After Effects Resource & Ref List

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(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)
• Video Copilot (VFX)
• School of Motion (motion graphics)
• Mograph.net (motion graphics)
• Udemy (general design)
• SternFX (general)
• After Effects subreddit
• Creative Cow (general)
• Digital Tutors (general)
• AE Tuts+ (general)
• 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

AE tutors to check out:

• Mikey (general AE)
• Evan Abrams (general AE)
• Easy After Effects (general AE)
• Andrew Kramer (VFX)
• VihnSon Nguyen (VFX)
• VFXBro (VFX)
• Mt. Mograph (motion graphics; one of my favs)
• Daniel Gies (digital puppeteering & rigging drawings)

Cool plug-ins & scripts:

• 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)
• Duik (character rigging)
• Twixtor (makes footage 60fps, smooth, and/or slow mo)
• Ease and Wizz (keyframe smoothing & movements)
• 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)
• Dribbble (invite only)
• 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)
• Patreon
• Tumblr lol

Cool AE inspiration for motion design:

• Dribbble
• Kurzgesagt 
• Giant Ant 
• 9-Squares
• Vimeo’s kinetic typography page (kinetic typography is a great way to get into AE) and the showreel page
• Behance 

Great for the video making community!