Advanced Animation

Manipulating keyframes to create more refined animations:

• Adobe bridge
• Template projects
• Viewing animated properties
• Graph editor overview
• Panning and zooming time
• Editing graph curves
• Easing animations
• Editing multiple keyframes
• The wok area
• Speed versus value graphs
• Motion sketch
• The smoother
• Auto-orient
• Motion blur
• Roving keyframes
• Tim-reverse keyframes
• Anchor point overview
• Pan behind tool
• Motion control moves
• Hold keyframes
• Copying and pasting keyframes
• Time display and timecode

Expressions and Time Games

Using expressions and playing with time:

• Using pick whip to create expressions
• Altering expressions
• Stabilizing shadows
• Matching value ranges (the linear expression)
• Looping keyframes
• Expression tips
• The wiggle expression
• Expression controllers
• Keyframing the wiggle expression
• Creating a master controller
• Converting sound keyframes
• Frame blending
• Pixel motion
• Stop motion tricks
• Preserve frame rate
• Creating freeze frames
• Time remapping resources for learning more

3D Space

Adding new dimension to your animations:

• Enabling layers for 3D
• Moving layers in 3D space
• How layers stack in 3D
• 3D rotation and orientation
• Multiplaning effects
• 3D motion paths
• Multiple views
• Camera settings
• Customizing 3Dviews
• Camera track and orbit tools
• Moving and animating cameras
• Layer and camera auto-orientation
• 3D lights
• Vignettes
• Animating lights
• Casting shadows
• OpenGL and fast previews
• Adding dimension to stills
• Editing stills for 3D

Track and Key

Tackling several essential skills for creating special effects:

• Creating track points
• Important tracker options
• Applying stabilization
• Compensating for stabilized footage
• Fixing bad tracks
• Tracking interlaced footage
• Motion tracking
• Applying a motion track
• Radio waves effect
• Applying tracks to effect points
• Perspective corner pin tracking
• Bezier wrap effect
• Stabilizing position, rotation, and scale
• Interpolating obscured tracks
• Working with high-definition footage
• Keying using the Keylight effect
• Improving keyed composites
• Creating garage mattes

New features in CS3

Exploring brainstorm, the puppet tool, and shape layers:

• Using Brainstorm
• Brainstorm with keyframes
• Puppet pin tool
• Animating puppet pins
• Puppet overlap tool
• Recording puppet animation
• Puppet starch tool
• Creating a shape layer
• Shape stroke and fill settings
• Editing shapes
• Multiple shapes
• Even-odd fill
• Shape effects
• Shape repeater
• Compound paths
• Shape gradients
• Shape pen paths
• Advanced strokes
• Animating a stroke