Hi Andrew, one tutorial I’d really like to see is the creation of the sweet 3D titles. Such as the ones used in the Designer Sound F/X. Is this using a plug-in such as Zaxwerks? Are you creating those in 3D and exporting with an Alpha? Or is there some native capability for 3D titles that I have been oblivious too. If you don’t go for that, how about making titles appear out of smoke similar to the trailer that was done for BRICK that can be found here… http://www.drfoster.f2s.com/trailers_b.shtml

thanks for the consideration.

Best,

D

what about a video wall?…

1) A video wall
2) Some more ‘compositing’ tutorials, specifically on non-chroma keyed stuff (rotoscoping techniques and stuff)
3) C4D
4) Some more ‘abstract’ effects, that can be used as background elements.
5) Some ‘lower thirds’ creation
6) C4D

Sorry to comment again, but With C4D, show how to make Text and Titles and stuff. I’m not into animating a short film (yet, or for a long time), but title stuff is usually low on rendering time and application specific complexity.

Like i said before, please make c4d tutorials and show us how to animate some things that i can use in my fanfilms, that would be great.

Video Wall
Grunge stuff that you see on tv advertisements
INFINITE ZOOM

I’d love to see what you could do with particles in After Effects …

I really don’t know how or what to use them for … ?

J.

Hi Andrew,

I really would love to see how to create the effect when someone gets hit by a car. I think I saw that in one of your promo videos. In that scene some guy runs on the street and moves like he was hit by a car, then you see a car drive through the screen and then you see the final result when the two scenes were put together.
I hope you know what I mean.

Greetings from Germany
Riptide

PS your Tutorials are the best

I’d like to see a tutorial on stretching a face. Like a monster screaming and you stretch their jaw down a bit to give the look of a bigger bite. Also, any “REAL WORLD” techniques that you commonly use on customer projects to polish the job. The 3D titles is one I’m curious about too.

Morphing tutorial will be helpfull

I have some request for you Mr.kramer

Breaking the lens on a Camera.
Example, an explosion blows a side of the building apart sending a chunk on concrete into the camera. The Lens would be shatterd but also have distortion to it. Some areas would seem like a fun house mirror.

Touch Screen Effects, different reactions from touching a futuristic touch screen or a real plate of glass.

Rain Drops in water, saw this in one of your high resolution sock DVD’s and wondered how you did it so well.

Maybe an Andrew Kramer MP3 Player spoof, MP3 commercials always dish out flashy motion graphics.

Infinite Zoom was amazing, I really want to see how you put that one together. My infinite zooms suck so I am hoping that one comes around before my deadline.

I’d love to see an After Effects tutorial that shows how to make a anamorphic lens flare. To quote Wikipedia, an anamorphic lens flare “is a kind of lens flare that has a long horizontal line usually with a blue tint and is most often visible when there is a bright light, such as from car headlights, in the frame with an otherwise dark scene”.

I noticed it P.T. Anderson’s film “Punch Drunk Love”. Looks really cool. Would love to see a tutorial on this!

Anyways, keep up the good work Andrew!!!! I, as I’m sure many others do as well, truly appreciate your free tutorials!!

Thanks again.

JD.

Also how to get on Kramers good side… You know so I don’t get blown up, punched in the face, tripped, or shot if I ever run into you…

I dont know about rest, but most of 3d text animations (for example those on ayatoweb) are built in something else than AAE, or with AAE using some other plugin, i allways wanted to do some of those things using mainly the tools AAE provides

Allso, still waiting for that Planet zoomed out=P

keep on the good work mr.Andrew, i remember somebody mentuned U to build a Forum, i think that is a nice idea =P

Have a good day from Split, Croatia

Well a tutorial with “the Matrix” effect would be nice,I mean the effect when the action stops and the camera rotates around the actors,I’ve always wondered how to achieve it

What would be very cool is a tutorial on how to do that zoom video you posted. Where the camera comes from over a city all the way back to space revealing the entire earth.

What about a Rain Tutorial. Like the Rain Sequenze in your HD Footage where the rain is coming from above and the Camera is looking at the ground! That would be great!

Fetch

And a Tutorial where Mark will die 3 times in a row…

hi
3D Fractal in After Effects (step by step)
and any Morphing without any “special” plugins…
will be nice
grettings

Now that you asked..
1) I would love to know the makings of those videos on http://www.trapcode.com front page especially Pierre Michel’s, I have him on my gchat and he explained it to me and even posted a brief info on how he made it but i still could not grasp it..
http://trapcode.com/gallery/polar2007_h.mov this is the video..
2) C4D for sure

i would love to see a tutorial on colour temp. how to change simple DV to much more interesting colour temp… you know…yeah…… i know it will benefit everyone

Hi
i think all the tutorial effects that you do are cool
but in the real world most studios use AE for brodcast and there are no tutorials on that subject over the net not that i”ve seen
so what i really would like to see are tutorials explaining how to do
1) lower thirds
2)how to approch a promo project
3)thins you can do with a company logo
basicly a project like one on this site http://www.motionworks.com.au/
Thank you

I’d also love to see some rotoscoping techniques and cool lower third creation.

1) I’d love to see something on multipass rendering and how to take advantage of the passes to achieve different looks.

2) Also, I’d like to see an integration of cg characters or props into live action video

3) And integrating cg set extensions to a live action set

These are real-world and practical examples that people need to know about in the vfx world… and it’s something that is very rarely covered in tutorials or dvds.

Thanks!

I believe this one isn’t mentioned before:
- How to create the effect of being outdoors, then zoom into a wall or window and smoothly blend over into a indoor situation (particulary the one that is behind the door / wall ofcourse )

How about 3rd party plug ins like Trapcode particles or Psunami (How to 3D in AE comp)

Do we leaning towards motion graphics of VFX?

I’d rather go for VFX – colour correction, relighting scenes etc)

As to 3D I think it should be directly related to compositing so not like animation tuts, but rather using camera from 3D app in AE or multipass compositing.

Thank you Andrew for you great imput in our hard but most imazing business

1) C4D
2) Morphing

Dan,
I would disagree on most studios use AE for brodcast.
http://www.theorphanage.com/vfx/index.html – these guys for example use AE quite a bit. And AE is the favorite of Stu Maschwitz – legend in the VFX community.

- How to create the effect when someone gets hit by a car
- Cinema 4D

I’m going to second Tobias’s suggestion

This hasn’t been mentioned.

On one of the video’s on this site theres a scene where a man gets owned by an explosion
- id like to see a fake explosion
I’d like simple clean looking Titles for intro i.e When a Man walks by a car as he walks by the title appears on the car window.

and

More stuff on… Getting that CSI : Vegas look?? or Miami look??

Many thanks Andrew K,

Rama Dolman of Perth, Western Australia

c4d! (=

Oh Andrew!!!!

Your every TUT is superb & very very useful.

If I had a request, would definately go4 a tutorial on how to populate a scene with CG crowd, so that it looks like thousands of army marches to have a BIG Fight.

Thanx in advance

Warm regards
Sandy

wow! The guy who put the name “M2O”, I think he’s maybe from the italian radio ;D.

Well, I would like to see a tutorial of your Designer Sound fx promos, precisely on the little stroke that appear on the very beginnin of the Designer sound fx promo.

or stroke like this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COhs_yIfAr4
Please!

Thanks again for your tutorial!

Luc From France

Yes tobias has a very specific idea but very cool. Like in the begining of Psycho (not the old version) where the camera is over the city (filmed by a chopper) and it zooms in a building and through a window.

Also C4D stuff would be great!!!

Please special request!

i will like to see a quick tips on how one can make a soft animated backgrounds, with powerful plugins like fractal noise in AE.

quoting jacob dyer >>> Some more ‘compositing’ tutorials, specifically on non-chroma keyed stuff (rotoscoping techniques and stuff)

and things to consider when creating commercial, though i have some principle in place but i need to update my self.

please try making stuff on that

Hi, Andrew…
I think it is a good idea to learn new techniques of titles appearing. It is very useful for motion designers, who is connected to cinema postproduction. Isn’t it?
So we can go through some trailers, find interesting and good-loooking titles and try to find out the way they were produced…
Thanks!

Yeah I’d have to say I’m VERY curious about the 3D titles in the Designer Sound FX! I’ve been trying to work out how to do it in a project I’m working on at the moment. I’m stumped. =)

I’m also interested in the Polar 2007 promo John Paite asked about. Still haven’t got round to buying the Trapcode Particular plug-in.
I’ve bookmarked the polar 07 video hoping to match it some day. =)
May be you could help me.

I think a tutorial on bullet-time effects would be interesting, you know, where you have moving camera (f.ex. doing a 90° rotation), by recording the motion twice with a single camera, I think that would also make more advanced use of 3D projection (in case that you’d like to make a 3D projection/bee trilogy)…

A tutorial on invisibility effects might also be interesting, including see-through-clothing and that stuff (like Hollow man…)

Some other tutorial ideas:

- CSI-effects (like zooming through keyholes etc.)
- Advanced shatter usage (using it more like a visual effect than a motion graphic effect, f. ex. exploding buildings or shattering glass while jumping out of a window)
- a tutorial for ParticleIllusion on how to create realistic blood & gore effects (or mayhem…), perhaps you can combine it with another death of Mark
- any tutorial on how to destroy a perfect scenery in aftereffects (like a collapsing building)…

hee maybe you could make some tuts about how to make lagre crowds like in lord f the rings
or maybe something like the commercial like bmw did with trapcode. like this: http://trapcode.com/gallery/web_BMW_Precipice_Breakdown.mov
i would love to know how to make that.

gr. tesssam

INFINITE ZOOM EARTH TUTORIAL

pls ^^

Hi Andrew,

even I, as Lucky ask you to explain how do the little stroke that appear on the very beginnin of the Designer sound fx promo.

