Hello,

I've spent a while gathering all the resources I could find to help master Adobe After Effects, whether you're a beginner or looking to polish your advanced skills. Below, you’ll find a fairly big list of YouTube channels and other resources that should significantly help with learning AE.

(I couldn't see any other posts on here with a list like this, If i've missed one, please reply with a link to it 😊 )

These are all channels from memory/misc places I've saved the odd tutorial to come back to, with a few new channels that I've stumbled across while creating this list.

If you have any suggestions of other channels/resources (or you want to plug your tutorials) pleae reply to this post and I will add them to this list.

I'm hoping this post has enough responses that it can become a definitive list.

In the future (with enough entries) I might further categorise this list for beginner/intermediate/advanced and the category of tutorials (VFX/Motion design etc.)

GOAT CHANNELS (In no particular order):

Video Copilot is how many AE users started out - The tutorials are quite old now but still hold up very well today. The focus on Video Copilot is typically more VFX based than pure motion graphics.

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Jake In Motion has a series covering every single effect on After Effects, I'd highly recommend checking it out. He also has some great SkillShare classes, alongside a course he's just dropped called Launch into After Effects.

He's also got classes on School of Motion which are worth checking out.

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Ben Marriott's channel is full of fantastically presented videos, his master motion design course is also great, I've not tried his motion foundation course but I'm sure it'd be brilliant.

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School of motion = 🐐

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13 years worth of tutorials - Go him ouy.

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All Other Channels (In no particular order):

Mapal's channel is relatively new to posting AE tutorials, however, there's a growing volume of them on there and they're very high quality and put together.

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Skymography is another new(ish) channel with AE Tuorials which are put together incredibly well.

I personally would check out the tutorial 'Secret VFX Trick to Elevate Your Edits (After Effects Tutorial)' - The reverse stabalization trick is something that's very useful and not talked about enough.

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Motion Hatch is a great resource for learning the business side of Motion Design.

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Ravie & Co also give away their project files

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Shuterstock has a range of After Effects Tutorials

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Envato also has a range of After Effects tutorials alongside Illustrator & Photoshop tutorials.

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Many quickfire tutorials on (mostly) Kinetic Type. I personally find these are mainly tailored towards beginners/intermediate users.

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A very large collection of tutorials.

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Texture Labs has some great AE/Illustrator/Photoshop tutorials - Their site is also full of high quality royalty free textures and tools. ()

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Part of Maxon, the makers of Cinema 4D, ZBrush, and Redshift Renderer. - The cheap trcisk & vfx sidequest series are both great, they also go through a number of free scripts, I use the 3D Normalization one a lot. ( )

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Michael Ponch has a mixture of motion & VFX tutorials, VFX tutorials mostly seem to include Zak King inspired edits.

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Speciality in Character Rigging/Character animation. (Although there are some other notable videos on this channel, including one called 20 tricks in After Effects - - some of these tips are also covered in Ben Marriott's 50 tips of After Effects)

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Motion by Nick is a great channel!

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Emonee LaRussa has some great tutorials, her Instagram is aso worth following too, with some very creative projects usually followed up with a breakdown of how the project was made.

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Tutorials View+ has a pretty large bank of tutorials, although it's a shame they're only subtitled and they don't speak in them.

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Black Mixture's tutorials are ideal for beginners - I found this Stable Diffusion x After Effects tutorial quite interesting - (Please don't have a debate about AI in the replies, this is a post about AE learning resources.)

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Videolancer is also the creator of MotionBro - an extension with some very handy presets.

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Max Novak's tutorials are usually covered from the ground up for beginners, they're also very music video focused.

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Ezra Cohens channel covers a fair few tutorials, EZCO has some great assets too on their site.

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Hieu Vu's channel is criminally underrated.

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MotionXP has some useful tutorials, I think the 'Style like a PRO with this hidden technique' has some great value about layer styles. ()

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Although Cinecom has now come to an end, there's a great backlog to get through.

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Production Crate has some great tutorials, I'd also been sleeping on the fact they have some great plugins & assets too - highly recommend checking out their plugins/website -

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Stern FX mostly seems to cover 3D work within After Effects - with the recent updates to 3D in AE, I'd imagine there will be a lot of valuable content coming from this channel soon.

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Olly Spin is the owner of Cel Wizard - at the moment there's only 4x tutorials on his channel, but they're all worth watching.

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I stumbled across this channel when compiling this list - It's certainly a channel I'll be having a binge through.

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This is another channel I've stumbled across while compiling this list, there's quite a few resources on Gen Fill on here.

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Motion Nerds features tutorials on how to make videos like VOX amongst other tutorials.

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Montinaro Gabriele currently only has one upload, however, it's a very high quality breakdown and it was posted recently, I hope there will be more uploads in the future.

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Francisco Giordano has some great tutorials on expressions!

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Learning Element 3D (In no particular order):

Video Copilot is the creator of Element. Andrew Kramer = 🐐

I more or less learnt to use Element with Magnet's tutorials.

VFX world has a fairly large back catalogue of Element tutorials

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Photoshop Tutorial Channels (In no particular order):

(I'm aware this is a post about After Effects resources, but it's still highly relevant/a lot of compositing tips on these channels can be transferred to AE etc)

Umesh is a fantastic teacher.

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Photoshop Cafe has a huge catalogue of useful tutorials.

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Benny Productions is a fun channel, not as tutorial focused though - if you're an intermediate or above user of Photoshop, there's still tips and tricks for compositing to be picked up on.

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Other Resources (In no particular order):

Adobe has their own bank of tutorials for learning After Effects.

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Dan Ebberts site on AE Expressions:

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Expression library:

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Reddit Post: 'Things About After Effects for the Newbie (an incomplete beginner guide)'

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Michael Janda is a good resource for learning about running a creative business.

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The futur is a very good resource on running a creative business, Chris Do's book is also great.

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If you have any suggestions of other channels/resources (or you want to plug your tutorials) pleae reply to this post and I will add them to this list.

I have a strong background in Flash and Adobe Animate. Now it’s time for me to master Adobe After Effects.

Can anyone recommend good tutorials where I can learn this motion graphic application?

Thanks!

I’ve used many resources for After Effects and thought it would be nice to create a complete guide where everyone can find access to tutorials, courses and other sources in one page. Here’s what I included:

1. Learning

2. Mastering Motion

3. Shape, Text, and Image Animation

4. Masks and Mattes

5. Adding Visual Effects

6. Seamless Compositing

7. Realistic Lighting and Shadows

8. Character Animation and Beyond

9. Project Organization and Collaboration

10. Rendering and Exporting

You can find the guide , and If you have any suggestions, please write them below so that I can make this a helpful guide.