Category: Blog
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Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography
Making good decisions is essential 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. After exploring the terminology,…
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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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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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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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Typography Video Training
Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography is a workshop on the principles of designing with text. I’ve just finished recording my latest typography video training workshop with the fantastic team at video2brain. It’s a workshop with a difference. If you want the salient points delivered to you quickly so you can get on with your work.…
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Wacom Masterclasses
I’m pleased to announce the release last week of the new Wacom Masterclass series of workshops. I’ve worked with Wacom tablets for years and love the creative flexibility they provide to my work. In these tutorials I share some of the techniques I’ve learned over the years. If you want to check out some free…
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Happy Halloween Everybody
After Effects CS5 Presets for Halloween I’ve created some special little Halloween Software Tricks and Treats for you to use in your work. This download contains an After Effects CS5 project and artwork needed to create some spooky Halloween graphics for your projects. I love creating ideas and techniques for the community. In fact…