Wow… it took forever, but I’m here to bring you more demo reels then ever before! Maybe you are hurting for some graphics ideas, or just need to whet your inspiration palate? There’s no better way to throw away an afternoon. Enjoy!

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  Teisson Froes

  I don’t really know much about this fellow, mostly because I don’t speak spanish, but I don know that he is an awesome motion graphics artist dealing with mostly products and commercial production.

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  Joost Korngold

  Joost Karngald is a freelance designer/director and has a killer portfolio over at his website renascent.nl

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  Syndrome 2009 Reel

  Syndrome has a ton of clients, recently finishing up Spike TV’s Arkham Asylum Broadcast package and the new Ke$ha music video… check out their reel with a ton of clips from the T-Pain music videos, Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory and a ton of braodcast packages.

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  Bill Dawson

  Working at XK9 Design, Bill Dawson showcases some of his promo work in motion graphics for some prominent shows like The Apprentice and Wheel of Fortune.

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  Ghost VFX Reel 2009

  This company has some really amazing looking stuff in their reel including some crazy awesome visual effects for some lesser known movies as well as some bigger names like AVP and Die Another Day, and what they create is absolutely spectacular..

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  Monkeyhead Reel 2009

  Instead of making a reel to showcase their work, Monkeyhead decided to actually make a short animated film showcasing all their skills.

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  Jesus Alvarez Reel

  Jesus has a cool reel with a nice mix of everything, visual effects, compositing, some motion graphics, breakdowns and 3d animation.

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  Tony Hudson Demo Reel

  This guy does everything… matte painting, digital creatures, art direction… you name it. Check out his reel with work on some really well known movies like Harry Potter and A.I.

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  The Molecule

  This shop continues to produce some amazing looking work with shows like Rescue Me and Damages as well as some feature films. Also make sure you check out the Mograph reel too. YOu can follow them on Twitter @themoleculevfx.

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  Cinesite

  This company has produced some absolutely breathtaking imagery for some huge, and I mean huge films. The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, Hellboy… oh and of course, Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

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  Winston Galera

  Galera is a small design studio in Buenos Aires that specializes in everything a small studio normally does. Check out the sick looking graphics they put out in their reel.

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  Carmina Soler Balaguer

  Carmina is a freelance designer loated in Sbadell, Barcelona. She specializes in motion design, web and graphic design. Check out her site .

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  UPPER FIRST

  Upper First is a relatively new shop in thier first year or so of operation. Check out their reel from the last year and a lot of commercial productions.

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  SuperNova – Scott Novasic

  Scott has some amazing looking branding packages utilizing tons of 3d and After Effects. Lots of sports, logos, and mograph goodness.

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  MAKE Reel 2009

  Make specializes in the art of storytelling through motion graphics, vfx, and animation. Check out their demo reel at makevisual.com.

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  Amoeba

  This is a one man operation providing art direction and desing for branding, print publishing, motion graphics and music video production. Very awesome, grungy looking reel.

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  Autodesk’s Siggraph 2009 Show Reel

  Autodesk obvioulsy is going to put out some ridicouly amazing work… so I will just let this reel speak for itself.

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  Joe Herbert

  This reel was made mostly with AE and C4D with a touch of almost all the other 3d packages out there.

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  Rawbot

  Luma Bros has since become Rawbot, and you can check out rawbot.se to see their demo reel and see what they are all about.

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  Artem Ludyankov

  Artem has an awesome mix of 2d and 3d motion graphics that really put out a visually stunning look with artistic eye.

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  Federico Ponce

  Federico is a fantastic 3d designer, and his skills mixed along with motion graphics make for a pretty awesome reel.

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  Blur

  Blur’s work continues to amaze anyone and everyone that sees what comes out of this talented bunch of people at the studio.

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  Kamen Markov

  Kamen is a flame artist with an insanely aweosme reel to boot. I found him on PostFolio’s Top Ten Reels video they made… really great stuff.

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  Method

  Method Studios has got some big clients under their belt, and the content that they produce ain’t too shabby either.

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  Goran Forsling 2008 Reel

  Goran is a freelancer out of Stockholm, Sweden with some great visual effects and motion graphics work, mostly for commercial production.

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  The Ronin

  These are some of the selected works of Rob Chiu, an amazing motion designer, director of film and photography.

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  Thomas Horne

  Thomas has an awesome way of displaying his work, there is a bar at the bottom of his reel that highlight what role he played in each spot.

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  Houdini Reels

  Houdini’s website has 4 reels on their site in which you can check out and see what the product is all about… I recommend watching the Demo and the Artist reels.

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  Dstrukt Showreel 2006

  Dstrukt’s website now reroute’s to christopherhewitt.com, in which Christopher a London based freelnacer working in motion design and art direction.

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  Peter Szewczyk

  This guy has worked on Star Wars, Harry Potter, and the Madagascar series. Check out his site, Light+Mathematics, and click the link to get to his reel on Vimeo.

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  Mathieu Gérard

  This is a bunch of Mathieu’s clips from his student days… A lot of really great looking, very detailed 3d works in here.

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  Colour Movie

  This company is great… they make a wide range of styles, but they seem to specialize in commercials and branding packages mostly. Check out the reel to see more of what I am talking about.

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  Transistor Studios

  This reel starts off all elegant, then gets some radio distortion and kicks it into high gear. Very cool audio track and even cooler imagery to go along with it.

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  PostPanic

  Absolutely gorgeous reel. There is tons of content in this, along with individual samples to pick and choose from.

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  Sixis

  Kinda slow to start out with this one, but once you make it past the beginning, the rest is spectacular. Hit it up.

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  Rodion Rusu

  Rodion has some killer samples of what he has worked on over the years… there’s some damn good stuff in there.

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  Jacob Mathew

  A great mix of 2d and 3d animations to create some really in your face stuff, as well as some calmer pieces too.

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  The Mill 2010 Showreel

  Anything that The Mill puts out, is just out of this world amazingness, so I can’t describe this shortly… just watch.

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  Talmeez Rehman

  I found this guy via the Creative COW and I can see why he was rated 5 Stars. Check out his wide range of Mograph animations to see how he utilizes his skills.

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  Buck

  I love Buck’s work… it always seems to have a nice mix of cartoony, but still high end vfx and mograph related animations.

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  After Effects 1.1 Showreel

  Ahh way back when… we have from the old archives… the After Effects 1.1 showreel. Who knew that we would be so fascinated with this… what? 14 years later?

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007 GoldenEye

28 Days Later

Wolf’s Bane (Wolverine Font)

Squealer (AC DC Font)

Blade Runner Movie Font

Aurabesh (Star Wars Symbols Font)

Han Solo (Star Wars Font)

SF Fedora (Indiana Jones Font)

Back To The Future 2002

Batman Forever

Due Date (COPS Font)

CNN

Fight This (Fight Club Font)

Friday13 (Friday the 13th Font)

Grinched (How the Grinch Stole Christmas Font)

Ringbearer (Lord of the Rings Font)

Elvish Ring NFI (Lord of the Rings – Elvish)

Aniron (Lord of the Rings – Alternative Font)

Matrix

Nightmare Before Christmas

Planet of the Apes

The Ring

Sin City

Trek (Star Trek Font)

Harry P (Harry Potter Font)

Lumos (Harry Potter Book Font)

SF TransRobotics (Transformers Font)

Waltograph (Walt Disney Font)

Final Fantasy

Halo3

Army of Darkness

Blade 2

Beynkales Demo (Corpse Bride Font)

Trajan-Regular (The Movie Font)

Red Right Hand (Hellboy Font)

Homoarakhn (Spiderman and PS3 Font)

Scream Real (Scream Font)

An Unfortunate Event (Lemony Snicket’s Font)

Fiddums Family (Addams Family Font)

Battlestar Galactica

Alien League (Alien Font)

Adam Warren 0.2 (300 Font)

AVP (Alien VS Predator Font)

Timepiece (A Clockwork Orange Font)

Metrolox (Enemy of the State Font)

The Godfather

Impossible (Mission: Impossible Font)

InvisibleKiller (Predator Font)

Resident Evil

Terminator Real NFI (Terminator Font)

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  Video Copilot – Submerged

  Andrew is back with tutorial number #96, in which you create that effect where you are going underground, like on that show Cities Of The Underground on History Channel. This uses camera mapping techniques and lots of textures to create and awesome looking camera move through the earth.

