Nerd Alert. Vice documentary on the last working Scanimate machine.

Film Riot shows how to create some pretty cool UFO VFX using Element 3D in After Effects

Great video on the origins of rotoscoping in animation by Vox

The Verve interviews Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple. 

Awesome practically shot footage to show off the new iPhone video capabilities. Great reference for shooting moving textures.

Awesome explainer about making a Hollywood movie trailer by Auralnauts. What's amazing is that it's totally true and effective. Moral of the story: It's all about the music ;-)

Awesome style transfer and datamoshed video by Bo Burnham.  Use Transfusion and Datamosh to get similar effects in After Effects.

School of Motion profiles Gunner, Yeah Haus, Lunar North and Vectorform. A great watch, looking forward to more of these!

Dope Motions reviews AEViewer for After Effects

Big announcement from Adobe. Project Rush promises to let you edit across all devices.

This has nothing to do with After Effects or animation but we found pretty inspiring no less :-)

Learn how to use EaseCopy from KBar and save tons of screen UI space

Great KBar overview tutorial by SideshowFX including free icons download

It's pretty impressive how quickly the A.I and machine learning field is progressing! Stay tuned for an A.I. style transfer plugin from us very soon!

Sick advert by the Mill

Awesome short using BAO Mask Avenger, PuppetTools and more from Red Giant Films. Includes Making-Of

Demo reel from most excellent designer and Plexus power user Simon Bronson.

Fantastically designed satire piece which pokes a bit of fun at the overuse of Plexus by Peter Quinn

This is a different kind of inspiration video but very inspirational no less!  15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.

Create personalized holiday video cards for all your friends - fully automatic with data from a spreadsheet. In addition to doing such batch processes in AE, you also learn how to automatically align texts - which is crucial if you create hundreds of variants of your clip and don't want to fix each of them manually.