In this guide to Apple's revolutionary motion graphics software, commercial artists Damian Allen, Bryce Button, and Mark Spencer teach you to create cutting-edge animations, show opens, promos, logos, and effects while you learn Motion 3. As with the other titles in the Apple Pro Training Series, each chapter represents a complete lesson with a commercial-quality project to work through as you learn. The authors begin with generators and quickly move on to Motion's behavior-based animations, particles, filters, effects, replicator, tracking, and matchmoving. The best-selling book is fully revised to take advantage of the software's new features: you'll create sophisticated 3D environments, design painterly elements using customizable brushes and strokes, automatically create motion paths from moving images without tedious frame-by-frame keyframing, remove camera shake, and animate text with 3D effects. Includes companion DVD with project and media files.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Decent starter's guide to Motion:
I just worked through the entire book over the long weekend. There are definitely some major typos that suggest the wrong keyboard shortcut (and therefore unintended effect), but if you were paying attention earlier in the lesson, you should be able to figure out "Oh, he meant Shift-Cmd-drag, not Opt-Cmd-drag..." or "Uh, he never talked about the Far Fade parameter, so he must mean the Far Plane parameter..." Still, the proofreading / testing needed some work. At no point did I just flat-out get stuck... more info
an acceptable introduction, needs proof reading:
I struggled with whether to give this a 2 or 3 star rating... Motion is a big beast with lots of complexity and I wasn't expecting for an introductory book to give me a complete view. This book did do a good job of surveying Motion. The examples/samples are generally pretty interesting. However, I have similar comments to the other reviewers here... 1. The binding is bad. I am very careful with my books. I went through the book once and on opening it within a few days to refer to a section,... more info
Excellent Manual:
This is a great book for anyone that wants to learn how to use Motion. I don't have any complaints. There are 14 ch.'s that cover every aspect of the program. After going through the chapters it's amazing what you can create from scratch in a matter of minutes or even seconds! I don't think Motion will be taking over After Effects but it can do some things better and faster than After Effects can. I recommend this book to anyone that wants to learn an excellent motion graphics program!
This is a great book:
Now that Motion has 3D and doesn't crash, I thought, what the heck, I'll learn it. This book is great. Motion is a much deeper graphics app than I ever gave it credit for. I used to look at it as a big plug-in with some nifty effects. This book changed that thinking. It got me to stop tinkering with the program and really use it in production. I tend to loath step by step tutorials, but this book uses them well and does not forget to teach a broad understanding of the topics. So, no, it's not at all like... more info
