After Effects Apprentice: Real-World Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist (Apprentice Series)

After Effects Apprentice: Real-World Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist (Apprentice Series)

<P>Whether you’re new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, or already a user who needs to become familiar with the new features, <I>After Effects Apprentice</I> was created for you. With 12 core lessons including a trio of projects combining After Effects with CINEMA 4D Lite, you’ll learn how to tap this program’s vast potential – whether you create motion graphics for network television, corporate communications, or your own projects.</P> <P>Fully updated to cover the major new features added in After Effects CC, this edition of the book presents a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to master in order to use After Effects effectively. You’ll learn to creatively combine layers; animate eye-catching titles; manipulate 3D space; color key, track or rotoscope existing footage to add new elements; and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene. Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions guide you through the features, with explanations of the "why" instead of just the "how" behind each technique. You’ll learn more than just the tools; you’ll learn skills that you can immediately put to work expressing your own ideas in your productions.</P> <P>USER LEVEL: Novice–Intermediate </P> <P>Topics include how to:</P> <P>• Animate, edit, layer, and composite a variety of media.</P> <P>• Manipulate keyframes and the way they interpolate to create more refined animations.</P> <P>• Use masks, mattes, stencils and blending modes to add sophistication to your imagery.</P> <P>• Create, animate, and extrude text and shape layers.</P> <P>• Explore 3D space, including using CINEMA 4D Lite.</P> <P>• Use tracking and keying to create special effects, such as replacing screen displays.</P> <P>A companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/meyer makes available for download all exercise source material and After Effects CC project files required to get the most out of this book.</P>