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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have learned how to create infographics. These types of videos can be used to communicate information, explain products, or as a way to express stories. You have learned many skills and tools. You can create kinetic typography and edit it. You can also animate icons in dynamic, realistic ways, as demonstrated with this project. The biggest thing you learned was how to animate characters. You learned three different ways to bring characters to life. Experiment with these character animation tools.

I have provided additional links for further reading. Character animation is a valuable skill to have in your toolbox. It allows you to add humor and emotion to your projects, and is a unique way to engage your viewers! We also covered different camera moves such as a camera push in and a left-to-right pan. These camera moves are a great way to transition in and out of scenes. We also covered using adjustment layers to simulate a rack focus. You now have a variety of character...