After Effects apprentice real-world skills for the aspiring motion graphics artist

If you're new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, After Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons plus a fun final project, you'll quickly get into the program and learn how to tap its potential - whether you want to create motion graphics for a ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Meyer, Trish, 1961-, author (author), Meyer, Chris, 1961- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press 2007.
Edición:[First edition]
Colección:DV expert series.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009755199906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; AFTER EFFECTS Apprentice: Real-World Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Getting Started; Pre-Roll; Exploring the After Effects landscape.; The After Effects Project; The Application Window; The Tools Panel; The Project Panel; Importing Footage; The Composition Panel; The Timeline Panel; The Layer Panl; Other Panels; Time Controls; Info; Audio; Effects & Presets; Effect Controls; Managing Workspaces; Lesson 1 Basic Animation; Building your first animation while you learn a typical After Effects workflow; Starting a Project
  • Creating a New CompositionImporting Footage; Managing the Comp View; Building a Comp; Animating Position; Adding a Second Layer; Animating Opacity, Scale, and Rotation; Arranging and Animating Multiple Layers; Adding a Flying Flower; Solid Design; Importing Layered Photoshop and Illustrator Files; Rendering; Lesson 2 Advanced Animation; Manipulating keyframes to create more refined animations; Adobe Bridge; The Graph Editor; Panning and Zooming Time; The Work Area; Speed versus Value Graphs; The Smoother; Auto-Orient and Motion Blur; Motion Blur; Roving Keyframes; Anchor Point 101
  • Pan Behind ToolFaux Motion Control; Hold Keyframes; Tech Corner: Time Display and Timecocle; Lesson 3 Layer Control; Learning how to trim layers and enhance them using Blending Modes and effects; Working with Layers; Moving Layers in Time; Trimming Layers; Trimming in Other Panels; Slip Edit; Sequence Layers; Looping Footage; Image Sequences; Frame Rate versus Time Stretch; Blending Modes; Effects, Solids, and Modes; Effect Motion Path; Deeper into Effects; Finding and Animating Effects; Saving Animation Presets; Adjustment Layers; Instant Sex; Tech Corner: Non-Square Pixels
  • Lesson 4 Creating TransparencyUsing masks, mattes, and stencils to cut out portions of a layer; Masking; Animating a Mask Shape (Mask Path); Creating a Vignette; Masking with the Pen Tool; Drawing a Path; Applying an Effect to a Masked Area; How Mask Shapes Interpolate; Mask Paths and Effects; Multiple Mask Madness; Mask Opacity; RotoBezier Mask Shapes; Audio Spectrum Effect; Using Track Mattes; Nesting with Track Mattes; Effects and Track Mattes; Luma Track Matte; Animated Track Matte; Stencil Alpha and Stencil Luma; Masks in After Effects CS3; Lesson 5 Type and Music
  • Animating text and working with music are essential to motion graphics designText Basics; Text Animators; Adding More Properties; Randomize Order; Creating Cascading Text; Adjusting the Anchor Point; Safe Areas; Flowing Text: Animating Blur; Text on a Curve; Separating Fields; The Wiggly Selector; Rendering with an Alpha Channel; Rendering with Fields; Just Add Sound; Just Add Markers; Text Animation Presets; Editing a Preset; Saving Text Animations; Editing Photoshop Text Layers; Per-Character 3D in CS3; Lesson 6 Parenting and Nesting; Grouping layers to make them easier to coordinate.
  • Parenting