Title: Advice NOT instruction
Review: I was looking forward to this book for awhile because no one had really gone into special effects compositing specifically before. This book has nice full color photos, and that's the only truly appealing thing I can really say. There really aren't any tutorials in this book to follow. You recieve lots of advice, and some of it is helpful but there are no example files for you try what he suggests. There are all these full color photos for you to see what happened to an image, but without the image you cannot try to replicate it. I had to resort to finding images off the net that were as close as I could come, and of course the differences were enough that it wasn't very helpful. The whole chapter dealing with fire basically tells you that you can't do good realistic fire in AE so look so go make your own or look somewhere else, kind of a waste. Very dissapointed, I learn by doing and yet there is no real practicle application in this book for me to learn by.
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