Editorial Reviews
Product Description:New to the 2nd edition:* All instructions, screen shots, Guided Tour video training movies, and project files updated for After Effects CS4. CS3 and CS4 features have been integrated throughout, including the pervasive use of Shape layers, Layer Styles, and Brainstorm
* More integration with other Adobe applications, including using After Effects with Illustrator, Photoshop (including new Vanishing Point and 3d Layer exercises) and Flash CS4
* Redesigned first and last lessons, including an all-new final project that walks through the creation of a widescreen broadcast TV promo
* Free bonus chapters on the DVD from other books on Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Flash, and broadcast design
* Coupon for 15% off stock footage from Artbeats on DVD
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 graphics for network television, corporate communications, or your own work.
Fully updated to cover After Effects CS4, this book presents a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn in order to use this program effectively. You'll learn to creatively combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, manipulate 3D space, 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.
DVD contains: All exercise source material and projects, guided video tours, and movies of the finished projects.
Topics include how to:
. Animate, edit, layer, and composite video and still images.
. Manipulate keyframes and the way they interpolate to create more refined animations.
. Use masks, mattes, stencils and blending modes to add sophistication to your imagery.
. Create and animate shape layers and text.
. Place your layers in 3D space.
. Use tracking and keying to create special effects, such as replacing screen displays.
DVD contains: All exercise source material and projects, an hour and a
half of video guided tours, plus bonus chapters from other books.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Great book for beginners, November 12, 2009
By
Janusz Danowski (USA)
This is a great book for people who are new to after effects and want to learn how to do cool and exciting things right away this book would definitely help. Tutorial are easy and straight forward also there is a lot of pictures of the menus so that will definitely help beginners in the program.
A superbly written, organized, detailed, comprehensive, and presented instruction manual, November 11, 2009
By
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Now in an updated and expanded second edition, "After Effects Apprentice: Real-World Skills For The Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist" continues to be an ideal introductory and instructional manual for the novice motion graphics artist seeking to produce professional quality work. Incorporating twelve lessons updated for CS4, "After Effects Apprentice" is profusely enhanced with screen shots, Guided Tour video training movies, and project files updated for After Effects CS4, as well as being integrated with other germane Adobe applications. Readers will learn how to animate, edit, layer, and composite both video and still images; manipulate keyframes; utilize masks, mattes, stencils and blending modes; create and animate shape layers and text; create special effects, and so much more. A superbly written, organized, detailed, comprehensive, and presented instruction manual, "After Effects Apprentice" is highly recommended for beginners and has a great deal of enduring value to offer even the more experienced motion graphics artist.
Learning After Effects, October 11, 2009
By
William S. HindsAfter Effects is not an intuitive program, as was PhotoShop (at least for me)and, to a certain extent, Adobe Premiere. I've been frustrated for years knowing what AE could add to my videos, yet being unable to do anything about it. This book was suggested to me by someone who knows AE very well. I haven't gotten very far into the book yet, but so far this is a "5-Star" book for learning After Effects.
Best book for learning After Effects CS4, October 5, 2009
By
Shawn Ashe (Los Angeles)
I love this book, as a novice to AE, I have read others, but none compare to this, it is so easy to follow and you really get an understanding of why each button and not just the same old "how"!
After Effects Apprentice, 2nd Edition, October 4, 2009
By
SG Dave (Singapore)
The book gives a step by step approach to gaining knowledge in using and applying Adobe After Effects, which is a software that is not too user-friendly and is difficulty to master on your own without guidance.
After practicing several chapters of worked examples, I am now able to produce work of my own. Each chapter reveals interesting new capability and power of the software. The examples included in the DVD are practical and useful.
I would recommended the book for the novice as well as the more experienced.
