Tag: Adobe

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Paper Folding Animation

    Paper Folding Animation

    Approaches like this are really useful as they allow you to create footage and a quirky paper folding animation from very few source files. All I’ve used here are five images of these models – and one audio track. Here’s a three-part tutorial series that I’ve created at the Digital Arts website. Click on the…

  • Kinetic Typography Techniques with After Effects

    Kinetic Typography Techniques with After Effects

    Kinetic Typography Kinetic typography is an art form that combines text and motion to express ideas in the form of animation designed to accompany spoken word or music. Join author, and motion graphic designer Angie Taylor as she shares her considerable knowledge of this form. Work along with her in this unique course as she…

  • Creative Cabin Review

    Creative Cabin Review

    I would recommend Angie and the Creative Cabin to anyone who wants to sharpen up their creative skills – whether you’re a complete novice, or an experienced professional – or to anyone who wants a change of scenery to work on a creative project, and I wish Angie every success with this new venture.

  • Getting Started with After Effects Expressions

    Getting Started with After Effects Expressions

    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…

  • Cinema 4D at IBC 2013

    Cinema 4D at IBC 2013

    Cinema 4D R14 and After Effects CC at IBC 2013. Each day we will be giving away fantastic prizes with a total value of more than €10,000. The main prize is an NVIDIA Quadro K5000 high-end graphics card worth more than €2,300 and a commercial CINEMA 4D Broadcast license, which will be given away to…

  • Software Training Courses with Lynda.com

    I’m giving away a free seven-day trial subscription here. When you have a quiet week, sign up here and then pack as much training in as you can to get real value from this offer. Once you’ve benefitted from a week’s training then I’m sure you’ll see the benefit of a full-time, no holes barred…

  • After Effects Twitter Tips

    After Effects Twitter Tips from Angie Taylor’s archive. Learn all sorts of useful tips and tricks in bite sized portions from an industry expert.

  • After Effects and Cinema 4D at FMX

    I’m presenting After Effects & Cinema 4D at FMX 2013 with Maxon in April. It promises to be an exciting lineup of 3D art and visual effects.

  • After Effects and Cinema 4D

    After Effects and Cinema 4D

    I’ll be presenting After Effects and Cinema 4D in the Adobe Theater at Broadcast Video Expo 2013 in London between the 26th and 28th of February. Here are links to some of my Tutorials that cover working with After Effects and Cinema 4D. I’ll be expanding on these at the event. Once again Adobe will…