Adobe after Effects 6. 5 Magic

by Rankin, James; Ullrich, Anna

• ISBN13: 9780321267238
• ISBN10: 0321267230
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-23
• Publisher: New Riders/Adobe Press

Summary

Technique-based volume serves as the perfect jumping-off point for an in-depth exploration of After Effects 6.5's advanced capabilities!

Author Biography

James Rankin is founder and Creative Director of Light Space and Time, a multi-faceted visual communications company focused on broadcast design, visual effects, interactive design, and Web development and consulting. James is also an Adobe After Effects Certified Expert and serves as instructor for Motion Graphics at Video Symphony, an Entertainment Industry Education Center, where he teaches professionals from entertainment companies such as Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, Fox News, CNN, and ABC.

Table of Contents

Spinning Squares	p. 2
Building the Intro	p. 4
Spin and scale, part 1	p. 4
Spin and scale, part 2	p. 6
Spin together	p. 7
Building the Color Sequences	p. 7
Orange sequence and a transition	p. 7
Green sequence	p. 10
Purple sequence	p. 10
Creating the End Tag	p. 11
Animating the effects	p. 11
Completing the Finished Spot	p. 12
Falling Squares	p. 16
Building the Transitions	p. 18
The orange transition	p. 18
Generating the other transitions	p. 19
Building Backdrops	p. 20
Fun with 3D	p. 20
Creating the backdrop in multiple colors	p. 21
Building the Sections	p. 22
The orange section	p. 22
Creating the green section	p. 27
The purple section	p. 29
The yellow section	p. 32
Finishing Touches	p. 33
Wall of Squares	p. 36
Building the Background	p. 38
Mixing it up	p. 40
Adding a little more spice	p. 41
The Other Backgrounds	p. 42
Getting organized	p. 42
Building More Elements	p. 42
The first step	p. 42
A chorus line	p. 43
Building the Sections	p. 44
Orange	p. 44
Green	p. 46
Purple	p. 47
The Big Finale	p. 48
Creating a kick line	p. 48
One last song and dance	p. 50
Bringing down the curtain	p. 52
Designing Title Effects	p. 54
Creating the Title	p. 56
Dividing the Title	p. 56
Animating the Masks	p. 57
Creating the Title Blur	p. 58
Adding Flashes of Light	p. 59
Animating the Flare Brightness	p. 60
Creating the Comets	p. 61
Stretching the Title	p. 62
Dancing Type	p. 64
Setting Up the Composition	p. 66
Animating the Background	p. 66
Creating the QUICKSTEP Logo	p. 68
Creating the Dancing Figure	p. 70
Pulling It All Together	p. 71
Auto-Scaling Type	p. 74
Setting Up the Composition	p. 76
Creating the Text	p. 76
Scaling by Letter	p. 76
Creating the Fade-In Effect	p. 78
Building the First Background Layer	p. 78
Building the Second Background Layer	p. 79
Animating the Black End of the Ramp	p. 80
Creating a Surface Reflection	p. 81
Cleaning up the reflection	p. 82
Animated Columns	p. 84
Building the Car Sequence	p. 86
Building the Layers	p. 87
Building the Columns	p. 87
Animating the columns	p. 88
Branding the Project	p. 89
Animating and revealing the logo	p. 89
Animating with Illustrator	p. 92
Setting Up the Composition	p. 94
Setting Up Illustrator	p. 95
Creating the Letters' Paths	p. 95
Stroking the paths	p. 97
Adding Stars for Each Letter	p. 98
Animating the stars	p. 98
"Drawing" the letters	p. 99
Fading and rotating the stars	p. 99
Reversing time	p. 100
Corporate Open	p. 102
Creating the Background	p. 104
Scrolling Text	p. 105
