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After Effects course | Nick Kennedy

Motion Graphic Designer | TVN Berlin

I visited the Creative Cabin in December 2014 and spent two days learning After Effects with Angie Taylor. I have been using After effects for just over 5 years, in that time I had read lots of training books and used lots of online training resources and was at a point where I felt my work wasn’t really progressing. Then I heard about the bespoke training at Creative Cabin.

Before my visit I was able to discuss with Angie what I wanted to learn, showed her examples of work that inspired me and I wanted to be able to achieve a similar standard. Angie really covered every aspect and more, not only helping me improve my daily workflow but also a massive amount of tips and tricks that you don’t find an any books or you tube videos. This is where Angie’s experience really comes into its own, being able to ask questions on a one to one basis (and ask again when I didn’t quite understand), means my understanding of the motion design process and After Effects has greatly increased.

Additional to the time spent training with angie, the creative cabin has the added advantage that in the evening I could continue practising the aspects learnt during the day and new questions, which inevitably arrise, were answered the next day.

It was a very intensive two days, which I would highly recomend to everyone, Angie is a great trainer, really patient, and I think its great how she enjoys sharing her vast knowledege, and of course her very beautful home. And she’s a great cook! I recomend the meal options that Angie offers, not only does it save time (which can be spent after effecting) Angies currys taste great too!

So six months after my visit to the Creative Cabin, I have been asked to do a complete re-design of all the packaging for a daily show. I think this really is a sign that not only have I notice the improvements to my work but my Clients have too! Its always worth investing in education and my visit to the Creative Cabin is paying off for me already. Thanks Angie

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After Effects Templates

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Adobe Lightroom training

Ted – Photographer from Brighton

Angie kindly gave me some 1-2-1 tuition on Lightroom.  I am a hobby photographer who has changed over from 35mm film to digitial, but had not started to retouch my own images yet.

With Angie’s help, I now feel more confident with starting to retouch my own work.  I know nothing about Lightroom before the tuition, so she was very patient with showing this newbie around the basic Lightroom functions.

I will be downloading Lightroom and playing with importing my new images, so that I can then get the hang of that, then I will be after another tuition session from Angie, concentrating more on the actual retouching side of things.  The Creative Cabin is  well recommended by me.

Recording video tutorials

Maxim Jago

Film Director/ Trainer – Lynda.com

Maxim rented the Creative Cabin for a week to record video tutorials for his training courses at Lynda.com. The Cabin is a nice, quiet place to record, with all the facilities needed.

I just had my first experience of the Creative Cabin. I work long hours and like to stretch my legs from time to time. There’s nothing quite like stepping out for fresh air and seeing a family of foxes, birds in the trees and a sunset across a wide open horizon. The cabin is like a secret place, far from the madding crowd, with wifi… Loved it!

Kevin Ellis BSkyB

Kevin Ellis

Motion graphic designer, BSkyB

Training courses usually just touch on a range of subjects at introductory level and this approach can mean spending valuable training time covering subjects that you may already know or don’t need.

With Angie she really tailored the training to just the areas that I needed to focus on and adapted as we went along allowing me to really understand and not just skim over new techniques and approaches.

I left feeling I’d gained valuable understanding and work flow experience that would have been difficult to get on broader training course or at the work place. A Great couple of days.