Author: Angie Taylor

  • Angie’s software favourites of the month

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    There are a few nice pieces of software around at the moment that I want to share with you. The first is Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy. An incredible plug-in for video applications (like After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro). If you shoot interviews or wedding videos and don’t have a good make…

  • Creative After Effects 7 Reviews

    Creative After Effects 7 Reviews

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    “Of all the After Effects books I looked at whilst trying to learn it, I found Angie’s was the most user friendly and creative.” Chris Cunningham, Director of music videos, commercials and video art.

  • Blog on Blogs – Part 01

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    Recently a few people have been asking me about my blog. “What is it?” “Why do you do it?” “What is it for?” The funny thing is that most of these questions come to me via my Facebook page. This made me realize that there’s an ironic ignorance surrounding blogs by the general public. Ironic…

  • Creative Constipation:

    Creative Constipation:

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    I was describing a friend of mine as suffering from creative constipation recently. It’s a common complaint, many designers suffer from it Luckily I’ve discovered ways of dealing with this potentially crippling condition.

  • Copyright or wrong?

    Copyright or wrong?

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    I’ve been busy putting the finishing touches to my forthcoming book, “Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist“. It’s funny, I’ve written books before. Software books, teaching people how to use Adobe After Effects to be specific. I was commissioned to write these books, at the time there were very few books on the subject…

  • Creative Video Workflow

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    I’m busy preparing to leave on a mammoth journey to San Fransisco to speak at the Macworld 2010 conference for the first time. I’ll be talking about production workflow, specifically broadcast production as that’s where I spent 12 years of my life freelancing as a motion graphic designer/ animator. I’ll also share some of the…

  • Decoupling Production

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    I’m interested in the trend of decoupling going on in the world of TV and film production companies. It’s the world that I used to live in so it’s close to my heart. Decoupling refers to the process of reducing costs to the client by outsourcing some of the work to freelancers or external services,…

  • MacWorld 2010 – Are you going to San Fransisco?

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    I’m hoping to see a few of you at MacWorld 2010 where I’ll be speaking next year. I love San Fransisco so will be taking a little extra time out to hang out with my old friends, Amacker and Nina at the Lucky 13 bar on Castro. I also hope to catch up with all…

  • Women of Punk 02

    Women of Punk 02

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    Growing up in Scotland in 1975, I had no idea what was going on the other side of the Atlantic. Little did I know that American “women of punk” were in the process of breaking ground so that people like me could find a voice and be accepted despite our inherent weirdness!

  • The Women of Punk 01

    The Women of Punk 01

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    What I really loved about The Slits, growing up was their originality. They were unlike any of the other “punk” bands. They didn’t seem to want to conform to the usual punk stereotypes of girls in fishnets and bondage clothing, their dress sense and music was taken from a wide range of different styles and…

  • Life of a demo-dolly – rotating suitcases

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    I went to Amsterdam earlier this month, with the Gridiron gang, to attend IBC 2009. I had several meetings to attend, demo’s to do and an interview or two to give. So I packed my suitcase with all my usual accoutrements, everything I would need for a business trip in a distant land! I get…

  • Two worlds collide

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    I’ve had many careers in my lifetime, one of them being a deejay in the 1990s London club scene. I regularly deejayed at clubs like FF at Turnmills, Mix it at Heaven, The Fridge, The legendary Bell in Kings Cross, and the good old Market Tavern. I gave it all up in about 1993 to…