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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you.
Creating Motion Graphics 4th Edition has been heavily revised, reuniting the previous two volumes plus adding detailed coverage of new features introduced in After Effects 7 and CS3 Professional to form one massive, essential reference. The enclosed DVD-ROM contains source footage and project files for the numerous exercises which help reinforce each concept. The DVD also includes over 180 pages of additional information, including lengthy Bonus Chapters on Expressions and Effects.
Authored in CS3, also included is access to a free web chapter written for CS4.
* Free CS4 web chapter included with the book
* Mastering animation through the use of keyframes, motion paths, and the Graph Editor
* Blending imagery using alpha channels, masks, mattes, modes, and stencils
* Building groups and hierarchies through parenting and nested comps
* Extended coverage of type animation, paint tools and 3D space
* Advanced subjects such as keying, motion tracking, expressions, and video issues
* Includes over 180 PDF pages of bonus content on the DVD
* Extensive coverage of the new CS3 features including the Shape and Puppet tools, Brainstorm, per-character 3D text, color management, and more! | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Chris Meyer | | Paperback: | 704 pages | | Publisher: | Focal Press | | Publication Date: | November 12, 2007 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0240810104 | | Product Width: | 188.25 centimeters | | Product Height: | 230.75 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 3.63 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.2 inches | | Package Width: | 7.5 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 25 reviews |
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28 of 31 found the following review helpful:
 An After Effects "Tour de Force" - Trish & Chris' best AE book yet! Nov 06, 2007
By Kenneth Calhoun
"StockTradingSuccess.com"
Combining both editions of their prior works in this all-new updated version for CS3, Trish and Chris have outdone themselves yet again in this splendid, comprehensive AE motion graphics masterpiece.
Packed with all-new examples and much tighter, more professional editing than earlier works, this latest from the Meyers is their best work yet. The bonus chapters on DVD are a generous addition, as are all the extras and clean layout of the book.
Compared to their earlier books, this one flows even better, with an astounding array of new content and step by step tutorial content that can easily help you boost your After Effects compositing skills quickly.
This book absolutely "sparkles" with professionalism and depth. It's one of the top 5 software books I've read, of hundreds. It really is quite a masterpiece, and can help accelerate your AE production skills immensely.
Another plus is all the detailed, advanced subtleties and professional "tricks of the trade" that haven't been revealed until now, in this volume.
Trish and Chris, you folks have set the bar higher for how to "do it right" for stunningly powerful software books, and I was really impressed with it, from reading through it today. I'm looking forward to working through the tutorial examples to help boost my AE skills even further, and salute your professionalism and depth of expertise, explained in crystal clear examples throughout this "must have" AE reference work.
Great job! Everyone should go buy this book now - it's the best in class for AE books (and I've read 'em all). Wonderful work on this. A++++
Regards,
Ken Calhoun
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Updated and revised for Adobe After Effects CS3 Dec 28, 2007
By Diane Cipollo
This is the fourth edition of the Motion Graphics with After Effects book by Chris & Trish Meyer. It has been updated and revised for Adobe After Effects CS3 and contains many new sections on your favorite software features including The Graph Editor, layer styles, puppet tools, vanishing point, pixel motion and color management. The DVD is packed with bonus chapters and project files. This new edition is quite extensive, as is the software it covers, and the authors have concentrated on teaching their readers how After Effects "thinks" as well as sharing many tips and shortcuts to increase productivity.
The first few chapters get you acquainted with the user interface and introduce the production process for creating a project or "composition". Then you begin to learn the basics such as animation layers, 2D Bezier motion paths and transformation keyframes. As you would expect, keyframes are the basis of animation in After Effects and the authors concentrate on several Keyframe Assistants such as Motion Sketch, Exponential Scale, Smoother and Wiggler.
With the basics under your belt, the authors move on to more advanced animation techniques such as editing and sequencing layers, removing layers, hot keying and managing multiple layer comps. However, it isn't enough to just create layers and keyframes. You want your animation to be as realistic as possible. The authors teach many techniques for this such as motion blur for smoother motion and blending modes for combining layers. Masking and transparency is the next subject to tackle. The authors teach several techniques for creating and working with masks and stencils to add transparent areas in your animation.
It is difficult to go anywhere these days without seeing 3D animation such as the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie from 20th Century Fox or The Coca-Cola Company's Polar Bears. The authors cover the basics of working with 3D animation such as scale and perspective, cameras and lighting. After Effects has some nice default cameras but the authors also teach you how to customize your own, as well as use lighting to illuminate layers, add color casts, cast shadows and project images from one layer onto another.
Besides animating images, you will undoubtedly need to animate text and apply special effects. The authors cover many aspects of these topics including how to replace the background behind the subject of your animation. You can do more in After Effects than animated preexisting graphics. You can also create your own graphics inside After Effects and the authors teach you how to use the shape layers, Brush and Clone Stamp tools, onion skinning and the Puppet Pin tools. Finally, the authors move on to advanced topics such as building complex animation with nesting and hierarchy, adding audio and audio effects and rendering your comp with advanced rendering techniques including Collapse Transformations and Continuous Rasterization.
Both Chris & Trish Meyer have been working in the real world of motion graphics for over 15 years and work at the CyberMotion motion graphic design studio in Los Angeles. They co-authored After Effects Apprentice and write the Motion Graphics column for DV magazine.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
After Effects Mar 08, 2008
By E. M.
Advanced After Effects Motion Graphics is for the editor with some AE miles under their belt. It is not really a beginner book, but does start you off slowly with great step by step instruction. However, you will eventually need this book but buy it together with the Meyers' After Effects Apprentice which starts you off in the AE wourld. Any of the Meyers books are just what you need to learn AE. Highly recommended!!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Takes you from beginner to expert Feb 01, 2009
By Daniel D. Orlando
"Dan Orlando"
This book has been traveling back and forth from my bed side to my computer desk for the last 3 weeks. In tandem with another book ("The After Effects Illusionist"), I've literally become an expert in After Effects, and recently used it produce an incredible 3-minute product demo that has gotten positive feedback from people like the former President of Sony Entertainment (now on the board of directors), the creators of DVR recording (white label manufacturer for all DVR - they own the patent), and several venture capitalists. This book helped me make that happen. I knew very little about After Effects prior to reading it, and it turned me from a beginner into an expert!
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Best teachers in the business! Dec 17, 2007
By S. Hemphill
I have bought all of Chris and Trish Meyer's books and they are the best, bar none! You will not be disappointed with this book, and I can safely recommend it for beginners and veterans alike. The printing is superior, the graphics are well done, the instructions are well explained, and the photos are numerous and helpful. Many tips and shortcuts are dispersed throughout the book and the disk contains many extra lessons.
If you are only going to buy one book on After Effects, this is definitely the one to buy!
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