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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC
Develop your skills as a visual effects and motion graphics artist
David Dodds
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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC
Develop your skills as a visual effects and motion graphics artist
David Dodds
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About This Book
Discover techniques to enhance your videos with complex animation
Key Features
- Design, animate, and sequence a complete motion graphics project
- Work with compositions and pre-compositions to create animations speedily
- Maximize your motion graphics and visual effects skills
Book Description
If you're thinking seriously about making and publishing your videos with professional editing and animation, look no further! Adobe After Effects is a popular tool among video editors and YouTubers to enhance their videos and bring them to life by implementing visual effects and motion graphics.
This book will take you right from the basics through to the advanced techniques in Adobe After Effects CC 2018. You will start by setting up your editing environment to learn and improve techniques to sharpen your video editing skills. Furthermore, you will work with basic and advanced special effects to create, modify, and optimize motion graphics in your videos. Lastly, you will not only learn how to create 2.5D animations, but also get to grips with using Cinema 4D Lite to build and animate complete 3D scenes.
By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to package a video efficiently with the help of the projects covered.
What you will learn
- Create a lower third project for a TV show with complex layers
- Work with shape layer animation to create an animated lyrics video
- Explore different tools to animate characters
- Apply text animation to create a dynamic film-opening title
- Use professional visual effects to create a VFX project
- Model, light, and composite your 3D project in After Effects
Who this book is for
If you're a student, professional, YouTuber, or anyone who is interested in video editing, animation, and motion graphics, this book is for you. You'll also find this resource useful if you're an Illustrator looking to put your creations in motion.
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I. Section 1: Text, Layers, Characters, Animation
1. Getting Started with After Effects
Technical requirements
Computer requirements
Exploring the interface
Resetting the layout
Saving your project
The project panel
Importing images
Preferences – Autosave
Creating compositions
The timelines and the toolbar
Bringing layers into your composition
Tool panel
Preview panel
Composition window
Effects panel
Introducing layer properties
Layer panel
The footage panel
The timeline panel
The timeline lifespan
Zooming into the timeline
Navigating in the timeline
Current time indicator
The workspace area
Trimming layers
Creating composition markers on your timeline
Animating a property
Animating scale
Solid layers and masking
Duplicating layers
Identifying and turning off your layers
Solo layers
Tagging your layers
Looking at transform properties
Rulers and guides
Editing masks
Editing your mask shape
Editing masks
Using the subtract-masking feature
Creating an animated slideshow
Summary
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Further reading
2. Creating a Lower Third for a Television Show
Technical requirements
Animating a television lower third with precomps and null objects
Designing with storyboards
Editing masks and using precomps
Nesting precomps and using the pen tool
Animations, nulls, text, and rendering
Parenting and Null object animations
Parenting null animations
Parenting
Positioning a lower third
Creating a dark blue solid layer
The triangle pick whip
Color correction and adjusting masks
Adjusting colors
Adjusting masks
Creating text, easy easing key frames, and rendering
The type tool
The type fill
Adjusting the text
Rendering options
Summary
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3. Using Shape Layers to Create an Animated Lyric Video
Using shape layers to create transitions and background graphics
Creating shape 1
Creating a new polystar shape layer
Creating a transition shape
Importing audio, text animation presets, and background graphics
Importing audio and creating composition markers
Text animators
Editing your text preset key frames
Creating an animated background shape
Summary
Questions
Further reading
4. Creating an Infographic with Character Animator
Technical requirements
Infographics
Text
Creating text on a path
Animated text
Editing and importing Illustrator files
Creating a new layer in Illustrator
The Eyedropper tool
Animation principles
Animating a monitor
Character animation types
Puppet Warp animation
Jointed animation
Adobe Character Animator
Altering Illustrator files
Character Animator interface
Animation timeline
Recording your performance
Adjusting character properties
Blending takes
Starting recording
Project settings
Exporting your animation
Importing PNG sequences
Adding the character to an infographic project
Completing your infographic
Summary
Questions
Further reading
5. Producing a Film Title Project Using Text Animator
Creating a film title
Setting up your project
Creating 3D-looking text with bevel emboss
Light animation
Using track mattes
Lens flares
Summary
Questions
Further reading
II. Section 2: Video, Visual Effects, Compositing
6. Animating Sports Graphics with Compositing Effects
Creating sports motion graphics
Setting up your project
Creating an environment
Using custom light effects
Animating flashing lights
Animating your sports logo
Adding a reflection
Creating camera movement
Creating another light shape
Animating the light glint
Add a vignette to the comp
Camera tracking a video
Compositing a logo in tracked footage
Bringing it all together
Summary
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7. Develo...