Thanks & bye.

Hi Andrew,

I would definitly like a tutoriel about INFINITE ZOOM. that would be very nice of U. Thx a lot.

hell ya, smoke related trailer text animation like here

http://movies.apple.com/movies/focus_features/brick/brick-redband-tlr_h480p.mov

man,want to see a tutorial series about how to make a simply and great flash promo integrated with flash,ae,3d software(maybe c4d or something)and an audio software like audition~am i expecting too much~?!

There aren’t many good 3D Studio Max tutorials floating around i.e. in video. You’re AE ones are excellent and if you could do the same for 3DS Max, that would be brilliant.

yeah sure da smoke effect as shown by Andre is really cool !!! that would be so nice of U dude !!!
bid thx !!!

would love to see some tutorials demonstrating intergration with lightwave

what about BOUJOU?
tracking camera stuff, animate 3d enviroments with green screen people like “300″ or “sin city” , a tutorial to have the correct camera position and look real the merge of the background and the actors

hey Andrew keep the good work and thanx for all the fantastic tutorials
cheers
from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

Nacho

Hey Andrew, ur the best ever, i love your tutorials, and ur the one who made me love this field. For a tutorial plz plz plz do the bullet time effect.
I really want to know know how this effect is done like the matrix.

Thanks

Hi all,

I’m new to After Effects of 15 days.. im actually a pro tools sound engineer & Dj… now looking to get into the hypnotic A.E.

Don’t mean to slow the momentum down, with all your talk of 3D modelling, clearly I am a small fish in a big pond.

From a beginner who has been bitten by the VFX bug…. i would love to get some info on the Camera you used on your Tutorials (and lighting techniques), to get great results Ive viewed on your site. Clearly the raw footage would determine the amount of Processing needed on a composition, and right now my handy cam is about to make friends with the wall across the road.

Yes, i could do a google search, but as fan of your site and having purchased many products in a small amount of time, I’d feel a sense of satisfaction knowing it came from yourself. Having seen what you do.

Even if its brief info.

Thanks
KCB

Hi Andrew,

I would like to see an domino-like effect in AfterFX similar to the on used in this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=N5XVeENmLMk) Video. I only figured out a way in Photoshop but I have no idea how to do this in AfterFX.

1. duplicate a crowd
2. getting hit by a car
3. outdoor to indoor transition through a wall (tobias’ suggestion)
4. infinite zoom
5. c4d integration

great suggestions everyone. these 5 are the ones i would most like to see.

thanks for all hard work making such cool/useful tutorials, Andrew!

How about using WinMorph(a plugin for premiere) to do a bullet time effect from the matrix. I’ve done it before, I believe I found the tutorial at creative cow. Of course your tutorials will always improve on wtv i do

Oh and some 3Ds max pleasssssseeeeee

compositing things into a background, ( handheld shot of a field or something and then have a UFO or some sort of other element comp’d in the sky or background).

All of the above

Yo Andrew,

I really think you should do the “INFINITE ZOOM” tutorial next as it seems to be the most requested. Also I really like the idea of the breaking camera lens (posted by MARKHAWK) but maybe it could also be a bullet hole in the lens, just an idea.

cheers

“what about BOUJOU?
tracking camera stuff, animate 3d enviroments with green screen people like “300″ or “sin city” , a tutorial to have the correct camera position and look real the merge of the background and the actors”

I agree with this post fully )

I have a simple (maybe crappy tutorial material) one.

On the Home page video, where that guy gets shot to hell, just like to know how you make the bullets shoot passed the camera?

DoM

How about a “How to Cloak your Predator and make him turn Invisible” tutorial?

3d Camera Tracking vs 2D camera tracking.

Rotoscoping that compares to from Imagineer System’s Motor V1

1) flash
2) 3d studio max
3) cinema 4d

please dont leave us on AE though!! thanks

Hey… guys, check out creativecow.net , there’s a quite simple video wall tutorial.
I would like for the begining a MATCHMOVING tehnique, 3d camera tracking tutorial and 3d integration with real live footage..that would help me a lot in my work. And further developing of the 3d Projection series..those are kick ass tutorials.
Some tehniques with Particular would also be nice.

You should do more visual effects tutorials and less titles and that sort of stuff.

Definetly 3D importing. Also a good explosion with window shattering would be nice…

Cinema 4D Pleeease!

Great tutorials, been following them for a long time now and I’ve learn so damn much. Thank you!

I would like to see:

1. Trapcode tutorials
2. Rotoscoping tuts
3. Matchmoving / Camera tracking
4. Morphing / render tips
5. I use Maya for 3D…

Hi Andrew,

do you know that new feature from apples ichat to change the background behind a person? Basically it’s like keying, but without a green-/buescreen. The application analyzes the difference between an empty background (w/o the person) and the same backgound with the person in front of it.
Here you can see an example of ichat (about in the middle of the video):
http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/mac/macosx/2007/wwdc/apple-ichat_672×416.mov

It’s really not keying!At the current Keynote you can see a much better example. Just skip thru the video till the iChat-presentation.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc07/

Is it possible to imitate that function with AE?

Regards, luke
P.S. Thanks for your incredible amazing tutorials!!
P.S.S. Sorry for my broken English

Hello,
is it possible to make a tutorial on move in a picture like http://erik-lauritzen.com/ in his project “LAST BEST HOPE”.

I find his graph signature is similar to Andrew (Circle black mask, effect of littre point behind the camera) sorry i can’t describe this in English

Thanks for your patience and your perfect job in your tutorial.

Hi! I’d really like to see a difference matte tutorial. Something like in one shot you walking on a railroad, the second one is a clean plate, and the third is the train coming.

Personally I am still drooling over that zoom out from the city to the earth, I definitely want to learn how to do that.

Also, I think this was mentioned before, what ever tutorials you do decide to do, I like them to be on subjects that I can do in AE and not necessarily using third party software (simply can’t afford all the various plugins and such)

So far I can’t think of a single tutorial you’ve posted that I haven’t managed to use in my work in one way or another, so anything you do is fine by me. Thanks for making us look good!

I think I’d have to agree with Darius, because I too had wonderd how you did that. I would love to know about how to create the 3d titles, like the one in Designer sound effects.

An extended freeze tutorial, I thought the freeze tutorial was good but the ability to move objects would make it alot cooler. Even if the objects where moved in a different cut (to make it easier) perhaps using rotoscoping/masking techniques.

Morphing tutorial would also be cool & the infinite zooming out earth

I would like to see a good tutorial on how to animate and mask in all those “swirly”, “flowery” designs you see everywhere nowadays. I have yet to see a good tut on this.

clone stamping to remove a moving object from footage.

i’ve always wanted to play with clone stamping, never had the time to really mess with it.

for sure 3d titles, just ’cause.

making things grow. this trick is done a lot, and i know how to do it, but it’s time consuming and a pain, so i’m hoping you’ll put something out of your hat like you did with the lightsaber. i used to do sabers the old way (4 mask points), and i almost had a heart attack when i saw your fx preset.

maybe a little complex, but maybe the basics of making FX presets?

how about wire removal?

the blink expression and doing more dynamic effects with it.

um, can you also show me how to make mk12’s demo reel?

that’s off the top of my head. honestly, i took an after effects class in college and it was a joke. i credit your tutorials with taking me to the next level. thanks for making them.

~Pat

How about a tutorial on these text effect from the Man Vs Wild Commercial.Check the video out here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpqoZ9bBZog

I once emailed you about the a tutorial on how the guy gets hit by the car in your showcase videos.

This guy’s short has many cool effects and he kinda explains how he achieved them. but nothing beats a video tutorial showing you how it all comes along.Especially the last effect, the fly off
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/kidwars/intermezzo/

Hi Andrew
this is a greate idea to take our request, really i appreciate your effort to help others … anyway
1-Rotoscoping
2-Lowerthird
3-Promo ….. for football

thanks a lot

Hey Andrew,
How about showing to make a real or CG guy totally on fire.. like that in fantastic 4 or the incredibles? Or creating an explosion in max and importing it into after effects and compositing with some live action footage of an exploding building? or perhaps Cg water over an entire city like how they did it in The Day After Tomorrow? something wild.. something awesome that is visual effects.. but i love any tutorials that u create, so im fine with whatever you come up with =)

Cheers,
Neeraj
from Singapore

Smoke for me too!

1) I’d love to see something on multipass rendering and how to take advantage of the passes to achieve different looks.

Hey,
A few days ago i watched a show called “on the lot” its like a short film making comp thing. any way, i say this really cool timefreeze film on it. it looked a lot like the tutorial of yours but they had objects moving (boxes) when the non frozen guy moves them.. it looked really cool and would make a very good addition to the tutorial if you knew how to do it

thanks

Gosh so many things…

Video Wall
Infinite Zoom
particles
In the light of action movie essentials maybe movie like gun fight using blood burts and everything!
Matrix camera work would be cool but not sure it is possible with just one camera! I would love to see something close to it thoe.

Thanks Andrew.

Some would be great, like in your DVD Riot. Or if you don´t wanna tell your secret any organic form.

It’d be cool to get some tutorials incorporating other packages but I’m afraid of being alienated if I don’t own something like Maya or 3DMax or any of the other programs. I’d rather this whole thing be about After Effects and Photoshop. Anyone agree???

Bones

I know you said you are thinking about putting this tutorial together but i would really like to see how you did that earth zoom from start to finish.

Tutorial slaughter

Yo Andrew,

Including 3d max tutorials would be fantasic (how to then composite shots togeather in AE with layers)

A fantastic inclusion would also be tracking /matchmoving (using PFtrack or BOUJOU)..a great way to open up the possibilities of live action meeting 2D fx…explaining how to interpret .ma data into AE!

