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Creating Motion Graphics – 5th Edition
for After Effects CS5
ISBN: 978-0-240-81415-5
Paperback: 768 pages, full color, with DVD
Published by Focal Press, 2010

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“Motion graphics and moving images are essential to communicating in a memorable way. Trish and Chris Meyer are masters of their craft and are uniquely qualified to guide anyone learning Adobe After Effects.” —Michael Coleman, Product Manager, Adobe After Effects

Creating Motion Graphics for After Effects

5th Edition for AE CS5

We are pleased to announce that Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Fifth Edition for CS5 is now available. It includes new chapters on Roto Brush, mocha v2 for AE, and using 3D effects. Order CMG5 on Amazon.

Trish and Chris Meyer share seventeen 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 768-page full-color book is packed with tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help users thrive no matter what projects they might encounter.

Creating Motion Graphics 5th Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the new features introduced in both After Effects CS4 and CS5in one massive, essential reference. New chapters cover the revolutionary new Roto Brush feature, as well as mocha and mocha shape. The 3D section has been expanded to include working with 3D effects such as Digieffects FreeForm plus workflows including Adobe Repoussé, Vanishing Point Exchange, and 3D model import using Adobe Photoshop Extended. The print version is also accompanied by a DVD that contains project files and source materials for all the techniques demonstrated in the book, as well as nearly 200 pages of bonus chapters on subjects such as expressions, scripting, and effects.

Topics include:
  • 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 compositions
  • Extended coverage of type animation, paint tools and 3D space
  • New CS5 features including Roto Brush, mocha v2 for AE, and the Digieffects Freeform
  • Advanced subjects such as keying, motion tracking, mocha, expressions, integrating with 3D applications, and video issues
  • Extensive coverage of recently added features such as Shape and Puppet tools, Per-character 3D text, Brainstorm, Cartoon effect, color management, and more!
  • The DVD also includes almost 200 pages of additional information, including lengthy Bonus Chapters on Expressions and Effects.
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Errata

If you own Creating Motion Graphics, we have an errata page that you might want to check out. It also includes instructions for replacing a damaged CD or DVD.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

CMG4Creating Motion Graphics – 4th Edition
for After Effects CS3

Essential and Advanced Techniques

ISBN: 978-0-240-81010-2
Paperback: 704 pages, full color, with DVD
Published by Focal Press, 2007

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A free chapter outlining in detail the differences between After Effects CS3 and CS4 - with project files - is available from Focal Press at www.cmg4cs4.com (click on Free Chapter).

 

CMG3 Vol 1Creating Motion Graphics – 3rd Edition
for After Effects 6.5

Volume 1: The Essentials

ISBN-10: 1578202493
ISBN-13: 978-1578202492

Published by Focal Press, 2004

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CMG3 Vol 2Creating Motion Graphics – 3rd Edition
for After Effects 6.5

Volume 2: Advanced Techniques

ISBN-10: 1578202698
ISBN-13: 978-1578202690

Published by Focal Press, 2005

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CMG2 Vol 1Creating Motion Graphics – 2nd Edition
for After Effects 5.5

Volume 1: The Essentials

ISBN-10: 1578201144
ISBN-13: 978-1578201143

Published by CMP Books, 2002

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CMG2 Vol 2Creating Motion Graphics – 2nd Edition
for After Effects 5.5

Volume 2: Advanced Techniques

ISBN-10: 1578202078
ISBN-13: 978-1578202072

Published by CMP Books, 2003

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Key to Translations

Please note that overseas publishers change the covers and titles of our books when they translate them. The list below is a key to the various translations of Creating Motion Graphics:

CMG3 Vol 1 SpanishSPANISH TRANSLATION
Creating Motion Graphics –
3rd Edition for After Effects 6.5
Volume 1: The Essentials

= “Creación de gráficos animados con Adobe After Effects” (2005)

Published by Anaya Multimedia.
ISBN: 84-415-1832-2

[Note: The 2008 book from Anaya with an almost identical name is a translation of After Effects Apprentice 1st Edition. See AEA Key.]

 

CMG3 Vol 1 FrenchFRENCH TRANSLATION
Creating Motion Graphics –
3rd Edition for After Effects 6.5
Volume 1: The Essentials

= "After Effects Master Class” (2005)

Published by Eyrolles
ISBN: 2-212-1164-X

[Note: The 2009 book from Eyrolles called “After Effects – Nouvelles Master Class’ is a translation of After Effects Apprentice 2nd Edition.]

 

CMG2 Vol 1 FrenchFRENCH TRANSLATION
Creating Motion Graphics –
2nd Edition for After Effects 5.5
Volume 1: The Essentials

= "After Effects Master Class” (2003)

Published by Eyrolles
ISBN: 2-212-11196-7

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