| 1. | - Top Five Features in Adobe After Effects CS5
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Jul 19, 2010
- Mark Christiansen, author of Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques, points out his favorite changes in the latest version of the program.
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| 2. | - Five Best New Features of Adobe® After Effects® CS5
- By
Robert A. Birnholz, Ian Robinson
- Jun 15, 2010
- Rob Birnholz and Ian Robinson, contributing authors to Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques, take a break to discuss their top five favorite new features of Adobe After Effects CS5. Whether you use After Effects for hard-core compositing or you’re a designer looking to push your projects to the next level, there’s something new for everyone.
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| 3. | - Adobe® After Effects® CS5 Classroom in a Book: Adding Deform Pins
- By
Adobe Creative Team
- Apr 17, 2010
- Deform pins are the main component of the Puppet effect. This excerpt from Adobea® After Effects® CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to add deform pins.
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| 4. | - After Effects Essentials for Flash Users
- By
Richard Harrington
- Jun 18, 2009
- For a Flash user, the core principles of After Effects will seem similar. Elements are stacked from top to bottom in a timeline and then animated with keyframes. From there, the similarities pretty much end. Rich Harrington investigates the differences.
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| 5. | - Flash Essentials for After Effects Users
- By
Richard Harrington
- Jun 17, 2009
- Flash baffles After Effects users as often as it makes them feel comfortable. This chapter from Rich Harrington introduces you to Flash’s interface and core animation techniques.
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| 6. | - Creating Transparent Video with Adobe After Effects CS4
- By
Marcus Geduld, Richard Harrington
- May 19, 2009
- Transparency plays a key role in the success of animation and interactivity. By embedding transparency into graphic elements, you can composite together different elements created at different times, allowing for true flexibility.
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| 7. | - Adobe After Effects CS4: Optimize the Pipeline
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Apr 9, 2009
- This chapter examines how image data flows through an After Effects project in detail. That may not sound gripping until you realize how much your creativity is hampered by remaining ignorant of this stuff.
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| 8. | - Getting Started and Getting to Know the Workflow of Adobe After Effects CS4
- By
Adobe Creative Team
- Mar 2, 2009
- Learn the how to get started and the basic workflow of Adobe After Effects CS4, including how to create a project and import footage, create compositions and arrange layers, navigate the Adobe After Effects interface and more.
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| 9. | - Color Keying in After Effects CS3
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Nov 19, 2008
- Are your matte edges crunchy, chewy, contrasty, solid, sizzling? Do these terms even mean anything to you? They will by the time Mark Christiansen finishes showing you how to work with After Effects CS3 color keying.
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| 10. | - Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools in After Effects CS3
- By
Adobe Creative Team
- Nov 14, 2008
- Pull, squash, stretch, and otherwise deform objects onscreen using the After Effect CS3 Puppet tools. Whether you're creating realistic animations, fantastic scenarios, or modern art, the Adobe Creative Team shows you how the Puppet tools can expand your creative freedom.
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| 11. | - Animating Layers in After Effects CS3
- By
Adobe Creative Team
- Nov 13, 2008
- Animation is all about making changes over time to an object or image's position, opacity, scale, and other properties. In this step-by-step exercise, the Adobe Creative Team explores some of the fun possibilities for animating a Photoshop file in After Effects CS3.
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| 12. | - Pyrotechnics: Creating Fire, Explosions, and Energy Phenomena in After Effects 7.0
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Nov 13, 2008
- Humans are so familiar with fire that we can tell when it looks wrong, even if we don't understand the physics of explosions and fireworks. By using Mark Christiansen's After Effects techniques, however, you can provide at the compositing stage what the filmmaker couldn't afford on set: realism.
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| 13. | - Virtual Cinematography in After Effects 7.0
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Nov 13, 2008
- Mark Christiansen's far-reaching article discusses multiple aspects of replicating a physical camera in After Effects, with the ultimate goal of matching, influencing, or changing the camera's perspective.
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| 14. | - Climate: Air, Water, Smoke, Clouds in After Effects 7.0
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Nov 12, 2008
- If you think of a color key as an edge matte surrounded by two holdout mattes (one for the core, one for the background), how do you combine these mattes in Keylight? Mark Christiansen explains.
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| 15. | - Color Correction in Adobe After Effects CS3
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Nov 12, 2008
- Mark Christiansen demonstrates that color matching in After Effects is a skill that you can practice and refine, even if you have no feel for adjusting images - and even if you tend to think of yourself as colorblind.
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| 16. | - Keying in After Effects CS3
- By
Adobe Creative Team
- Nov 12, 2008
- Does the idea of keying conjure up images of a meteorologist on the evening news, or a shooting technique used in motion pictures? With After Effects, even the simplest, least-expensive project can take advantage of keying. The Adobe Creative Team takes us through a step-by-step example of this technique.
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| 17. | - Using Keylight for Adobe After Effects CS4
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Oct 23, 2008
- If you think of a color key as an edge matte surrounded by two holdout mattes (one for the core, one for the background), how do you combine these mattes in Keylight? Mark Christiansen explains.
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| 18. | - Using Adobe After Effects CS4: Creating Compositions in Device Central
- By
Adobe Creative Team
- Oct 21, 2008
- Learn how to create compositions in Device Central to create movies that play correctly and look as you intend on the mobile devices you choose.
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| 19. | - Keyframing a Motion Path in Adobe After Effects CS4
- By
Adobe Creative Team
- Oct 20, 2008
- This excerpt, adapted from Adobe After Effects CS4 Classroom in a Book, shows you ways to animate a car.
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| 20. | - Selections: The Key to Compositing in Adobe After Effects 7.0
- By
Mark Christiansen
- Dec 22, 2006
- A particle physicist works with atoms, bakers and bankers work with their own types of dough, and compositors work with selections—many different types of selections, each of them derived uniquely. In this chapter, you'll look at the foundation techniques that define how a layer merges with those behind it.
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