Word.

Man vs Car (seen in your 2006 reel)
Compositing (CG with real footage)
Network Rendering
Particles
Morphing
Color Grading
Tutorials about filming (the things you do before creating an After Effects Project)
And, like Gonads said, all of the above

ah yes. i totally agree with “Some Guy”

“…Tutorials about filming (the things you do before creating an After Effects Project)”

Nice suggestion

i’d like to see a tutorial on the text you see with a light behind it, but you can see the angular rays as it passes under the text… it creates a really dramatic effect, great for trailers and stuff like that…. the light behind the text isn’t the hard part, it’s getting the rays to show up in a cool way that gets ya….

also the infinite zoom tutorial, but as you’ve already said, it’s on the way (yay!)

Looks to me like tutorials on how to use Rotoscoping are still necessary. It seems like people are asking how to achieve effects that you can do easily with rotoscoping. Also, as some others have stated, filming tutorials. How to make a good set (lighting, angles, diff shots, etc), then how to put it into AE efficiently and cutting pieces together. It might be worth going over the entire setup from shot to effects to rendering in a special tutorial or set of tutorials. I think these would greatly benefit everyone with getting their film and AE meshing together efficiently and effectively. Whatever you got Andrew, we’ll watch!

I would love to see some detailed tutorials on using the Trapcode plug-ins with AE. Especially Particular. Thanks again Andrew. Keep’em comin’!

Most tutorials deal with the technical, how to side of a look. Or stuff for the right brain, or is it left?

How about delving into the creative side of project. How it is coceived, storyboarded (?), drafted and then implemented. That is the biggest struggle most of us technical people have.

Hey Andrew ! Im a great fan of yours !

What would be great, is a tutorial to make the slow mo/bullet shooting like in the matrix/bad boys 2 or many other films, where guys shoot a bullet from the gun, and the camera follows the bullet and rotates around the bullet, until it hits something.

Simply using, a bullet image found on google, it could be nice

Id like to see a bullet fired from a gun (with one of your muzzle flashes) by the guy in the indiana costume where you can see the bullet and the time remapped (like the 300 effect) and speed-ramped up to fast motion then going through your friend Sam`s head exploding it into a bloody pulp.
(I really like the slow motion going to fast motion stuff)

Id also like to see your take on how those intros to Ultimate Fighting championship ringside videos are treated . the look and the power they excert. in one of them a red skeleton flashed in/onto the fighters showing pain and the possibilty of broken bones.

The cracked lense idea someone had sounds awesome too.

Hey Andrew!

I’d really like some tutorials on effects like Matrix Bullet time, I’ve looked around, and a lot of people want it, but theres no real effect which looks as good as the on they actually do in the Matrix.
Also, I know you don’t like to use third-party plug-ins in your tuts because not everyone has them, but if you could do some tuts on particular effects like the very popular 4D Fractal they have here http://trapcode-people.net/filedetails.php?fileid=56
Great tutorials so far! Looking forward to ordering Designer Sound FX soon…

Sorry to comment again, but I wasn’t so specific with the Matrix Bullet time effect. I really just want to see the bullet shoot out in slow motion and whiz past the camera. I know this effect would involve 3D, so yeah…but it’d be a much coveted and loved tutorial.

First, THANK YOU! for greate tutorials.
and your blog is awsome addition.
- Color Corection (how to make your own 300 presets)
- Particle illusion integration
- Nested workflow
- Pop up book effect.
- How to make “Moulin Rouge” diorama effect
- 3D graphs
- Morph
… and many many more.

Boujou!!!!!!!! please this app is so interesting

John Paite: how come Pierre Michel writes to you stuff about his project and you don’t share?

Here is a concrete tutorial requests:
After your muzzle flash and gun blow back tutorials I would like to see how to make a shell case fly out after a shot. You know, it’s very hard to film a real gunshot. First of all it’s hard to find a real gun with ammunition, and of course there is this problem with the law and police…

Learn How To be Creative..You suck al of it out your dumb. That’s nice But how do you do that You thought Ow like this or this. Or..Are you sitting behind your PC for weeks to discover how to do something ?

Hi Andrew, have you ever heard about avid DS system? A sort of AE + editing function and a little bit of 3D titling… It would be nice hearing an opinion from you and some tutorials too (there are only few ones available on the net)

Best regards,
M.

One of those zooming into eyes or through a key/spy hole would also be quite cool, I’ve been experimenting with the image within the iris idea but some pro help would be much appreciated

The spent brass idea sounds like a nice, quick & easy tutorial. Watch the BTS on ‘Once Upon a Time in Mexico,’ and Rodriguez explains that in the church gunfight they used rubber guns & added muzzle flares and shells.

My take is using a particle generator and setting the particles to images of casings. I also did a test of this adding shells in one by one; basically, keyframed motion + motionblur, duplicated several times. works well enough, but as always, I’m sure that there’s a faster/easier way to do it.

I’ll post a link to my test when I can get it online.

Another thing to stress is that sound is 70% of what you see. This is why DSFX is such a great idea & product. Perhaps suggesting sound libraries you use, other than DSFX? I’d like to have a really decent weapons SFX library, with LOTS to choose from. Having good SFX does a tremendous amount to ’sell’ visual effcts.

Well I request two things…. Boujou ( I know you have it because you have a 2d3 section in your AE plugins) And secondly, geting hit by a car!

With all these tutorial requests,would be fair if you did them on DVD so that you are compesated for the time you put in and for us, we could get the convinience of carrying and enjoying our tutorials anywhere.

PEOPLE DUPLICATION (Fill spectators, stadiums, shows, etc)

Bah, Andrew, I say go with the After Effects how to make it look like someone gets hit by a car look, very cool.

This is my tutorial list:

1) Movie-like color grading. You could explain how to make color grading that looks like The Matrix, or 300, or the Lord of the Rings, or even Sin City (where only stuff with a specific color are left colored and the rest is in grayscale)

2) I’d totally love to see that camera-going-through-a-wall effect that was suggested before.

3) The Infinite Zoom

4) Making stuff like smoke, fire, rain and fog but more maneurable. I’ll explain myself: Ever wanted to make someone with a smoking wound (maybe because it was made with a lightsaber ) and to see the smoke actually reacting to the movement? That’s something I’d appreciate, since I tried with tracking and a stock-footage-smoke and it didn’t work out.

5) If you’re going to make 3D tutorials, I’d love to see one on how to make a Digital Double.

6) Also real life stuff, like making commercials and what to do with companies’ logos (which can also help with movie logos ) would be great.

Thanks in advance from Venezuela, Master Kramer!

got another ideea..how about making that sweet 300-like blood in AFX. And some digital painting in AFX would be nice..

“John Paite: how come Pierre Michel writes to you stuff about his project and you don’t share?”

I think that’s very interesting. Could tell us how you contacted him?
I love his work and would like to know about it.

I would like to see tutorial which shows how to create fotorealistic smoke and such.

1. Realistic Clouds! And especially if light can stream through the clouds.

2. Morphing.

3. What Tobias said about zooming through a window.

4. Anything with Trapcode.

hey Andrew, thanks for everything !!!

I would like to see more tutorials aimed for dv filmmakers like student films. color correction basics and so on.

An effect that I realy wnat to know how to do is to plant a reflection on a surface like a spoon in order to do a POV of someone looking at his on refraction on a spoon.

I would like to see some 3ds Max Tutorials, Its a lot more difficult that after effects, but im sure you could teach it very well

What i would really like to see is some action / fight Tutorials, like When you punched sam in the face! Awesome stuff Maybe how to stab someone or hit them with a blunt object realisticly for a horror movie?

Thanks again man

I would love to see how you did that effect in the baseball stadium where the storm comes in and there is a big shadow on the field. I know you already did a basic sky replacement tutorial but I would like to see a more advanced one like this.
Also the cartoon to video effect like in “A Scanner Darkly”
And the guy getting hit by a car.
I dont really own any other products than the AE, Photoshop, Premier etc…but I am sure I could get something if there were enough tutorials on it.

Hi Andrew,

With the release of your new Designer Sound FX package I would love to see some of the elements of the “Vantage Point” trailer re-created in a tutorial.. The trailer can be seen here:

http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/fv.htm??g=7d4b91f3-2fe3-482e-aec8-ce896f8aef7d&f=01/64&fg

Specifically the floating text seemingly disappearing behind Dennis Quaid’s head at 0:22, the transition between Matthew Fox and the female at 0:38 and the motion graphic titles that show up throughout the trailer (large glassy lettering with some nice transitions between words, and incorporation of live footage ‘into’ said lettering)

This trailer utilizes a lot of the sound elements found in your package so when I saw it I thought parts of it would be perfect for a tutorial..

Thanks!

Hi Andrew,

1. The Infinite Zoom

I don’t believe there is a single person who is not waiting for that one :p

2. Trapcode related

Many people here posted request for tutorials related to effect done with trapcode. I have seen very nice things in their user gallery, one of my favorite is: http://www.trapcode.com/gallery/Belief_Zoom.mov

3. Rio Gear related

I would like to see some smoke effect, and more specially the smoke ink done in the riot gear trailer. The tutorials of the rio gear are almost texture oriented… would have been intresting to see how you play with the other effects

4. 3D Related

Haven’t played with 3DS for a long time, but if you show us the way I will get back to it

5. Everything I read here

There are a lot’s of intresting purpose in here… sounds like you have years of work in front of you

Thanks Andrew,

Marc
Paris, France

Hi Andrew, I’m a big videocopilot fan, thanks to share your creativity. About the turorials, do you know (of course you know) the effect that is used in the movie “the butterfly effect”? When the caracter travels in the time and all the room shakes around him.

And other was used in Angel TV serie (last season) to transform a knife in to a sword.

