Tutorials is the name of the game. Featuring video tutorials for creative professionals, walkthroughs and previews on upcoming products. AdobeTV is your one-stop-shop for everything Adobe related. A definite resource for beginners and pros alike, feed your passion with a little help from some of the industry's best.

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More Motion Graphics than Broadcast Design, but still loaded with useful tidbits you can adapt for your needs. Cinema, After Effects, they got you covered. A quick note about upcoming posts, we've been leaning heavily to the graphics end this last week. I think we've had a nice mix of useful nuggets to browse through, so expect the coming week to lean back towards more editing and promotions content to balance that out. We've got some good stuff coming up. A reminder for readers, if you have link suggestions you'd like to share with your fellow newshounds, you can always drop me a line here to contribute (credits and link-backs supplied in return).

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A quick highlight on one of the permanent links in the sidebar. AEScripts.com is the brainchild of New York based Designer Lloyd Alvarez. Lloyd has made a name for himself in the AE community as the go-to-guy for workflow management scripts. The kind of scripts that leave you wondering why you didn't do things like this before. From Magnum his edit detection script, to his industry favorite BG Render Script, they all came about as a direct response to cries for help from fellow AE users, including his latest Zorro-The Layer Tagger. Step up to the next level of After Effects efficiency and make your way over to AEscripts.com. If you're in a giving mood make sure to buy Lloyd a beer for his efforts on your way out. (Courtesy: Jason Brown)

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Float on over to AEnhancers.com for some magical C4D goodness. FREE to you, courtesy of Paul Tuersley, a set of scripts that facilitate the export of a 3D camera from After Effects into Cinema 4D. These scripts require AE version 7.0 and C4D R9.6, or greater to work. Make sure to thank Paul for his contribution to the Motion Graphics community. He has opened up a lot of options for us by taking this project on.
(Via: Creative Workflow Hacks)

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Every once in a while you run across a plug-in that makes you go WOW. Usually one that automates something that would normally be a tedious but necessary process. Light Wrapping is one of those processes. When compositing elements into a scene you should try to replicate the way light wraps around an object, giving it a more natural look, and helping to sell it as real. Jerzy Drozda (of Maltaannon.com) takes that process and simplifies it for you. A real time saver and it's cheap to boot. For some additional After Effects gold make sure to check here.

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Call it a necessary evil. Charts & Graphs! Not the most exciting News graphics to build, but important none-the-less. The people over at AE Portal News have rounded up the best of the best for you. Expression driven, nice little sliders, some slick tricks to make building these elements as easy as pie

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What kind of stuff do we like around here? FREE stuff! Dean Velez over at Motion Graphics Lab has graciously posted a set of 18 animated After Effects backgrounds for you to use. What's the catch? The catch is, they are only available for free until October 1st. Sooooo grab 'em while they're hot! Make sure to check out Dean's other offerings while you're there.

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