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  Video Copilot Tip: Mask Transition

  In this quick little tip in Andrew’s Vlog he shows you how create a really quick transition that follows someone that walks past the camera, and gives you a wipe into the next shot in your comp. Tip starts at 1:22.

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  Video Copilot Tip: Paint a Punch

  Another tip from Andrew in the next Vlog features Sam Loya, a guy we haven’t seen in a while. In this tip, the choreography for a fight scene slips a little bit, and you can see there is no impact with the punch. Learn how to use the Clone Stamp tool in AE to fix this. Tip starts at 3:08.

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  Video Copilot Optical Flares Preview

  This isn’t much of a tutorial, rather than a preview of what is to come. Andrew has been giving us some glimpses of the new Optical Flares plugin from Video Copilot. The first preview is a video dedicated to it, and the second starts at 10:50

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  Graymachine’s Favorite 5 Expressions

  Again, not much of a tutorial but Harry Frank, the master of expressions, had some time to write us his favorite five expressions, explain them, and also provide them as a download.

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  Creative Cow & Eran Stern – The Pusher

  Eran uses the Wave World, Caustics, and Color Finesse to create an effect that is similar to one of the abilities from “Push”, kind of like making the space around you act like rippling water.

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  Creative Cow & Gyorfi Szilard – Shortcuts Part 2

  This is the second part to last month’s Shortcuts Part 1 tutorial over at the COW where Gyorfi gives you some navigation tips to utilize a better workflow.

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  Multi-Camera Synchronization

  This is a really simple technique that teaches you how to make a timecode counter, so that if you are on a multi-camera shoot, everyone points their cameras to the comp on a laptop to sync them up in post.

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  Introduction to Programmatic Animations in AE

  Here is a huge set of videos from MAX 2009 of Michael Coleman, the product manager of After Effects teaching you how to use javascript-based expressions to increase your workflow.

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  How to Remove Banding Artifacts in AE

  Nick Campbell takes you through some handy technique to keep you videos from coming out with banding when rendering or compressing, and also some background information on why this happens.

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  How To Export Your Scene From C4D to AE Full Version

  A bit back, I featured Nick’s tutorial he hosted on Maxon for the release of C4D R11.5 on how to bring scenes into AE from C4D. Nick has the full version on his site now, with a ton of handy tips that weren’t in the previous version.

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  Motionworks – Rotoscoping Fields

  John Dickinson has a ton of tutorials this month, this one deals in working with rotoscoping interlaced footage, and the troubles you may encounter when doing so.

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  Motionworks – Motion Sketch

  A little known function in After Effects, at least to me is Motion Sketch. John shows you were to find this panel, and how to utilize it in your workflow.

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  Motionworks – A Workflow With Soundkeys

  Learn how John used Trapcode Soundkeys to control the look and feel of a boxing promo for Foxtel in this e-seminar for Adobe.

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  Motionworks – Explosive TV Promo Graphics

  John shows us how he takes rendered 3d text from C4D and brings that into AE, adds motion blur, and composites it all together to make some killer looking promos for the release of Fast and Furious on DVD and Blu-Ray.

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  Motionworks – Simplify Your Workflow

  John demonstrates some simple techniques to speed up your workflow with a few expressions and the Source Text parameter.

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  Motionworks – AE and ProAnimator

  Another e-seminar that John hosted the other day showed you a new workflow with ProAnimator inside of AE to make a Sopranos-style 3d text look.

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  Motionworks Effects A-Z: Maltaannon – Audio Spectrum

  In the A-Z Effects rundown, Maltaannon covers the Audio Spectrum effect and shows you a few uses and what the parameters do.

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  Motionworks Effects A-Z: John Dickinson – Beam

  Not many people use the Beam effect, but hopefully after this tutorial you can find a few uses for it.

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  Motionworks Effects A-Z: Topher Welsh – The Bevel Effects

  2 in 1! I demonstrate the differences between Bevel Edges and Bevel Alpha, and how you can use them in your workflow efficiently.

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  CGtuts+ & Chris Martin – Create an Amazing Liquid Apple Effect

  Using RealFlow, Cinema 4D, and After Effects, Chris Martin takes you through three different tutorials to create this awesome looking liquid apple simulation.

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  CGtuts+ & Amilcar De Carvalho – Create a Cool Looking Molecule Effect in Maya and AE

  Modeling the molecule object in Maya, bring that into After Effects, create a camera movement and set up a particle system to finish it all off.

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  RGTV Ep.31 Chad Perkins – Creating an Old-School Sci-Fi TV Opening

  Chad Perkins does a lot of After Effects training on Lynda.com, and now in his first Red Giant TV episode, he teaches you how to make an awesome looking Twilight Zone show open with Trapcode 3D Stroke, Echospace and some other Trapcode plugins.

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  RGTV Ep. 32 Chan Bonanno – Feature Film Title Treatment

  Chan Bonanno teaches you how to recreate the title treatment he made for the movie “Dreamgirls” using Trapcode Particular and Knoll Light Factory.

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  After Effects Apprentice – Render Queue

  In the monthly tutorials from Chris and Trish Meyer from their book After Effects Apprentice, they teach you how to use the Render Queue thoroughly within After Effects.

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  Big Mike Design – Spider Web Animation

  Learn how to use Illustrator and After Effects to create a spider web that animates and catches text that flies into it.

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  Garus Booth – CC Cylinder Effect

  There aren’t many tutorials that deal with CC Cylinder, and this one takes an intermediate look into utilizing it to create some cool effects mixed with 3d renders.

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  Garus Booth – Trapcode 3D Stroke

  In this tutorial you can go from story boards to the final AE composition using 3d Stroke to achieve a killer result.

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  Hologram Preset Tutorial

  This has been a long time coming tutorial from Chad Castleberry using his hologram preset on some footage in After Effects.

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  Superperson Opening Titles

  This is an updated version of Chad Castelberry’s Superperson video that was hosted on Youtube back in the day. This is an effect similar to the title effects in Superman or The Last Starfighter.

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  Creating Smoke/Fog in AE

  This effect’s tutorial has been made a few times, but there are a ton of different ways to do it. This way uses CC Particle World to create fog on some existing footage.

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  ProJuice.org – Virtual Backgrounds

  Nick and Arlo from ProJuice.org show you how to take some green screen footage of Arlo, and create some curved screen backgrounds.

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  VideoHive and Topher Welsh – Paint Panel Explained

  In this tutorial, I show you what the options actually are inside the Paint Panel in After Effects, how they work, and what exactly they do.

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  VideoHive and Topher Welsh – Forcing Motion Blur

  With some help from John Dickinson, we outline thrree different ways to force motion blur onto your layers using either AE’s built in motion blur, CC Force Motion Blur or the Timewarp effect.

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  CGPOV.com My Fave Things Part 2 – Max2AE

  Chad Smashley outlines his favorite things on his blog CGPOV.com and he shows how to setup and use the plugin for 3ds Max, Max2AE.

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  AEScripts – AudioToMarkers

  Lloyd Alvarez’s newest script, AudioToMarkers will add markers, split a layer or add a new text layer with incrementing numbers based on audio intensity. Make sure you hit the Demo Video button for the tutorial.

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  AEScripts – SpellCheck

  This is perhaps the script I have been waiting for my whole AE career. Kind of obvious how it works… it spell check s things for you in your comp. Hit the Demo Video button for all the details on how to use this script.

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  AEScripts – Chameleon

  This is an awesome script from Mathias Möhl that assists you to browse through color themes obtained from Adobe Kuler.