By the way, keep going with this site. YOUR THE MAN!!!

i allways said i wish andrew could do some cool stuff using 3dsmax
it’s so cool that you asked!
please make 3dsmax and AF tuts

Hitting someone with a car.

I suggested this in an email a while back. Your effect on your demo reel is a real head turner. Also be a fun, useful effect to know.

JJ

I would like to see a tutorial on properly combining footage with a digital set. For example, rendering a castle turret in 3d Studio then placing your footage of someone with a bow and arrow on top of the turret and adding in footage of an army/dragon/flying monkeys/killer bees/whatever approaching in the distance.

Hi Andrew,

First of all: I wanna say thank you for your great tutorials.

I hope you will stay focused on After Effects. I use Maya since the time as the program was known as PowerAnimator. I am not into C4D nor Max…

What I am looking for?

1.) Screen Design. Do you know Mark Coleran? I would like to see tutorials like the scenes from the Movie The Island

2.) Motion Tracker. I have found a tutorial, but it is not that great
http://www.xtreme-is-back.com/tutorials_speffects.html

But anyway. I am already excited you will show us very soon

Norbert
Innsbruck, Austria

Getting hit by a car is a good one like in the beginning of dawn of the dead or meet joe black – nice

in your demo you had a dude getting hammered with bullets in the chest with alot of blood squirting out. looked cool too.

or how about those old cuts that appear on bodies like writing from the 80`s movie nightmare on elmstreet.

oh, what about one of those really big jumps the hulk does. that would be a fun one.

Infinite zoom would be most excellent, seeing as I’m working on a project that is VERY similar and I cannot seem to find the necessary resources to put it all together. Also… I agree with the others about a morphing tutorial. Maybe even an intense compositing tutorial, incorporating many different elements into the same scene… most of your tutorials do focus on smaller, more “honed-in” (is that a word?) aspects of a larger project, but maybe a larger one would help explain more of the pipeline/workflow of putting it all together. By the way, your tutorials are amazing and super helpful. Thank you for being you…. this site rocks!

I’d like to see some tutorials about Integration between particle illusion and AE and maybe a little tutorial on PI3?

how they transition in the movies were it goes from someone walking then a pool crosses the screen and it pulls in another shot…..then another pole crosses the screen and it goes back to the other clip…by transition

Hey Andrew,

I hope all is well with you. I would love to see a tutorial on how you do your breakdowns of your composites to show potential clients the before and after of the shot, thank you.

Best Regards,

Leon

I’ve opened a Pandoras Box. What have I done?!!! Just kidding.
Really good stuff here.

Dear Andrew,
I have but two simple requests that if you could so kindly oblige, I would be overjoyed. Firstly, I would request that you do a tutorial featuring web design using Adobe After Effects and Flash. Secondly, it would be very nice if you could do a tutorial (if possible) showing how to create a large crowd using a limited number of subjects. Well these are my requests. Please send me an email at least to let me know you read this. Write “I hate your guts, and your tutorial ideas are dumb.” but at least then, I will know you read this message. Also, please send me the money and the Sprite fridge packs when you use my ideas and create the mind-blowingest tutorials ever to be seen on the face of this earth.
Your Humble Friend,
Li Cui

What about making a tutorial about this effekt which i spent months on developing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCTxIZEKnD0

I call it the Professional Muzzle Flash

I know it still isn’t perfect the shells still need a little bit of rotation to make them look more dynamic. Everything was created by myself like the smoke or the shells i only used After Effects and Photo Shop but im sure with a little bit more work you’ll manage to do everything in After Effects. In the original shot the bolt didn’t repeat and there were no shells, the only additional thing you need for this effect is a photo of a shell but its easy to find using google.

If you want the project file write an e-mail to me: hs-films@lycos.de

I’ll send it a few days after you wrote me the e-mail because of some problems im currently having with after effects

Morphing and some ufo tutorial in AE without any plugins would be great. I don’t have any 3D program except Blender so if you could do something in Blender would be cool to. Then the zoom effect would be awsome to!
Alex

1. Cinema 4D would be cool.
2. Breakdowns of actual commercial projects you have done. (The stuff on your demo reel)
3. Techniques on transitioning between graphical elements in a cool way.
4.Basic graphic design/typography/layout tutorials.

I would realy love to see how you made the lightsaber preset as I am trying to make something like that of my own. Except my inspiration comes from Halo.

Andrew,

I really would love to see how to create the effect when someone gets hit by a car. I think I saw that in one of your promo videos. In that scene some guy runs on the street and moves like he was hit by a car, then you see a car drive through the screen and then you see the final result when the two scenes were put together.

Thanks!

One last thought, there are literally bazillions of tutorials floating around on 3D programs such as Max although none with your sense of style or humour. There are decent tutorials on After Effects in the creative cow forum from A.R. and a couple others, but your tutorials are definitely at another level, although very few in depth ones for web design (Dreamweaver, Flash) unless I haven’t been looking in the right place so whereas there are one billion and counting tutorial requests above, for sure a product request would be web design and creation with all the nifty who-ha’s that go along with it. I’d buy that in a heartbeat. I’ve sampled the Total Training series but for the $300+ to learn web design and programming, it seems a bit…. right. so. there you go. If you recommend these, then I’ll go with them but otherwise looking forward for the Video Co-Pilot Flight School Training Series on Web Design and creation.

i wold like to see a motion capture tutorial, and how to incorporate a real human into a 3d scene, like walkin trough a room or summtin, and about the 3d projection tutorial, can it be done if there is something in the middle of the room? like a chair or a couch or summtin? it wold be realy cool if you can answer this questions

oh, and if you are goin to use a 3d software please use 3d studio max

I too am interested in doing a similar 3D titling like in Designer SFX.

I know you used 3ds max.. I have a friend who has that program and is in to it.. but I’m not to suave on the 3d apps… (I’m confused as to if you animate the 3d titles then bring them to AE.. or if AE interprets it as 3d?)

I saved the Polar 2007 earlier this year and I watch it frequently as it is a large inspiration to me..

Things in that video that interest me:

1. Birds
2. Clouds
3. Rain from vertical view and while in slow motion at the side.
4. The cute chick.. and her pretty eye that reflects herself then it disappears..

On his website he has a portfolio video and I like the begging with the water ball thingy…

(but that’s not reasonable for everyone I guess)

Oh yes.. and I’m still wanting the blood splat from 300.. ever since that came out… I still remember what you emailed me… about the you know what…

but maybe you could tell me when…

Would love to see combing After Effects/Cinema 4D tutorial. There are not an abundance of C4D tutorials out there that are any good. Thanks!

Would really like to see a tutorial on the infamous “bullettime” effect from the matrix, not the 360 spin, but the trails which follow the bullet, I think you’d have to do this in a 3d program (to make it look best) so 3d max would be my request.

btw. huge fan og your tutorials, keep up the great work.

YES!!!! Mr Andrew
3d max tutorials would be fantasic (how to then composite shots togeather in AE with layers)

A fantastic inclusion would also be tracking /matchmoving (using PFtrack or BOUJOU)..a great way to open up the possibilities of live action meeting 2D fx…explaining how to interpret .ma data into AE!

Word.

thank’s : )

Hi Andrew,
That’s my firth post on your wonderful blog ^^
I’m a emobian but between Emob and VideoCopilot…I prefer VideoCopilot’s tutorials .
I get one or two ideas for tutorials…

I want to know how to create :

- A text who get out of flames
- A face IN flames
Most Important (because it’s for a friend ^^)

=> How to create a text who appears and get out with slashs like he is cut by a sword…

That’s possible ?
I think Everything is possible with you ^^

Thanks for all,

Baloo

PS : Ewcuse me for my bad english but i don’t speak it very often

You still need to make the tutorial for the Earth Zoom. That is one I have been wondering about for ages.

Also the “CONTINUOUS SHOT EFFECT”. Where one shot blends into the next into the next seamlessly creating the effect of one continuous shot. Few people or even studios can achieve this technique to its fullest potential.

Examples here: http://www.methodstudios.com/movie/441.html specifically the end where it goes from the building through the car out to the sky… seamlessly.
http://www.methodstudios.com/movie/852.html this one is cleverly done as well.

I also like the morph effect too. That one is trickery as well.

I love your tutorials Andrew… keep up the great work.

Like many others, I too would love to see a tutorial for the car crashes, both from a 3rd person perspective and from that of the passenger seat. I’ve seen the two versions in your demo reels, and I know I’m not alone when I say they would be appealing to a large audience.

Oh, and keep up the great work!

I want the storm promo tutorial and the car hit tutorial !!!!

hey andrew,

hey andrew,
i would really love to see the effect of someone gettin hit by a car. i love the assisted suicide one, i used it in one of my movies. but ya i saw u gettin hit by a car in one of ur videos and i searched everywhere for that tutorial but i couldnt find it so please put that up.

Matrix..man, matrix…

Bullet trail

Or that camera spin.

Hell yeah, dude, matrix.

Hey andrew,
Love the tutorials, I would like to see:

1. Hit by a car
2. camera goes through a wall
3. The trails left behind the bullets in “The Matrix” (The wavy things)
4. CONVERTING VIDEO INTO CARTOON!!!
I really want to see video into cartoon… I think Rabinowitz did it but it
was confusing

Not many people requested it but I would really like to see #4

Thanx

hi andrew

i love your tutorials, can you try to make one where you dont use any plugin, i want it to be in the end of a movie.

Good summer!

All of the above!

Also…what do you use to create your website?

thanks!

Im not really into that 3D stuff, but I saw a small clip on this site where you, or whoever it was got hit by a car! It was AWESOME! I would really like the tutorial for that

hi, i think that it would be great to make a tutorial integrating alias Maya, the most professional 3d program, so that you can get a great effect, worthy to be seen on big screen.

greetings from Spain

oh, oh, oh!! I really would like a tutorial on camerawork, like if you got a little clip where the camera doesn’t move, and you make it move in AE from side to side and such. Its probably easy, but im such a noob in AE, if it wasn’t for you, my films would still suck. THANK YOU!

i wold like to see a tutorial about a flash integration
its a lot more useful than 3d tutorials…

love your tutes.. =) …

greattings from Brazil…

I’d like anything on workflow, setting up projects etc etc. What formats to use where and when, Setting up a production scheadule perhaps? Basically anything that would shed some light on how professional peope go about working with AE. I know that you mention stuff here and there as you go along which is great but I’d appreciate a tutorial on the subject.

Thanks for everything you’ve done anyway, Opened my eyes for AE.

// Swedish VFX student.

My top-requests::

“Colorgrading 101″
- on how to grade and mod boring 4:3 interlaced video to something amazing. Also on how to grade a “longer-than-ad-lenght” video, like a feature or documentary.

“Blossom”
- how to make the a tree or a flower blossom. You know – with the branches and leaves evolving fast…

“Volumetric lighting”
Call me corny but sweeping colored spots and smoky rooms make my day

I see a lot of tutorial requests that have already been made into tutorials. By not searching for tuts you’re wasting everyones time.
Hit by a car (french) http://www.dailymotion.com/group/38082/video/x21lo6_tutorial-car-impact-sur-after-effec
search in creativecow, ayatoweb.com, and im pretty sure some of you have not seen the tuts on videocopilot.net, they’re pretty good, you should check them out

I think all of my ideas have been mentioned.

@Rick Q: he uses Wordpress for this site.

http://wordpress.com/

ooh, I think a tutorial on what software we should get. Like I don’t know what plugins are the best so it would help if you advised some. And some other software like what 3d application you prefer, cause I don’t want to waste money.

thanx

- Vector-intro
- Expressions and deeper techniques.
- Stabilize a video.
- Trapcode advanced would have been greatly appriciated.

I’d like to know how to create grungy style web banners! I think it can be created in AE and then imported into flash?!

I can’t afford stuff like 3DS Max or Cinema 4D so I probably wouldn’t come back to the site as often, although I have favorited this blog thing because its the best thing ever since your tutorials. Heck, I’m lucky I got After Effects with the bundle on a student discount a couple of years ago.

I am planning on saving for a future purchase of a 3d program, but that’s a little ways down the road since I just switched jobs and relocated.

I love all of your tutorials Andrew and find your work truly a blessing to my AE knowledge. Until I came upon your site through the COW, I only had minimal knowledge of AE and now I know so much more and understand things better because of your tutorials.

Whatever you do in the way of tutorials, I sure will be behind you 1000% because I know to whoever the tutorial is directed at will gain something from watching whom I consider a great artist at work.

Although, I would like to see the Infinite Zoom thing. We might be able to use it in my church somehow.

i would like to see real looking rain storm Andrew, and then the bullet trails like in the mattrix is a good idea, with the camera rotation,…..thanks man keep up the good work your stuff is awasome

Hey Andrew I was wondering if you would be able to make an extended tutorial on Motion Tracking. You see the thing is, I am trying to recreate one of those HP Computer commerials where someone stands infront of the camara and they start opening video clips and images using their thumbs and index fingers while they narrate all about their life. I assume you need to use Motion Tracking but I am not too sure on how to use it. I would appreciate this seeing the fact that I think your God with a video camera and Adobe After Effects.

Keep on the killer tutorials.

Hello! Excellent site!..
Infinite Zoom Space > Earth > Atom > (? Space again!? wow) …

Infinite Zoom tutorial please!..

Thanks love the flair of the tutorials. Very good products too.

How about some more tutorials using Particular?

The documentation that comes with Particular is crap. I have combed the web looking for anything helpful and have found almost nothing. Consider these:

1) Use Particular/AE to create a nuclear mushroom cloud

2) Use Particular/AE to create snowfall or rain

3) Use Particular/AE to create a simulated cloudscape

4) Use Particular/AE to make a person’s body explode into light particles. Something like Blade 2 comes to mind where the vampires burst into burning embers. Or Star Trek where a phaser blast vaporizes someone.

5) Use Particular/AE to make someone into a SuperSaiyan!! Dragonball Z FTW!!

As a side note, it would be nice to see some integration with Flash. Alot of us like to post our movies online, but getting the right combination of settings for size and quality of the fmv is a nightmare.

Keep up the good work!!

Im having a big problem with machineguns and muzzle flashes. I think its hard to make it realistic when there are more than one bullet. A smaall easy tutorial would be awesome, but if you wanna write something on the blog about it that would be cool too I bet there are a lot of fans with the same problem.

real 3d stroke going around objects and stuff like that!

First, you rock, man.
Second, one request I always get from clients is to make corporate videos out of still images. I know there are many techniques, and you’ve shown a few, specially 3Dwise, but it could still be a nice topic to be further explored.
For instance, I’ve seen some mad techniques using Time Remap and pixel frame blending.
And third, thanks for all the cool stuff.

Oh…something just came to mind.

A tutorial on how to REMOVE camera shake would be great!!

I have this come up almost everytime I shoot! Either the dolly hits a slight bump, the DP can’t keep a steady hand while shooting, or some other thing happens that causes the camera to jitter slightly. I know they have some (expensive) AE plugins for this but I also know that it can be acheived without the use of a plugin in AE.

Hey Andrew

Consider mine that I told you in an email:

1) Bullet Ricochets on water

&

2) Advanced Clouds

Some Guy:

Man vs. Car

I agree with Helge, a tutorial on machine gun muzzle flashes would be good, its hard to make them realistic. Pretty much everything that was said above, Just don’t stray too much from AE, as i don’t have any 3D programs. Keep up the good work Andrew!!

“Andrew Kramer Says”
June 28th, 2007 at 12:26 pm

I’ve opened a Pandoras Box. What have I done?!!! Just kidding.
Really good stuff here.

Yes a Pandoras Box Tutorial.

No, but since everyone is throwing in there ideas. Mine may be a simple one. I’ve always wanted to recreate that SG-1 Stargate burst. Can it be done in AE alone?

How about the “Wraith World” effect from Lord of the Rings, when Frodo puts the ring on. Vector blur was the closest thing I came up with.
Thanks

how about some tight particle illusion tutorials?

i would like to see how you did the earth zoom.

Tutorial Slaughter

I would like to see a simple tut on the “pan left/right ultra blured to a new scene”. Also a similar radial blur zooming to a closeup of an object like a monitor/display in the scene.

Hey Andrew,

Well I’ll be honest, I’ll watch whatever tutorial you put on videocopilot.net. I pretty much learned everything by myself and from other tutorials and I prefer not to choose the subjects of >yourfree

(lag with thr HTML) tutorials. So, you give what you have to give and I’ll watch it, whatever is it. I know it’s a good idea to get inspiration from us but, since videocopilot was born, I always liked the topics of your tutorials. They’re free, after all.

That being said, how do you make lightsabers?

Justin

Sup Andrew! I would love to see you use Sam in a skit as the invisable man! You know, place some blue/green screen spandex like material over his head and hands and make him pick things up, move around! Be kinda cool!
As always, love your stuff…..can’t wait to buy the great sound effects you have.
Thanks,
Vicartbytes

Hi Andrew, maybe each one of these requests would be awesome… but I’ll tell you what I would like you to explain.

i would like to do this ribbon looking things

http://www.exopolis.com/home/clients/braves/mov/braves.mov

they look so smooth and 3D!

well, anything from exopolis looks very good.

…

also I would like to show you this video

http://www.exopolis.com/home/clients/mlb/mov/_dtvMlb_web.mov

those dirt and dust particle things looks really great. and there are some ribbons stuff too.

nothing else, keep them in mind.

greetings from Argentina.

PS: I wonder if you really would read all this comments.

I’m sorry.. but one more to remind you of…

remember me asking about V for Vendetta?

basically another nano light tut… but where the ray travels behind the subject and also is tracked along the length of the blade which causes it to change its size..

remember?

Clone interaction.

Ryan Wieber did a thing where he cloned himself, but there were like 4 Ryans sitting on a couch, and they passed a cup from one end to the other.

Duplicating people’s not that hard; it’s the interaction with real world objects that gets me.

You mentioned on dvxuser a 2nd serious fx/compositing dvd. now that DSFX is in the can, any word on that project?

Thanks,
Pat

Integration of C4D & AE.
The Render Settings that you use mostly in C4D.

Integrate terragen with a 3d application for flythroughs and edit in after effects?

I’d also like to see how to do the Brick effect from the link in the first post!

My suggestion is to do a similar HARRY POTTER BATTLE.

The effects of course..

OR

Something like in Heroes or even create a CGI animation from start.

Infinite Zoom

Thanks

Hi i think that it will be cool if you continue to make tutorials about after effects, i think that this programs is the passion of many people here so i you can make some video tutorials explaining how to create some of this things here: http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e.html there is some pretty simple but also some very hard and i think that it will be great if you make some of this Also i hope that it will be helpful if you make some tutorials explaining how to create amazing things with Particular and 3D stroke plugins. That`s all for now. Have a nice day

I read thru the whole post(didnt know i had that much time at hand) and I found many requesting tuts of the same mentioned before them but wouldnt it be cool if we could like press CTRL+F and type in the tutorial that we want and that way we could find out whether orther people have requested it beforehand and we could refer it to their post and that way Andrew will have better understanding and save more time to sort and check each and every tuts we requested..its just a suggestion !!
@ Bruno – the dust particles can be created from the preset of Particle Illusion 3.0..

