So you've a copy of After
Effects and an idea of what this
professional motion graphics and effects tool can do...but
what can you really do with After Effects? How far can you
push it? What are the best effects that you can create?
What are the essential skills and techniques that you need
to really make your
creations stand out?
After Effects Most
Wanted answers these questions in a
refreshing and practical way. Looking at a wide variety of
projects the original artists tell you why, and exactly how
they created their masterpieces.
The authors, all professionals who use After Effects to
make a living, share with you the secrets of their
successes and extend beyond that to give you the reasons
why they did things the way that they did.
More so than that, the accompanying CD has their creations
available at your fingertips and the simple, step-by-step
instructions in the book show you how they created these
pieces.
The projects covered are diverse, from a television
commercial for McDonald's and Coca-Cola by Peter Reynolds,
to a thought provoking
work by renowned and controversial
artist Simon Tsyko, a work featured by Adobe in their
motion gallery.
Other authors include: Chris James Hewitt, whose Relokation
Ne is the a featured work on the BD4D (By Designers For
Designers) web site, Christian Darkin, a digital
video
journalist and author, and Mark Towse, who offers two
pieces, one for TV, one for the cinema.
Without long, redundant discussions of tools and
application packages, After Effects Most Wanted is a book
that delivers the techniques, skills, and effects that will
let you bring your creations to life.
Contents
- I'd Buy That For a Dollar: Reflections, Shadows and
3D
- Extreme FX: Multiple video dips and Morphing
- Video Art, Let's Dance: Split-screen FX and Video
Choreography
- Eat Static: Relokation Ne- Abstract animation, Sound
sync and T
- Jenovah: Advanced Layering
- I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Do That: Layering
and Opacity, Giving 2D animation real depth
- Horror of Horrors: Amazing transitions
- How to Resurrect a Dead Fish: Bringing 3D models into
and out of reality, including special text FX