12.31.08

After Effects Expressions Review

Marcus Geduld’s book After Effects Expressions from Focal Press is, at 400+ pages, a comprehensive resource for anyone wanting to become an expert at this oft underused feature of Adobe’s flagship animation product. If you know After Effects but have always wondered about the power one can wield with expressions, definitely check this book out. If you know JavaScript and want to know how you can apply those skills to working in After Effects, there’s something here for you as well. Built on a subset of JavaScript with After Effects-specific additions thrown in by Adobe, expressions allow precise script-based control of composition layers, properties and keyframes. Possibilities include simple transformation properties like scale or rotation and enabling layers (and their properties)…Read more »

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