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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

2.5D camera fly-through


3D cameras and 3D layers can be used to create graphics that are dynamic and lifelike. Understanding these tools will help you to create graphics that can be used in television documentaries or any media where you need to bring photos or illustrations to life. For this project, we are going to create a camera fly-through in three different environments. The important thing is that you know how to control your camera and set up your layers in 3D space. After Effects doesn't have true 3D space; instead, we utilize something called 2.5D. With this, you get the real Z-axis depth in your scene, but no rotational depth. We will limit our camera moves to the Z-axis for this project.

3D layers

In motion graphics, it's important to understand how to use 2D layers as well as 3D layers, and how to animate 3D cameras and 3D lights. The versatility of 3D animated layers and parallax camera movements are used in the creation of film titles, videos, commercials, and animated GIFs...