本视频教程是由Digital-Tutors 机构出品的AE矢量图形动画制作视频教程，Digital-Tutors Ray-tracing with Typography in After Effects，时长：3小时45分，大小：1.15 GB，格式：FLV高清视频，附工程源文件，教程使用软件：After Effects CS6，作者：Laura Smith，官方发布时间：2013年3月，共25个章节，语言：英语。CG数据库整理。

After Effects是Adobe公司推出的一款图形视频处理软件，适用于从事设计和视频特技的机构，包括电视台、动画制作公司、个人后期制作工作室以及多媒体工作室。而在新兴的用户群，如网页设计师和图形设计师中，也开始有越来越多的人在使用After Effects。属于层类型后期软件。

Digital-Tutors机构是号称全球最大的CG付费教程网站，2000多万次视频播放记录，顶级客户的优秀项目实例，被誉为教学和娱乐结合的最好的教程，RenderMan创建人称之为“完美的学习站点”，成立至今已经有12年之久，内容集中在视频制作和游戏制作两大板块，其网站完整的教学的理念，先进的技术支持（他们甚至开启了移动手机看教程的计划，支持IPAD/IPHONE/ANDROID），都让人耳目一新。尤其是多层级的教学难度设置，有趣的考试内容，时不时的竞赛，让DT成为非常活跃的一个CG机构。

Digital-Tutors Ray-tracing with Typography in After Effects

In this series of After Effects tutorials, we will learn how to use the new Ray-tracing feature in CS6 to create 3D animated typography and shapes.

We begin this tutorial in Illustrator, where we lay the ground work for our image. This creation step contains vital information for how the Illustrator file must be set up for it to work once it has been imported to After Effects. We use a few scripts that speed up our process tremendously for some of the more repetitive and tedious parts of the project.

Once we bring our illustrator project into After Effects, this is where the magic starts to happen. We learn some valuable time saving tips when working with Ray-tracing as well as lighting and rendering workflows to get the best possible render in the end.

This training offers a really unique approach to creating a beautiful typography animation as well as tricks that will stick with the rest of your workflow when you work on your own projects that deal with the same issues and goals.

By the end of the tutorial, you will have firsthand knowledge on interfacing between Illustrator and After Effects as well as some Ray-tracing workflows that will make your other projects way less time consuming. Best of all, if you work along side the step-by-step approach, you’ll have your very own animated typography project complete with 3D depth, shadows, and some compositing tricks that really add polish to your final piece.