks, I share my experiences in my career as an artist, author and motion graphic designer. I really enjoyed this interview. John is excellent at getting the best from his interviewees. I just felt…
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Example of Angie’s Photoshop Tutorials
I was very pleased to be invited by John Dickinson to create a Prosentials video tip for Motionworks. This tip is for Photoshop CS6 and demonstrates how to removing dust from video frames. I’d love to hear what you think of my first Prosentials tip so please add comments. I recorded this tutorial at my…
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Textonomy Presets for Sapphire Edge
My brand new Textonomy Presets for Sapphire Edge are now available from the Genarts FX Central Website. OK, sometimes you need text, but no-one says it has to be boring. These ten effect presets, designed for text will have your viewers sitting up and taking notice. Camoflash A Camouflage-style of pattern is applied to text…