After Effects Apprentice: Real World Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist [Paperback] Author: Chris Meyer | Language: English | ISBN:
0240817362 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Whether you're new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, or already a user who needs to become familiar with the new features, After Effects Apprentice was created for you. With 11 core lessons plus a final project that pulls it all together, you'll learn how to tap this program's vast potential - whether you create motion graphics for network television, corporate communications, or your own projects.
Fully updated to cover the major new features introduced in After Effects CS6, CS5.5, and CS5, this edition of the book presents a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to master in order to use After Effects effectively. You'll learn to creatively combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, manipulate 3D space, track or rotoscope existing footage to add new elements, color key and stabilize a shot to place it in a new environment, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene. Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions guide you through the features, with explanations of the "why" instead of just the "how" behind each technique. You'll learn more than just the tools; you'll learn skills that you can immediately put to work expressing your own ideas in your productions.
Topics include how to:
- Animate, edit, layer, and composite video and still images.
- Manipulate keyframes and the way they interpolate to create more refined animations.
- Use masks, mattes, stencils and blending modes to add sophistication to your imagery.
- Create and animate text and shape layers
- Place your layers in 3D space.
- Use tracking and keying to create special effects, such as replacing screen displays.
DVD contains: All exercise source material and project files for After Effects CS6, CS5.5, and CS5, plus 90 minutes of video tutorials.
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- Paperback: 364 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 3 edition (August 23, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240817362
- ISBN-13: 978-0240817361
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.5 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I've been a huge fan of Chris and Trish Meyer since I bought their first After Effects Apprentice book. The title certainly delivers its promise of "real world skills for the aspiring motion graphics artist."
Probably one of the best things about the Meyer's books are the way they are layed out. Great art direction using a very easy-on-the-eyes color palette, and the liberal use of large columns on the outer margins highlight tips and tricks, and methods to follow in addition to the subject matter in the page's middle column.
Now to the subject matter. When i first started using After Effects, the Meyer's book that then covered CS5 was a welcome companion (along with the CD packed with AE projects that match the "lessons" in the book) because it took a step-by-step approach to all of the basics of the powerful tools in AE. Each function is explained with a "now click this" approach and is written for both Mac and Windows users, providing the appropriate command keys for each. The friendly writing style is backed up by an awesome Table of Contents and an even more impressive index. I guarantee you're no more than two seconds away from the explanation you're looking for whether you use the TOC or the index. Kudos to the Meyer's and their editors for that.
Remember those outer columns I mentioned? While you're learning about how making a mask works, for example, the outer column will guide you to a more detailed, more advance use of the tool and give you some ideas of how to use it in production. Outstanding.
The original version of this guide book helped me get my footing in AE which, as you know if you've spent any time with it, is the most robust program ever written, that does more than you can even conceive.
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