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  • Angie Taylor – artist

    Angie Taylor – artist

    Angie Taylor is a traditionally-trained sculptor who has worked as a digital artist since the 1980’s. 

    Her work explores themes of identity, isolation & otherness – often championing life’s misfits and highlighting the struggles faced by them.

    Her highly-distinctive style is hard to pin down but has been described by some as Punk-Expressionism – a unique mix of punk art, naive art, pop art & expressionistic aesthetics and themes.

    Her work juxtaposes the DIY ethic of punk, fresh immediacy of naĂŻve art & complexity of VR & 3D technology.

  • Using the Picture Viewer in CINEMA 4D

    Using the Picture Viewer in CINEMA 4D

     Using the Picture Viewer in CINEMA 4D

    from Up and Running with CINEMA 4D Lite for After Effects

  • Book training at Creative Cabin

    Book training at Creative Cabin

    Author and designer, Angie Taylor delivers custom, one-to-one Adobe software training courses at Creative Cabin near Brighton and London. Please use the Contact page to contact Angie for more details about course content and availability. To see examples of Angie’s training you can watch free video tutorials here.

    Creative Cabin - Residential Software TrainingCreative Cabin is a completely self-contained studio apartment with amazing sea views.

    It’s the perfect escape for artists, authors, designers or musicians wishing to retreat from their daily routines and responsibilities.

    Getting away to an inspirational space like this can enliven creative development and focus attention.

    Angie offers very reasonable prices for customised, one-to-one training courses, tailored to suit each individual’s needs.

    To find out more check out the other tabs on this page or visit the Creative Cabin website.

  • The History of Film and Video Editing

    The History of Film and Video Editing

    Learn about The History of Film and Video Editing in this great new course from Ashley Kennedy.

    This course is an introduction to the history of film and video editing—including not only an in-depth look at more than a century of essential editing techniques, but also an interesting exploration of the tools and technology that have made editing possible.

    Staff author Ashley Kennedy brings in real-world examples to explore each point in history—from the first unedited, rudimentary shots and the early days of shot combination to the birth of film language and the evolution of both mainstream and revolutionary film editing techniques through the 20th century and today. She uses this journey to demonstrate how techniques of the past have shaped cinema today.

  • Creating Project Templates with After Effects

    Creating Project Templates with After Effects

    I’m happy to announce that my new course, Creating Project Templates with After Effects is now online and ready for viewing. If you have a Lynda.com subscription you can watch the entire course for free. If you don’t then I have a special discount code to give you ten whole days of free viewing. Just send me a message via the Contact page get your free code.

    Here’s an example movie from this course. This tutorial teaches you how to understand the five parameters for the wiggle expression. If you have no clue what I’m talking about then you may want to follow my course on After Effects Expressions first.

    About this course

    Mograph designers and artists are always looking for new templates—and they’re often willing to pay for them. Building template-based projects in After Effects is also a great way to earn extra income while improving your design skills.

    In this course, you’ll create a working project template in After Effects and prepare it for sale. You’ll learn how to build the project from flexible shape layers and text layers, adding some effects along the way.

    You’ll also find out how to set up the project to make it easy for other designers to make changes to the color, text, and animation, and customize the project to suit their needs. I’ll also shows the best ways to save and package template projects for web delivery or for submission to Adobe’s Creative Cloud Market.

    Topics Include:

    • Coming up with project ideas
    • Planning projects
    • Building backgrounds
    • Creating graphical animated elements
    • Formatting text
    • Structuring the project with controller layers
    • Working with color
    • Optimizing projects
    • Making templates easy for others to use
    • Packaging your template project
    • Selling your projectDuration:
      2h 49m
  • Adobe CC 2015 WARNING

    Adobe CC 2015 WARNING

    This Adobe CC 2015 warning is for those updating their Adobe software to CC 2015. There are some issues with the installer that are not immediately apparent. The default settings will remove all your old software. If you want to keep your older software for backward compatibility then follow the instructions in this short video.

  • After Effects CC 2015 Character Animator

    After Effects CC 2015 Character Animator

    After Effects CC 2015 Character Animator is a great new application for easily animating 2D characters. Make them talk, move, dance, walk by simply moving in front of your webcam. Your character will follow your movements. See how it works in this short tutorial.

