I'm a graphic design student that is delving into the complex world of motion graphics, and I thought this book was convoluted and overly detailed. I fully acknowledge that I'm a beginner and tend to be more creative than technical, but I felt that perhaps the book could have been written with readers like myself in mind.Trying to get through this was like my asking for directions somewhere, and having the person tell me seven different ways to get to the location. The fact that he would take a method to do something in the program and explain three different ways to do it just made me feel more confused.I own an InDesign book made by Adobe that is a lot shorter and has a lot less text, and learned a lot faster just by using it as a reference and working on independent projects. I feel that this particular book has so much text in it, it would be hard to use it as a reference.