Academy Class Reviews

Usually on courses like this, you're given handouts to follow a curriculum, and that you can refer to when trying things out at home. We've not been given anything, and we're starting each day without a clear understanding of goals and what's to be achieved or the likely outcomes for each day. Computers are slow and crash a lot.

Loved the training. Ideally I would have liked to spend more time on some of the more advanced aspects.

Hardware was not fit for purpose - crashed several times on Roto Brush Exercises (this unfortunately was the problem on the last course. Learnt a lot of new techniques - that will find useful but some repetition from last course (3D) (Ian was particularly helpful)

The course was great, only issue was the machines kept crashing due to bugs in the software which slowed things down slightly.

The course was fantastic to gain a deeper understanding of After Effects. The majority of the course was an absolute gold mine of information. The time saved in the future from what I've learned will be huge and it also answered questions that I've had for a while and never found answers too. Great course, Fun and Highly reccomeneded

The course was really good. I can definitely see practical applications for the things we learned and feel that it will benefit my development as a designer.

Good course, clear and varied. Easy to understand. Great tutor. We booked to work on Macs but they were not provided. The room was cramped.

Terrible Training facility, squashed in and only able to move to a (only just) larger classroom on the final two days! Temperature uneven and chairs awful. Cramped desktop conditions not conducive to learning....

Course material was very similar to the After Effects 101 course that we had recently taken, so did feel a bit of a repetition and didn't push skills along much from there. Hardware (PC's) do not have the performance to handle the Software and crashed on a number of us at times. This meant that it was difficult to keep up with the instructor, and by trying to play 'catch-up' didn't fully understand some of the material.

This was a good foundation course, understanding what each tool does and navigating around the system. Additional training would be required for specific areas the company wants us to use Illustrator for.