TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meyer,Trish
AU  - Meyer,Chris
TI  - The After effects apprentice: real-world skills for the aspiring motion graphics artist 
SN  - 9780240817361
AV  - TR858 .A384 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Burlington, Massachusetts
PB  - Focal Press/Taylor and Francis Group
KW  - Adobe After effects
KW  - Cinematography
KW  - Special effects
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Computer animation
KW  - Computer graphics
N1  - 1 (page 362) and index; Pre-roll: Exploring the After Effects landscape --; Basic animation: building your first animation while you learn a typical After Effects workflow --; Advanced animation: manipulating keyframes to create more refined animations --; Layer control: learning how to trim layers and enhance them using blend modes and effects --; Creating transparency: using masks, mattes, and stencils to cut out portions of a layer --; Type and music: animating text and working with music are essential to motion graphics design --; Parenting and nesting: grouping layers to make them easier to coordinate --; Expressions and timne games: using expressions and playing with time --; 3D space: adding a new dimension to your animations --; Track and key: tackling several essential skills for creating special effects --; Paint, roto, and puppet: exploring paint, roto brush, and the puppet tools --; Shape layers: creating, animating, and extruding vector-based shapes --; Final project: creating a show opening, from draft to completion --; Appendix: Rendering --; unleashing your creations on the world; 2
N2  - "Learn to creatively combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, manipulate 3D space, track or rotoscope existing footage to add new elements, color key and stabilize a shot to place it in a new environment, 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"--P. 4. of cover
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