Building the Gold Bar	p. 106
Adding the Logo Layer	p. 108
Applying the Sparks	p. 109
Creating a Flickering Light	p. 110
Unscrambling Type	p. 112
Creating the Words	p. 114
Positioning the Text in 3D	p. 115
Randomizing the Text	p. 116
Staggering the Text	p. 117
Making 3D Look Easy	p. 117
Adding an Atmospheric Background	p. 119
Creating the Text Lights	p. 119
Raining Slogans	p. 122
Creating the First Slogan	p. 124
Raining Letters into Place	p. 126
Flying through Text in 3D Space	p. 128
Clarifying the Text	p. 129
Adding the Slogans	p. 130
Raining in the next slogan	p. 132
Flipping Venetian Blinds	p. 133
Sliding In the Phone Number	p. 134
Sonic Promo	p. 136
Creating the First Speaker	p. 138
Animating with Audio	p. 139
Looping the pulse	p. 141
Making a Pulsing Background	p. 141
Animating Illustrator Layers	p. 142
Putting the Beats Together	p. 144
Sci-Fi Storm	p. 146
Creating Clouds	p. 148
Creating a Lightning Storm	p. 149
Creating a Planet	p. 150
Creating an Orbiting Title	p. 151
Adding style to the orbiting title	p. 152
Assembling a Steel Box	p. 153
Animating the Steel Box	p. 154
Station ID	p. 156
Creating the Background	p. 158
Adding the Scrolling Text	p. 159
Creating an Aperture	p. 160
Adding style to the aperture	p. 161
Adding the News Channel	p. 162
Adding Text to the Channel	p. 164
Fog of Text	p. 166
Creating Layers of Text	p. 168
Animating the Text	p. 169
Animating more text	p. 170
Completing the text wall	p. 170
Making a Woman Invisible	p. 170
Inverting the invisible woman	p. 171
Fast and Easy Lighting	p. 174
Creating the Motion Background	p. 176
Adjusting the video	p. 176
Extruding the Main Title	p. 177
Creating a Spotlight	p. 179
Heartbeat Car Commercial	p. 182
Creating the Heartbeat	p. 184
Animating the heartbeat	p. 185
Fading out the heartbeat	p. 186
Adding a ball of light	p. 188
Building the Heart Monitor	p. 189
Building the Movie Sequence	p. 190
Putting It All Together	p. 190
Exotic Sketch-a-Car	p. 192
Sketching the Car	p. 194
Capturing a Still	p. 196
Animating the Sketch	p. 197
Adding the Three Movies	p. 198
Sketching the three videos	p. 199
Animating the videos	p. 200
Adjusting the levels	p. 200
Creating a Grid	p. 200
Removing the car's black background	p. 201
Adding the Background Car	p. 202
Tracking Reflections	p. 204
Creating the First Reflection	p. 206
Animating the first reflection	p. 207
Creating the Second Reflection	p. 210
Animating the second reflection	p. 211
Parenting the Third Reflection	p. 212
Housekeeping	p. 213
Designer's Corner	p. 214
Assembling the Background Sequence	p. 216
Getting the Big Picture	p. 217
Adding the TV Picture	p. 218
Tracking the still's motion	p. 219
Revealing the Photo	p. 221
Animated Filmstrip	p. 222
Creating the Filmstrip	p. 224
Duplicating the sprockets	p. 225
Adding More Film Frames	p. 227
Creating the Master Comp	p. 228
Animating the Filmstrip	p. 228
Simulating motion blur	p. 229
Video Cubes	p. 230
Creating the Cube	p. 232
Capping the cube	p. 233
Imploding the Cube	p. 234
Exploding the Cube	p. 235
Spinning the Box	p. 236
Adding Reading Material	p. 237
Changing directions	p. 238
Adding rows and rows	p. 238
Adding some dimension	p. 239
Adding the Command Line	p. 240
Creating the blinking cursor	p. 241
Wiping the words	p. 241
Animating the words	p. 242
Revealing the Logo in Stripes	p. 243
Adding the logo	p. 245
Index	p. 246
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