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  Zola Media – Flame Vortex

  In Zola Media’s first tutorial they show you how to create what they call a “Flame Vortex” effect, like those seen in video games. Check out the tutorial for a preview of the effect.

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  Conscious

  This nice piece is a little rough with the keying and keyframes, but using a “raining letters” type of effect, it produces a very cool looking surreal video.

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  Hey Ya

  Okay, you are gonna watch that and be all “hey that was made in Flash!” Yeah, well typography is typography, and this piece by Brian Shaler with Obadiah Parker’s cover of Outkast’s “Hey Ya” is absolutely one of my favorite kinetic pieces.

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  Look What You’ve Done

  This video is all over the place and uses some really nice camera movement and text orientation to display the lyrics for the song.

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  Blink 182 – “Online Songs”

  Who doesn’t love some Blink 182? Even though the the roto on this is a little rough… its still one of the fastest kinetic pieces I have found on the net.

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  A Lesson On Typography

  Ahh, education… The Vancouver Film School has this very informative video on what makes up typography, and how it is used.

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  Justice – “DVNO”

  This is an absoultely stunning retro-esque music video from Justice, using some amazing text reveals and clever animation techniques.

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  Justice – “D.A.N.C.E”

  These guys have some awesome videos… here’s another one from Justice with some cool animations on the character’s shirts as well as some interesting type spelling out the lyrics.

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  Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles

  Instead of creating all of this in AE, or some 3D program, the artists and photographers used CG as well a RED One, Canon 5D MKII, 40D, and Nikon D80 to get some amazing stop motion going on.

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  F is for Fail

  Interesting video showing what each letter can stand for in the creative process. I find it hard to believe, but no AE filters or effects are used to make this spectacular piece… now try to figure that out? No Particular? That’s preposterous!

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  Manu Chao – Bongo Bong Typography

  I think this video caught my eye, not because its yet ANOTHER kinetic typography piece, but because it uses a bunch of differnt elements and effects to go with the nouns and verbs in the lyrics.

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  STOPandTHINK – Talking Head

  This is a nice piece integrating type as well as actual footage. The silhouettes, lighting, and type really work well together, and all was created in just two days!

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  Rockwell

  Some people just love their favorite fonts… here is a nice little animation showing the love for the typeface Rockwell.

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  Typography on my Mind

  This maybe only a 15 second animation render, but the technique at the end is something that looks fantastic. Just watch it and you will see what I mean.

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  Habitat For Humanity

  Another video that doesn’t use animation techniques to convey the typography aspect, but actual camera work to produce a very cool commercial.

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  Typographie

  Some more stop motion with real life elements rather than CG, these always deserve recognition for the pure imagination that is put into them, as well as how long they must take to produce.

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  The Hush Sound — Lions Roar

  This is another very professional, smooth kinetic typography peice that really flows with the drawls of the singer… it also has some hidden messages in the text if you can find them.

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  Death Cab For Cutie – Little Bribes

  Being a Washingtonian at heart, I love the band Death Cab For Cutie… and this music video by Ross Ching really is phenomonal when it comes to this style of music videos.

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  Obama 08′ Vote For Hope

  This is a killer vector art/typography video using some impressive techniques to go along with this hip hop video promoting Barack Obama in the 2008 election.

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  Nascar Spots by Superfad

  Stepping outside of kinetic typography, this series of spots by Superfad, uses blackboard type graphics along with CG graphics to create a chalkboard draw-on type animation.

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  California Lottery Spots By Superfad

  Another series from Superfad, they use some very simple typography to morph into differnt things you could possibly buy if you won a million bucks from the lottery.

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  VMA 2009 Titles

  Prologue created an amazing set of title screens for the 2009 Video Music Awards on MTV, here is the compilation of all of them for your viewing pleasure.

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  The Raven

  An illustrated version of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” by Michael Dibblee, doesn’t have tons of type reveals or coolness to it, but I do admire the drawn look to the text as well as the images that accompany them.

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  TEDxEdges Opening Titles

  This is an amazing use of full 3D renders to create a coming together look of the TEDxEdges logo, as if it were on huge peice of glass that was broken into a thousand pieces.

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  Karoshi

  In this experimental video, the artist tries to create an interesting 3D extrusion effect, using what seems to be mulitple layers, lots of lights and different colors, cool, but kind of a mindtrip.

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  We believe / Neue Digitale

  This piece mixes very simple type with some insanely complex 3D renders like hair and fur, or particle type effects like Form effects and interesting lighting on them.

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  AICP Minnesota Show Reception Sponsor Reel

  An absolutely breathtaking sci-fi steampunk type of visual effects peice, this heavily relies on strong integration of 3D renders and live action to make an awesome looking final piece.

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  Hershey’s – ‘Happiness Is…’

  Definitely using the old school animation style (where it looks like frame by frame) they use drawn-looking typefaces as well as animations on the character’s shirt to create an interaction between the animation and the live action.

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  Lift Typography Reel 2009

  Sometimes you just need an overload of inspiration, and watching a reel like Lift’s is just what you need. Check out the various spots that they have worked on just to get some ideas of how they use typography on everyday jobs.

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  MTV BLOOM

  You don’t see what this spot is saying right away, but if you pay attention, you start to get the idea. This is a great demonstration of using growing elements to display words and phrases as well as making it look rad. Hypercolors FTW!

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  LOVE/HATE/EVIL

  This isn’t really a typhographical piece but more of a concept of creating an object that shows multiple different views. Hard to explain, but easy to understand… just watch and be amazed.

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  The Rumble in the Jungle

  A speech taken from the famous George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali fight, this kinetic piece uses some awesome elements and motion to really give some oomph to what the speaker is saying.

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  Alcon Animation

  A PSA moving at a nice pace is a nice change every once in a while… not everything has to be hard hitting in your face to get the message across.

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  NEUFORMA FONT #HFT002 IDENT

  A nice promotional video for a typeface called Neuforma. The beginning looks a little similar to Mattias Peresini’s tutorial a few months back.

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  Ermes – Video Contest

  If I can’t read what this says, and I can make it through the entire video just because of how good this kinetic typography looks… that’s got to say something.

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  MasterCard PayPass

  I love how the text just kind of pops up like a flow chart on this, how the CG elements look so real, and just how everything overall just looks absolutely polished… and again… didn’t understand a word

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  iQ Font – When Driving Becomes Writing / Full Making Of

  A more unconventional typography video, this shows you how Toyota’s iQ font was made using a tracking system attached to a car and a professional driver writing by driving and drifting the car certain ways.

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  The New York Times

  With the whole of New York Textured in words, phrases, languages and whatever else… this is an interesting look created by Imago for the New York Times newspaper.

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  Typography Landscape

  This is an absolutley stunning creation of thousands of extruded 3D words that make up a world in which the camera flies though, and cars drive on.

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  Crazy Enough Title Sequence

  This is a title sequence from a movie that has yet to be made, but thousands of keyframes and a ton of shapes later, this little beauty was created.

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  Interesting timeline take on kinetic typography and elements by making the text and everything seem like it is from the pages of a book.

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It is Blog Action Day here on the interwebs, and I figured why not do our part in this eco-friendly awareness age? Instead of harping about how to save energy, conserve the wilderness, or protect the ozone layer, I have found a few videos across the internet that might help get the word out or make it click in your brain that the Earth really is getting older. We all have to do our part to at least soften the blow, if not erase the effects completely. Enjoy these little tasty tidbits of eco-friendly mograph goodness.

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  Blog Action Day 2009

  This is the campaign video for Blog Action Day 2009… If this inspires you, go create something on your own blog!

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  Electricity From All Kinds of Renewable Sources

  A nice little animation that shows the effects of power stations, and how some of the different sources work. Learn how you can use renewable resources like wind and other alternatives.

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  Animation: Climate Change, Energy & Action

  Very cool short animation from WWF about conserving energy and using more greener sources of transporation and energy.

