Great video on the origins of rotoscoping in animation by Vox

What Unreal is able to achieve in real-time is so mind-blowing that you might want to buckle your mind before you watch this!

For one week during each of the summer months, we will be featuring a select group of authors that will have their entire product catalog on sale for 25% off. Click through to see which authors are on sale.

Motionographer has a great profile and interview with Ariel Costa who designed our aescripts + aeplugins playground animation when we launched our new site back in 2012!

We are all affected by this. Please read to learn how we are doing and how we are giving back to the community.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Meetup has been unfortunately canceled. We are doing it again this year! Join School of Motion, Motion Hatch, Greyscalegorilla, Video Copilot, Motion Array, Action VFX, aescripts + aeplugins, Red Giant, Puget Systems, HitFilm, Pixel Plow and Maxon at the NAB MoGraph Meet-up!

The lads over at Cub Studios made a blog post explaining how animations created with Bodymovin and Lottie are the future of web design.

Gui Esp is giving away 50 free gradients for Stardust After Effects. Get them while hot!

Wow! 100k Instagram Followers! Thank You! To celebrate we are giving away a $100 gift card every day which perfectly coincides with our Cyber Week Sale. We could not have planned it more perfectly! Read more for details.

Fantastic animated explainer created with Joysticks 'n Sliders, Prism, Labels, EaseCopy, KBar, Quick Menu, Wayfinder and more by YellowLab

Adobe today released After Effects 2020 which is focused on improving performance.

We are happy to be sponsoring the Maxon 3D Design + Motion Tour. Use code AES3DMT and save 25%. 26 cities around the world with tons of speakers, special guests and software for you to take home.

Stardust version 1.5.0 will be available soon is now available. It is another Free update to all current customers.

We are doing it again this year! Join School of Motion, Greyscale Gorilla, Video Copilot, Maxon, Red Giant, Motion Hatch, Action VFX, aescripts + aeplugins and more at the NAB MoGraph Meet-up!

Adobe released an important new version of After Effects today which they are now calling 16.1 but it can be considered CC 2019.1 if you are going by the old naming convention. Joey from School of Motion does a great job breaking down the new features and showcasing the amazing new Content Aware Fill for Video which will surely blow your mind. He also includes the project file and a free script in his review.

We are happy to again sponsor @motionmarkus's Animation SmashDown with some excellent prizes!

VinhSon Nguyen reviews Deep Glow and compares it against other After Effects glow plugins.

We are happy to be sponsoring @motionmarkus's Animation SmashDown with some excellent prizes!

aescripts + aeplugins was again a proud sponsor of Node Fest in Melbourne Australia

We are happy to be sponsoring the Keyframes Conference in Orlando, Feb 25-27, 2019.  They have an amazing lineup of speakers including our own author Mathias Möhl (mamoworld). We are also giving away a VIP pass for the conference, check our Instagram feed for details.