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Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist
Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist by Angie TaylorFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $44.95Master the fundamental concepts and techniques of motion media design so you can apply, and occasionally break, the rules to achieve your communication goals.
How to Cheat in After Effects
How to Cheat in After Effects by Chad PerkinsFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $44.95Master advanced techniques in After Effects without having to master the software.
Creative Motion Graphic Titling for Film, Video, and the Web
Creative Motion Graphic Titling for Film, Video, and the Web by Yael Braha and Bill ByrneFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $49.95Captivate your audience and enhance your storytelling with this tutorial based 4-color cookbook, featuring dozens of solutions to your titling needs. Each chapter includes case studies and interviews with the pros, lending cutting insight and lessons learned that will have you creating inspired title sequences in no time.
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, 5th Edition, Fifth Edition
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Fifth Edition by Chris Meyer and Trish MeyerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $69.95Create compelling motion graphics with real-world production techniques. This new edition of 700 + full-color pages is a comprehensive guide--from essentials to advanced techniques--that is packed with visual examples, and a DVD with projects that reinforce important skills.
How to Cheat in Motion
How to Cheat in Motion by Patrick SheffieldFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $39.95Put this grab bag of Motion techniques to work on the spot. Step-by-step illustrations show creative solutions for the daily challenges that you face in enhancing your titles, motion graphics and visual effects.
Avid Editing, Fourth Edition
Avid Editing, 4e by Sam KauffmannFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $49.95New edition of best-seller updated with expanded coverage on HD, visual effects, and Avid's new voice recognition tool, among others
The After Effects Illusionist
The After Effects Illusionist by Chad PerkinsFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $49.95This cookbook contains recipe after recipe that allow you to harness the full power of the native plug-in effects in the After Effects application. In a step-by-step manner, author Chad Perkins guides you through the creation and application of each and every native plug-in effect available for use in the AE toolset.
After Effects Apprentice, Second Edition
After Effects Apprentice, 2e by Chris and Trish MeyerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $44.95Updated for CS4, this book presents core motion graphics techniques in 12 lessons from the best-selling authors of 'Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects'New to the 2nd edition:* All instructions, screen shots, Guided Tour video training movies, and project files updated for After Effects CS4. CS3 and CS4 features have been integrated throughout, including the pervasive use of Shape layers, Layer Styles, and Brainstorm* More integration with other Adobe applications, including using After Effects with Illustrator, Photoshop (including new Vanishing Point and 3d Layer exercises) and Flash CS4* Redesigned first and last lessons, including an all-new final project that walks through the creation of a widescreen broadcast TV promo* Free bonus chapters on the DVD from other books on Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Flash, and broadcast design* Coupon for 15% off stock footage from Artbeats on DVD
After Effects Expressions
After Effects Expressions by Marcus GeduldFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $49.95Put the power of Expressions to work in your animations with controls and efficiencies impossible to achieve with traditional keyframing techniques.
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Fourth Edition
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects by Chris Meyer and Trish MeyerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $64.95Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently.
CINEMA 4D, Second Edition
CINEMA 4D by Anne PowersFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $52.95 CINEMA 4D, Second Edition The Artist's Project Sourcebook 2 Anne Powers select a series When I look at the contents and tutorials, I feel incredibly excited for the artists starting today. I would have killed for this information and tool set when I was getting started. Phil Captain 3D McNally, animator, stere
Photoshop for Video, Third Edition
Photoshop for Video by Richard HarringtonFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $57.95Master the graphic design and production skills required of today's digital video professional with this comprehensive guide to the video tools in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
After Effects Apprentice
After Effects Apprentice by Chris and Trish MeyerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $39.95Master the core techniques of motion graphics with 12 full-color lessons and a DVD from the authors of the best-selling 'Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects'.
CINEMA 4D 10 Workshop
CINEMA 4D 10 Workshop by Arndt von KoenigsmarckFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $54.95Model, texture and animate--essential 3D concepts and tutorial lessons deliver a working knowledge of the new v 10 toolset.
After Effects @ Work
After Effects @ Work by Richard HarringtonFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $47.95 After Effects @ Work DV Expert Series Richard Harrington DV Expert Series Real-World commercial projects presented in full color feature the work of renowned artists, Chris and Trish Meyer, Jayse Hansen, Mark Coleran, Ken Locsmandi and others. The tutorials are commercial projects that the artists created f
Creative After Effects 7
Creative After Effects 7 by Angie TaylorFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $54.95Tools, techniques, workflow and creative inspiration-all in one volume!
Photoshop for Digital Video
Photoshop for Digital Video by Mike Gondek and Archie CockeFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $60.95 Photoshop for Digital Video Creative Solutions for Professional Results Mike Gondek Archie Cocke 'Every once in a blue moon, a book comes along that is an absolute must-have for anyone involved in motion graphics design and video production - and this is most definitely one of them! The information contained i
After Effects On the Spot
After Effects On the Spot by Richard HarringtonFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $33.95'After Effects 6 On the Spot' delivers immediate solutions!
After Effects in Production, Second Edition
After Effects in Production, Second Edition by Trish Meyer and Chris MeyerFormat: Book - PaperbackPrice:    $57.95Take your After Effects skills to a new level! Twelve step-by-step tutorials, designed by industry professionals, explore a variety of creative approaches as they teach useful design concepts and production techniques.