The best After Effects tutorials for motion design, animation, VFX and 3D

Illustration from an Adobe After Effects tutorial
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Adobe After Effects can be overwhelming, but the best After Effect tutorials can help you get up to speed with the motion design software, which remains the industry-standard tool used by most VFX, 3D and motion graphics artists, as well as animators. There are a lot of tutorials out there, and it can take a long time to sift through them, so we've done it for you, watching hours and hours of After Effects tutorials to chose the clearest and most useful demonstrations of how to create powerful visual effects, compositing and motion graphics.

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Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects.