Category: Tutorials

  • Getting Started with After Effects Expressions

    Getting Started with After Effects Expressions

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    Angie Taylor

    Expressions 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…

  • Halloween Video Tutorial

    Halloween Video Tutorial

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    Angie Taylor

    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.

  • Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography

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    Angie Taylor

    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.

  • Example of Angie’s Photoshop Tutorials

    Example of Angie’s Photoshop Tutorials

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    Angie Taylor

    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…

  • Adobe CS6 Software Training Videos

    Adobe CS6 Software Training Videos

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    Angie Taylor

    This week, to celebrate the launch of Adobe’s Creative Suite I’ve released a whole host of new Adobe CS6 software training videos from new and forthcoming workshops produced with video2brain. So now you know why I’ve been relatively quiet for the last couple of months! The workshops will be out very soon but meanwhile we…

  • Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography

    Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography

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    Angie Taylor

    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,…

  • Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography

    Creative Graphic Design: Essential Typography

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    Angie Taylor

    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…

  • After Effects Light Wipe Tutorial

    After Effects Light Wipe Tutorial

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    Angie Taylor

    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.

  • Font Links for Kinetic Typography

    Font Links for Kinetic Typography

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    Angie Taylor

    I recently published my Kinetic Typography Techniques for After Effects course. In it I used a wide selection of fonts that are freely downloadable from various websites, just to make sure everyone following the tutorial could get access to the same fonts. Unfortunately one of the websites I recommended is no longer in operation. Below…

  • Kinetic Typography Techniques for After Effects

    Kinetic Typography Techniques for After Effects

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    Angie Taylor

    I was asked to create a workshop on Kinetic Typography techniques for Adobe After Effects by several people including the lovely people from video2brain who produced this epic workshop for me. I’d like to thank them all for their patience and professionalism throughout this long project! I’m pleased to say that I have finally finished…

  • FREE After Effects Stereoscopic 3D Workshop

    FREE After Effects Stereoscopic 3D Workshop

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    Angie Taylor

    In this week’s newsletter I’ll be giving away a complete workshop about using the Stereoscopic 3D workflow in After Effects CS5.5. That’s four chapters – a total of 16 training movies absolutely free to subscribers of my software tips and tricks newsletter. Sign up today to make sure you don’t miss out.

  • 12 rules of animation

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    Angie Taylor

    Digital Arts has featured – 12 Rules of Animation – an excerpt from my “Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist” as their feature article this month. The article is now FREELY AVAILABLE on the Digital Arts website. Animation as we know it has been around since Horner invented the zoetrope in 1834. Since then animators…