'By showcasing a variety of artistic techniques, After Effects in Production is a natural follow-up to Creating Motion Graphics.' -- Steve Kilisky, Senior Product Manager, Adobe After Effects 'Overall, these books are fantastic and as far as I'm concerned they should come in the box with After Effects. If you want a real start with this fantastic program, get yourself a copy of all of these.'
-- Adrian Thompson, CGFocus.com, on After Effects in Production and Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 1 & 2
Take your After Effects skills to a new level! Twelve step-by-step tutorials, designed by industry professionals, explore a variety of creative approaches as they teach useful design concepts and production techniques.
Updated for After Effects 6.5, this new edition covers the most significant Version 5 and 6 features including 3D space, cameras, lights, parenting, text, animation presets, paint, and expressions. Each carefully structured project presents the 'why' behind the steps, so you can adapt these techniques to your own designs and motion graphics work. All contain timeless concepts that will be of use for many years to come.
After Effects in Production also contains six case studies of commercial projects created by award-winning studios such as ATTIK, Belief, Curious Pictures,The Diecks Group, Fido, and the authors' own studio, CyberMotion.These detail the integration of After Effects, 3D programs, live action, and a variety of animation techniques, revealing the artistic concepts behind the spots as well as the inventive techniques used to execute them. The enclosed DVD contains QuickTime movies of each of the final animations, allowing you to step through them frame-by-frame so you can examine them in detail.
Topics include:
Mastering 3D space features, including cameras, lights, shadows, and orientation
Employing parenting, precomposing, and expressions to group layers
Refining animations with keyframe assistants, expressions, and velocity curves
Universal design concepts that can be applied to any version of After Effects
DVD contains: All projects and sources, QT movies of finished tutorials and case studies, plus free footage and plug-ins. Includes Tryout version of Adobe After Effects 6.5 (Mac or Windows).
USER LEVEL: Intermediate to Advanced.
Trish and Chris Meyer are the creative forces behind CyberMotion, an award-winning motion graphics studio in Los Angeles. They have created imagery for NBC, ABC, HBO, Fox, TLC, New Line, and Paramount, plus corporations ranging from Apple to Xerox. Their first book - Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects - is considered the bible in its field.
