Reviews for The After Effects Illusionist: All the Effects in One Complete Guide

The average rating for The After Effects Illusionist: All the Effects in One Complete Guide based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-30 00:00:00 Fahim Ansari This was just an okay reference guide. The idea is allow you to become really familiar with the native After Effects plug-ins. For what I want to create, I only found a couple of pieces of information that were useful to me. Most of this was just a general "good know" pieces. I'm still looking for the perfect guide on transitions and keying. And now with CS5, some of these effects are outdated. This book is definitely not for a novice. A lot of the knobs are left unexplained. You're just told to adjust it, and not understand how it adds or detracts to the effect. You should learn the use After Effects the right way, and then maybe look into this book to learn the alternative tricks. *Review also posted to Amazon

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-19 00:00:00 Patrice Gasset I liked this book, but it's a bit thin. It would have been nice to see more behind-the-scenes prototypes beyond just the basics. For instance, they mention that Hack and Slash had legs, but we don't get to see that drawing. But all things considered it's a nice little book. Why hasn't ReBoot been turned into a movie? That mystifies me.