| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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Includes index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The cheat format; Acknowledgments; How to use this book; 1 Cool Tricks Appetizer!; Fireball; Simulated 3D Text; Growing Vines; Tracked Text; Blooming Flower; Tilt Shift; Ink Spatter; Damaged Film; The Master Solid; Hot Grill; Ornate Vintage Patterns; Retro Video Game Maze; Cells Through a Microscope; Interlude: Using the Help; 2 Lights and Cameras; Creating Basic Shadows; Stained Glass Shadows; Controlling Shadows; Negative Light; Film Noir Lighting; Creating Depth of Field; Rack Focus; Lens Distortion; Multiple Camera Angles |
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3D Camera PathOrient to Camera; Interlude: Lighting is the Secret; 3 3D Objects; The Parallax Effect; Native 3D Primer; Faking Materials; 3D Illustrator Art; 3D Photoshop Shapes; 3D Shatter Scenes; 3D Text with Shatter; 3D Postcards; 3D Objects from Solids; 3D Planetscape; Echospace; 3D in Nested Compositions; Interlude: Picking a 3D App; 4 Compositing; Making a Garbage Matte; Removing a Green Screen; Pulling a Luma Key; Refining a Matte; Using Multiple Mattes; Intro to Compositing; 3D Camera Tracking; Warp Stabilize; Set Extension; Blending Away Dark; Blending Away Light |
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Compositing TexturesTemporal Alignment; Compositing with Color; Compositing with Animation; Compositing with Focus; Motion Blur; Matching Color; Premultiplied Alpha Channels; Tracking with Mocha; Mocha Shapes; Using Roto Brush; Restoring Opacity; Manual Shadow; Guide Layers; Interlude: Shooting Better Green Screen Footage; 5 Animation; The Puppet Pin Tool; Puppet Overlap; Puppet Animation; Bouncing Ball; Parenting; Rigging an Arm; Waving Sail; Animating the Blob; Animating a Photo: Part 1; Animating a Photo: Part 2; Displacement Mapping; Projection Mapping; Resizing Animation |
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Animating Layers On and OffText Messaged Animation; Interlude: Walt's Principles; 6 Light Effects; HDR; Volumetric Light; Silhouettes; Bars of Light; Welding Sparks; Light Whips; Stage Lights; Galaxy Scene; Energy Cube; Faked Light Streaks; Searchlights; Sheen; The Glow Effect; Flaring Hot Spots; Laser Beams; Trapcode Shine; Interlude: High Dynamic Range; 7 Masks and Shapes; Mask Options; Instant Vignette; Sky Replacement; From Video to Shape Layer; The Vegas Effect; Luma Matte; Alpha Matte; Animating Masks; Feathered Vertices; Motion Paths from Illustrator; Trapcode 3D Stroke; 8 Particles |
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Particle BootcampSparkles; Smoke Trail; Foam Basics; Custom Particles; Make it Rain; Basic Snow; Snow with Foam; Molten Gold; Light Ribbons; Steam; 3D Fireworks; Fire Texture; Campfire; Psychic Waves; Star Field; Confetti; Water Surface Disruption; Flowing Chocolate; Trapcode Form: 4D Fractal; Particular: 3D Light Streaks; Interlude: Particle Alternatives; 9 Color Correction; Reading a Histogram; Cinematic Color: Warmth; Cinematic Color: Horror; Cinematic Color: Flashback; Playing with Color; Day for Night; Reference Monitor; Before and After; Colorizing; Hue Shift; Stylizing |
| Summary |
Get the most from the most widely used application in the postproduction field! Gain the insider tips you need to compose eye-catching, imaginative Adobe After Effects projects quickly and effectively. In How to Cheat in After Effects, Second Edition seasoned AE expert Chad Perkins provides dozens of concise, step-by-step tutorials and lavish 4-color illustrations to get you on the fast track to producing amazing motion graphics and visual effects. Updated for CS6, this new edition has been revised to include:A brand new chapter on the most popular. |
| Subject |
Adobe After effects.
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Adobe After effects |
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Cinematography -- Special effects -- Data processing.
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Image processing -- Digital techniques.
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Cinéma -- Effets spéciaux -- Informatique. |
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Traitement d'images -- Techniques numériques. |
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digital imaging. |
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Cinematography -- Special effects -- Data processing |
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Image processing -- Digital techniques |
| Added Title |
How to cheat in Adobe After Effects |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Perkins, Chad. How to cheat in after effects. Second edition. Burlington, MA : Focal Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 9780415661065 (DLC) 2012041145 (OCoLC)822995139 |
| ISBN |
9781315850078 |
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1315850079 |
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9781135069292 |
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1135069298 |
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0415661064 |
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9780415661065 |
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