A lot has changed since we first published the introduction to the animation nodes. So once again Frederik Steinmetz will explain the installation and basic usage of Jacques Lucke's Animation Nodes Addon for Blender. A tutorial for version 2.8 of Blender can be found here!
The animation nodes are a complex and versatile addon created by Jacque Lucke. You can download it here. In this first tutorial of the series you will see how to set them up properly and get started.