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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


Congratulations! You've come a long way from the first introduction chapter to now creating and animating a logo in C4D Lite. You can use C4D Lite to create 3D logos for personal projects or for clients. You have learned many skills and tools to create and import Illustrator files, import them into C4D, and make them 3D. You can also add materials and light to your scene as demonstrated in this project. The biggest things we learned were how to bring our 3D project into After Effects, edit it with effects, and render it to produce high-quality 3D video. This will help you to add value to your video projects. It also adds to your diverse skillset. We learned many different ways to model objects in C4D Lite. Experiment with these modeling tools so that you can master this craft. This has been quite a fun journey and I hope you continue to practice all that we've learned and become a lifelong fan of After Effects.