We’re starting to collect a list of some of the better resources out there. This is by no means exhaustive, but these have all been generally tested/used by members. If you would like to recommend something, feel free to reach out.
We will be better organizing this in the future, but for now, here’s the list.
Rigging
- DUIK – Full character rigging and other useful tools
- Rubber Hose – General bendy limbs and rig artwork
- Joysticks n Sliders – Rig anything with easy pose control
- Limber – Fast character limb design and rigging
- Hooker – More flexible control of attaching vector points to nulls
- bq Head Rig – Similar to JSnS above
- Puppet Tools – Puppet Pin control and IK
- Character Swing Rigging
- Bao Bones
Animation Helpers
- Mister Horse Animation Composer
- QUBA |HQ – Stop Motion Kit
- iExpressions 2
- Flow
- Ease Copy
- Ease and Wizz
- Rift
- PT Shift Layers
Text
Simulation
Utility/Organization
- Image Sequence Scanner by glenneroo
- Save Comp as Project
- conSOLIDator
- Organize Project Assets
- KBar
- Prism 2
- Light Beam preset by Paul Slemmer
- Curvy Connector preset by Paul Conigliaro
- Overlord
- Ray Dynamic Color
- VCP FX Console
- Quick Menu
- aescripts Manager App
- Let Me Google That for You
TUTORIALS
- VIDEO COPILOT
- SCHOOL OF MOTION
- LYNDA (Access for free via Hennepin Library)
- Mt. Mograph
- MographMentor
- MOTIONWORKS.NET
- MOTION STACKS
- AE TUTS+
- UDEMY
- The Futur
- STERNFX
- Greyscalegorilla
- CREATIVE COW
- Workbench.tv
- Motionscript.com
- Ukramedia
- Skillshare
- Learn Squared
- motiondesign.school
STOCK ASSETS
- Pond5
- iStock
- GettyImages
- Audio Jungle
- Freesound.org
- Videoblocks
- Turbosquid
- Free Images
- Graphic Burger
- Morguefile https://morguefile.com/
- Unsplash https://unsplash.com
- Freemusicarchive.org
- soundstripe