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If you really want some good After Effects tutorial lessons, then check out Trish and Chris's other books which do a little better at giving you the information. Check out his tutorials and teachings at Pixel Corps or DV Garage. I don't like saying that because I think Alex Lindsay does an admirable job with going into great detail about Multi-Pass rendering techniques. That is not to say that the book is not without its merits; I love how the Atomic Cafe lessons teaches the fundamentals and techniques of nested compositions, as well as complex effects. I bought this book hoping to learn more about After Effects but unfortunately, the only good tutorial that really teaches you about the program is the Atomic Cafe because it goes over importing Layered Photoshop Documents, Illustrator files, and Quicktime movies. All the other lessons in the book are a huge disappointment. You won't find much detail here.
i needed this book for school, and it did the job i learned tons of effect tricks through this book.
Highly recommended, as is having plenty of time and some decent hardware. The "Creating Motion Graphics with AE", and "After Effects in Production" must be considered the best of the best, even for those who may be using other products such as Apple Motion, or Combustion, etc. Go thru them all (this takes awhile folks) and you begin to get the idea.motion graphics is fun. if motion graphics is your thing, this is a fantastic resource. Nobody more clearly explains the basic concepts of layering, nesting, timelines, footage, transformations, masks, precomposing, stencils, track mattes, transfer modes, keyframes, rendering, resolutions, plugins, working with audio, and much more. The tutorials are a blast.
This is an excellent resource for After Effects. The "Meyers" Have always produced great learning materials and this is another proof positive of that.
Recommended for advance users. Did a lot of editing for animation studies with this tool. After I bought after effects the software had little interest for me. I never new that broadcasting and such could be such fun. Looking forward to buy the next book when I'm finish with this.
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