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  We Must – Type in Motion (Carbon Cap Contest)

  An awesome looking kinetic typography animation that was made for the Carbon Cap Contest earlier last year.

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  Animals Save The Planet- Leopards Hate Litter

  Short little Animal Planet spot on not littering… claymation style.

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  MacBook Green Commercial

  This is a little old, but good to think about, since we use computers everyday… this is on the energy efficient MacBook.

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  Emergency 411: Going Green (Corporate Edition)

  This is a really funny take on going green from a Funny Or Die contributor.

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  Maintenant

  This is a great use of 2.5d compositing to create an energy awareness video.

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  Esurance, Cloud Cult Get Eco-Friendly Together with ..

  Another oldie, but goodie, Esurance has a nice little music video promoting eco-awareness efforts.

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  Unlikely Alliances

  Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich are two “Unlikely Alliances” who came together to film one of the ads for the new “We Can Solve It” Campain.
  
  Campaign Site

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  AShirtBag – Simple Solutions for Eco-Friendly Living

  Just like the title says, the author gives you quite a few different easy little tips to live a better eco-friendly life.

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  We Make You A Conservationist

  This is a little confusing of a site. To watch the video, click the first thumbnail that stops in front of you entitled “We Make You A Conservationist”. After that you can poke through the site and find out more info on conservation.

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  Harry Frank’s “Green Is Universal” Bumpers

  Harry had some really cool work when he was working at Royal and Truxton, this stood out to me. It was made with Particular and is showcased on Trapcode’s Gallery: Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3

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  Planet Green’s Did You Know? Segments

  Discovery Channel’s Planet Green has a few interesting tip PSAs for you to check out: Don’t Idle Your Car Breathe Phantom Power

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  Video Copilot’s Tutorials

  Some tutorials online offer their material used within the tutorial for download, out of all those, Video Copilot stands above the rest in that respect. For almost all the tutorials on the website, you can download the source files to work along with Andrew, or just use it for your own projects.

  Visit Video Copilot’s Tutorial Section

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  Artbeats

  Artbeats is one of the leaders in royalty-free stock footage distribution, and kind of set the standard when it comes to the similar sites littered throughout the net (some seen below). They are generous enough to give you a link to a free HD clip every month in their newsletter they send out, absolutely free for you to keep. It might not be much, but you might be able to use them as backgrounds, or use some stock footage for a title open. Stay on their mailing list for a couple years, and you will have yourself a nice little collection.

  Visit Artbeats

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  Green Layers

  Green Layers is another one of those stock footage companies that likes to give away free footage to their subscribers, except Green Layers specializes in keyed out green screen footage. Similar to Crowd Control from All Bets Are Off Productions (subscribe to that newsletter too, I’m sure Aharon will be giving some clips away too soon), They have a nice little library of downloads for you to peruse and play around with in your spare time and see what the quality is like.

  Visit Green Layers

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  Umesh’s Free HD Footages

  Umesh Patel started this nice little site about a year ago, and although the quality of the footage isn’t that great, it gives you a little something to challenge yourself with. Yeah, the green screen doesn’t cover the head, or the footage is a bit grainy with some motion blur in it… but its free! You can’t complain about free.

  Visit Umesh

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  Footage Firm

  Footage Firm works a little different in the “free” department than the rest of these on the list. The content is free in the fact that these guys aren’t making a dime on the work that they have put into these products, but you do have to pay $8.41 shipping and handling to get the collections. Now, if you think about it, less than ten bucks for a DVD chuck full of stock footage ain’t bad, especially if it fits into the project you are producing.

  Visit Footage Firm

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  Stock Footage For Free

  This is a website put out by the above company, Footage Firm, and takes selected clips from their numerous collections, and lets you download them instantly, and completely free. Most of the stuff available is motion backgrounds, but it’s probably going to save you a few hours of work if you can find a way to weasel these into a project. They provide all the details about the clip you need as well as what formats, dimensions and codecs you can download them in.

  Visit Stock Footage For Free

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  Detonation Films

  These have been the go-to guys for when you need a quick little explosion, muzzle flash, smoke, or whatever. They have all the stuff you need, but they don’t have a prettier site? Hmmm, oh well, the fact that they have a ton of free explosions and whatnot is reason enough to overlook the bland design of the website and get to the pyrotechnic goodness. Scroll down a ways and you will find around 50 clips for you to add to your VFX pyro library.

  Visit Detonation Films

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  Visual Effects For Directors

  Hollywood Camera Work has one of the most thorough visual effects training DVDs I have ever watched, and just for all of you freebie hoarders, they have provides some matchmoving green screen plates free of charge for you to mess around with on your own, before you buy the DVD set. But take it from me… this set is well worth the money to have on hand.

  Visit Green Screen Plates Visit Tracking Plates

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  Timeline GFX

  These guys have a few different categories, Vector Art, Motion Graphics, and Green Screen. Vectors we really don’t care too much about in this article, but the graphics pieces are really high quality, and the green screen section has a few pre-keyed as well as “key for yourself” clips so that you can practice on.

  Visit Timeline GFX

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  Ribbit Films

  Ribbit Films has a deal that after you sign up for their site, you have a little library of six clips that you are allowed to download for a window of 14 days after you register, after that, they’re gone. They have some pre-keyed as well as full green screen shots to practice on.

  Visit Ribbit Films

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  Always HD

  Another one of the popular stock footage sites, they also give away free stock footage elements every week or so. According to the name, everything is always HD, and they give you all the details that you need to know about the clip you are downloading, so you will be able to figure something out to do with it.

  Visit Always HD

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  Pond 5

  Another sweet stock footage site that has weekly free clips that you can download absolutely free, just by signing up for the site. If you have Toolfarm or AEFreemart in your RSS you have probably seen these free clips pop up from time to time.

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  Archive.org

  Archive.org basically scans the entire internet and its files from way back in the day and lets you hunt those down and use them in your own projects. Mostly everything is in mpeg-2 format and its kind of hit or miss on what you find, but its kind of fun just to see what you can find.

  Visit Archive.org

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  Nature Library

  Lastly we have Nature Library, which, well… specializes in nature videography. Just like AlwaysHD and Artbeats they have free clips that they offer every so often, always dealing with nature stuff, like plants, animals, fields, landscapes… that sort of thing.

  Visit Nature Library

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So I got a lot of flack last time around for forgetting some of the people that ought to have been in the last Who’s Who roundup. Well, I am back to apease the people of AETUTS and give you the lowdown on some of your favorite people in the AE universe with Who’s Who: Volume II.

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  Stu Maschwitz

  The very popular author of The DV Rebel’s Guide, and co-founder of the late Orphanage production facility, Stu now runs ProLost, his blog, and is also Creative Director for the Magic Bullet line of products for Red Giant. Stu is an accomplished filmmaker working on a bunch of huge movies to break out of the box office such as Iron Man, The Spirit, and Sin City as Visual Effects Supervisor and Senior Staff at the Orphange, playing many different roles in the process. Stu also teaches a DSLR Filmmaking class at FXphd.com, and continues to be a leader in the visual effects scene. Visit ProLost

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  Dan Ebberts

  A lot of the After Effects community, or at least the noobs are scared to death of expressions. Personally, I find it hard to delve into them, probably because I failed math in college, but Dan Ebberts is the leading person to talk to about anything and everything expressions. He has been writing computer programs for 30 years, so it seems to come natural to him, and the things that seem impossible to us, can be solved in a matter of minutes with this guy. His website, Motionscript.com was down while I was writing this so I am going to direct you all to his Creative Cow profile. Visit Dan on Creative Cow

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  Mark Christiansen

  Mark’s book After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques has become one of the standards on college classes for reading and study material, and really lays it all out for you to learn easily. On top of being an awesome author of one of the most popular AE books out there, Mark is also a training leader, skilled graphics and visual effects artist, working on numerous popular commercials and movies. He also takes part in plugin development such as the newly released Camera Mapper plugin from Digieffects. Visit Mark’s Website

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  Brian Maffitt

  Brian Maffitt is quite the legend in the AE realm, and we have probably all learned a bit from his website, Total Training where he has covered After Effects training from the very beginning. He has been around a long time, creating the huge site that is Total Training, providing an outlet for online training, and is a trainer in all kinds of different programs as well as After Effects.

