Nice recap of a main theme at the Blend conference on how side projects can have many benefits.

In this one minute tutorial we use the automatic beat detection of BeatEdit for Premiere Pro to create markers at the beats of your music and then import the markers in After Effects. These markers are very helpful when timing your animations ti fit nicely to the music. 

In this intermediate tutorial, Mocha Product Manager Martin Brennand takes you through smoothing the horizon in a Samsung Gear 360 shot using the Reorient Module in Mocha VR. Jittery 360 video footage can be made more watchable by stabilizing with Mocha's planar tracking tools.

Lendon Bracewell from Visionary Universe shows how to create a striking magic particle trail using Stardust point emitters, turbulence, forces, auxiliaries and more.

Learn how to create isometric grids in After Effects with the extension GridGuide. Our setup allows to snap to all crossing points of the grid interactively. Furthermore, layers can be moved from one grid cell to the next one easily and accurately.

In this advanced tutorial, Mocha Product Manager Martin Brennand takes you through a quick clean plate technique that greatly improves render performance in the Remove Module in Mocha Pro and Mocha VR.

Roland Hartmann of graphicinmotion.com shows how to create stunning Earth HUD elements using Stardust Grid emitters, Fields, Replica Turbulence and more.

Learn how to add an organic hand-drawn texture to a roller-coaster scene and then add people in the 3D model in After Effects using Paint & Stick

Keyboard shortcuts aren't sexy, but they can shave literally days off of your motion graphic projects. In this video masterpiece we take a look at a few of our favorite keyboard shortcuts in After Effects.

Learn how to use Font Manager to create your very own animated typeface from scratch in just 5 mintues.

A simple workflow breakdown for Adam Turnbull's traversal animation, "The Descent"

In this tutorial, Ben Pohl shows you how to use the automatic, procedural walk cycles of iExpressions with an After Effects character rigged with DuiK.

Learn how to animate your clones synced to the audio spectrum in After Effects using Cloners+Effectors.

VinhSon Nguyen shows how to create stylistic water/liquid using Trapcode Mir.

Joey Korenman of School of Motion gets into the nitty-gritty of how you can use flow to massively imporve your animation workflow.

James Markham Hall, Co-Founder Gold Creek VR, shows us how to take care of some common 360° post-production tasks in After Effects. He uses the View-based Edit in SkyBox Studio V2 to place a 2D video window over 360° footage, covers the Nadir with a logo, and removes unwanted shadows. The tutorial uses footage from a 360 shoot at the home of Anthonio Brown, of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

How to rig a simple character face with Joysticks 'n' Sliders for #AfterEffects

In this School of Motion Workflow Show, we'll show off Ray Dynamic Texture, a killer plugin for After Effects that can save you hours of tedious texturing on your layers. Download all the assets from this video and find show notes here: schoolofmotion.com/ray-dynamic-texture/

Learn how to set up a Mocha Pro project when there are foreground occlusions in front of your tracking area.

Eran Stern shows us how to create this awesome particle animation using Stardust and a Motion Capture dancer. Also check out the Simon Bronson/Chris Vranos version of this that also uses Plexus.