One of the most exciting additions that HTML5 offers to designers is the ability to draw free-form graphics on a drawing surface known as the Canvas. In this course, author Joe Marini introduces the technical concepts behind Canvas and shows how to perform drawing operations directly in a web page. The course covers drawing basic and complex shapes, setting colors and styles, adding shadows, patterns, and gradients, more advanced techniques such as scaling, rotating, and compositing objects, and how to incorporate Canvas elements in a slideshow and an animation. Exercise files are included with the course.

One of the most interesting additions to the proposed HTML5 designers the ability to draw graphics on the drawing surface, called Canvas. In this course, by Joe Marini presents the technical concepts Canvas and shows how to represent the operation of drawing directly on the web page. The course covers the basics of drawing sophisticated shapes, colors and styles to install, add shadows, patterns and gradients, more advanced techniques such as scaling, rotation and composition of objects, as well as the incorporation of a Canvas in a slide show and animation.

Trish and Chris Meyer share fifteen years of real-world film and video production experience inside the critically acclaimed Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects. More than a step-by-step review of the features in After Effects, you will learn how the program thinks so that you can realize your own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is jammed full of tips, gotchas, and sage advice that will help you survive whatever your next project throws at you.