Surprisingly, soon after Dylan Winter’s little Introduction to Scripting in After Effects, Sebastien Lavoie expanding on his previous tutorials covering After Effects Script Development Workflow, (particularly scripting using Sublime Text 2) and presents another introduction to After Effects Scripting going over the basic concepts and practices that are needed to get started writing your own scripts in After Effects.
This tutorial will go over the basic concepts and good practices necessary to start writing After Effects scripts.
Over the course of the After Effects Scripting tutorial, Sebastien takes a look at After Effects Actions including creating a project, layer, composition, and shapes, and also looks at adding effects, manipulating values, expressions and much more while creating and scripting a simple countdown timer in After Effects. Check out the article for the Introduction to After Effects Scripting here.