After Effects Resource & Ref List
(well, only the resources that I know of. Mostly motion graphics based)
Some places to find After Effects tutorials:
Youtube | Vimeo | Google tbh
Lynda (general; free for some school employed students)
School of Motion (motion graphics)
Mograph.net (motion graphics)
List of beginner AE tutorials
Motionworks (motion graphics and VFX)
VideoHive (also has a ton of free AE templates and resources)
or learn from the actual makers of AE
Easy After Effects (general AE)
Mt. Mograph (motion graphics; one of my favs)
Daniel Gies (digital puppeteering & rigging drawings)
AE Sweets (cool premade 2D motion presets)
Plexus (makes those rad 3D connecting lines)
Newton 2 (physics engine for AE shapes)
Trapcode and Red Giant (cool VFX plug-ins used in the industry)
Twixtor (makes footage 60fps, smooth, and/or slow mo)
Flow (keyframe and curve graph smoothing)
Ouroboros (makes cool multi-stroke path lines quickly)
Video Copilot plug-ins (VFX; check all of them out they’re amazing)
Mt. Mograph’s Motion 2 (love this) and Link plug-ins (motion graphics)
check out aescripts.com, which has a ton of plug-ins and scripts made by fellow AE users
Sites to upload your AE works and/or offer freelance AE services (for motion designers):
Behance | Motion Served (part of Behance)
Youtube & Vimeo (specifically the AE and mograph communities there)
Upwork (a merge of the commission sites oDesk and Elance)
Motionographer (has a job search section)
Cool AE inspiration for motion design:
Vimeo’s kinetic typography page (kinetic typography is a great way to get into AE) and the showreel page
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