BlenderDiplom takes a deep look at the Animation Nodes add-on (see our review here).
Gottfried Hofmann writes:
The Animation Nodes Addon by Jacques Lucke is very powerful. But it can also be very daunting and is kinda technical in many places. That's why BlenderDiplom decided to create a series of video tutorials that make the first steps with animation nodes a lot easier.
The first tutorial is about the installation and basics about using the addon:
The second tutorial shows how to animate text using animation nodes by the very simple example of a typewriter text effect:
The third one explains how pseudo random numbers work in general (that part is valid everywhere in Blender) and how that applies to randomness in the animation nodes add-on: