In this dynamic new text
Angie Taylor provides a
comprehensive guide to the fundamental workings of After
Effects, explaining how to think creatively with the
software, so that you can achieve the most unique and
professional-looking results. Also included are lots of
invaluable tips, tricks, ideas,
animation rules, design and
typography rules and details of other resources you will
find useful.
The free CD-ROM provides the necessary files to complete
each tutorial in the book, as well as a plethora of free
fonts, footage, plugins and demo software (including
Adobe's After Effects 4.1 Tryout version). Readers are also
encouraged to build their own, custom project, applying the
techniques learned in each chapter, and completing the book
with a totally unique piece of work. The associated website
(www.angie.abel.co.uk/book.html) contains links to
interesting related sites for up to date news, as well as
inspirational work from other professional After Effects
artists.
If you are a designer already using After Effects and
want to improve and reconfirm your working methods, brush
up on your creative skills, and improve your graphic and
animation techniques, or if you simply need to learn After
Effects from scratch, then this is the book for you.
Angie Taylor is a freelance professional animator and
graphic designer for television. She produces animation and
motion graphics featured regularly on the BBC and Channel 4
television in the UK. Angie also works as an After Effects
demo artist at many Adobe events and tradeshows. She has
developed curricula and conducted numerous hands-on After
Effects training sessions for Adobe. She is very active in
the After Effects user community and has delivered software
training and seminars to a wide range of companies
including the BBC, Carlton Television and Apple, as well as
many of the biggest UK independent television production
companies.
Contents
- Introduction
- Mission
- Basics
- The Brief
- Preferences
- Importing
- Masks
- Nesting
- Animation
- Time
- Keying
- Effects
- Tracking
- Expressions
- 3D
- Type
- Index
- Free CD-Rom