  Visit Total Training

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  Steve Holmes

  Energi Design is Steve Holmes company name, but what most people know him from in the AE world is his contributions to places like Layers Magazine or the Artbeats Motion Graphics Podcast. Either way Steve has been around making tutorials and teaching everyone tons of awesome techniques and he is definitely a leading trainer in my book.

  Visit Energi Design

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  Ayato Fujii

  Ayato’s work has inspired a bunch of people to create some awesome stuff, and if you have never checked out his site you are missing out. Although he doesn’t provide project files for the massive amount of tutorials he has, it really makes you learn how to make the effect on your own without cheating your way through to the end… which all of us are guilty of once in a while. Ayato lives in Tokyo, Japan where he works as a motion graphics designer.

  Visit Ayato’s Website

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  Dean Velez

  The Emmy Award winning, Dean Velez is an awesome trainer, and his website The Motion Graphics Lab has a bunch of free tutorials, as well as some cheap ones, along with projects files and animation elements for you to pick up along the way. Dean (aka The Anvel) has taught at colleges and institutes, as well as presented at a multitude of conventions, including NAB and SIGGRAPH.

  Visit The Motion Graphics Lab

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  Dennis Radeke

  Dennis is one of the inside guys in Adobe that throws us news as it happens along with updates of when videos like the Adobe Beginner Classes go live. Dennis also co-runs After Effects New York with Aharon Rabinowitz and Jim Geduldick. Most of the content on his blog is based in Adobe products such as Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop, with tons of tips, tutorials, news and whatever else he can wrangle in there.

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  Richard Harrington

  Rich has been in the business for a while, and as you can see after you click the link below, he has quite a few entries in his ever popular podcast at Creative Cow: Photoshop for Video. Rich has co-written many books in the production scene and is a regular contributor to Pro Video Coalition.

  Visit Rich’s COW Profile

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  Michael Coleman

  Getting his first look at CoSA After Effects 1.0 back in 1993, Michael Coleman was instantly hooked. His love of the program eventually led him into his current position as the Product Manager for After Effects. His blog Keyframes, reports from the team, surveys, news on plugins, compatibility, and pretty much anything else you could think of.

  Visit Keyframes

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  Tim Clapham

  Tim’s company HYPA is an Australian based motion graphics company that does phenomenal work, but Tim is a leader in the training scene for the classes and tutorials that he has put out the last few years, including his Making It Look Great 6 title and the classes he has hosted on FXphd.com. His blog, The HYPAblog, has tons of tips and tricks for AE and Cinema 4D alike.

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  Chad Perkins

  You might remember Chad from the ChadandToddcast a while back where they reported on all kinds of things Adobe, and had quite possibly one of the most popular “3D Text With Shatter” tutorials ever. Since then, Chad has been one of the leading trainers on Lynda.com for After Effects, and his DVDs continue to be a phenomenal outlet for learning the program.

  Visit Chad’s Site

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Phototuts+ – Photography Tutorials

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  7 Tips for Taking Travel Photos Like a Pro

  Travel photography seems so simple. What could be easier than traveling to an exotic location in a beautiful country with a camera and a handful of memory cards and taking some amazing photos? But, when you arrive at your location, you find that it’s a lot harder to take a decent travel photo than it looks. In this tutorial I’ll be sharing seven key tips for taking professional-looking travel photos you will appreciate for years to come.

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  Create a Stunning High-Key Portrait Photo

  Creating weaponry effectively in a next-gen workflow requires detailed knowledge of a variety of very specific skills and tools. In this four part tutorial you will learn how to create a combat knife suitable for use in next-gen games.

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  How to Shoot and Post-Process Professional HDR Photos in One Day

  In this tutorial you will learn the simple secrets of crafting a shoot sequence for HDR and creating professional quality HDR images in both Photomatix and Photoshop (depending on your weapon of choice). Not only will you learn an efficient workflow, but you’ll also learn the theory behind Dynamic Range. This lesson is taught by Peter Tellone, a professional photographer specializing in HDR landscapes.

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  Photography Kick-start Guide: How Your Camera Works

  Most photography tutorials, including most of the ones you’ll find here on the Tuts+ network of web sites, assume a certain base level of knowledge. But what if you’ve only just decided you want to make the leap into taking photos with manual settings?

  In this tutorial you’ll start to begin to learn the fundamentals of photography – fundamentals that will allow you to start reading and using more advanced tutorials, and manipulating the manual settings on your camera. Here we cover exposure, how the camera works, the shutter, focus, light, depth of field and ISO.

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  How to Use Flash With a Slow Shutter to Create Motion and Ghosts

  Though the still photo is a beautiful thing, it does have its weaknesses – especially when it comes to portraying movement. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to faithfully capture movement by taking photos that use flash and a slow shutter speed. You’ll learn about recommended gear, how to choose appropriate subjects, setting up the shoot, dealing with lighting and choosing the best settings on your camera.

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Cgtuts+ – 3D Tutorials

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  Model a Photorealistic Boss Tu-2 FX Pedal in Modo

  In this two-part tutorial you will learn how to model the Boss Tu-2 FX pedal using Luxology’s Modo 302. Taking advantage of Modo’s workflow enhancing toolset, the model will be highly detailed, and suitable for close up renders from any angle.

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  Next-Gen Weapon Creation

  Creating weaponry effectively in a next-gen workflow requires detailed knowledge of a variety of very specific skills and tools. In this four part tutorial you will learn how to create a combat knife suitable for use in next-gen games.

  Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

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  How to Export 3D Camera Data from Cinema 4D Into After Effects

  When it comes to motion graphics, exporting camera data from a 3D program to a 2D compositing program is one of the most important techniques you could know. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics behind getting Cinema 4D and After Effects to talk to one another, including using exporting tags, using the camera data in After Effects within 3D layers and effects, and how to set up and tweak your render for the best results.

  Day 1

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  An Introduction to Fluid Simulations in Blender

  Learning to simulate realistic fluids in any 3d app is always a challenge, but Blender’s sophisticated solver allows for some very rewarding results.

  In this introduction to Blender fluid simulations, you will learn the basics of how to set up a fluid simulation in Blender with an obstacle, and a few fluid set ups to give you an idea of some of the other things that you can do with Blender fluids.

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  An Introduction to 3Ds Max: Polygonal Modeling

  In the first part of the series, professional video game artist, Kaleb Aylsworth, walked you through many of the key skills that you will need to get started modeling in 3ds Max. Now, in the second part, he will demonstrate how to apply the things that you have learned by using them to make a low-poly version of Guy van der Walt’s “Retro TV Set”. You can see some more examples of Guy’s work at his portfolio website, Plasticboy.

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Nettuts+ – Web Development Tutorials

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  8 Regular Expressions You Should Really Know

  Regular expressions are a language of their own. When you learn a new programming language, they’re this little sub-language that makes no sense at first glance. Many times you have to read another tutorial, article, or book just to understand the “simple” pattern described. Today, we’ll review eight regular expressions that you should know for your next coding project.

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  Design and Code Your First Website in Easy to Understand Steps

  In this tutorial, we’re going to design and code our first website in simple, easy steps. This tutorial was written for the beginner with the hope that it will give you the tools to write your own standards-compliant websites! It’s a brand new week; maybe it’s time to learn a new skill!

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  30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners

  PHP is the most widely-used language for programming on the web. Here are thirty best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals.

  Editor’s Note: The “Best Practices” series has been my baby for three articles now. However, due to my focus on the CI video series, I’ve decided to hand off this next entry to Glen. Having said that, I’m not very good at keeping my mouth shut! I thought it might be fun to sporadically add a few rebuttals to his tips. I hope he doesn’t mind!

