Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 1: The Essentials
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Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects reveals expert techniques for producing compelling motion graphics. Adobe After Effects is a software application used for making motion graphics ranging from animating digital images to creating film-style title sequences, sophisticated special effects, and network logos. Step-by-step tutorials demonstrate the concepts, processes, and technical details of the latest version of After Effects. A new lesson has been added to… More >>
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 1: The Essentials
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TrappedInTexas said :
March 18, 2010 at 6:55 am
This is absolutely the hardest tutorial I’ve ever followed. Instructions as long as sixteen lines long contains several steps, yet they’re not numbered. What were the authors thinking? Have they not used instructional materials before? Obviously, they’re new to writing them.
I have also also had the worst time trying to find the examples. I open up the Chapter 14 tutorial and get an After Effects warning: “23 files are missing since you last saved this project”. Interesting, since I’d never opened the project. And then the tutorial doesn’t work because the graphics are missing.
This book gets two stars for reference, but no stars for execution. The lack of numbered steps is totally unforgiveable (I thought this would be a training manual) and the disk with the missing files is unforgivable. I’ve yet to find a website for file download.
Buy whatever copy of the book everyone else has because mine (2nd Edition, Version 5.5) is awful.
Rating: 2 / 5
K. Day said :
March 18, 2010 at 6:55 am
I had to cancel my order of this book three weeks into waiting, because for some unknown reason after the estimated 3-5 week shipping time, there was yet another delay. So I had to buy this book at twice the cost at my corrupt/evil University store.
The book itself is pretty good. I have only examined it a few times. However, some of the explanations can be confusing, it seems you have to read the entire thing to be sure to understand it, you cant pick and choose which things you want to learn from it.
Rating: 3 / 5
AJD said :
March 18, 2010 at 7:19 am
Trish Meyer’s CMG After Effects vol 1 has exactly what i was looking for, everything is nicely explain i would Advise all After Effects users try this book out, You will not be disapointed
Rating: 5 / 5
LatinMessiah said :
March 18, 2010 at 9:46 am
This book takes you step by step in a very methodical matter, making sure you don’t get too ahead of yourself. But it kind of stops there in terms of its plus sides. Some of the downsides include the excessive use of text to illustrate simple points, and also the content/examples are uninspiring to work with. Other than that, it really covers all the basics in detail, or at least enough to get you feeling comfortable working in After Effects.
Rating: 3 / 5
John Bennett said :
March 18, 2010 at 12:03 pm
This book is quite helpful. It covers the basics in manipulating images in After Effects and serves as a great teacher of the software.
I highly recommend it.
Rating: 3 / 5