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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By : David Dodds
Book Image

Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By: David Dodds

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC
Contributors
Preface
Assessment
Other Book You May Enjoy
Index

Infographics


Infographics are video projects that can be used to communicate information in exciting and memorable ways. Motion graphics animation tools are uniquely suited to this type of storytelling. The ability to create kinetic typography and dazzling transitions makes After Effects perfect for creating infographics. For this project, I want you to think of an issue that has factual data you can explain. Alternatively, you can choose to follow along and use the data and character I use, or you could base your project on an interesting article you have read. Another idea would be to create an infographic about a simple fact or food recipe. The important thing is that there is some information to be conveyed in the project. You should limit the amount of text in your project or it will be too overwhelming for viewers to read it. You could also include some subtle background music to help push your narrative along.

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In motion graphics, it's important to understand how to set good type...