1st Edition

After Effects for Designers Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

By Chris Jackson Copyright 2018
326 Pages 450 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 450 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 450 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

After Effects for Designers teaches design students, artists, and web, graphic, and interactive designers how to design, develop, and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques, and explores the principles of animation; composition and layout; visual hierarchy; typography; cinematic... Read more

Introduction

1. Getting Started in Motion Design

2. Creating Motion Design with After Effects

3. Typography in Motion

4. Logos in Motion

5. UI Design in Motion

6. Information in Motion

7. Presentations in Motion

8. 3D Modeling in Motion

9. Moving Forward in Motion Design

Index

Biography

Chris Jackson is an author, designer, and professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He lectures and conducts workshops relating to interaction design and motion graphics, and his professional work has received over 25 distinguished national and international awards for online communication. He is the author of After Effects and Cinema 4D Lite (2014), Flash + After Effects (2010), Flash Cinematic Techniques (2010), and co-author of Digital Design in Action: Creative Solutions for Designers (2017), and Flash 3D: Animation, Interactivity, and Games (2006), all available from Focal Press/Routledge.

"Finally, a book that not only tells you what button to push but why you should push it. Chris Jackson's After Effects for Designers combines the technical with the aesthetic, the art and the technique behind motion graphics design. I can't wait to get this into the hands of my students."

—Robert Levine, Director of Production Support; Adjunct Instructor of Computer Graphics and Animation, Digital Media Production Program, Florida State University