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  6 Ways to Improve your Web Typography

  Typography on the web is anything but simple, and for many, it is a troubling mystery. Today, we’re going to review six ways that web designers and developers can improve the typography of the sites they create.

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  A Crash-Course in Advanced CSS3 Effects

  Webkit is one of the few – if only – browser engines that really embraces advanced CSS3 effects. Unfortunately, this presents somewhat of a double-edged sword. We get to play with all of these amazing effects – such as CSS masks, reflections, transitions, animations, scaling, etc. – yet, we can’t truly implement them into our projects until more browsers provide support. With all of that said, it’s important to be on the cutting edge of what’s possible.

  In today’s video tutorial, we’ll review a bunch of different neat effects that can be used in Safari 4, Chrome, and for all iPhone development

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Audiotuts+ – Audio Tutorials

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  How to Use Multi-band Compression in Mixing and Mastering

  In some of my recent tutorials I have been breaking down the processors used in a typical mastering chain into individual subjects. So far we have looked at buss compression, M/S processing and stereo enhancement. In this tutorial we are going to look at multi-band compression.

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  36 Audio Interfaces Under $1000

  Most computers come with a sound card with line and mic inputs, and many people use these when starting out with audio recording. But if you are serious about the quality of your work, you should avoid them. They have inferior audio to digital converters, and often produce a good deal of noise. You need to choose a professional audio interface that allows you to plug in your mics and instruments, and connects to your computer through a USB, Firewire, PCI or PCMCIA interface.

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  Advanced Drum Editing in Kontakt

  I created this tutorial to serve two purposes. First off, I feel that there is a distinct lack of proper in-depth Kontakt tutorials. This tutorial teaches you everything you need to know to get started with Kontakt 3’s amazing Group editing. Second, I find that there are plenty of threads out there where someone will ask “How do I get my drums to sound like ____?” (Usually Squarepusher). I feel that group editing is the quickest, yet most hands-on way of creating incredible, glitchy beats without relying on VST effects as a crutch (and therefore avoiding sounding like anybody who else who uses Plug-in X).

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  How to Configure Your Axiom Control Surface with Logic Pro 9

  MIDI controllers with control surfaces are quite common and affordable these days. They can control just about any aspect of your DAW, but their strength is in allowing you to control the DAW while at the keyboard as opposed to being used for a mixing session after tracking is finished. Since the Axiom doesn’t come with any Logic presets, let’s take a look at how to configure all those buttons, faders and knobs from withing Logic.

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  How to Layer Hip Hop Drums in FL Studio

  Although it is often seen as a signature move of Hip Hop producers, customizing drums through layering is a technique used by artists in every genre, and it allows you to have fresh, new drum sounds that will energize your productions. Using simple tools and sounds you already have, you can expand your sound palette. In this tutorial, Sean Duncan gets us started.

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Psdtuts+ – Photoshop

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  Create a Mixed Media Masterpiece – Psd Plus Tutorial

  If you want to take your photo hand crafted textures into Photoshop and create a high-quality mixed media illustrations, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!

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  How to Create a One-of-a-Kind Twitter Background in Photoshop

  If you’re on twitter and reading this blog, chances are you’ve already customized your profile with a cool twitter background. In this tutorial, we’ll create one of our own around a central mascot: a highly detailed twitter bird, that you’ll have to draw yourself! Get ready to do much more than clicking in this artistic tutorial!

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  Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images

  Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as I guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move. Let’s get started!

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  How to Create an Original Pin-Up Girl in Photoshop

  In this tutorial, I will be taking you through the steps that I do when creating a cartoon pin-up. I will start off with thumbnails and continue on to the final image. Along the way, I will be sharing with you my techniques and thought process when it comes to creating an original image with Photoshop. Let’s get started!

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  How to Create a Fallen Angel on Fire Photo Manipulation – Psd Plus Tutorial

  If you want to take your photo manipulation work to the next level, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. We’ll work with fire and other images to create this fantasy scene. Learn more at the jump!

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Vectortuts+ – Vector & Illustrator

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  How to Create a Mesh Flower in Illustrator

  In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a flower with Illustrator’s mesh tools and opacity masks. With these tools you have a high-degree of control and can create realistic looking illustrations. Let’s get started!

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  Create Illustrated Type from Sketch to Vector – Vector Plus Tutorial

  If you want to learn how to combine illustration and typography, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

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  How to Create a Rainy Window Vector Background

  Using the Symbolism Tools, plus a bit of Gradient Mesh, learn to make a realistic window covered with raindrops. This is an advanced tutorial that assumes a fair amount of Illustrator experience, but everyone should be able to follow along. It can be done with earlier versions of Illustrator, but takes full advantage of newer features in CS4. Let’s get started!

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  How to Illustrate a Brain Icon for OSX and Vista

  In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a cartoon style illustration of a brain, then how to convert the image for use as an icon for OSX and Vista. I’ll discuss some points about detailing for icon design as well. Let’s get started!

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  How to Create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator and Make a Vector CD

  Ever wonder about creating Radial Mesh in Illustrator? Yes, now you can and it will reveal more possibilities to you in Illustrator. In the first part of this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator (without using any 3rd party plugin), and in second part we’ll create a Vector CD using that radial mesh method. So let’s do it!

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Flashtuts+ – Flash, Flex & ActionScript Tutorials

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  Create an Attractive Digital Clock in Flash

  ActionScript 3.0 is a very powerful language, capable of creating anything from simple and light utilities to full-featured desktop applications.

  In this tut, we’re going to create something simple, a basic and good looking digital clock in Flash.

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  AS3 101: Arrays

  In this installment of AS3 101, we’ll spend the entire tutorial exploring a single type of data available to most programming languages: the Array.

  Arrays are ways to keep lists of values. Arrays are useful to keep an arbitrary number of related items grouped together, and can represent complex data structures though nesting. In ActionScript, Arrays have quite a bit of flexibility and functionality, as we’ll see. After the usual abstract introduction, we’ll apply what we’ve learned (whilst also learning some more along the way) by building a rather simple puzzle game.

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  Make Your Flash Logo Bling with Alpha Gradient Masking

  In this tutorial we’ll look at how to create a logo which incorporates alpha gradient masking in its animation. I’ll explain some tips and tricks on how to get it working and avoiding some common problems.

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  Using AMFPHP with AS3 and CodeIgniter

  It seems that the AMFPHP project has now been laid to rest, unfortunately it never made it past the 1.9 beta version and nor did the tutorials. However, Adobe didn’t give up on it that easily and with the new Flex compilers they’ve included the AMF3 object encoding!

  Good news for all you Flexers, but it’s a different story for all you AS3′ers. Flex allows you to quickly and simply build a service that will interact with your AMFPHP code, but you have to get your hands dirty with AS3. So, I’ve decided that it’s time there’s a decent set of classes out there that help Bob build a site with AS3 using the AMFPHP gateway.

  And to throw some more dirt into the mix, we’ll be integrating AMFPHP with CodeIgniter so that we have a fantastic PHP framework for the backend.

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  Create Your Own Adobe AIR Application with Flash

  In this tutorial we’ll create a Twitter Reader application, fed from your own Twitter updates. We’ll look at some of the features of the nativeWindow class, how to sign it and make an install package.

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Aetuts+ – After Effects Tutorials

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  How to Create a Palmticular Tree

  In this tutorial, Vincent introduces a few of the new features in Particular 2 with the creation of a growing palm tree. Put on some sun screen and enjoy!

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  Creating a Tracked Head Wound

  In this tutorial Mathias shows that corner pin tracking can do much more than just replacing some pictures on a wall. We are going to compose a wound on a moving head and use the Mocha tracker in combination with his script MochaImport. Trust me, this is so much easier than creating a real head wound!

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  Create the “My Paper Mind” Effect

  This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the “My Paper Mind” effect done by Javan Ivey, but with the environment in mind, Nicolas has come up with a way to save some paper (as well as about 3 days worth of paper cuts!) It is all done in After Effects without any third party plug-ins. Enjoy!

