Lynda - After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video with Eran Stern

Discover how to combine text and video in After Effects in order to create visually stunning scenes. In this course, Eran Stern builds four different trailers that showcase impressive type effects. Along the way, he demos a handful of advanced techniques, from tracking, rotoscoping, and parenting to generating 3D effects and 3D extruded text to make your type look its best. After watching this course, you'll be able to create impressive promos, trailers, and openers that will stand out from the rest.

Topics include:

Analyzing your shot and making mood, story, and type decisions

Working with lights, shadows, and 3D animation

Rotoscoping, distorting, and displacing text

Creating a motion graphics teaser using parenting and shoot-out animations

Integrating 3D text into live video

Working with ray-traced type

Create advanced per-character 3D text animations