You may remember Chad Perkins from such movies as After Effects CS5 Essential Training on Lynda.com. He's started a web venture Movies and Computers, which...

Jeff McIntosh of JMDesign posted AE Fold Effect Tutorial on Vimeo.

Angie Taylor has a 3rd tutorial, Control Layers in Adobe After Effects for character animation, from her inexpensive introductory training set 2D Character...

Aharon Rabinowitz has a new QuickTip on Creating 3D Kaleidoscopic Effects. There's also some resources on 2D kaleidoscopes below the fold.

Effects A-Z: The Blend Effect is new 3-minute tip on Motionworks. There's more on this old filter for animating some blends in AE Help.

In a new tutorial at Video Copilot, Galactic Orb, Andrew Kramer builds a zoom animation inside a glassy sphere in After Effects with only built-in plug-ins:

On one level creating and animating charts and graphs in After Effects is easy, but it can get tricky quick if you go much beyond transformed shapes or the...

David Van Brink (@polyomino) released Omino Python, a free After Effects CS5 plug-in for Mac OS X only (for now) that embeds a Python interpreter:

Monologue AE Render Manager is a new free utility from Monologue, a motion design studio in Greece. It's an After Effects command-line interface GUI for...

The SearchAndEditBundle from Paul Tuersley on AE Scripts puts 3 scripts together for the price of two: pt_EffectSearch, pt_ExpressEdit, & pt_TextEdit....

AE Scripts has released ft-Toolbar by Francois Tarlier. This script gives the ability to make your own custom toolbar in After Effects with effects, presets...

Andrew Kramer is back quickly with Stroke FX, another tutorial that uses the built-in Vegas filter in After Effects...