Creative Training in Brighton

Creative Training in Brighton

Angie Taylor runs her own private art school, called Creative Cabin. Here she teaches art, design, sculpture, 3D and animation to artists and designers. Angie also runs classes for children in art & design subjects.

Angie Taylor’s advanced After Effects Training courses are like no other. This is not just simply software training.

You will receive professional training by an industry professional with over fifteen years experience in the TV and Film industry.  Learn how to create visually stunning animation, motion graphics and visual effects using professional post production techniques.

Angie has trained designers at most of the top TV and film companies in the UK, including; BBC, Sky, Channel 5, ITV, MTV. Angie also works regularly for Adobe as an industry expert in their digital video products, speaking at seminars, conferences and trade shows.

Other complimentary products can be included too including; Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D, Final Cut Pro and Motion. Learn the software plus additional nifty little tips and tricks that will project your work a mile above the rest. You’ll get training in the product features and, if required, design and animation training from an experienced After Effects professional. Learn from Angie’s own successes (and also learn how to avoid mistakes!)

Angie teaches four levels of After Effects course: Fundamental, Intermediate, Advanced and Power User. Each course is designed to give you the skills to get the most from After Effects enabling you to produce professional motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, the web and mobile devices.

To receive a detailed course outline and pricing please use the Contact page form to express your interest.

  • Angie can provide individual one-to-one training on site, at your place of work.
  • On-site training for groups between 2 and 5 people can also be provided at your own place of work.
  • Having trouble getting a job done? Angie also offers a one-to-one consultancy service to help you with real world projects.
  • If you prefer an off-site classroom situation, Angie works with reputable training companies in the UK and can offer training at premises in most major UK cities at a discounted rate. Please contact Angie directly for more details.

After Effects Learn by Video is included in the course

Training includes all source files and fourteen hours of video training written by Angie Taylor and Todd Kopriva (Adobe’s technical support lead for professional video software). You can use these files to extend your knowledge and retrace your steps again after the course.

Please contact Angie Directly using her contact page to find out more.

“Of all the After Effects books I looked at whilst trying to learn it,
I found Angie’s was the most user friendly and creative.”

Chris Cunningham, Director of music videos, commercials and video art.

Book training at Creative Cabin

Book training at Creative Cabin

Author and designer, Angie Taylor delivers custom, one-to-one Adobe software training courses at Creative Cabin near Brighton and London. Please use the Contact page to contact Angie for more details about course content and availability. To see examples of Angie’s training you can watch free video tutorials here.

Creative Cabin - Residential Software TrainingCreative Cabin is a completely self-contained studio apartment with amazing sea views.

It’s the perfect escape for artists, authors, designers or musicians wishing to retreat from their daily routines and responsibilities.

Getting away to an inspirational space like this can enliven creative development and focus attention.

Angie offers very reasonable prices for customised, one-to-one training courses, tailored to suit each individual’s needs.

To find out more check out the other tabs on this page or visit the Creative Cabin website.

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 me a message via the Contact page get your free code.

Here’s an example movie from this course. This tutorial teaches you how to understand the five parameters for the wiggle expression. If you have no clue what I’m talking about then you may want to follow my course on After Effects Expressions first.

About this course

Mograph designers and artists are always looking for new templates—and they’re often willing to pay for them. Building template-based projects in After Effects is also a great way to earn extra income while improving your design skills.

In this course, you’ll create a working project template in After Effects and prepare it for sale. You’ll learn how to build the project from flexible shape layers and text layers, adding some effects along the way.

You’ll also find out how to set up the project to make it easy for other designers to make changes to the color, text, and animation, and customize the project to suit their needs. I’ll also shows the best ways to save and package template projects for web delivery or for submission to Adobe’s Creative Cloud Market.

Topics Include:

  • Coming up with project ideas
  • Planning projects
  • Building backgrounds
  • Creating graphical animated elements
  • Formatting text
  • Structuring the project with controller layers
  • Working with color
  • Optimizing projects
  • Making templates easy for others to use
  • Packaging your template project
  • Selling your projectDuration:
    2h 49m
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.