CGTalk - Beginner Tutorials

Alpha17X

09-18-2005, 11:11 PM

I know theres already a pinned thread with tutorial links but they honestly aren't useful to a beginner in any capacity. They skip steps and often start in the middle of a project with no explanation as to how they got that far. They seem more like intermediate to expert tutorials.

Are there ANY tutorials out there that start from the absolute beginning and explain every inch of every step from start to finish?

I'm finding this program to be very very unfriendly and very hard to get into.

Any help, such as links would be appreciated.

Until then I'm pretty much blindly pressing buttons and reading the help menus.

Vympel

09-19-2005, 12:08 AM

Look at these links:

http://studio.adobe.com
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=6834&page=1

The AE is had as one of the software of composition "friendlier" . Although this varies very of person for person

ColinRoss

09-19-2005, 12:47 PM

I'm having the same problem with this program aswell. There's just not enough decent beginner resources on the net.

Here's a better Adobe link, although the main tutorials link from there is down at the mo for some reason. Try the animated text.

http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/aftereffects.html

Takhisos

09-20-2005, 07:43 PM

I purchased a book, summit like After Effects 6.5 Classroom? I dunno, if your at Uni, hut the library, the examples that you create look wank, but as soon as you stop and start a proper project, then you realise that you know a hell of a lot, from the above book I created the movie from link... (minus the green bit, thats done in 3DS max)

http://untitledlab.co.uk/pages/motion/cyberpoema.htm

joviphang

09-20-2005, 09:07 PM

Try some tutorial videos instead of docment tutorial first, by not many of them. is a step by step training video you wouldn't get lost. visit creavtivecow.com, saw a number of them.

By if u need start from beginning, try Total training give u a very detail understanding of AE.

cinemastar

09-20-2005, 10:29 PM

artofwot

09-28-2005, 06:20 PM

I recorded a video tutorial a looong time ago on using keyframes in After Effects (AE for short).

Using Keyframes In Adobe After Effects (http://www.FanFilmEngine.com/aftereffects0002.mov)
25 MB - Quicktime

Hope it helps!

walfridson

10-03-2005, 12:41 PM

http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e.html
http://mfdh.ca/technique/
http://www.xtreme-is-back.com/
http://www.toolfarm.com/jezra/display.php
http://www.geocities.com/pixelmagic2002/CineAlta1.html
http://www.jjgifford.com/expressions/
http://www.motionscript.com/
http://www.thoughtography.net.au/students/afterEffects/index.htm
http://www.adobeevangelists.com/aftereffects/
http://msp.sfsu.edu/Instructors/rey/aepage/tutorials.html
http://www.stevengotz.com/ae.htm
http://www.designertoday.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=41
http://www.dmnforums.com/cgi-bin/viewarticle.cgi?id=25010
http://www.digitalproducer.com/
http://www.editorsguild.com/AfterEffects.html
http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/tips/aftereffects.html
http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/adobe/aftereffects/

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