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Making It Look Great 4 Design and Production Techniques for Adobe After Effects, Zaxwerks ProAnimator and Zaxwerks 3D Flag

Work side-by-side with senior broadcast designer, After Effects expert and Zaxwerks demo artist John Dickinson, to create the powerful Northstar Martial Arts animation from start to finish.

Topics include:

• The key design decisions
• Background creation and modification
• Creating graphic elements in Adobe Illustrator and After Effects
• Logo preparation in Illustrator
• Logo modelling and texturing in ProAnimator
• Preparing JPEG files with Illustrator Live Trace
• Getting the most out of mini-dv footage
• Creating 3D banners with 3D Flag
• Tricks for isolating glows to logo bevels
• Simulating refraction and depth of field
• Finishing touches to add mood

Making It Look Great 4

DVD

$59.00

NOTE:  This training is available as both a physical DVD and as a download product.  During checkout, choose the "Download Only" shipping option to receive the Download Key.  Choose a "DVD Shipping" option to receive both the physical DVD and an email containing the Download Key.

System Requirements: Windows and Mac compatible. A DVD-equipped computer is required to use this DVD.  Adobe After Effect 8 or higher is required to open the project files.  Quicktime 7 (or later) is required to play the video tutorials.  Demo versions of 3rd party plug-ins used in these tutorials are included on the disk.

Downloading the movies requires 2.0 GB of disk space.