Autorentext

Trish and Chris Meyer are principals of Crish Design, an award-winning motion graphics design studio. Two of the original After Effects users with over 20 years experience, the Meyers are highly respected authors of motion graphics books and training videos. For more, visit: www.crishdesign.com.

Lee Lanier has worked as a professional computer animator and VFX artist since 1994. He has more than 70 features, shorts, music videos, trailers, and commercials to his credit. Lee has written a dozen high-end software books that have sold more than 35,000 copies, has authored VFX training videos for LinkedIn and lynda.com, has taught VFX compositing at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, and is a member of the Visual Effects Society. You can see his work at beezlebugbit.com and diabolica-art.com.

Klappentext

Trish and Chris Meyer and Lee Lanier share over 20 years of hard-earned, real-world film and video production experience inside the sixth edition of this critically-acclaimed text. Far more than a step-by-step review of the features in AE, readers will learn how the program thinks so that they can realize their own visions more quickly and efficiently. This comprehensive, full-color book is packed with tips, shortcuts, and sage advice that will help users thrive no matter what projects they might encounter.

Creating Motion Graphics has been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest features of After Effects CC, incorporating new and redesigned exercises and projects with HD footage, further coverage on AE integration with Cinema4D, using stereoscopic 3D and 360 VR in your projects, visual effects, and much more. The book is also accompanied by an extensive companion website including the project files and source materials for all the techniques demonstrated in the book, as well as several bonus chapters on subjects like expressions, scripting, effects, and integration with other software.

Inhalt

1. Animation Techniques

2. Layer Management

3. Modes, Masks, and Mattes

4. Cameras! Lights! Action!

5. Building Hierarchies

6. Text Animation

7. Effects and Presets

8. Color and Keying

9. Time and Tracking

10. Drawing, Painting, and Puppetry

11. Working with Audio

12. Expressions

13. Importing and Integration

14. Exporting and Rendering