Tutorials

With the growth of the internet it has become extremly easy to share information with one another, as such a huge number of people have started to post tutorials on the internet to share their knowledge and to help others. A quick look at any sort of video sharing site will reveal that there are copius amounts of tutorials explaining how Motion graphics as a whole works, then ones to show how individual softwares operate, how various sections within the software work, how sound works, literally everything, any problem that you have there is very probably a tutorial to explain it in simple, user friendly, terms. The site below has a long list of tutorials to show you how to do various cool things within various software.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/25/the-ultimate-motion-graphics-tutorials-round-up/

Motion Graphics companies

Naturally, with motion graphics being such a huge and ever-growing market a number, an ever-increasing number of motion graphics companies have arrisen across the globe. It has become big business and with the evolution of the entertainment industry, there is higher and higher demand for interesting and attractive adverts, T.V. Idents, logo's etc... Just a few of the companies are listed below with some information regarding the type of work they produce and for whom.

Scorch London

http://www.scorchlondon.com/

Scorch London are a video production company that produces a number of very different adverts and infographics, some of which use real life footage combined with animated information, images, shapes etc... Others use fully blown animation to get the point across. They do a number of work for large clients, including Lego, BBC, Subway, Ministry of sound, Sainsbury's etc ...

Qudos Animation

http://www.qudos-animations.co.uk/

Qudos Animation are another motion graphics company who produce both 2D and 3D animations for a range of different companies. They're expertise lie within adverts and infographics and they have done various work for a number of companies such as The Gaurdian and eBay, not to mention a music video for Deadmau5.

MK12

http://mk12.com/MKXII/

MK12 are an award winning  motion graphics company from the USA, they have produced a number of very good, hiqh quality pieces for a number of companies. They have been a succesful company for over 12 years producing both live action and animated pieces. Their experties range from in game cinematics, game promotions, adverts etc... Their work includes graphics from Quantom of Solace, music videos for Jack White and Alicia Keys and promotions for Green Day Rock Band.

Mike Afford Media

http://www.mikeafford.com/

Mike Afford Media are another motion graphics company set up by Mike Afford, the man responsible for the majority of BBC motion graphics, this included the graphics used for the weather as well as the graphics on display during the General election broadcasts. Now Mike afford media continue to produce TV idents and have recently finished their work for Waitrose producing a series of short videos. The company is now based in Ireland.