Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects: Essential & Advanced Techniques

by Chris Meyer, Trish Meyer

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Art Design, Film

704 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2000

About the author

Chris Meyer is an Associate Professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He studies human interactions and teams in organizations with a focus on negotiation, motivation, and emotion. Chris, an award-winning professor, teaches negotiation and organizational behavior at the graduate and undergraduate level. Prior to his academic work, Chris held sales and management positions in several high-tech and start-up organizations.

Reviews

[Chad Perkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is like the bible of After Effects. It explains so many things (like the AE text animation engine, etc.) that you won't found broken down anywhere else. The Meyers are incredible.

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

Andrew Kramer's video tuts are better than any book ;P