Flash Designers: push Flash to the next level with After Effects robust
toolset.

* Add motion graphics and visual effects to your Flash projects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time in executing animations Combine these two
powerhouse applications to expand your multimedia horizons. Flash +
After Effects gives the experienced Flash designer a working
understanding of the After Effects toolset with professional techniques
that raise the design bar for Web, broadcast, or CD/DVD delivery. The
companion DVD contains project media that permit you to practice
essential After Effects skills that include:
* Working with video and the AE timeline
* Using alpha channels for keying and enhancing interactivity
* Putting vector animation to work with Text and Shape Layers, and
animation presets
* Creating 3D backgrounds with cameras and lights
* Animating with Behaviors, Parenting, Expressions and the Puppet Tool
You also get a video primer, render and file optimization techniques,
and publishing and streaming guidelines. Combine two powerhouse
applications to:
* Add motion graphics and visual effects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0240810317/

Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video
production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion
Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the
features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that
you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This
full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that
will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you. Creating
Motion Graphics 4th Edition has been heavily revised, reuniting the
previous two volumes plus adding detailed coverage of new features
introduced in After Effects 7 and CS3 Professional to form one massive,
essential reference.

* Mastering animation through the use of keyframes, motion paths, and
the Graph Editor
* Blending imagery using alpha channels, masks, mattes, modes, and
stencils
* Building groups and hierarchies through parenting and nested comps
* Extended coverage of type animation, paint tools and 3D space
* Advanced subjects such as keying, motion tracking, expressions, and
video issues
* Extensive coverage of the new CS3 features including the Shape and
Puppet tools, Brainstorm, per-character 3D text, color management, and
more!

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0240810104/

If youre new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, After
Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons plus a
fun final project, youll quickly get into the program and learn how to
tap its potential whether you want to create motion graphics for a
network program, your companys video, or your own independent
production. In this book, youll get a professional perspective on the
most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn to use
this program effectively. Youll learn to creatively edit and combine
layers, animate eye-catching titles, replace a screen on a computer
monitor, place a studio shot in anew environment, manipulate 3D space,
and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a
scene. Easy to follow step-by-step instructions take you through each
technique, including projects that encourage you to express it in your
own way. Youll learn more than just the tools; youll learn skills that
you can immediately put to work in your own projects. Topics include how
to:

* Animate, layer, and composite images and text.
* Manipulate keyframes to create more refined animations.
* Use masks, mattes, stencils and modes to add depth.
* Manage layers to make them easier to coordinate.
* Add 3D to your animations.
* Use tracking and keying to create special effects.
* Includes new CS3 features; Shape layers, the Puppet tool, Brainstorm,
and Per-Character 3D Text.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0240809386/