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 ;-)

aescripts + aeplugins is a proud sponsor of Motion Design Plus. This year, Animography head honcho Jeroen Krielaars is one of the featured speakers, check out the new trailer!

The Plugin Everything crew has a live show and as their second guest, they invited aescripts + aeplugins founder Lloyd Alvarez. Make sure to tune in Friday August 24 at 3PM GMT which is 11am in NY and 8am in LA so set those alarm clocks now!

Check out the recorded interview after the fold.

Dope showreel using Paint & Stick and more by Rasmus Nielsen

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

Cool new location-based VR cameras using Plexus for the demo video

xponentialdesign has started a new tutorial series and the 1st episode explains how to create a displaced voxel landscape with Stardust in After Effects

Use Mocha VR running inside Adobe After Effects to stabilize and smooth difficult 360/VR drone footage.

Great cinematic music video composited using Diopter by Oliver Scott.

Great article by Fast Company explaining how Weirdcore used Transfusion and other tools to create the super cool T69 Collapse music video for Aphex Twin.

Great explainer (about explainers) using Joysticks 'n Sliders and more by Lost Marble

Mary Poplin shows how to convert B&W footage into color using Mocha Pro plugin and Premiere Pro

Fantastic little animation rigged using Joysticks 'n Sliders by This 'n That Studio

Motion Science shows us how to stylize one of the built-in Stardust presets for great effect.

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

Free project download to create a digital flower using Stardust by Superluminal.tv

Fantastic opener using Stretch-it for the type design

Beautifully illustrated explainer using Joysticks 'n Sliders and more by Andrei Staruiala

Beautiful graphics using AE Pixel Sorter and more by BrightPhoton

Dope Motions reviews AEViewer for After Effects