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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

By : Nicholas Harauz
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Apple Motion 5 Cookbook

By: Nicholas Harauz

Overview of this book

Let's face it, people like images that move. Whether you see images on a moving billboard, walk into a bank with an LCD screen, watch TV, or surf the Web, motion graphics are everywhere. With an even greater demand to integrate motion graphics in just about every type of video or interactive content there is, this book will help you get there with Motion 5. It's all about creating eye-catching titles, transitions, and effects!"Apple Motion 5 Cookbook" contains exercises for the beginner and seasoned motion graphics user. You will learn how to navigate Motion's interface and quickly grasp the tools available to you while creating sophisticated and sleek animations in both 2D and 3D environments. Not forgetting visual effects, we will also explore motion tracking and green screen techniques that will help you composite like a pro. Let's launch the application, grab a cup of coffee, and get started on this exciting journey!The exercises will take you right from creating your very first Motion project through to export. You will learn how to navigate quickly and efficiently through Motion's complex interface and toolsets so that you can focus oncreating your masterpiece!You will learn how to create a new project and import material into that project from the File Browser and Motion's vast and rich content library. From there, you will learn to manipulate and animate these source files using Motion's behaviors, classic keyframing techniques, adding filters, and master the built-in tools such as particle systems that will knock your socks off! Last but not least, you will export your projects to a variety of different formats including DVD, as a Final Cut Pro generator, and the Web.The "Apple Motion 5 Cookbook" contains downloadable content for each chapter and is packed with screenshots and illustrations. After reading this book, you'll be creating motion graphics and visual effects in no time!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Apple Motion 5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Faking 3D extrusion with shapes


Motion 5 doesn't make 3D objects. For that, you would need to go to a dedicated 3D application such as Cinema 4D and Maya. What Motion does allow is for us to fake 3D. As we saw when working with particles and even replicators, a number of camera tricks can be employed so that our object never appears flat.

Getting ready

From the exercise folder of this chapter, double-click on the 08_09 project file. The project consists of a diamond. We're going to replicate it and spread it out in a line on the Z axis, making it seem that, when we rotate around it, the object has depth.

How to do it...

  1. Select the diamond and navigate to Object | Replicate.

  2. Press the F4 key to go to the Replicator tab of the Inspector. Change the value of Shape from Rectangle to Line.

  3. The diamonds overlap on a line spread out from left to right. We want it to spread out in Z space and for the diamonds to be close together. Click on the 3D checkbox.

  4. Click on the disclosure triangle for the start...