New to the site
by Ryan McAfee
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Feb 3, 2009 at 7:36:13 pm
Hey everybody just kind of new to this website. Quite possibly the most helpful website ever. I learn more here than 4 years at college. If anyone can point me in a good direction on who makes the best tutorials (AE) out of any of the guys on the site let me know!
Re: New to the site by Daniel Gauthier on Feb 3, 2009 at 8:46:40 pm
videocopilot.net
andrew kramer's video tutorials are easy to comprehend, witty, and useful. Many of the tutorials have links to download the AE project file also, which is great for people like me who learn through reverse engineering and taking things apart.
Re: New to the site by Paul Hennell on Feb 3, 2009 at 10:42:51 pm
I'd say pretty much all the tutorials here are worth seeing, they're fantasic for picking up odd things you didn't even know you ought to know, as well as teaching you loads of tips and tricks and new creative methods.
Regarding other sites vidocopilot.net has probably the most consistently brilliant collection out there, but other sites have some good stuff. http://maltaannon.com and http://allbetsareoff.com/ have some great videos and http://aetuts.com/ is shaping up with quite a few nice things. (But search first - they've often already answered :D )
I know what you mean about collage - there's more then enough AE help on the web to learn pretty much everything, and anything you get stuck on the forums here will answer expertly.
Most important is to fiddle a lot. Pause tutorials and try to guess where they might be going, try and make a variation of the effect when you've finished. Mess around with different filters and see what you can make, most of all have fun with it. Nothing is so satisfying as the first time you work out how to do a complex effect all yourself.
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