Tag: angie Taylor
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After Effects Light Wipe Tutorial
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.
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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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Free Blood Splatter Preset for Halloween!
This free After Effects preset features a complete After Effects Project containing a graphic design idea for a TV Ident. It features a graphic, stylised blood splat made with Trapcode Particular. The blood particles use a light emmitter and bounce against a layer used as a Wall. The blood “bleeds” around the text to reveal…
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Font Links for Kinetic Typography
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…
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Kinetic Typography Techniques for After Effects
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…
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FREE After Effects Stereoscopic 3D Workshop
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.
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Post Production Magic
Join Red Giant for an evening of inspiration I’ll be speaking at Red Giant’s FREE Post Production magic event in September. Here’s the blurb! Event Registration is available now on the Adobe website. When a group of amazing animators get hold of a projection system, you’re either going to get an evening of inspiration or a…
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Free After Effects & Premiere Pro Performance Workshop
I’m excited to be able to offer a free top-up course on my website to all my lovely visitors. In this free course, Adobe Technical Support Lead Todd Kopriva offers dozens of tips for optimizing Premiere Pro, After Effects, your operating system, your computer, and your workflow for maximum speed and performance. He makes recommendations…
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12 rules of animation
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…
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Speaking at Flash on the Beach 2011
I was very pleased to get a call from John Davey, the organiser of the amazingly successful and entertaining “Flash on the Beach 2011” conference, asking me to speak at his event. It’s an annual conference, held in my home town of Brighton. Bringing together the best designers, developers and minds in the Flash, design…
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NAB 2011 Report
Well, here I am, back in the UK after an exhausting trip to Las Vegas to attend NAB 2011. I was speaking at the Post Production World Conference which I’m pleased to say was busier than ever. My sessions were very well attended and I met some great new people who gave me the…