  • Right click in Cinema 4D Not Working?

    Right click in Cinema 4D Not Working?

    If you’ve experienced the right click in Cinema 4D Not Working then I have a quick fix for you. This short movie shows you how to fix this issue. If you’d like to get some more one-to-one training or mentoring on Cinema 4D please book Book Cinema 4D Training.

  • Character Animation Courses

    Learn how to bring your artwork to life with Angie Taylor’s character animation courses at Creative Cabin.

    • Discover methods for setting up artwork for animating in Adobe’s new Character Animator software.
    • Learn the principles of animation and how to apply them to your characters.
    • Learn useful scripts and add ons for Adobe After Effects, including DUIK, Puppet Toolsand Head Rig.
    • Find out how to compose a scene and a storyboard and get hundreds of tips and tricks for making compelling and enjoyable character animations.
    • Enjoy focussed attention from our trainer on our unique, one-to-one character animation courses.

    Book now to hold your place at the special introductory price of ÂŁ249.95 per day.

    More about character animation courses at Creative Cabin

    At the Creative Cabin guests can enjoy custom, one-to-one, Adobe software training from a professional industry expert.

    In this indyllic location near Brighton – Angie Taylor creates her own motion graphic designs and animations from her studio in the Creative Cabin.

    Creative Cabin

    In between freelance jobs she offers this lovely self-contained studio/ apartment to other designers, editors and artists who need a quiet, inspiring place to work, learn and relax.

    Benefits of one-to-one character animation courses

    Angie Taylor’s courses are one-to-one and totally unique. There’s only you and Angie in the Cabin so you get her complete attention for the entire course – unlike corporate training courses where you often have to share the training with several other delegates.

    Employers!

    You can have employees trained individually for less than the cost of a group training course at a dedicated training centre – making sure they learn exactly what the techniques they need. It’s more cost-effective than you may expect.

    No need for all of your designers or editors to be out of the office on the same day, leaving you short-staffed. Send them to the Cabin one-at-a-time for the individual training they need.

    Go at your own speed

    With a one-to-one training course at the Creative Cabin you can explore the software at your own speed while Angie guides you and suggests best practices with the software.

    Work on meaningful projects and files

    Angie provides well-designed, structured training exercises for you to follow that will get you up to speed in no time. If you prefer you can bring along your own projects so you and Angie can work on those together.

    Solve problems and come up with solutions

    Problem-solving and coming up with new ideas is Angie’s speciality – she loves to suggest ways to improve and refine your workflow to get the very best from your software.

    Be trained by a working designer and author

    Angie only offers training for a few days every month. When the Cabin is not being used for training Angie creates motion graphic and animation projects from the Cabin for her own clients who she works for on a freelance basis.

    Over the past 20 years Angie has trained hundreds of motion graphic designers, video editors and artists on software applications such as; Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator and Maxon Cinema 4D.

    Angie is a published author with five books published on the subjects of Adobe After Effects and motion graphic design. She is also an author of training courses at Lynda.com.

    Make your training a vacation

    The Creative Cabin is situated in an idyllic spot near Brighton in the UK with panoramic views across the English Channel.

    All training packages include accommodation in the private, comfortable self-contained studio apartment – this is yours for the duration of your stay. Kick back and relax when you’re not training, enjoy some home-cooked food while watching movies on the HDTV or playing Playstation games. The more adventurous guests may want to take a trip into the centre of Brighton to unwind in style.

    Accommodation

    Designers and Artists can rent the Cabin for as little as ÂŁ99.95 per night. It is a completely self-contained studio apartment with sleeping area, shower room, kitchen and work area. Find out more about the facilities here.

    Training packages

    At the Cabin Angie offers customised, one-to-one training courses, tailored to suit each individual’s needs. Previous clients include designers from BSkyB, ITV and Barton Willmore.  Find out more about these affordable courses near Brighton and to view course outlines, please visit the Training page.

    Booking the Cabin

    Please use the Contact page to contact Angie for more details about course content and availability. If you’re interested in booking the cabin accommodation,  training or a package that includes both, please book here.

