New Years Resolution: Learn After Effects Inside and Out

By Michele Yamazaki on Dec 31, 2012 at 11:11 AM

Is your New Years Resolution to really get a good grasp on After Effects or maybe add to your skills set and master the program? Here are some resources that are helpful to beginners and seasoned pros alike.

Free Trial

If you don't own AE CS6, you can download a free 30 day trial from Toolfarm downloads. It functions just like a full version for 30 days and after that, it won't launch.

Tutorials and Blogs

• Getting started with After Effects (CS4, CS5, CS5.5, & CS6)

• After Effects basics tutorials by Andrew Devis
• AE Tuts+ - Lots of fun stuff at all skill levels.
• 10 Basic After Effects tutorials for beginners
• After Effects Tutorials - links from Toolfarm with all skill levels
• AE Freemart - Free stuff and links for After Effects
• Learn After Effects CS5 & CS5.5 - Learn the basics of After Effects CS5 and CS5.5 with Getting Started and New Features tutorials by product experts.

• Learn After Effects - Essential After Effects tutorials and learning resources for getting started and new features.

• CG Tuts - A popular site mostly dedicated to 3D but with some AE tutorials as well. Good resource if you use both.
• Adobe After Effects Help and Tutorials
• Video Copilot tutorials - Awesome tutorials for After Effects, Trapcode, Video Copilot Products, Cinema 4D and more.
• Red Giant TV - Tutorials for Red Giant and Trapcode products as well as AE and more. 
• AE Portal - Rich Young's blog at Provideo Coalition, which is a weely roundup of AE related stuff from the web.
• CMG Keyframes - Chris and Trish Meyer's blog supporting their training and books. 
• Production Values - Mark Christiansen's blog at Provideo Coalition. 
• Creative Cow After Effects
• Vimeo Video School - lots of cool stuff here for all aspects of production.

Online AE Groups

• Media Motion List-serv - One of the best resources out there. 
• After Effects Portal - Facebook group
• After Effects Malaysia - Facebook group 
• After Effects India - Facebook group
• After Effects Help - Facebook group 
• Toolfarm - Like us on Facebook.

Twitter

• Adobe After Effects - Todd Kopriva from Adobe manages this Twitter account. Follow him!
• Toolfarm - Yep, we're on Twitter too.
• AEScripts

Books 

• After Effects Apprentice by Chris & Trish Meyer
• Plug-in to After Effects: Third Party Plug-in Mastery by Michele Yamazaki
• The After Effects Illusionist by Chad Perkins

Downloadable Training

• Class on Demand AE Training - Includes After Effects Apprentice from Chris & Trish Meyer and more
• Adobe Press After Effects CS5 Training - it may be a full version number behind, but it's still very applicable to CS6.
• Total Training - Fantastic in depth training.

There are a lot more resources out there that I know I have left out but this should keep you busy for a while! We'll be following up with resources for other host apps in the next few days.

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