Hi Andrew,
I would be really interested in two tutorials…

1) Exporting from a (any) 3D application… What passes? Color, Ambient Occlusion, Shadow, Volumetric clouds, etc. (I’m not really sure what they should all be but I hope that gives an idea of what I’m talking about.) And then how to composite those passes in After Effects with live action footage.

2) Effects that can be created with the Trapcode plugins, especially particular/stroke (which I know you’ve touched on, and it was really cool.)

Thanks for asking and for all your work,
Jamie

wall break/crumble/explode

Morphing (I.E.-Vampire fangs, a man’s face to a womans-like that old michael jackson video, etc)

Creating a full virtual room from images

rain tutorial

infinate zoom

Hi Andrew !

First, thanks for your free tutos and your high quality products.
My request would be some complex effects on “real video”, like :
- a complex sky removing (for exemple when there are trees, or clouds…)
- generating a GOOD matte of a person moving on a background when you couldn’t shoot on a green screen
- more effects using Action Movies Essential, like integrating a realistic fog, fire/explosion on a video when no green screen is available.
- Roto technics

have anice day !:)

Hit someone with a car! DO IT!!!

yea i also think that something like a harry Potter battle would be cool. or how they did the town of the ghosts in the lord of the rings. something like that. just really advanced techniques.

gr. tesssam

Hi Andrew!

I love your tutorials, I allways watch your website for the next one:)
You are an after effect “guru” to me and a great teacher…
My english is not very good, but i allways understand your tutorials…maybe not for the first time, but the second or the third:)

I have a tutorial idea:
I’am an independent (amateur) filmmaker, so i haven’t got so much money to spend for my films!
I want some pictures in the night, in a forest, and in the city… but i haven’t got lights (No mony) so i have to shoot it at
daytime…and turn it to night during the compositing. I think these techology’s name is the ” DAY FOR THE NIGHT”
Can you tell me the criterion to do that? For example what typical problems to look to at the time of shooting?!
And So is there any tricky effect to made the film look like it is shoot at the night?

Sorry for my bad english… I hope my letter was understandable, and I hope one day i can see my tutorial “idea” ’s tutorial
on your website… or can You reply me a short e-mail?
Thank you very much!

Best regards “Your faithful student” : Daniel “Hati” Hadhazi from Budapest, Hungary.

Hi Andrew,
i wonder how to bring to life a static image as a background. I mean even with camera move the background looks static and not pleasent to the eye. Once i saw that one guy added to the composition something like animated white noise. I think it was just for simulate camera grain or noise. I’ve been trying to acheive that by doeing this, but no result.

Regards,
Dmitri

btw. very helpful tuts You’ve got here. I want to thank You for this great job!

1) CSI Effects (like Andreas Feix said)
2) Some more greenscreen stuff
3) Infinite zoom

have a nice day

Andrew, you should start making people pay for these tutorials that they are asking for, because it seems like they dont have any idea about how much work is needed to be put into them, especially the 3D work!!

this is something that really would be cool.

compositing and finishing shots with 3d objects uncluding camera movement. i mean having a blue screen shot or greenscreen shot. then keying and inserting 3d Footage and matchmoving the 3d camera for the moving 2d shot.

that would be a killer

-[Cloud]-

Destruction of things such as a wall, or window (with natural reflections) in 3D space. And removing objects from a moving camera shot.

Hi Andrew,

if you prepare some (or all) of upon mentined tutorial and put them in DVD(s) I’ll buy it. Your tutorial have no price!!!

Greeting from (hot) Sicily…
Gianni

Hi Andrew, I’ve been trying to figure out how to create a 3D water effect and use it for transitions. You can see an example of it in Rihanna’s video “Umbrella”. I love the look of it and the way that it was used but I have been unable to figure it out. Will you consider taking a look at it and possibly doing it as a tutorial? By the way, your site is SUPER helpful and inspiring. Keep up the good work and offering the great products. Thanks

How to make cool titles.

More “24″ effects

Well any tutorial you make will be sweet but can you make a C4D tut on how to export your animations with an alpha chanel so when you slap it into after effects theres keying?

That would be astronomicly helpful.

3dsmax basics and stuff, so for us that dont have that much training in 3dsmax, could learn a bit:) Oh and that Infinite zoom thing u worked on:D

Your reel was awesome, Andrew, and it coped with music perfectly. You could make a tutorial, how you made those skies change in that baseball pitch or something like that!

wow.. this room is so BUSY!!!!

How about the Matrix style ROOF TOP SCENE = BULLET fly pass with a wobbling kind of trail that looks transparent but with enough body to wobble the back ground..

Yeah, and the small waves on any hard surface, like a heavy stone was thrown in it. One dude in the blog had that effect in his reel.

Slow motion bullets would be awesome! Bullets going sloooow and then hitting a wall or a person, ahh, coolie cool!
Also all the Matrix stuff people are commenting about would also be awesome.

HERE IS THE SCORE SO FAR (IN LAYMANS TERMS):

1. Infinite zoom tutorial (most popular)
2. getting hit by a car (runner up)
3. Morphing tutorial (close 3d)
4. Matrix effects with bullet times (popular)
5. guns and ammo related effects
6. video walls
7. Titles and text effects
8. Weather related – clouds, rain and snow
9. cloning and multiplying people/EXTRAS ???
10.Breaking/CRACKING the lens on a Camera .
11.VARIOUS SPECIFIC 3D APP AND 3D PARTY EFFECTS

NICE!

A tutorial on making something like that http://www.ryan-w.com/ryan-w/clips/lightning_duel.mov

and the matrix bullet time effect, please

Always asked how they mix 3D renders (i.e. 3DsMax animated logos) with 2D effects from After Effects…

Also i wonder how to create a camera shake silmilar to one i’ve seen in “Fight Club” movie, where camera shakes and film came out of projector…something like that.

1/Camera mapping

2/Matte painting with AE & Phostoshop

Sorry for posting again, but what about those HP Hands commercials?

how about the effects used for the hp ads in the “personal” campaign?
http://www.hp.com/personalagain/us/en/index.html?product=vrcp

Basically, I’d like to see more stuff on compositing. Integrating live action with the 3D world. I want to know the “Secrets of the Pros”. I want to create “ILM” style effects and learn to track camera movements with 3D inside of AE.

Invigorator

I too would like to see an in-depth tutorial on how to create a logo in Invig. Especially the starting process in Illustrator. For example, recreate a logo to
make a transition wipe. Like what you see when sports wipes to a replay.
I’d even pay to see this one.

Zack M.
always buying your stuff – well worth it!

Something Like this !!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZPHKGgdmIw&mode=related&search=

Andrew,
What I’m interested in is the integration of AE projects into the final composition. Most of the tutorials are only seconds long, but many of us shoot interviews, events, etc. What about a tutorial that takes us through the process of designing a longer project and where and when to use AE fx for the best outcome. I typically use AE at the intro and ending of any project and that’s it.

This is a bit beyond a tech segment and more about conceptualizing a project or final project. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts.

WOW Andrew!!! You threw a small snowball down a really big mountain with this one. Regardless of the tutorial(s) you decide to make I know they’ll Kick A$$

Sam Gilbert
New York

Yeah, I’d like some tutorial on the Ryan-W lightning duel(http://www.ryan-w.com/ryan-w/clips/lightning_duel.mov) or at least something like it. I know that it was done using boujou for tracking, and trapcode particular . Oh yeah, and a matrix bullet trail seems fun(not the bullet time thing with all the photo’s, that’s pretty easy, the only thing is that you have to have a few cameras ), I think it could also be done with particular, but I’m not really an expert to particular ..

Hey Andrew!

I would like to know how to make a text disappear like sand or smoke being blown away by wind. It’s kind of hard to explain.

The effect is used in this video, you’ll see it about 12 to 20 seconds in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj5xo9GfGXM

Thanks man!

Hey Andrew

How about a brief tutorial on the audio potential of AE…

Regards
Matt, UK

this

http://trapcode.com/gallery/web_BMW_Precipice_Breakdown.mov

kicks ass!

That possible with ae?!?

Sammiep Says:
June 29th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Something Like this !!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZPHKGgdmIw&mode=related&search=

I assume thats done with a 3d application.

I would really love how to make the classic Tittle that has a light passing behind it and gets Shinny and iluminated.
I dont know how to explain it xD.

Its almost every movie tittle start up.

Love your work. Personally I would like to see a serialized tutorial regardless of subject. One that is maybe a bit ambitious in overall scale and could be broken into a series of pieces. The current tutorials are excellent, but the final result is a few seconds of video. I would like to follow along with you as you approach a larger scope of work.

All of the examples and ideas are great, and I’ll happily follow along with whatever direction is chosen. Specific 3d apps may be a bit tricky though as it may alienate a large majority of regular visitors. Personally I use Maya, so one vote for that if it comes down to brass tacks.

Finally, I have to agree with one of the earlier posts. Charge me for this stuff, I’m happy to pay.. maybe consider a paid member section to the site with more in depth tutorials. You do a lot of work pleasing the masses, you should benefit as much as we do.

Thanks.

I’ve bought your dvds and I think they are great. I can’t wait for the next one. Check out http://www.mgmgrand.com/ and click enter maximum vegas….. Now I would love to see you disect a portion of this video!! Thanks

Mabey show us how do do Lightning with rain
Your work is great andrew thanks

I haven’t read any of the previous requests so if this has already been mentioned then *whoops*. How about a tutorial that will help people spice up videos that require (upon client’s ‘request’) a lot of ‘text only’ screens for things like ‘how to’ videos, or places where footage may not be wanted by the client. Like in powerpoint presentations… Title – Subtitle – Bullet Points – Etc.

Just restated stuff already said to further get those in your head:

1. Volumetric lighting
2. Weather effects
3. Tips for effective composites
4. Color Grading

Infinite zoom. However, I’d like to see it expand through galaxies and nebula, much like in the movie contact.

