About two years ago, I posted a list of resources for After Effects. Some sites have come and gone in that time, so it seemed like a good idea to refresh the list. Also, I've added the beginnings of lists in a few languages other than English. Scroll down for French, German, Spanish, and Japanese lists.
If you have a suggestion for a website for this list, let me know in the comments.
After Effects community resources (English)
Resources on the Adobe website
Adobe provides documentation resources for After Effects on the After Effects Help & Support page on the Adobe website. From the After Effects Help & Support page, you can also search for community resources not on the Adobe website.
Adobe and its partners provide a basic set of video tutorials on the Adobe website, in addition to excellent tutorials provided by other members of the community. Many sections of After Effects Help refer to additional video tutorials in context to provide information about specific features. If you know of an excellent video tutorial or other resource about After Effects, please leave a comment at the bottom of the relevant page of After Effects Help on the Web to tell others about it.
To make a feature request or file a bug report, fill out the feature request and bug report form on the Adobe website.
The Adobe After Effects User-to-User Forum is a great place to ask questions about After Effects and have them answered by other After Effects users.
You can subscribe to RSS feeds from Adobe Technical Support so that you can get notification of issues and workarounds related to After Effects (or other Adobe products).
For information on plug-ins available for After Effects, go to the After Effects plug-in page on the Adobe website.
To exchange scripts, projects, and other useful items with other After Effects users, go to the After Effects Exchange on the Adobe website.
Michael Coleman, After Effects product manager, provides news and notes about After Effects on his Keyframes blog.
Todd Kopriva, After Effects documentation lead, provides links to instructional resources and reference material for After Effects users on his After Effects Region of Interest blog.
Adobe provides resources for scripting and plug-in creation on the After Effects Developer Center section of the Adobe website. The Video Technology Center section of the Developer Center has information about all of the Adobe digital video and audio applications. The Adobe Developer Center newsletter, The Edge, occasionally includes material of interest to After Effects users, especially with regard to interactive video and video for the Web.
You can use the Adobe Community Publishing System (CPS) on the Adobe website to write and post articles directly to Adobe.com.
Resources on other websites
A good place to ask questions about After Effects--especially with regard to integration with 3D applications--is the Mograph forum.
The ProVideo Coalition (PVC) website contains articles and blogs on topics of interest to professionals in the video industry. In addition to articles by Chris and Trish Meyer, the PVC website includes articles by Mark Christiansen, Frank Capria, Jim Feeley, Adam Wilt, Mark Curtis, and Scott Gentry.
The Toolfarm website provides forums, tutorials, and other resources related to After Effects and other Adobe products. The AE Freemart website is a division of Toolfarm that provides free tutorials about After Effects.
The AE Enhancers forum provides example scripts and useful information about scripting (as well as expressions and animation presets) in After Effects. Particularly active and helpful on this forum is Paul Tuersley.
Jonas Hummelstrand provides tutorials, troubleshooting tips, and insights about After Effects and motion graphics in general on his General Specialist website.
Trish and Chris Meyer provide instructional resources for After Effects in many places, including their CyberMotion website.
Lutz Albrecht provides a list of After Effectserror codes and some possible solutions on his Mylenium error code database website.
John Dickinson provides tutorials and other resources for After Effects and related softwareon his Motionworks website.
Alan Shisko provides insights and tips about motion graphics on his Motion Graphics 'n Such blog.
Harry Frank provides tutorials on all areas of After Effects, with an emphasis on expressions and use of third-party plug-ins on his graymachine website.
Andrew Kramer provides tutorials and training on his Video Copilot website.
Dan Ebberts provides scripting tutorials and useful scripts on the scripting portion of the MotionScript website. Dan also provides an excellent collection of example expressions and tutorials for learning how to work with expressions on the expressions portion of the MotionScript website.
Lloyd Alvarez, Mathias Möhl, and others provide useful scripts on the After Effects Scripts website.
Jeff Almasol provides a collection of useful scripts on his redefinery website.
Stu Maschwitz provides insights and tips about After Effects and video, visual effects, and compositing in general on his ProLost blog.