  • NAB 2015 Presentations by Angie Taylor

    NAB 2015 Presentations by Angie Taylor

    Well, it’s that time of year again, NAB 2015 is just round the corner. It’s the event of the year for our industry. The who’s-who of the broadcast industry gather together in Las Vegas for this massive trade show, conference and countless parties. It’s a great opportunity to meet old friends, make new contacts, learn new techniques and see new products and technologies on show.

     Interview with That Studio

    Come to the That Studio booth, in the Plugin Pavillion at 1.15 on Wednesday to partake in the audience. I’ll be interviewed by the lovely Kanen Flowers about my relatively new venture The Creative Cabin. I’ll also be giving away some free Creative Cabin products!

    Sessions and Demo’s

    This year I’ll have a varied schedule – speaking at the Post Production World Conference and also doing software demo’s on the trade show floor. If you want to learn my latest tips and techniques and see new content from up and coming video tutorials, there’s plenty to see.

    RE:Vision Effects Inc.

    Booth SL5807

    113a0a1dddd380aa6fe1c7022ee0dc81I’m proud to say I’ll be working the trade show floor on behalf of RE:Vision Effects Inc. Who make Academy Award winning Plugins for After Effects, Autodesk Systems, Avid Systems, Final Cut Pro, Fusion, genQ, HitFilm, Natron, Nucoda, Nuke, Premiere Pro, Resolve, Scratch and Vegas Pro.

    I’ll be showcasing all of their plugins, in particular my personal favourite RE:Flex that I used on the Chris Cunningham’s Rubber Johnny music video. You can find us at booth SL5807. I’ll be there Monday from 2-6, Tuesday from 3.30-6 and Wednesday from 9-1.

    Boris FX

    Booth SL4225

    This year Boris FX will be teaming up with their friends at Imagineer Systems to present awesome new time-saving technologies and vfx tools jointly developed for the first-time by the Boris FX and the Imagineer teams. Swing by thebooth SL4225 on Tuesday the 14th April at 12pm midday to see my talk about creating 3D titles right inside After Effects. See how to us Boris FX 3D plug-ins with the built in 3D Camera Tracker inside After Effects to mimic famous movie titles.

    Post Production World Conference

    South Upper Hall

    I’ll also be speaking at the Post Production World conference during the week. This premiere technical training program is produced by Future Media Concepts.  Click here to review the full schedule of this year’s Post|Production World offerings.

    I have two sessions at this event this year;

    Building After Effects Templates and Source Elements

    Tue. April 14| 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM | N252

    Designers can make extra income by designing templates for other designers. Websites like Adobe Exchange and VideoHive make it easy to market and sell them. In this session Angie Taylor will share tips and techniques for building solid templates and source elements for After Effects and Premiere Pro. She’ll also share information about how to protect your content legally and make money from it online.

    This session will feature workflows in After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator.

    By the end of this session, attendees will know how to….
    • Design templates that are useful and practical
    • Organize template projects so they are easy to use
    • Create expression controllers for adjusting template elements
    • Lock and hide and add notes to project elements
    • Create accounts to market and sell templates
    • Make additional income by selling products

    Get More from Cinema 4D Lite & After Effects

    Wed. April 15| 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM | N252

    The Cineware plugin allows users to integrate Cinema 4D, 3D objects and scenes into your After Effects projects. Angie will look at the many creative ways this powerful software combination can work. You’ll pick up all the skills you need to feel confident with Cinema 4D Lite as well as see some inspiring ideas to drive you forward. The session will finish with Angie showing you how you can use classic camera moves from famous movies in your 3D scenes.

    By the end of this session, attendees will know how too…
    • Build models from primitive objects Cinema 4D Lite
    • Apply and modify materials in Cinema 4D Lite
    • Animate properties in Cinema 4D Lite
    • Make use of free content in Cinema 4D Lite
    • Incorporate your 3D objects into After Effects
    • Recreate classic camera moves with the After Effects 3D Camera Tracker

    Conference: Post|Production World

    Registration Package: A Post|Production World registration or SMART Pass will get you into these sessions. Please check here for registration prices.

     I hope to see some of you there. I am quite short-sighted so often don’t recognise people from a distance so please make sure to come and say hello if you see me.

