7 Must Read After Effects Blogs

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    No matter what level you’re at with your After Effects work, it’s always a good idea to keep up with industry leading blogs. So to get your feed reader started, I asked our VideoHive blogger Michael Capitelli to put together 6 great sites, plus I’ve added a summary of Michael’s own Inside the Hive blog, which makes 7 Must Read After Effects blogs.

    1. Inside The Hive

    The VideoHive blog is home to outstanding blogger Michael Capitelli who runs down daily posts on a variety of topics related to motion graphics, After Effects and production.

    4 Must Read Posts:

    2. Steve Kilisky’s Dynamic Media Blog

    Straight from the horse’s mouth, this is the blog run by Steve Kilisky, Senior Product Manager for Adobe After Effects. It’s updated sporadically, but I figure the guy’s kinda busy. I think this intro from his post on February 27, 2007 sums up the blog better than I ever could:

    "For the last 10 years I’ve lived, breathed, and outfitted my wardrobe with After Effects. Some might say After Effects is more than just a software tool and that it is a drug (FXTC),a cult, or a religion; for me its been a way of life. This is one of the reasons I created this blog."

    3 Must Read Posts:

    3. Pro Video Coalition

    Pro Video Coalition is like the super group of video blogs, combining the work of Adam Wilt’s Camera Log, Mark Christiansen’s Production Values, Mike Curtis’s HD for Indies, Steve Hullfish’s CUT.N.COLOR, Chris & Trish Meyer’s Creating Motion Graphics, and many more top notch blogs and a team of contributors. Chances are, if you’re like me, you’ve probably learned from Chris & Trish in their "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" series, so following this blog for their posts alone makes it a worthwhile read. If only Chris Cornell were there to play lead guitar…

    3 Must Read Posts:

    4. General Specialist

    All things After Effects from Swedish designer Jonas Hummelstrand. Jonas does a great job here keeping you updated on the latest adobe patches, working with the RED camera, codec comparisons, and a little bit of D.I.Y.

    3 Must Read Posts:

    5. Redefinery

    Jeff Almasol, Quality Engineer on the After Effects team also engineers up the redefinery, an After Effects script library, with scripts free for you to download. This is the same guy behind the scripts featured in the Mark Christiansen books. He also takes requests, so if you had something in mind, feel free to ask.

    3 Must Read Posts:

    6. Motionographer

    Industry-standard Motionographer is like the "Who’s Who’s" of motion graphic design. Featuring articles, samples, reels, and more, you can catch up on what your peers are doing and envy in some of the awesome talent that is out there.

    3 Must Read Posts:

    7. Video CoPilot

    Andrew hosts the very popular Video CoPilot Show featuring tutorials of Hollywood-style effects with After Effects. The companion blog talks about those tutorials (naturally) but also contains a wealth of knowledge about video and After Effects in general, as well as chronicles his proverbial rise to the AE Guru hall of fame.

    3 Must Read Posts:

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    Discussion 51 Comments

    1. Emin says:

      Hi, thx for these tips, but the last link from Video CoPilot is wrong.

    2. Hey Emin, thanks for that! That’s fixed!

    3. I suggest you switch out Steve Kilisky for the current product manager Michael Coleman’s blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/keyframes/ and the Help/documentation guys Todd Kopriva’s blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/

      Also, I must confess I haven’t had any time to update my own blog for months. Shame on me…

    4. peewee1002 says:

      Video CoPilot has to be my favorite. I use it all the time.

      Plus the presets are great as well.

    5. Andrei says:

      also, redefinery, not refinery

      (great article otherwise)

    6. sanki says:

      this one here is quite important to i think http://maltaannon.com/

    7. lzx917 says:

      very useful
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    8. Greg says:

      Nice work

    9. Joe says:

      Good blogs, however Video Copilot ought to be nearer the top of the list :)

    10. David Wood says:

      VIDEO COPILOT RULES!!! The others are ok. ;)

    11. Devin says:

      These are some really great sites, Thanks for them.

    12. Topher Welsh says:

      Nice… its like you read my mind! These are all on my Check Daily list in my delicious bookmarks… hahaha

      Killer list!

    13. George Fencefield says:

      These are on my frequent visited websites list, as well as Nick Campbell’s blog ( http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/ ). Maltaannon’s (Jerzy Drozda Jr) website has incredible tutorials as well, but it hasn’t been updated for weeks now.

    14. Alex C. says:

      I’d also add Creative Cow. There are some good resources there as well!

      http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/adobeaftereffects

      Other than that, great post!

    15. Irving says:

      Video Copilot is definitely ace. Saw a few hollywood movies who used their Evolution package videos in their opening credits. pretty neat.

    16. Ben Eshagpoor says:

      Don’t forget John Dickinson over at http://www.motionworks.com.au/

    17. Jim Hines says:

      This one rocks it also.

      http://aescripts.com/

    18. Topher Welsh says:

      Or perhaps VisualFXtuts.com? hahaha *shameless plug*

    19. Arvin says:

      Great, just added Grayscalegorilla, and redefinery! Most of the others I already subscribe to, or isn’t really my cup of tea.

      Videocopilot definitely the best though.

    20. Shane says:

      Great roundup. Wasn’t aware of many these.

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    22. Video tutorials AE in Spanish, from basical to advanced level

      http://aftereffects.260mb.com

    23. Hola, os invito a descubrir mi website con tutoriales de After effects en Spanish, empieza por un nivel muy básico y va subiendo el nivel hasta temas avanzados.

      After Effects Spanish
      http://aftereffects.260mb.com

      Espero vuestras opiniones. Un saludo.

    24. pev says:

      Video Copilot is NO. 1!!!

      Thanks!

    25. Rodney says:

      Just to add on the list….. checkout

      http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e.html

      they are a bit advanced but workable.

    26. JM says:

      Tragic. Forgot this guy: http://maltaannon.com/category/articles/

      Otherwise, nice list.

      :)

    27. Faakher says:

      How can you forgot http://www.maxafter.com from Shoaib Khan.

      otherwise Nice Post

    28. Zewkeymn says:

      nice! i’m gonna make my own blog

    29. aql1987 says:

      还有中国的,火星时代!!谢谢!!www.hxsd.com

    30. Faw says:

      1. Inside The Hive
      4 Must Read Posts:

      None of the links work :(

    31. gfxsplatter says:

      great blogs out there =)

    32. ElenaLisvato says:

      my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.

    33. TY for this nice entry. I like that site much.

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