There are a few nice pieces of software around at the moment that I want to share with you. The first is Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy. An incredible plug-in for video applications (like After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro). If you shoot interviews or wedding videos and don’t have a good make [...]

Recently a few people have been asking me about my blog. “What is it?” “Why do you do it?” “What is it for?” The funny thing is that most of these questions come to me via my Facebook page. This made me realize that there’s an ironic ignorance surrounding blogs by the general public. Ironic because Blogging is basically what everyone’s doing when they post information on their Facebook page.

I was describing a friend of mine as suffering from creative constipation recently. It’s a common complaint, many designers suffer from it and it can be the result of multifarious causes; tight deadlines, the distractions of every-day life, worrying about friends and families, an untidy desk. All of these have been my obstructions at one [...]

I apologize for my recent silence in the blog-o-sphere but I’ve been busy putting the finishing touches to my forthcoming book, “Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist“.

It’s funny, I’ve written books before. Software books, teaching people how to use Adobe After Effects to be specific. I was commissioned to write these books, at the [...]

I’m busy preparing to leave on a mammoth journey to San Fransisco to speak at the Macworld 2010 conference for the first time.
I’ll be talking about production workflow, specifically broadcast production as that’s where I spent 12 years of my life freelancing as a motion graphic designer/ animator.
I’ll also share some of the challenges I’ve [...]

I’m interested in the trend of decoupling going on in the world of TV and film production companies. It’s the world that I used to live in so it’s close to my heart. Decoupling refers to the process of reducing costs to the client by outsourcing some of the work to freelancers or external services, [...]

Tomorrow I’ll be in Manchester talking about Final Cut Studio and GridIron Flow integration. Please click on the link below if you are interested in attending. It’s free to attend and should be a great event.
Join us in Manchester and experience the latest advances in video production and audio creation on the Mac. This exclusive [...]

I’m hoping to see a few of you at MacWorld 2010 where I’ll be speaking next year. I love San Fransisco so will be taking a little extra time out to hang out with my old friends, Amacker and Nina at the Lucky 13 bar on Castro. I also hope to catch up with all [...]

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 [...]

After receiving good feedback for my blog on the influence of punk on design, I thought I’d keep on subject and write about the women of “punk” who inspired me personally, not just creatively, but in almost everything I do.

I went to see my old friends The Slits last week in Brighton Concorde 2. They [...]

I went to Amsterdam earlier this month, with the Gridiron gang, to attend IBC 2009. I had several meetings to attend, demo’s to do and an interview or two to give. So I packed my suitcase with all my usual accouterments, everything I would need for a business trip in a distant land! I get [...]

I’ve had many careers in my lifetime, one of them being a deejay in the 1990s London club scene. I regularly deejayed at clubs like FF at Turnmills, Mix it at Heaven, The Fridge, The legendary Bell in Kings Cross, and the good old Market Tavern. I gave it all up in about 1993 to [...]

Last week I spoke about the Punk revolution in the UK and how inspiring it was to young people like me. Today I’ll talk about some of the great designers who emerged from that scene. I’ll start by looking at two of the key players who defined the style of the Punk Rock movement in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]