The Creative COW website provides several resources for After Effects users. Many of these resources feature Aharon Rabinowitz:
- Multimedia 101 podcast
- After Effects podcasts
- After Effects tutorials
- After Effects articles
- After Effects Basics forum
- After Effects forum
- After Effects Expressions forum
The Layers Magazine website provides articles and tutorials about After Effects and other Adobe creative products.
David Van Brink provides tips, insights, and downloadable utilities for After Effects and other digital video software on his Omino
website.
Colin Braley provides tutorials--mostly about expressions--on his website.
Rich Young maintains a list of After Effects resources on his AE Portal News blog.
Rick Gerard provides tips and tricks on his AE Tips and Tricks website.
David Torno provides tips and tutorials about visual effects and compositing on his AE I Owe You blog.
Dean Velez provides many sample projects (some free) and other useful things on his Motion Graphics Lab website.
Jerzy Drozda, Jr. provides After Effects tutorials on his Maltaannon website.
Dale Bradshaw provides scripts and tricks on his Creative Workflow Hacks website.
Richard Harrington provides tutorials and other useful material about After Effects and other video software on his Photoshop for Video website and Raster|Vector website. He also posts video tutorials on Adobe TV.
Sean Kennedy provides several video tutorials--including some about rotoscoping and motion tracking--on the SimplyCG website. They're all linked to from his website.
Ayato Fuji provides tutorials on his ayato@web website. Some of the tutorials are a little out of date, but much of the material is still strong,
especially for learning to use some of the Trapcode plug-ins.
Chris Pirazzi provides technical details of digital video on his Lurker's Guide to Video website.
Chris Zwar provides articles, After Effects projects, scripts, and other resources on his website.
Christopher Green provides many useful scripts on his website.
Satya Meka provides tutorials, plug-ins, and other resources on his gutsblow website.
Jeff Foster provides tutorials for using After Effects and Photoshop on his PixelPainter website.
Sébastien Périer provides tutorials and other information on his website.
Ressources communautaires d'After Effects (Français)
Ressources sur le site Web d'Adobe
Adobe met à votre disposition des ressources documentaires relatives à After Effects dans la section Aide communautaire d'After Effects du site Web d'Adobe. Sur la page de l'Aide communautaire, vous pouvez également rechercher des ressources communautaires qui ne figurent pas sur le site Web d'Adobe.
Adobe et ses partenaires proposent un ensemble basique de tutoriels vidéo sur le site Web d'Adobe; ils s'ajoutent aux excellents didacticiels d'autres membres de la communauté. De nombreuses sections de l'aide After Effects renvoient à d'autres didacticiels vidéo en contexte pour fournir des informations sur certaines fonctionnalités spécifiques. Si vous avez un bon tutoriel vidéo ou d'autres ressources en français à recommander pour After Effects, partagez-les avec d'autres utilisateurs en écrivant un commentaire en bas de la page concernée sur l'aide en ligne d'After Effect CS4.
Le forum d'utilisateurs Adobe est l'endroit idéal pour poser des questions sur After Effects et obtenir les réponses d'autres utilisateurs.
Ressources sur d'autres sites Web
Le forum du site internet "Le Repaire" est une bonne source d'aide communautaire en français sur After Effects.
Sur son site Mattias Peresini, un jeune motion designer propose de nombreux didacticiels en français sur After Effects.
Les sites
http://www.xplorerstudio.com/tutorials.html
http://cysworld-leblog.blogspot.com/
Offrent egalement de bons tutorials en francais.
Recursos de la comunidad After Effects (Español)
Recursos en el sitio Web de Adobe
Adobe ofrece recursos de documentación para After Effects en la sección Ayuda de la comunidad de After Effects del sitio Web de Adobe. Desde la página de Ayuda de la comunidad, también puede buscar recursos de la comunidad que no estén en el sitio Web de Adobe.
