| 21. | - Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools in After Effects CS3
- 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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| 22. | - Animating Layers in After Effects CS3
- 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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| 23. | - Pyrotechnics: Creating Fire, Explosions, and Energy Phenomena in After Effects 7.0
- 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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| 24. | - Virtual Cinematography in After Effects 7.0
- 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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| 25. | - Climate: Air, Water, Smoke, Clouds in After Effects 7.0
- 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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| 26. | - Color Correction in Adobe After Effects CS3
- 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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| 27. | - Keying in After Effects CS3
- 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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| 28. | - Using Keylight for Adobe After Effects CS4
- 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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| 29. | - Using Adobe After Effects CS4: Creating Compositions in Device Central
- 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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| 30. | - Keyframing a Motion Path in Adobe After Effects CS4
- 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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| 31. | - Selections: The Key to Compositing in Adobe After Effects 7.0
- 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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| 32. | - Animating Text in Adobe After Effects 7.0
- May 4, 2006
- After Effects offers many ways to animate text. You can animate text layers by manually creating keyframes in the Timeline panel, by using animation presets, or by using expressions. You can even animate individual characters or words in a text layer. This lesson takes you through several different animation techniques, including some that are unique to text, while you design the opening title credits for an animated documentary called The Pond.
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| 33. | - An Interview with Visual Effects Creator Mark Christiansen
- Aug 12, 2005
- Visual effects creator Mark Christiansen talks about magic, cotton balls, and animating splatting brains in 3D.
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| 34. | - Getting in Gear: An After Effects 5 Tutorial
- Oct 1, 2001
- by Antony Bolante, author of Adobe After Effects 5: Visual QuickStart Guide
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