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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

Character animation types


Character animation is a deep rabbit hole where you can spend years and years learning. Thankfully, you can learn a few simple tricks to get you up and running fast! These tricks will change your life, because character animation will empower you to use characters to express yourself!

Puppet Warp animation

Puppet Warp is one of the most basic character animation tools. You can start using this right now and get immediate results:

  1. Import the male puppet

  2. Be sure to import the Illustrator file with Retain layer sizes and Create a comp checked

  3. Duplicate this composition and put both in the PRECOMPS folder

  4. Move the folders with the Illustrator images into the IMAGES folder

  5. Open one of the male puppet precompositions

  6. Turn on Continuous rasterize

  7. Select everything except the torso and parent all the pieces to the torso

  8. Copy all the pieces and paste them into the online learning composition

  9. Add three pins to the arm, as shown in the following screenshot

Puppet Warp is located up...