Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC: Develop your skills as a visual effects and motion graphics artist

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.

Table of Contents

1. Getting started with After Effects
2. Work with Precomps to create a Lower third for a television show
3. Use Shape Layers to create an animated lyric video
4. Create a graphic video using icon and character animation
5. Produce a film title project using Text Animator
6. Animate a sports broadcast using basic effects
7. Develop a vfx project using shot replacement
8. Implement a 2.5 D environment camera fly through
9. Build a 3D c4d lite logo project
10. Assessment

David Dodds is an artist with a lifelong love of learning and teaching, which led him to a teaching career at UCLA. He stays on the forefront of the motion graphics industry by working with companies and creating motion graphics for the entertainment industry. David teaches, mentors students, and lectures at various events in connection with the exciting motion graphics industry. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.