30 Tutorials That Will Teach You After Effects

Well gentle readers, it appears as if our tutorial time together has drawn to a close, as the Arbenting team delivers the last in the Adobe series with, 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You After Effects. It was a fun ride, filled with an astounding collection of instructional posts, that we hope were enjoyed and packed with useful program tips and tricks. Don't misunderstand, this will not be the last time our tutorial paths cross, for there is tale of more to come whispering through the community. So keep checking back to see what we have in store. And without further ado, we present to you, the final installment.

After Effects 101

Getting More Advanced

Old Film Look

Creating An Animated Seamless Backdrop

Morphing

Making Light Disappear & Reappear Behind Objects Using Expressions

Using Music to Animate Layers

3D Text Extrude

Animating Birds

Creating an Ocean

Smokey Type Effect

Making a Lightsaber

Animating Spray Paint and Stencil Effect

Stabilizing and Reverse Stabilizing Footage

Having Fun with Light Rays

Create a Force Jump (Super Jump)

Create a Lightning Effect

Firing a Laser Gun

Creating Realistic Snowfall

Vanishing Point: 2d to 3d in a Snap

And what would the tutorial post be, without the bonus link that you've come to expect. We've thrown this last one in for good measure (not to mention post consistency, but whatever). We once again thank all of you that made this series everything that it was, a mediocre, lacking experiment! Just kidding, we couldn't be prouder of our first series, and hope that you all took something away from it. So to wrap it all up, here are some tips for troubleshooting the program.

Bonus - Troubleshooting After Effects

The Adobe Tutorial Series

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5 Comments & Reactions

  1. Shawn Michael's Gravatar Shawn Michael
    September 22, 2008 at 11:51 am | Permalink

    Seriously awesome AE resource is missing from your list :(

    71 (and counting) AE Video Tutorials (many with project files included)
    http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

    After Effects Basic Training
    http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

    Free Presets for AE
    http://www.videocopilot.net/presets/

  2. September 22, 2008 at 12:03 pm | Permalink

    @ Shawn, thanks for those links. It wasn’t an oversight, there were some others that we would have liked to use, but we decided early on in the series, that we didn’t want to use any video tutorials for this series. But thank you again for dropping those in.

  3. October 8, 2008 at 11:53 pm | Permalink

    I think sticking to non-video tuts was a big mistake for such a moving visual medium.

    videocopilot.net has the best free tutorials out there, and also maltaannon.com .

    I’ll check out some of the ones above, but there are some essential basic skills which aren’t covered at all.

  4. January 7, 2010 at 6:38 am | Permalink

    Great Tuts! Thanks :)
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  5. Stephanie's Gravatar Stephanie
    January 24, 2010 at 12:37 am | Permalink

    wow thanks..i have been looking for ages for non video AE tutorials.. thank you so much..i really want to learn AE

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