Adobe y sus socios ofrecen un conjunto básico de tutoriales en vídeo en del sitio Web de Adobe, además de los excelentes tutoriales ofrecidos por otros miembros de la comunidad. Muchas secciones de la Ayuda de After Effects se refieren a tutoriales en vídeo adicionales en contexto para proporcionar información sobre funciones específicas. Si sabes de un tutorial en video excelente, o de otros recursos sobre After Effects en Español, por favor deja un comentario al pie de la página relevante de la Ayuda de After Effects en la Web para compartirlo con otros.
El Adobe Foros de usuario a usuario es el lugar idóneo para formular preguntas sobre After Effects, a las que otros usuarios de After Effects podrán responder.
Recursos en otros sitios Web
El sitio AdobeLabo incluye artículos y tutoriales sobre After Effects (y otros productos de Adobe).
El sitio http://aftereffects.260mb.com incluye tutoriales sobre After Effects.
Desglose:
- Conceptos básicos sobre composición y renderizado
- Conceptos básicos sobre importación y nesting
- Animación Básica
- Animación Avanzada, interpolación, easing
- Edición no lineal con After Effects
- Iniciación a los efectos y presets
- Entorno 3D, cámaras, luces y sombras
- Corrección de color, Niveles, Curvas y saturación
- Modos de fusion, darkening, additive
- Modos de fusion, Overlay, difference, color
- Máscaras, pluma Bezier
- Mattes y transparencias
- Efecto keylight
- Mocha, tutorial básico y workflow
- Cinema4D y After Effects: Integración 1
- Cinema4D y After Effects: Integración 2
After Effects Community-Ressourcen (Deutsch)
Ressourcen auf der Adobe-Website
Adobe stellt Dokumentationsressourcen für After Effects im Abschnitt After Effects Community Help der Adobe-Website bereit. Auf der Seite „Community Help" können Sie auch nach Community-Ressourcen suchen, die nicht Teil der Adobe-Website sind.
Adobe und seine Partner stellen der Adobe-Website einige grundlegende Video-Lehrgänge bereit. Sie werden ergänzt durch hervorragende Lehrgänge von anderen Community-Mitgliedern. In vielen Abschnitten der After Effects-Hilfe wird auf weitere, kontextbezogene Video-Lehrgänge verwiesen, die über spezifische Funktionen informieren. Wenn Sie interessante und hochwertige Tutorials oder andere Quellen kennen, die sich mit After Effects beschäftigen oder artverwandte Themen behandeln, hinterlassen Sie bitte einen Kommentar auf der jeweiligen zugehörigen Seite der Adobe After Effects Onlinehilfe, so dass andere Anwender diese auch finden können.
Das Adobe Benutzerforum bietet die großartige Möglichkeit, Fragen zu After Effects zu stellen und von anderen Benutzern Antworten zu erhalten.
Ressourcen auf anderen Websites
Video2Brain stellen Video-Lehrgänge bereit.
After Effects コミュニティリソース(日本語)
アドビ システムズ社の Web サイト上のリソース
アドビ システムズ社は、After Effects のドキュメンテーションリソースを、アドビ システムズ社の Web サイトにある After Effects コミュニティヘルプで公開しています。コミュニティヘルプページでは、アドビ システムズ社の Web サイト以外のコミュニティリソースも検索することができます。
アドビ システムズ社で、ビデオチュートリアルの基本セットを提供しています。他にも、コミュニティのメンバーから提供された優れたチュートリアルも提供しています。 After Effects のヘルプでは、特定の機能に関する情報を提供するために、文中で様々なビデオチュートリアルを参照しています。 After Effects の日本語チュートリアルや、日本語で説明された制作例などをご存知でしたら、After Effects オンラインヘルプの該当するページのコメント欄にてご紹介ください。コメント欄は、各ページの一番下にあります。
アドビ ユーザフォーラムでは、他の After Effects ユーザと After Effects に関する情報を交換することができます。
ご要望と不具合については、アドビ システムズ社の Web サイトの 製品への要望/不具合報告フォーム を使ってご連絡ください。
その他の Web サイト上のリソース
藤井彩人の Web サイト (日本語):
http://www.ayatoweb.com/
日本のAfter Effectsユーザーがリソースや記事を共有するウェブサイトを公開しました。是非ご利用ください!
http://ae-users.com/jp/











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