After Effects apprentice real-world skills for the aspiring motion graphics artist
If you're new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, After Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons plus a hip final project that pulls it all together, you'll learn how to tap this program's vast potential -whether you want to create motion gra...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Focal Press
2009.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627377506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; After Effects Apprentice; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Getting Started; Pre-Roll: Exploring the After Effects landscape; project structure; main application window; Tools panel; Project panel; importing footage; Composition panel; Timeline panel; Layer panel; Info, Preview, Audio panels; Effects & Presets, Effect Controls; Workspaces; Adobe Bridge; Lesson 1 - Basic Animation: Building your first animation while you learn a typical After Effects workflow; creating folders in the Project panel; creating a new composition; importing files and folders
- interpreting alpha channelsadding layers to the Comp panel; changing the Background Color; scrubbing parameter values; interactively transforming layers; animating Position; RAM Preview; navigating between keyframes; adding a background layer; dragging footage to the Timeline panel; editing a keyframe's Bezier handles; editing spatial keyframes; motion paths; animating Opacity, Scale, and Rotation; arranging and replacing layers; adding solid layers; applying, copying and pasting effects; rendering; understanding the comp's alpha channel; importing layered Photoshop and Illustrator files
- Lesson 2 - Advanced Animation: Manipulating keyframes to create more refined animationskeyframe basics; the Work Area; Anchor Point overview; Pan Behind tool; motion control moves; the Graph Editor; Speed versus Value Graphs; panning and zooming time; editing graph curves; easing animations; Graph Editor Sets; Separate Dimensions; Motion Sketch; Smoother; Auto-Orient; Motion Blur; Roving Keyframes; Time-Reverse Keyframes; Hold keyframes; time display and timecode; Lesson 3 - Layer Control: Learning how to trim layers and enhance them using Blending Modes and effects; layers and stacking order
- moving layers in timetrimming layers; trimming in the Layer and Footage panels; slip editing; Sequence Layers assistant; looping footage; image sequences; changing the frame rate; Time Stretch; Blending Modes; effects and solids; effect motion path; Effects & Presets panel; searching for effects; Animation Presets; Behavior presets; Layer Styles; Adjustment Layers; filmic glow; non-square pixels; Lesson 4 - Creating Transparency: Using masks, mattes, and stencils to cut out portions of a layer; masking tools, creating mask shapes; Rounded Rectangle tool; Free Transform Points
- masking in the Layer panelMask Feather; animating a mask path; creating a vignette; Mask Expansion; masking with the Pen tool; creating and editing Bezier masks; effecting a masked area; controlling mask path interpolation; using effects with the mask path; Mask Modes and multiple masks; Mask Opacity; creating and editing RotoBezier masks; Audio Spectrum effect; Alpha Track Matte; nesting a track matte composite; Luma Track Matte; animating matte layers; Stencil Alpha and Stencil Luma; effects with track mattes and stencils
- Lesson 5 - Type and Music: Animating text and working with music are essential to motion graphics design
