Tag: training
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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NAB 2014
I’m really happy to have been invited to speak at the Post Production World Conference at NAB 2014 in Las Vegas this year. You can find details about all of my sessions here.
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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…
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Model and Animate with Cinema 4D Lite
I’m just putting the finishing touches to my brand new course “Up and Running with Cinema 4D Lite”. Cinema 4D Lite now comes free with After Effects CC. I wanted to write a training course specifically aimed at After Effects users with little or no experience with 3D applications. It’s an accessible and comprehensive course…
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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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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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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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Animated Character Design in Adobe Illustrator
This workshop from author and animator Angie Taylor will teach you how to use Illustrator’s tools and features to prepare 2D files for animation in Adobe After Effects. You’ll learn how to make the most of Illustrator’s drawing tools and Autotrace feature, and to how use Live Paint and Kuler to recolor artwork. You’ll also…