Brian Maffitt of Total Training is back on the tutorial beat after a long absence, with AE CS6 essentials training.

CS6 is now shipping; Cloud services and point product subscriptions are available May 11. CS6 trial applications good for 30 days are also available (with advice). CS6 Help is up, but for now has poor search results and no PDF.

Here’s another summary of the last week of news on Adobe After Effects — with more on CS6, new scripts, time-lapses, light arrays, looks, and assorted tutorials and plug-ins new and old.

The Global Performance Cache, group of time-saving technologies consisting of a global RAM cache, a persistent disk cache, and a new graphics pipeline (along with the Cache Work Area In Background command), is considered the best new feature of After Effects CS6. The explanation by Chris and Trish Meyer in After Effects CS6 (P)Review is the most informative text on this feature cluster to date.

It’s CS6 launch day (live at 10 AM PST). The cost of ownership of Master Collection is about the same at $2600/$525 upgrade, and the Cloud service master collection is $50/30 per month by year ($600/$360), or a la carte per app ($20/month for AE); see pricing and details at Adobe. The ship date for CS6 will be announced later. In the meantime, here are some additional video demos from Adobe…

Here’s another summary of the last few weeks or so of news on After Effects— this time CS6 dominates, but there were still new scripts and a plug-in, and assorted tutorials.

Adobe has announced almost all of CS6 Production Premium (except for Illustrator), and there’s a boatload of previews and other resources on the product reveal page for NAB. Anita Engelman shares some pointers to those resources in We’re revealing the upcoming Creative Suite 6 Production Premium Release here on PVC.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—busier than expected before a change of gear at NAB—this time with CS Next, Mocha and tracking, 3D text and bevels, stills in AE, Trapcode Mir (pictured), 3 new scripts, assorted tutorials, and plug-ins new and old.

Here’s another summary of the last few weeks or so of news on After Effects— this time with Mocha and tracking, track mattes, organic lines in Particular, point clouds, HDR, and assorted tutorials, expressions, and plug-ins new and old.

Photoshop CS6 is in public beta. This update (download) looks pretty deep, with a few big new features and many welcome enhancements. There’s even an Adobe forum to iron out issues.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects— this time with underwater scenes, an AE 3D camera series, game trailers, a push for better interfaces, and assorted tutorials, new and old plug-ins, and expressions.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects— AE 3D, denoise and glitches, a preview of a new Trapcode plug-in, expressions, and more.

James Miller recently discussed The art of “lens whacking”, real lights leaks and ones done in post on Philip Bloom’s website. And now, Christian Hubbard has posted more practical advice in a video tutorial, “Lens Whacking” To Get Light Blooms In Your Footage, on AEtuts.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—assorted tutorials, new and old plug-ins, scripts, expressions, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—assorted tutorials and tools, animation aids, CC Hair, son of Ken Burns, expressions, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—assorted tutorials and tools with Xbox Kinect mocap, text, 3D, expressions, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—with assorted tutorials, scripts, demos, documentaries, and more. Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—with assorted tutorials, scripts, plug-ins, demos, and more. Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of news on After Effects—with assorted tutorials, scripts, demos, documentaries, and more.

Here’s another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—with new tools, tutorials on Mocha tracking, radar animations, lens flares, wood patterns, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts. The return to the regular news cycle caught idle hands by surprise with a promise of a big CS6 release, snakes in AE, tracking offscreen, plug-ins, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—it’s slower due to holidays, but there was news on a script for MIDI imports, some free projects, tutorials on type, shapes, and particles, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—including new plug-ins, scribble & write-on, Motion 5, a few “Best of” roundups, and more. Please note that these roundups are for quick review and comparison, and that there is almost always vital information from the originating authors at the links provided—and often free presets, projects, or stock footage too.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—with lots on color, explosions, ambient occlusion, tracking, and more.

Here’s another summary of the last week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—with a new training section on AE Scripts, a new danger in the orange and teal saga, and much more. Please note that there are additional details, presets, and/or projects on the originating websites that are not included in these overviews.

Here’s another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, and scripts—with a sabbatical, new training service deals, more on iExpressions and Boris FX, Shapes, slow motion, HDR in AE, and more.

Here’s another week or so of some news on After Effects tutorials, plug-ins, scripts and more. Thanksgiving was last week but there was substance from Video Copilot, a start on some broadcast-style graphics, LED light walls & casino-style text lights, green screen tips, 3D cubes and other shapes, linking objects with lines, results of a user’s choice survey on plug-ins, and more.

 
In a new tutorial, Daniel Moreno shows you how to Create A Glittering Cabaret Light Display with Las Vegas bulb lights and make them shine in different patterns with Trapcode Starglow and Particular.