Well, what a busy old month I’ve had! I’ve crossed several time zones and been on more flights than I care to mention. But all for good reason.
Earlier this month I went to Gratz to record an After Effects training DVD for the amazing folks at Video2Brain. It was really good to [...]

I’m pleased to announce that Nucleo Pro 3 is now available from our store. Those of you working in After Effects CS5’s 64-bit environment can now take advantage of Nucleo Pro 3’s phenomenal speed increases. We’ve had reports of users seeing an increase in speed of 400% working in After Effects CS5.
You can find out [...]

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve released the Flow 1.0.2 update to provide support for Quark Express 8 plus Final Cut Studio 3!
Check it out by clicking here!
Your installed application should automatically update but you can double-check by Opening Flow and going to Help menu > Check for Updates.
Enjoy!
Angie Taylor - Creative Director, GridIron Software

Growing up in Scotland in 1975, I had no idea what was going on the other side of the Atlantic. Little did I know that American women there were in the process of breaking ground so that people like me could find a voice an be accepted despite our inherent idiosyncrasies!
The first woman who I [...]

In this final blog-episode about the influence of Punk on Design I intend to highlight some of our own designers who are clearly influenced by Punk. I’ll start by mentioning one or two that emerged directly from the movement that followed the first few seeds sprinkled by the like of Vivienne Westwood and Jamie Reid, who [...]

One feature of GridIron Flow I’ve seen people really go nuts for is its ability to "roll back" a Photoshop document to a previous version. (Flow creates versions automatically.) I think the reason for this enthusiasm is the numerous ways in which you can inadvertently "harm" a Photoshop file - permanently altering (or deleting) data. [...]

I was asked on Twitter to write a blog about the early days of Punk in the UK and it’s influence on the world of design. I, probably more than most, am influenced strongly by the punk movement that started in the seventies in New York and London. I was 12 when it all started [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can improve communication at work between colleagues and clients. This was sparked off by my post regarding Visual Communication where I spoke about designers communicating in a visual language. I talked with a few good people, surfed the internet and, as a result,  found some interesting theories regarding personality types. [...]

When people ask me why we need rules for design I like to use the analogy of spoken languages. In order to communicate with people in other countries you need to learn their language and the rules pertaining to the local customs. We’re all familiar with the cliché of the tourist, unable to speak the [...]

There’s an event on this Monday that I’d like to make sure everybody attends. So please forgive the diversion from my usual mental meanderings on the subject of creativity. Trust me and humor me by clicking on this link below. Please then register for the live event where you’ll get an exclusive peek at something [...]

Creative Director (Europe) - Gridiron Software
As research for my book I’ve been looking at the effects of drugs on creativity, and finding out if the two are linked. I’m hoping to get some feedback from the readers of my blog regarding their own experiences but first I guess it’s fair to give you my own [...]

I was very pleased to hear from one of the many people I have trained on Adobe After Effects. Over the years I must have trained hundreds of motion graphic designers, animators and visual effects artists ranging from humble freelancers like myself to some of the top designers in their fields. I’ve even trained a [...]

I’m in the process of writing a new book and my research involved talking to designers about the problems they are facing. Where do they get inspiration from? How do they keep up with new software features? How do they learn new techniques? So I decided to do a survey. To my surprise, top of [...]

Every now and then a piece of software comes along that changes your life. The first one for me was Cubase, I learned how to do music sequencing on an old Atari during my deejaying career in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Then there was Deluxe Paint, the first application that allowed me to [...]

I had a bad day yesterday! It started with a friend calling to tell me how unhappy she is at her new job. She’s an artist, and up until recently, had her own studio, where she painted, partied and hung out. She’s relatively successful, selling the odd painting here and there and doing digital media installations. But [...]

Being of a ‘creative’ nature, I have a naturally chaotic mind, or so I’ve been told on good authority! My head is pretty much always ‘full of stuff’, work, friends, family, relationships, ideas, inspirations, mundane tasks, creative ideas, all of them ricochet around my brain like flies trying to escape from imprisonment.
And since I’ve progressed [...]

I should confess that I think failblog.org is probably the funniest thing on the internet. The theme of the site is taking a single word and making it say so much about what is probably a complex situation, whether it’s a still image, a screen shot, or a video clip. I strive for brevity (but [...]

Have we reverted to a world of blithering idiots, relying on one-liners and soundbites to express ourselves? My newspaper of choice in in the UK, The Guardian, published a really fabulous April Fool article relating to Twitter last week. They joked about reducing the world news to Tweets of 140 characters or less. Although it [...]

I’m just about to do my last stint of talking at Photoshop World here in Boston. As an After Effects specialist, the majority of trade shows and events I’ve spoken at have been video-related so it’s only my second Photography event. I was slightly apprehensive about it, would I know anybody, would they be interested [...]

by Angie Taylor, Creative Director - (Europe) Gridiron Software
I’ve just arrived in Boston for Photoshop World 2009 where I’ll be speaking on the Gridiron Software booth about Flow. Its been a really nice evening having dinner with some of my favorite colleagues and talking about music. 
I’ve been slightly apprehensive about doing this event as it’s slightly outside my comfort zone, being [...]