Mark Christiansen’s Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques book, to which i contributed a Scripting appendix (on the DVD), is now available. the appendix contains an overview of After Effects scripting, breakdowns of three scripts (trim layers to zero opacity, render slates from tab-delimited text, apply light wrap using the recipe from mark’s book), a script to set up the camera projection technique covered in the book, and small updates to the existing Duplink and Merge Projects scripts. be sure to check out contributions from dan ebberts, the man when it comes to expressions, and lloyd alvarez, who continues to crank out awesome scripts, on the DVD.

foamee now supports coffee (@ioucoffee), so now my tip jar does as well. …decaf here.

well, november is over, and various issues conspired to prevent me from reaching the NaNoWriMo goal. heck, i couldn’t even sniff half of the 50,000 words. however, i am still working on it, so keep the faith, dear reader. i will continue to post progress as it happens.

in the spirit of the u.s. thanksgiving holiday today, i wanted to give thanks to the ae script junkies out there that have shown support of the “book” project. here’s a grab from an early draft of the object hierarchy figure (click for full version):

i needed this figure to help plan out the reference section, but figured some peeps might find it useful. be aware that it’s a work in progress.

happy thanksgiving, y’all! btw, no book work today…gotta plate of turkey/gravy/stuffing/etc. and a green bay game in my near future.

lloyd might be soliciting directly for his wares, but i figured i’d go the iou route …at least until the book comes out. for my friends in the community that want to support this site and my writing/coding madness this month, i’ve added a tip jar* for foamee to the sidebar. oh, and i’m now on twitter, if you feel so inclined to watch me type.

thanks, and <burp>, in advance.

*”tip jar” is the name of an unreleased ae script that’s so pre-alpha it doesn’t even have a ui.