It would be nice to see a tutorial on stylized/glowy/vivid lighting techniques, without the use of additional plugins, if that’s possible. Some examples could be found at Shilo (Cage video), Harry J frank’s ad for Premiere Tans, and the Macy’s commercial featuring Sharon Haver, just to name a few.

this

http://trapcode.com/gallery/web_BMW_Precipice_Breakdown.mov

is kicking ass make something Like this !!

# Andre Says:
June 29th, 2007 at 11:54 am

Sammiep Says:
June 29th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Something Like this !!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZPHKGgdmIw&mode=related&search=

I assume thats done with a 3d application.

He was talking to do some 3d Stuf to isn’t it

I think it would be great to see how I can use my After effects stuff in a website with flash. The thing I did now was export my AA movie as a image series and then import into flash with every image in a new keyframe in the timeline and then insert the buttons and stuff.
But then my swf files will come out with a size of like 20mb… which is a bit big for a website hehe.. is there any other way?

WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IS GREAT. I MAINLY USE AFTER EFFECTS AND DON”T HAVE TIME TO LEARN A 3D PROGRAM. INFINITE ZOOM WOULD BE NICE…GREAT STUFF ANDREW

It would be cool if you could show us how to do that Matrix 360 effect. I belive it requires some work, though. If not, how to make an explosion only using after effects built in plugins and tools would be nice.

1) Bluescreening with motion trackers while the camera is moving
2) How to make an invisible guy interact with his environment
3) How to make a blood stain on somebody’s shirt when he is shot
3) Your tutorials kick butt so keep up the good work!

The van running you over in your demo reel. That looks awesome!

Wow, I see alot of people asking for a Matrix – Bullet Time effects tutorial. I’m not sure if you all realize it, but this effect of rotating around a semi-frozen character cannot be achieved with After Effects alone.

In the original Matrix film bullet time was achieved by using a very complex photographic effect (ie – non video) called time slicing. This is achieved by creating an array of cameras which are lined up 360 degrees around the walls of the room. The actor goes through his motions and the cameras take consecutive shots. The individual frames are then played back for smooth motion. The background, buildings, walls, etc are all CGI and have to be motion tracked to the movement of the camera array.

In the Matrix 2 & 3 all bullet time stuff was full CGI, actors and backdrops included.

About the only thing you could use After Effects for is chroma keying your scene. I suppose you could do a similar effect by doing a rotating dolly shot around your actor, or maybe having the actor stand on a rotating disc in front of a green screen. You would still have the problem of putting a believable background in though, even if you could motion track it realisticlly to the camera movement.

So yea, don’t expect a bullet-time tutorial anytime soon.

-M

ps – now the distortion trail coming off the end of the bullets, you could probably find a way to cheat that in After Effects without resorting to a 3d animation program.

Iv seen a type of effect that goes like this: A clip is almost done, when the camera zooms out, you see that the clip is a part of a cube with video walls, then the camera goes to another part of the wall and starts a new clip. I would love a tutorial on that:D Videocube

Sammiep Says:
June 29th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Something Like this !!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZPHKGgdmIw&mode=related&search=

I assume thats done with a 3d application.

He was talking to do some 3d Stuf to isn’t it
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That was so cool! If you could find a way to do this.. I would show some emotions:)

# Sammiep Says:
June 29th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

this

http://trapcode.com/gallery/web_BMW_Precipice_Breakdown.mov

is kicking ass make something Like this !!
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THis was pretty sweet! Maybe you’ll find a way to tell us that this is done with a 3D program, but you know how:P

Soo many replies!

I could really use a tutorial of a rotating-burning SUN (kinda like they did in the Sunshine movie)

Perhaps followed by a solar eclipse

So, please consider doing one on that

Hey Andrew,

OK, this tutorial idea would go so well with your new Designer Sound Effects product. Have you seen THe Butterfly Effect? I’m guessing you may have, it’s a pretty well known movie, but if not you gotta see it! So foor the tutorial, it could be te effect they used when Ashton Kutcher remembers his memories and goes back in time and when this happens everything around him goes crazy and things start to be sucked out of the picture. It is really cool and would worl well with your Sound Effects Package.

Good luck and I LOVE this new blog and all your great tutorials. My friends and I actually made a short stupid movie for a school film festival with the help of Action Movie Essentials. Great Stuff!

OMG!!! iPHONE COMING OUT IN 20 minutes…
CRAZIEST DAY OF MY LIFES…

GO APPLE!!
THANK GOD I’M GETTING A MAC ON MY BIRTHDAY …TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!

http://www.et-films.net

Yep, Tobias has had one of the best ideas so far. The smooth transaction between outside and inside. That would be GREAT!!! Go TOBIAS!

@marco

well you can pull of a poor-mans ‘bullet-time’ effect if you have several cameras set in an arc at equal distance’s from the subject.

read about it in Digital Video Hacks.

Love to see;

Particals Using Particular
Grain removal from DV (if its possible)

Will,

Okey, one of the coolest thinks a action movie can have is a slowmotion clip of where some guy shoots around him and the camera goes 360 degrees around him. AWESOME, huh?
Anything we, the fans, can put in our little actionmovies would just be great.
Thank you Andrew, for your great site and your awesome products.

Hey Andrew! id love to see any 3DSM Afterburn tutorials you can come up with! If your looking for some tutorials on simple but realistic effects for C4D to help you pick it up, dont forget that Moon image i sent you, the tutorial is free on my site(no need for registration)

Hi andrew, love your website and all things within it. I do 3d, after effects etc.. i’m doing my neices christening at the moment, and it starts with a photo montage within a womb so theres photos all over the place the camera moves to each one, this is done in Lightwave 3D. Now i did export it out thru rpf so i have the camera movements, aplha etc, works great. the only thing wrong is it exports as 30fps, done this way. I use PAL 25fps(Australia), so when it comes to making it work in 25fps its jerky, done heaps of research and NADA. Q. how about a tutorial on how to remove/use alphas when imporing 3d in AE? (phew)
P.s. if you can do this i’ll buy some presets from your web. (no, its not blackmail)
Thanks heaps Chris

Sorry for double reply, but i want to see what an earthquake where a car is on a highway and the ground cracks under it, and the car and the piece of ground fal down, that would be a sweet tutorial!

In the begining of this video I saw (link below) it shows a montage of cropped photos that keep pushing back. One on top of the other. I would like to see how this was done and if you can top it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2380594248490913816&hl=en

@ Dustin

Yes, there are ways to do a poor man’s bullet time, but honestly its beyond the resources and technical ability of most of the users of this site. If the camera is static, on a tripod, then we’re good. When you start having to move it around your subject you are opening a can of worms that won’t be closing anytime soon.

As I mentioned before, I would be more interested in seeing tutorials that cover some of the more accessible/popular plugins for After Effects. Like:

- Particular
- Shine
- Knoll Light Factory.
- How to remove camera shake (please!)
- Cool tutorials for manipulating text. Its lame just having the credits fade in and out. A nice effect I’ve see recently was the credits to Jackie Chan’s ‘New Police Story.’
- Tutorial for removing wire harness. Not that many of us have access to one, but we would all love to shoot our action movies with one!
- A believable day for night effect.
- A more complex Time Freeze tutorial
- Other uses for AE’s motion tracking ability

hey andrew,
you’re tutorials have been truly fantastic and your blog is just as useful. the after effects community is starving for practical tutorials and by reading your blogs, i’ve learned about tons of great sites that a) showcase incredible talents and skills and b) teach others how to achieve them. to be honest, i’ve never been comfortable with the creative cow forum. sometimes, it feels like work trying to find what i need. your site, on the other hand is very user friendly and inviting. since the first time i saw it, i’ve been fascinated by the Fast and the Furious “zoom” effect. it’s the one where the camera moves in on a car and then rapidly zooms in on the driver’s face as the driver speeds by. they used this to great effect in a mountain dew commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srqi52H2hMY at about 13 seconds.
keep up the great work!

Andrew, I’d love to see a clever use for the puppet tool, other than the obvious use Adobe intended.

Andrew, When I was first learning Phottoshop I was part of a community on AOL that was lead by Kai Krause (KPT). Your tutorials have done for me in AE what Kai did for me in PS.
Thank you much!

Hey Andrew what ya’ll should do is make tutorials on super hero powers like superman xmen etc… cause i think people who are making films on that category would get a boost up with that kind of tutorials.

First off as many have stated this is the Best AF site out there and Andrew…YOU ROCK!!!

Here are a few ideas.
AF Tools – Flow Chart, Motion Sketch, Paint,etc…
Matte Paint/Set Extension/Virtual Sets
Text FX Presets
Building ‘Jumpbacks’
Compositing in 3D elements and blending them in
Special FX – Xray, Night vision, Inferred,

Movie Themes

Star Wars
Lightsabers, Blasters, Plasma Shields, and ‘Force’ Powers
Space Ships – landing, takeoff, etc…
Droids and Aliens – Integrating CGI and Live action
Virtual Sets – Alien environments
Space Battles

The Matrix
Bullet-Time
Freezing time and interacting with it
Flying
Virtual Cinamtagraphy

X-Men
Superhero Powers

300
Color Grading
Virtual Armies
Complex Environment Compositing

# Larry in LV Says:
June 29th, 2007 at 8:38 pm

In the begining of this video I saw (link below) it shows a montage of cropped photos that keep pushing back. One on top of the other. I would like to see how this was done and if you can top it.

