After Effects

Discover the world of animation with After Effects CS3 Essentials. Hosted by professional animator Ko Maruyama, these training videos focus on new features and essential tools including Shape Layers, the Puppet Tool and Brainstorm. You’ll also learn how to use many of the new effects found in After Effects CS3 as well as how to import Photoshop Layer Styles. Learn the tricks you need to get on your way to producing high-end animations.

Running Time: 9 hours.
Format: DVD-ROM.

Get ready to dive in deeper than basic editing and compositing with these entertaining and educational videos on the advanced feature set in After Effects. You’ll explore the 3D environment to understand better how to work with 3D cameras and add realistic lighting and shadows. Plus, test drive tools that you may have never ventured to try before, such as painting and keying. Ko wraps up the course with a closer look at the all new Puppetry and Shapes tools.

Running Time: 7 hours.
Format: DVD-ROM.

These instructional videos hosted by Steve Holmes, an award-winning British designer and animator, are indispensable for learning the basics of the industry-standard tool for motion graphics and special effects design and production. With over 14 hours of indexed tutorials, you will learn incredible ways to control keyframes, use parenting and time remapping, understand and use powerful masking and blending modes, create mattes, and use adjustment layers to add complex, yet simple, impact to your animations.

Running Time: 14 hours.
Format: DVD-ROM.

Steve Holmes, an award-winning British designer and animator, leads you through After Effects' professional feature set. The lessons focus on important aspects of special effects, rotoscoping, expressions, and 3D motion graphics. Take a journey into After Effects' incredible 3D world, with lights, cameras, motion and expressions for realistic animation. Plus, advance your skills to the next level with an in-depth and practical look at the effects, techniques, tips, and tricks used for high-end productions.

Running Time: 12 hours.
Format: DVD-ROM.

Discover real strategies of broadcast design and how to think like a broadcaster with host Dean Velez, an Emmy award-winning broadcast designer. An advanced approach to common features enables you to create extraordinary and inventive results from simple source materials, with a minimum of time and effort.
Find out how to create sophisticated backgrounds from simple source elements. Learn how to generate beautiful and unusual particle effects with unexpected tools. Walkthrough a complete workflow employing real-world broadcast design projects.

Running Time: 7 hours.
Format: DVD-ROM.