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AFTER EFFECTS MOST WANTED CHRISTIAN DARKIN CHRIS JAMES HEWITT JOOST KORNGOLD PETER REYNOLDS MARK TOWSE SIMON TYSZKO After Effects Most Wanted Authors Christian Darkin © Apress 2002 Chris james Hewitt Originally published by Friends of ED in 2002 Joost Korngold Mark Towse Peter Reynolds Simon Tyszko All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in Editor any form or by any means, without the prior written jon Bounds permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Editorial Proofer The authors and publisher have made every effort in the Dan Britton preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information. However. the information contained in this Project Manager book is sold without warranty. either express or implied. jenni Harvey Neither the authors. friends of ED nor its dealers or distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or Technical Reviewers alleged to be caused either directly or indirectly by this Brian Ganninger book. Scott Manning William Mcintyre First printed October 2002 Peter Reynolds Ned Seltz Kevin Sutherland Graphic Editor Ty Bhogal Cover Design Katy Freer Jon Bounds Trademark Acknowledgements Index Simon Collins Proof Reader Mel Orgee Author Agent Laura jones Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer. com Commissioning Editor Lums Thevathsan ISBN 978-1-59059-163-5 ISBN 978-1-4302-5149-1 (eBook) Managing Editor DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-5149-1 Sonia Mullineux Copyright Thanks to: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd. The Coca-Cola Company McDonald's DDB Sydney CONTENTS Introduction 1 Chapter 1 I'd Buy That For a Dollar 7 Reflections, Shadows and 3D Chapter 2 Extreme FX 21 Multiple video clips and Morphing Chapter 3 Video Art, Let's Dance 49 Split-screen FX and Video Choreography Chapter 4 Eat Static 83 Relokation Ne-Abstract animation. Sound sync and TV FX Chapter 5 jenovah 101 Advanced Layering Chapter 6 I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Do That 129 Layering and Opacity, Giving 2D animation real depth Chapter 7 Horror of Horrors 147 Amazing transitions Chapter 8 How to Resurrect a Dead Fish 175 Bringing 3D models into and out of reality, including special text FX Index 211 AFTER EFFECTS MOST WANTED AFTER EFFECTS MOST WANTED How special are your effects' Are you Tim Burton or Ed Wood? Whether you're working in TV, film, or the Web (or you want to!) you've seen what After Effects can do - welcome to the book that'll show you how to do it. We've gathered some of the best and most respected After Effects professionals and got them to reveal what makes them tick - and their FX rock! At friends of ED we believe we've been the only publisher to take the increase of digital video use seriously, and have substantial experience of publishing on the technology within our DVision books (see www.friendsofED.com/Dvision). Following on from our successful Photoshop Most Wanted, but tailored to the specifics and workflow of After Effects. this book pulls together all of our knowledge and that of our authors into a truly useful package. When you look at the work of the authors involved in this book - and at their level it is work, however creative -you can see the true potential of After Effects in the right hands. You may have already seen their work on TV or on the Web - and that's where we hope to see yours. and soon. 2 ••• INTRODUCTION This book intends to take your After Effects knowledge and give you a leg-up to the level of our working professionals. It should give you the inspiration to get to the summit and the tools you need to get there - the rest is up to you. Layout Conventions We want this book to be as clear and easy to use as possible, so we've used a number of layout styles throughout. We'll use different styles to emphasize things like filenames, KEYSTROKES OR SHORTCUTS and also hyper I inks. ... ···:. w.-...., ' When we want you to click on a menu, and then through subsequent (EIIId-.- sub-menus we will indicate to like so: Effect > Blur & Sharpen > Utact Cor<""' 511ft~T Gaussian Blur. This would translate to: __ ,.._, Ownol OooEfforts ....... ,.._,_~ -.~r.¥f.fe..fr.rt ;srOuI\!.Wturna ~H2D b:Qf_OS$101"_1COI'It t~ -C<r<ml -.... M-..4 1tt•lools: · - ............ ,.,. ....... - Tr~ 3 Tracxod& AFTER EfFECTS MOST WANTED If there's something you should type in then it'll be 'in single quotes'. 1. Steps that you have to follow will be numbered. 2. Follow them through, checking the screenshots and diagrams for more hints. Further explanation of the steps may appear betwixt the steps like so. 3. When you get to the end, you can stop - and you'll have a finished effect. On the CD As I'm sure you're aware, digital video files are huge and try as we might, there is no way we could fit all of the pre-rendered After Effects Projects onto one CD, Christian Darkin's museum piece, for example was over seven Gig! What we've done is included enough material for each chapter for you to follow and recreate our Most Wanted effects - and where time, space and copyright have allowed us, the final movies. If the final movie file is not in the chapter folder we've included web addresses where they can be found. The CD content is organized in folders, each titled as the chapter and containing everything you need to follow our authors' instructions. You as readers are encouraged to build your own customized projects. 4 INTRODUCTION .......................................................... . Support - we're here to help All books from friends of ED aim to be easy to follow and error-free. However, if you do run into problems, don't hesitate to get in touch - our support is fast, friendly and free. You can reach us at [email protected], quoting the last four characters of the ISBN in the subject of the e-mail (that's 402X), and even if our dedicated support team are unable to solve your problem immediately, your queries will be passed onto the people who put the book together, the editors and authors, to solve. All foED authors help with the support on their books, and will either directly mail people with answers, or (more usually) send their response to an editor to pass on. 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