After Effects in Production: A Companion for Creating Motion Graphics (DV Expert Series) - Softcover

Meyer, Trish; Meyer, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578202647 ISBN 13: 9781578202645

Publisher: CMP Books, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Product Description

Teaches useful design concepts and production techniques in After Effects. This book covers Version 5 and 6 features including 3D space, cameras, lights, parenting, text, animation presets, paint, and expressions.

Review

After Effects in Production is a follow-up to Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects also by Trish and Chris Meyer. The new book contains a dozen project-based in-depth tutorials and six case studies featuring commercial productions by companies such as Attik, Fido, Belief and the author's own studio, CyberMotion.

This is a book for those who have already clocked up a few hours in the After Effects cutting room. If you're starting a career in post-production, or are simply curious to discover how to get the most from new After Effects 5 features such as 3-D compositing, parenting and expressions you'll find it here. At the same time, half of the tutorials and all of the case studies are After Effects 4.1 compatible. All the project files, finished movies and some bonus materials are provided on a CD.

After Effects in Production isn't one of those books that contain a lot of white space, big pictures and interviews with industry gurus about the importance of motion design in a global cultural context. This is very much a hands-on manual, every spare column inch is packed with step-by-step project walk-throughs, screengrabs, margin tips, facts, problems to look out for and references to other sources of information.

The projects are substantial pieces of work, RoboTV, for example, which animates a robotic arm used as a pointing device for a sports programme trailer, includes 37 steps, 65 screengrabs and 4 panels detailing the use of particular After Effects features. This approach makes After Effects in Production one of the most highly concentrated sources of After Effects know-how currently available. --Ken McMahon

Edition details

• Publisher: CMP Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1578202647
• ISBN 13: 9781578202645
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368