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Hands-On Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects CC

By : David Dodds
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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

C4D Lite 3D logo project


Getting started in the world of 3D is a blast with C4D Lite! 3D elements are used virtually everywhere in the entertainment world, including in sports graphics, television news graphics, and VFX-heavy movies. 3D projects are dynamic and exciting; they add another layer of realism to a scene.

Although C4D Lite is shipped with After Effects, it isn't the full version of C4D. This is just a basic lite version. Nevertheless, it's a great way to get started with C4D. We will learn how to model, light, and animate a logo. We are going to create an impressive 3D logo and add it to a project in After Effects. We will add the final touches to our project with compositing tools and render it out of After Effects. Let's begin!

Creating a C4D layer in After Effects

C4D is dependent on After Effects in a couple of ways. You need to open the program through After Effects. You have to render your project through After Effects and, once you've created a C4D layer, it can only be moved...