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After Effects Training | Spring 2018

After Effects Training | Spring 2018

Suzanne Côté | Graphic designer & Teacher

Atelier du Presse-citron |Dawson College, Graphic Design department

Having little time to develop and enrich my animation skills I needed “made to measure” classes. I searched and found Angie Taylor, offering personal well-structured coaching. I flew from Montreal for five days of one-to-one, bespoke, After Effect and Premiere Pro training in Angie’s Creative Cabin. An ideal cozy summer cottage-like training set up. I has access to a top-of-range iMac, many large screens and accessories. It also has a queen-size bed, kitchen and shower room. All overlooking the English Channel.

Angie is a passionate animator, motion graphic designer and is a skilled trainer. Moreover she has written the book, “Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist” and she also writes and produces tutorials for Lynda.com. She knows how to communicate and make the content easy to digest. Her vast experience has helped me go to the second level of animation and has enriched my pedagogical skills.

My training and “séjour” in the very unique Creative cabin was worth the trip: amazing intensive coaching with an exotic vacation twist.

Merci Angie
Suzanne

DUIK & After Effects training | Winter 2018

DUIK & After Effects training | Winter 2018

Lee Rushworth | Designer & Photographer

Both times I’ve visited the Creative Cabin have been really great experiences. I went there to learn the fundamentals of After Effects for motion graphics and animation and I came away having learnt an incredible amount and, most importantly, confident I could put it into practice.

Angie is an absolute legend. She was really interested in exactly what I wanted to learn and the kind of things I aspired to create. After Effects is vast but everything I learnt felt relevant and Angie put a lot of effort into tailoring the training to my needs. She’s really lovely, approachable and super knowledgeable.

We had a lot of fun practising character rigging (With DUIK)and Angie demystified things like Track Mattes, 3D cameras, and expressions. After Effects definitely feels much less intimidating.

On both of my visits I stayed overnight in the cabin which has a brilliant setup. For me, it was nice getting out of London and spending the time to really immerse myself in everything I was learning. The cabin is really comfortable and peaceful, views out to sea, and, should you wish, there’s the opportunity of practising the skills you’ve learnt during the day on the iMac.

I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend the Creative Cabin. It’s the best training experience I’ve had and I’m planning another visit this year.

After Effects training in Brighton

After Effects training in Brighton

Adobe After Effects with Angie Taylor

Please Contact Us to find out about Angie’s next After Effects course and book your place.

Here are some of the things you’ll learn

  • How to control timing and adjust values with the graph editor
  • Tips to help visual artists manually draw key frames in the Timeline
  • All the different interpolation types in After Effects
  • How to use the rules of animation to create compelling animation
  • How to demystify effects and make sense of them
  • How to convert vector artwork into animated shapes for infographics
  • Create 3D per-character animation directly in After Effects using the Cinema 4D Renderer
  • Build your own valuable library of custom presets and templates.

About your trainer

Angie Taylor is a motion graphic designer with 25 years experience in the film and TV industry. She’s a Lynda.com author and an Adobe Community Professional. Angie has presented seminars at conferences worldwide including After Effects World, Macworld, NAB, IBC, BVE, Reasonsto, Flash on the Beach and FMX. Angie has worked as a demo artist for Apple, Adobe and MAXON
Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Motion Graphic Design – Composition

 

In this course, learn about the most important principles of composition and how to use them in your designs.

This is a premium course on Linkedin Learning. You can find some free tutorials from this course below.

Course Introduction

It can seem as though professional artists and designers have an instinctive understanding of where to position elements on a screen. But these capabilities don’t appear out of nowhere—many designers develop these skills by studying graphic design at art college or university. The principles that are taught in these schools have been developed over centuries, and they offer a fairly foolproof set of methods.

Self-taught designers often spend too much time experimenting with the placement of elements on screens, using a trial and error approach to design that can be slow and unproductive.

Free Tutorials

Here are a few free tutorials from this course for you to enjoy.

If you’d like to see more you can sign up for a free trial here.

Course Details

Instructor Angie Taylor puts these principles in context by taking you though the development of an online advertisement, and showcasing the different techniques used throughout her workflow. 

Angie's Favorites

Angie shares her favorite tips. She demonstrates how to capture colors, patterns, and shapes using the Adobe Capture app; develop your rough ideas into layers that are ready for animating; compose design elements in After Effects; and create 3D artwork with Cinema 4D and After Effects.

All Angie’s premium courses are available here on the Linkedin Learning website.

Character Animator Training

Character Animator Training

Character animator

Traditional 2D character animation can be a laborious and time-consuming process. In this Adobe Character Animator training course I’ll share my essentials tips and techniques for making the processes involved in 2D character animation less painful.

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Character animator training course

In this one-to-one training workshop Angie shares her industry secrets with you. You’ll learn how to import layered files and paths from Illustrator into After Effects. See how easy it is to animate flat vector artwork in both 2D and 3D space, and you’ll explore options for outputting your animations.

Topics covered include:

  • Setting up After Effects for creating 2D character animation
  • Using input devices to capture motion and apply it to your characters
  • Creating animation and lip-syncing with audio files, using expressions and scripting to make the process easier
  • Applying grouping techniques and using parenting to create hierarchical animations
  • Following the best working practices for outputting your animations for the web, TV, and mobile devices.

Watch examples of Angie’s tutorials

Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Motion Graphic Design - Composition  In this course, learn about the most important principles of composition and how to use them in your designs. This is a premium course on Linkedin Learning. You can find some free tutorials from this course...

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Character Animator Training

Character Animator Training

Character animator Traditional 2D character animation can be a laborious and time-consuming process. In this Adobe Character Animator training course I'll share my essentials tips and techniques for making the processes involved in 2D...

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Storyboards & Animatics

Storyboards & Animatics

Storyboards & AnimaticsAngie has taught her course on storyboard and animatic production at The Lighthouse in Brighton and at the University of Brighton's Digital Media MA course. She now teaches this exciting course at Creative Cabin. Adobe...

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Premiere Pro Training

Premiere Pro Training

One-to-one Premiere Pro training All Premiere Pro training courses at Creative Cabin are one-to-one courses. All courses are taught by Adobe Community Expert, Angie Taylor. Angie will customizse the training course to fit your unique workflow....

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Your Instructor - Angie Taylor

All courses are taught by artist, Angie Taylor. Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years.

She was a demo artist for Adobe and is an Adobe Community Professional. You can see examples of Angie's work here on her portfolio.

Angie is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Brighton. She has taught children and adults at several colleges, schools and universities.

Angie has several books & courses  published on design & animation.