  • Cinema 4D Lite Tutorials

    Cinema 4D Lite Tutorials

    Cinema 4D Lite Tutorials from

    Up and Running with CINEMA 4D Lite for After Effects

    with Angie Taylor

    Intimidated by 3D modeling packages? Dip a toe in the water with CINEMA 4D (C4D) Lite, a slimmed down version of CINEMA 4D included with After Effects CC. Motion graphics designer Angie Taylor shows you how to build a complete sequence in C4D Lite, progressing from initial object modeling, to animation, lighting, camera rigging, texturing, and final render. Plus, learn to animate text, create random movement with wiggle expressions, track cameras in live-action footage to add new 3D elements, and light your scene. Angie also round-trips the project files to After Effects for visual effects and color correction. With over 100 videos, this course allows you to explore almost every aspect of 3D motion graphics creation, within this accessible introductory tool.

    Topics include:

    • What is CINEMA 4D Lite?
    • Understanding the CINEMA 4D Lite and After Effects CC workflow
    • Editing primitive objects
    • Spline modeling with NURBS
    • Animating with keyframes
    • Using Xpresso to link properties
    • Importing music and soundtracks
    • Creating and animating cameras
    • Working with text
    • Scripting
    • Creating and applying materials and textures
    • 3D camera tracking
    • Compositing layers
    • Lighting with visible lights and ambient occlusion
    • Adding visual effects in After Effects
    • Rendering in After Effects and the Adobe Media Encoder

    What is CINEMA 4D Lite?

    Using the Picture Viewer in CINEMA 4D

    Linking body parts using object hierarchy

    Adding surface detail with a Relief object

    Understanding coordinates

    Understanding rotation

    Keyframe interpolation

    Creating multiple cameras in CINEMA 4D Lite

    Creating a wiggle expression

    Casting shadows on layers in CINEWARE

    Multipass compositing explained

    Layer styles

  • Up and Running with CINEMA 4D Lite for After Effects

    Up and Running with CINEMA 4D Lite for After Effects

    Up and Running with Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects

    Intimidated by 3D modeling packages? Dip a toe in the water with CINEMA 4D (C4D) Lite, a slimmed down version of CINEMA 4D included with After Effects CC. Motion graphics designer Angie Taylor shows you how to build a complete sequence in C4D Lite, progressing from initial object modeling, to animation, lighting, camera rigging, texturing, and final render.

    Plus, learn to animate text, create random movement with wiggle expressions, track cameras in live-action footage to add new 3D elements, and light your scene. Angie also round-trips the project files to After Effects for visual effects and color correction. With over 100 videos, this course allows you to explore almost every aspect of 3D motion graphics creation, within this accessible introductory tool.

    Topics include:

    • What is CINEMA 4D Lite?
    • Understanding the CINEMA 4D Lite and After Effects CC workflow
    • Editing primitive objects
    • Spline modeling with NURBS
    • Animating with keyframes
    • Using Xpresso to link properties
    • Importing music and soundtracks
    • Creating and animating cameras
    • Working with text
    • Scripting
    • Creating and applying materials and textures
    • 3D camera tracking
    • Compositing layers
    • Lighting with visible lights and ambient occlusion
    • Adding visual effects in After Effects
    • Rendering in After Effects and the Adobe Media Encoder
  • Getting Started with After Effects Expressions

    Getting Started with After Effects Expressions

    Getting Started with After Effects Expressions

    Even if you’re not comfortable with scripting or coding, you may still want to take a look at expressions. They are like little scripts that trigger changes to layer properties, and they can save you time, make your work more flexible, and open up new creative possibilities.

    In this course, motion graphic designer Angie Taylor shows you how to make Adobe After Effects expressions work for you, starting with building expressions with the pick whip. Then she introduces JavaScript-based math expressions, which allow you to adjust timing and movement, and her favorite “no brainer” expressions, such as property linking and connecting camera focus to layers. Plus, discover how to react to sound, play with color, format text, and link 2D and 3D properties.

    Topics include:

    • What are expressions?
    • Creating and applying expressions
    • Linking expressions to layers with the pick whip
    • Simplifying expressions with variables
    • Working with JavaScript math functions
    • Creating looping animations
    • Randomizing values
    • Converting expressions to keyframes
    • Creating keyframes from audio with expressions
    • Controlling 2D effects in 3D space
    • Converting color from RGB to HLS
    • Formatting strings and text