How to cheat in After Effects

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.

Includes index.

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

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

Compositing TexturesTemporal Ali…