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  Recreate Mac OSX Intro Video with C4D

  As the penultimate nugget of goodness in our Mac Lover’s Week, Satya created a 2 day tutorial that everybody will enjoy! In day 1, he will walk us through Cinema 4D and how to create the 3d text in this effect.

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  Make a Glitchy Interface Animation

  This tutorial will teach you how to recreate a stylized Glitch Interface Animation that resembles a high tech control system, with an analog monitor startup. Anthony Errisuriz provides his step by step process for creating this amazing effect with design from Illustrator and animating in After Effects.

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There’s been a lot happening on the AE scene since the last roundup last month, we got new plugins popping up, 3d lighting and normal mapping and a ton of cool new techniques to try out! We got 43 tutorials to fill that empty space in your stomach for some AE tuts sweetness.

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  Video Copilot – Particle Explosion

  Learn how to build a complex particle system using CC Particle World and synchronize the particle blast to shatter a title.

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  Video Copilot – Scene Re-Lighting

  Use a normal map to relight 3d scenes within AE. This tutorial demonstrates using advanced lighting techniques and learning about reflecion and refraction.

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  Video Copilot’s Guide To Normals

  Andrew got quite excited once he started exploring the world of normal maps with his Scene Re-Lighting tutorial, that he compiled a Guide To Normals to help you better understand how to use them within After Effects.

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  Haunted Audio

  Aharon Rabinowitz and Harry Frank show you a few ways to create haunted audio like you hear in the movie Poltergiest and films like that. Skip to 13 minutes for the AE version.

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  MaxAfter.com – Water Refraction

  Shoaib show you how to simulate water as if it is sliding down a glass surface using CC Mercury and Fractal Noise.

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  MaxAfter.com – Transition

  Learn how to create a cool dynamic overlay transition with some simple Trapcode Particular techniques.

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  Eran Stern & Creative Cow

  Learn how to create a colorful disco tunnel using shapee layers and matching the look to some footage from Crowd Control using the Color Link effect.

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  Motionworks AE Effects A-Z: Angle Control

  Maltaannon covers the effect called Angle Control, and shows you some techniques using it with some basic expressions.

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  Motionworks AE Effects A-Z: Arithmetic

  Graymachine, aka Harry Frank shows you what the Arithmetic is all about and shows some interesting uses for this effect that is usually overlooked.

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  Motionworks AE Effects A-Z: Audio Waveform

  Another A-Z tutorial from Maltaannon, he shows you the inner workings of the Audio Waveform effect.

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  Motionworks AE Effects A-Z: Auto Effects

  My latest contribution to the AE Effects rundown, I cover three effects in one tutorial: Auto Color, Auto Levels and Auto Contrast.

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  Brian Maffitt and Motionworks: CC Time Blend

  After Brian’s appearance on John Dickinson’s Unplugged show, Brian showed us this tutorial on how to make realistic smoke and plasma effects.

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  Motionworks – Workflow with AE and Photoshop Extended.

  John did an Adobe E-Seminar to teach people how to incorporate Photoshop Extended into their After Effects workflow.

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  Eran Stern & Artbeats – Energy Drink Part 2

  Eran finishes the Energy Drink tutorial by putting the finishing touches on it using Photoshop Extended as well as After Effects.

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  Greyscale Gorilla & Maxon – C4D TO AE

  Nick Campbell got to do a couple quick tutorials for the release of Cinema 4D R11.5, and he shows you how to set up exporting your projects and passes out of C4D and into AE.

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  Greyscale Gorilla – The Correct Way To Use Audio In AE

  Sometimes you have trouble working with audio files in After Effects, whether it be in your project, or in your renders… Nick shows you the correct way to work with audio in After Effects.

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  Greyscale Gorilla – Understanding 2d and 3d Layer Order

  In this GSGcast, Nick shows you how the order of your layers in the timeline affect each other. This is important to understand thoroughly to take your projects to the next level.

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  After Effects Apprentice – Shape Layers

  In the monthly video tutorials that Chris and Trish Meyer have been releasing, this month’s video is on understanding how shape layers work.

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  RGTV Ep 27: Building an Airport Scene: Backplate

  Mathias Möhl teaches you how to take some footage of a parking lot and make it the backplate for an airport scene.

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  RGTV Ep 28: Building an Airport Scene: Compositing

  Continuing from the tutorial above, you are going to composite the rest of the elements together to create your airport scene. Use Mocha for AE, and his script MochaImport to help out with the process.

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  RGTV Ep 29: Form Text

  Tim Clapham of HYPA.tv shows you how to use Trapcode Form to create particle-based 3d text along with a cool transition on and off.

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  RGTV Ep 30 – 3d Motion Graphics Logo

  Carl Larsen of Telescope Media Group and the Creative Cow Podcast shows you how to use custom particles made with Red Giant Plane Space, inside of Trapcode Form to create some awesome looking 3d animations.

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  Eran Stern & Zaxwerks – High Impact Promo with Serpentine

  Learn how to use Zaxwerks newest plugin, Serpentine to create some awesome looking motion graphics promos.

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  Artbeats – Color Matching

  Chris and Trish Meyer have another tutorial over at Artbeats on learning how to tint your footage and color match to make it look like all the various elements of your coposition were shot together, and not put together in AE.

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  Adobe Beginner Classes #26 – Creating Fog

  Dennis Radeke shows you how to create some realistic fog inside of AE using Fractal Noise and some masks.

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  ProJuice.org – Plasma Screen Effect

  Nick shows you how to replicate the look of video being played on a huge plasma screen that you see at sports bars or outdoors music events.

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  Layers Magazine – 3d Motion and Position of Text Characters

  Learn how to give your motion graphics compositions some flair by learning to harness the power of randomizing the 3d position and motion of characters within a bunch of text layers.

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  Layers Magazine – Bending Flash Video in AE

  Learn how to match your video layer to the geometry of an object by using a warp effect in AE.

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  Chris Zwar – The Centrica Carnivale

  Back in 2006 Chris Zwar created an awe-inspiring opening sequence that got a lot of attention, because despite what you might think, it wasnt created in 3d, only After Effects. Check out the post on his site, to see the spot we’re talking about, and to find the links to the tutorials at PVC.

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  Richard Harrington – Keying with Keylight

  Richard has a nice little introduction to Keylight over at PVC. There are tons of Keylight tutorials riddled across the internet, but coming from an industry veteran like Mr. Harrington, you’re bound to learn something new.

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  Michael Park & Creative Cow – Particular Waterfall

  Michael Park has been creating a ton of tutorials for Creative Cow, and this one is just excellent. Using Particlar to create a huge waterfall flowing over a dam, he demonstrates a use that a lot of people never think about.

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  Gyorfi Szilard & Creative Cow – Shortcuts Part 1

  This is a cool little video outlining some ways to make your After Effects workflow run smoother. This video will cover editing and working with keyframes.

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  CGSwot – Bullet-Riddled Text

  In this tutorial learn how to animate the creation of bullet holes which conform to specific shaped masks, using Particular to create the holes.

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  CGSwot – Quick Tip: Tiny Z-Depth Numbers

  Learn how a solution to a problem some of you may have run into time and time again when not getting a good Depth of Field effect. This will help you by learning to fix it in AE rather than re-rendering out of your 3d program.

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  CGSwot – Running Water in AE

  Pretty obvious what you are gonna create here. Using particles and some nice use of cc Glass to get some specular highlight, you learn how to produce some realistic water flowing out of a faucet.

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  Pariah Studios – Dynamic Titles

  Robert Redman shows you how to make some titles that blur and change for a seamless blend between the different titles.

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  Pariah Studios – C4D To AE

  This seems to be a pretty exciting topic, here is yet ANOTHER tutorial on exporting projects from C4D and bringing that project into After Effects for further tweaking.

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  LFP Industries – Title Sequence

  Using some particle systems, 3d cameras, and texture compositing, Levi shows you how to create a cool looking title sequence.

