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AFTER EFFECTS APPRENTICE
After Effects Apprentice
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Chris and Trish Meyer, Trish and Chris Meyer are principals in Crish Design (formerly known as CyberMotion), an award-winning motion graphic design studio. The Meyers are authors of the well-known reference book Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, and teach motion graphics at numerous events around the country.

Description
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 network program, your company?s video, or your own independent production. In this book, you?ll get a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn to use this program effectively. You?ll learn to creatively edit and combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, replace a screen on a computer monitor, place a studio shot in anew environment, manipulate 3D space, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene. Easy to follow step-by-step instructions take you through each technique, including projects that encourage you to express it in your own way. You?ll learn more than just the tools; you?ll learn skills that you can immediately put to work in your own projects. Topics include how to: * Animate, layer, and composite images and text. * Manipulate keyframes to create more refined animations. * Use masks, mattes, stencils and modes to add depth. * Manage layers to make them easier to coordinate. * Add 3D to your animations. * Use tracking and keying to create special effects. * Includes new CS3 features; Shape layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm, and Per-Character 3D Text. DVD contains: All exercise source material and projects in AE7 and CS3, video guided tours, and movies of the finished projects.

Audience
Novice-level students, occasional motion graphic artists including editors and Flash designers, and hobbyists.

Contents
Pre-Roll; Basic Animation; Advanced Animation; Layer Control; Creating Transparency; Type and Music; Parenting and Nesting; Expressions and Time Games; 3D Space; Track and Key; Paint and Clone; New Features in CS3; Final Project

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 320 pages, publication date: APR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80938-0
ISBN-10: 0-240-80938-6
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS

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Last update: 13 Jun 2009
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