wallnoise
27th January 2003, 08:52 PM
An interest was shown in the chat room Saturday about a book on After Effects. The name of the mentioned text is: After Effects 5.5 Magic published by New Riders: http://www.newriders.com. The text contains 17 tutorials and has a CDROM with all the required project files. The tutorials cover such things as Cel-Style Animation Tricks, Algorithmic Video Distortion, SWF Export from After Effects, Logo Animation in 3D, Building Virtual Sets, Randomization with Expressions, and Synchronizing Motion with Audio. The book assumes you have solid background in After Effects, so if you don't, it would be best to have your manual close at hand. As the title suggests it has been made with After Effects 5.5 in mind, but they do supply project files that will work in 5.0. The CD is for both Mac and PC. I did purchase the book yesterday and don't feel ripped off having paid $75 CAD. I've only started playing with the first tutorial, so this is not a review, only information requested. When I finish all the tutorials I will post my humble opinion. I purchased the book to learn more about how Expressions work. There is more information on the publisher's website, including a .pdf file with the tutorial on SWF Export from After Effects. I hope this helps those who "expressed" interest.