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  LFP Industries – Creating Severe Weather

  Using a day for night technique, some roto, color correction and fractal noise, learn to make a nice sunny day look like a horrible, knock-out-your-power storm.

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  Barbeque Design – Lexus Hybrid Drive

  You probably remember this tutorial from a long time ago by Ruediger of Barbeque Design, but for the longest time, it was unavailable for download. The nice people at JMDesignCo.com have hosted it online, for everyone to download.

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  Digieffects Camera Mapper Tutorials

  DigiEffects recently released a new plugin called Camera Mapper which can easily turn footage or still into 3d scenes by projecting parts of the image onto solids that can be positioned closer to or further from the camera to simulate depth.

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We learn from a lot of people on the internet, but a lot of us don’t really know WHO they actually are. I have been fortunate enough to befriend some of the aforementioned members of my list, but just for you, now you know who is filling your brains with all that AE-goodness.

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  Andrew Kramer

  Basically everyone in the After Effects world has heard of Video Copilot. If you haven’t… well, then you are missing out. It is quite possibly the most popular After Effects training site out there. Andrew Kramer has built an amazing business and community from what the website was just 4 years or so ago, and it is growing every day. You have probably heard of Action Essentials 2 or Riot Gear before. Those are a few of VC’s many products, which help you to enhance your visual effects and motion graphics endeavors. Andrew was recently interviewed on Unlplugged, John Dickinson’s (below) skype-based talkshow. Visit Video Copilot

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  John Dickinson

  Host of Motinworks.com.au, Unplugged, The Business of Design, and the mastermind behind the Making It Look Great training series, John is a 14 year veteran of the AE world. He currently works at Foxtel in Australia, but also hosts online e-seminars for Adobe, along with running his multitude of shows. In between tips and tutorials, John is always posting presets, progress and inspiration for you to learn from and use to better your own work. Visit Motionworks

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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  You might know of Aharon from hosting the Creative Cow After Effects podcast for the longest time, but he has since moved on from that position to become marketing director for Red Giant Software. His (sorta) newly launched line of pre-keyed stock footage, Crowd Control has been a huge hit, along with his tutorials that he continues to produce. He now hosts Red Giant TV, along with developing plugins and being a regular presenter at AENY. Visit All Bets Are Off Productions

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  Jerzy Drozda Jr.

  George, Malty, Jerzy, Jersey, Maltaannon, he has many different names, but there is only one man. Jerzy (yuhr-shah) is a phenomonal After Effects teacher, and one of the leading names in the AE world. He has a boatload of tutorials, pixel bender plugins, Custom Effects, and has been featured on different After Effects blogs as a contributor to the community. Host of Making It Look Great 5, his first training DVD, as well as a Polish Basic Training series, You can expect a lot more from Maltaannon in the next year. He also has a Live show hosted on Ustream that you can check out and link from his site. Visit Maltaannon

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  Eran Stern

  Eran is another one of the Creative Cow Podcast leaders, taking over for Aharon Rabinowitz, and cohosting with Carl Larsen (below). Eran is located in Israel and his website, SternFX.com is available in English as well as Hebrew. He also has a few DVDs available from the Creative Cow Master Series, “Motion Design with After Effects”, and the newly released “A New Solid”. His dvds are mostly the full size versions of the Creative Cow Podcast, but there are usually about 2 hours worth of never before seen goodness. Eran is a very accomplished trainer with a nice fluid style, and easy to follow pace. Visit SternFX

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  Carl Larsen

  Like I said above, Carl cohosts the Creative Cow Podcast with Eran, and together they make a great team. Carl’s business with his wife Angel, is Telescope Media Group, which specializes in every aspect of production. Along with cohosting the Podcast, Carl has proved himself quite skilled with Imagineer’s Mocha and MochaAE, with a few tutorials for their products as well. Carl is very clear, pronounced, and after watching his tutorials, it is quite obvious that he really knows his stuff. Visit Telescope Media Group

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  Lloyd Alvarez

  Ahh, good ol’ Lloyd. Our former editor… what to say? Well for one thing, he is probably one of the most popular scripts developers in the After Effects world, running AEScripts.com and all that. Lloyd is an amazing VFX Supervisor as well as a compositor, art director, animator, among many other roles. Most people just look at AEScripts.com and think that’s it. Nope… head over to lloydalvarez.com to see what I am talking about. Visit LloydAlvarez.com Visit AEScripts.com

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  Harry Frank

  Harry’s freelance website, and alias per se, Graymachine, is the source for some great tutorials using Particular & Form, and expression-filled goodness. Harry actually has quite a few products, being a fellow author of Making It Look Great (volume 3), as well as 2 Expressions training packs and the Complete Training for Trapcode Particular from Class on Demand. Harry has been around for a while and always stays quite busy, and participates in some amazing projects… make sure you check out his newly updated demo reel. Visit Graymachine

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  Ko Maruyama

  Ko sometimes stays quieter than he should, but his blog NinjaCrayon is on top of everything in the motion graphics and vfx industry. Ko specializes in After Effects and Cinema 4D training, in fact you might have seen his 300+ Free After Effects Tutorials a while back. Ko also runs Mac Animation Pro (found at the previous link), and is always getting great coverage of events such as NAB and IBC. Visit Ninja Crayon

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  Shoaib Khan

  Relatively new to the After Effects scene, Shoaib and his website, MaxAfter.com, have really managed to come up with some spectacular tutorials the last year or so. Shoaib shares his knowledge with the world by producing these killer VFX shots and complex 3D and AE scenes to really capture the attention of the viewer. Visit MaxAfter.com

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  Michele Yamazaki

  If you know Toolfarm or AEFreemart, you know Michele Yamazaki. She is the mastermind behind the popular After Effects Freebies website, as well as one of the head honchos making Toolfarm the number one plugin reseller in the world. She contributes to the community by developing training put out by Toolfarm with industry experts such as Harry Frank, Rob Birnholz and Angie Mistretta. She also has done a fair share of speaking engagements, such as a popular one at MGFest last year. Her and Jeremy Hanke also have co-written a book called Greenscreen Made Easy, which gives you the primer and how-to on anything and everything greenscreen and keying. Visit AEFreemart Visit Greenscreen Made Easy

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  Nick Campbell

  The Gorilla of GreyscaleGorilla.com, Nick is possibly one of my favorite on the entertainment side of the motion design industry. He is the creator of 5 Second Projects that inspire you to “Make Cool S**t” as Nick likes to put it, using a bi weekly theme. Nick also creates lots of tutorial based in Photoshop, Cinema 4D and of course After Effects, as well as hosting an online GSG Live show on Ustream every week. Nick’s How to be a Motion Designer and Get Paid got a ton of attention and really gave him the push to be the entertainer/educator he is now. Visit the Greyscale Gorilla

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  Chris & Trish Meyer

  Chris and Trish Meyer are popular over at ProVideo Coalition, running two channels: Creating Motion Graphics & Keyframes, as well as writing the book After Effects Apprentice collaboratively together. They have been around for quite a while and are veterans in the motion graphics industry, and with their company CyberMotion, they have made quite a name for themselves. They also occasionally host lessons for Lynda.com as well. Visit CyberMotion

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  Todd Kopriva

  Todd is basically the Einstein of how After Effects works. He wrote the manual… literally. Check out adobe.com/support/aftereffects… that’s all him. His Adobe blog, The After Effects Region of Interest reports on some of the news from within Adobe itself, as well as interesting stuff such as the After Effects 1.1 demo reel or some sweet tutorials worth mentioning from around the web. Visit The After Effects Region of Interest

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  Rich Young

  Lastly, we have Rich Young. Now a lot of you might not know very much about him, like me, because he stays very under the radar. What we do know about this mysterious After Effects aficionado, is he runs the famed AEportal. Quite possibly my favorite After Effects reporting website, he is almost first to the punch every time something new happens that deals with or a part of After Effects, or even motion graphics or vfx for that matter. Visit AEPortal

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