After Effects Tutorials

[Brian Kelly]

For Beginners

For beginning students with after effects, watching these tutorials will give you the fundamentals needed to understand
the basics of the application.

Learn After Effects with Chad Perkins
tv.adobe.com/show/learn-after-effects-cs4/

Getting Started: 01 Overview of After Effects
Getting Started: 02 Creating Projects
Getting Started: 03 Creating Compositions
Getting Started: 04 Working with the timeline
Getting Started: 05 Animation Essentials
Getting Started: 06 Previewing Animations
Getting Started: 08 Animating Characters
Getting Started: 09 Animating Text
Getting Started: 10 Applying Effects
Getting Started: 11 Correcting Color with Effects

Creative Cow After Effects video tutorials: library.creativecow.net/video-tutorials/adobeaftereffects

Creative Cow After Effects Video Podcast: podcasts.creativecow.net/after-effects-tutorials-podcast

Motion Graphics Lab: motiongraphicslab.com/tutorials/

Tutoriaux Videos sur After Effects (French language, but you can probably follow along): tutoriaux.mattrunks.com/

Advanced Topics

Video Co-pilot - the definitive source for advanced after effects tutorials (it helps to start near the beginning and work forward instead of complex first). He starts with some very basic but effective techniques such as sky replacement and color keying

www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/all/

Chroma Keying and tracking shots.

www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/vfx_sampleclips.html

Kinetic Typography

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gadlj8dOxs0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnhAWcJPLE
www.cgswot.com/tutorials.html

3D compositing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9oBRzQ3eIo


After Effects Expression links:

MotionScript.com www.motionscript.com/

Expressions Introduction: www.jjgifford.com/expressions/basics/index.html

AE Enhancers: aenhancers.com/