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2380594248490913816&hl=en

This is Done whit Photoshop and AE First you Make renders whit photo shop Like things you wanna see Like The boy on the bike. And whit a other picture only the brackground. Past them in AE and Scale them or push the Zoom back then past the other picture over it. Only Zoom that you don’t see it. Work whit Camera 35mm and make a motion whit only the Z.. And Look there It is

I’d just like to voice my support for keeping the tutorials short and sweet, like they currently are, and focused on a specific effect. What I like so much about your tutorials is that they don’t take me forever to watch, but I can quickly be filled in on a new effect/feature you’ve come up with in After Effects and then its up to me to apply my new skills to my projects. I’m learning more practical applications for AE from your “quick” tutorials than I do from longer, project-based ones. Oh, and its great when you mention the shortcuts for stuff in After Effects, that’s been maybe the greatest help of all you tutorials.
Anyway, thanks!

superville Says:
June 29th, 2007 at 8:45 pm

they used this to great effect in a mountain dew commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srqi52H2hMY at about 13 seconds.

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There Are 2 Zooms. like in sec. 12 and sec. 5/6 after he says I want my dew. That one At sec. 12 is a Camera Affect and I posible whit AE to. And the one at sec. 6 is easy. They just drove in that street you don’t see any shop and what they have done. They only jused a couple of frames jused crossdisolve and voila. there it is.

I would really like to know how to make animals talk, like what they had in the movie Cats and Dogs. That would be awesome.

Hello Video Copilot Crew,

First let me say that your Serious Effects & Compositing DVD is the greatest contribution to man kind since the invention of water. I do have a suggestion. How about creating a Movie Effects & Compositing DVD (I know, the name could use some work.). I would love to learn how to create a movie quality VFX shot. The training video could focus on putting all the elements together from start to finish in After Effects. When I say all the elements I mean like adding particles effects, lighting, adding 3d elements, set extensions, matchmaking, color correcting, and finally compositing it all together to make one nice VFX shot. Imagine a DVD where they show us how to create a scene from 300 or recreating the Hell scene from the Constantine movie. The link below is a good quick example of what I have in mind but I would like to include live video in the process. I think that would be a cool training video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1AuvwfKhIk

1. Infinite zoom
2. That digital flickering like we see in many movies today (Also in game trailer Assassins Creed)

3. Film Noir look =D

What about a bomb that destroys the whole city? I think you did this before but can you do it again for AE 7.0?

I double what Jamie says, keep em short and so that people can use the tips to create something of their own, instead of just copying your work

First of all, I would like to thank you for your amazing tutorials!!! You are a master, thanks for sharing with us

I would like to know how to make:

1) Effects made in the Polar 2007 promo!!! (Amazing promo…)
2) Effects made in the Matrix movies like Bullet-Time for example
3) Like Jacobi said, a How-To create a movie quality VFX shot would be great, like in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1AuvwfKhIk Also the presentation with the bullets in 3D Slow Motion IS AMAZING!!! How about something like that?
4) CGI Integration
5) 3D for our movies!!!
6) Much more of your knownledge about VFX!!!

Nice work!!

How to create a neon light sign (like the ones found around seedy night clubs that flicker alot)

I almost forgot, Flash would be great too!

# Scott bishop Says:
June 30th, 2007 at 3:49 am

I double what Jamie says, keep em short and so that people can use the tips to create something of their own, instead of just copying your work

1. Infinite Zoom
2. The Matrix Effect: The action freezes and the camera moves around
3. DayForNight
4. Some cool effects for backrounds (like the 3D-Fractal-Effect)

Something with zombies.

# Sammiep Says:
June 29th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

this

http://trapcode.com/gallery/web_BMW_Precipice_Breakdown.mov

is kicking ass make something Like this !!
- – - – - – - – -

THis was pretty sweet! Maybe you’ll find a way to tell us that this is done with a 3D program, but you know how:P

I remember reading about this on Studio Daily. I’ve been trying forever to do a believable day to night and rain effects, but to no avail. If you could show us some of your techniques, that would be great, not to mention, helping out a large audience. Thanks Andrew!

Saw TRANSFORMERS last night!!! That movies was not produced by humans…its out of this world…my pop corn box remained full as i watched in awe….

Want to say Andrew you are a legend, there were spots in that movie (and the new Silver Surfer) where i can now go home and be able to know how to mimic similar results for various effects …… well not results, but the knowledge to now how to do.

THANKS!

Integration of C4D (creating 3d title & camera movement data) with AE 7
Videotut in German (right click on “HIER heruntergeladen werden”):

http://academy.slashcam.de/product_info.php?products_id=45&osCsid=28aa10cbe640a035a49f8f7b6027c387

I have to say many requests here, like the repetitious ask for “hit by car” tut show that some people here

a) don’t know how to use google

b) haven’t watched the tuts here on videocopilot (like the “blow head off”, its the technique that can be used for the car thing)

c) haven’t even read the above part of this blog, where there is a link to a video tut on “car hit”

people, this is dumb and a waste of everybody’s time.

I still wish for a tutorial about “watercolor looks” and “paint splat mattes” like on

http://www.blind.com/blind.php > Reels > Commercial > Honda, LA Marathon

amazing stuff there

BULLET TIME!!!!

hey kramer.. you know what i like about your tutorials? they are not boring. i visit the website everyday and i am looking forward to purchase some dvds for reaaal!! man.. anyways peace keep up the good work

I just thought of another one. How about the intro sequences for the james bond movies?

I would like a tutorial on 3d titles and also how to make the surface of a layer look wet or slippery or something, alot like some of the stuff in the sound fx promo

http://trapcode.com/gallery/polar2007_h.mov from http://www.trapcode.com . imba graphics. as for the 3D program, the one that andrew enjoys workin on the most.. Thanks mate, you really helpin ppl Keep it up

hey man one idea id like to see would be intergrating from a hellicopter in 3ds max put in to footage and either shot using bullet time or a rocket launcher

thank man

Im thinking of buying a Colt M4A1 soft gun to use in my future movies and it would just be awesome to have some matrix tutorials
Also one where the room freezes and the camera moves around the people and stuff would be sweeet

make a tutorial once and for all!

# Tartaros Says:
June 30th, 2007 at 11:09 am

http://trapcode.com/gallery/polar2007_h.mov from http://www.trapcode.com . imba graphics. as for the 3D program, the one that andrew enjoys workin on the most.. Thanks mate, you really helpin ppl Keep it up

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Realy I cryed seeing this movie I loved Him that mutch
Great Great Great ::):):)

You know what would be awesome?
to create some monster type things in like 3dmax or something similar.
also it would be great to know how to make it seem like a sword or some object is going through someone,
like how they have it in movies.

because im tired of using lightsabers.
thank you very much.
YOU ROCK!

Halo Mr Kramer
respect for the new toturials and new visions from the SoundFx,this is great and wonderfull!
Thank you for all Toturials!
Greetings from Germany
DocMatyl

I believe i have already sendt a mail about tutorials
and my suggestion is that you make a tutorial about time
freezing and moving around with the camera like in matrix or heroes

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kdhFGakLkIs

I have heard that they use many cameras to get the 3D
effect on objects but if it could be possible to make this
with a single camera and then enhance it with after
effects it would be awesome:)

first i’m gonna thank you for the tutorials that ur making they are great and very helpful, and for the tutorial request it would be grate if u could make a camera match moving from 2d video then export it in a 3d software like 3ds max…

After seeing about 20 more posts for bullet time tutorials, I thought I would post this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time

For reasons I posted about 100 posts up, its not gonna happen, so stop asking for it.

I would like to see flash tutorials!!

Andrew,

Wow, what a bunch of great ideas! From a logical standpoint, and building on your past history of adding functionality to your training that everyone can use, I’d like to see you take the next logical step of talking about your fantastic titles. As was mentioned previously, your Designer Sound FX titles were fantastic and unless I’m missing something in AE, I’m sure you used something outside of Adobe. So maybe start with creating “Blockbuster Titles” would be good. Then move on and up from there.

What about the whole “Light Caustics” effects such as titles through smoke, haze or fog? I’ve played around with it, but you tend to think outside the box and may be able to take it to that next “VideoCopilot” level.

You rock my brother!!!!!

Keep up the great work! Thanks for your sacrifices and time!

Best…

John
BURNS MULTIMEDIA

Some more Riot Gear tutorials would be very helpful. Some James Bond intro tutorials would also be cool.

Some matrix tutorials or some with 3d characters getting blown up or shot would be quite nice ^^

Think about it

can’t go wrong with particle tutorials

ok, i know this isn’t AE related…. or maybe it is, but does anyone know how they shoot people with arrows in movies? for example, quite a few arrow effects in lord of the rings. even more impressive are the arrow hits in 300. they aren’t even wearing clothing and you can see the arrow stick into them. the only two techniques i can think of involve clever editing (cut to arrow already in position) and maybe shooting a scene in reverse (pull the arrow off a character with string.) is it a practical effect or is it pure cg? if it’s done in post, it’s got me fooled.

hee superville,
ik think that this could be done in ae with trapcode particles. if you make a arrow and use that as the particle. and set the mode to stick. and ofcourse some more adjustments i think it would work.

Bullet TRAIL effect please!

Are you going to do these?

1) Bullet Ricochets on water

&

2) Advanced Clouds

love to see something about intergrating real world with visual effects too.

How about anything underwater? Looking for underwater motion effects, bubbles, anything that can show relative size and motion while underwater would be great.
Look forward to anything from you.

I can’t believe I got my mac, it’s so cool..I’m on it right now!!

I think you’re asking him for wayyy too many tutorials…
he has a real job, and he’s making these for free, so give him
a break, lol

http://www.et-films.net

http://www.et-films.net

http://www.et-films.net

http://www.et-films.net

http://www.et-films.net

http://www.et-films.net

Hello
I’d like to learn how to create a fake 16mm film burns.
Thanks
Cheers:)

Couple of good ones:

1) Digital set extensions. One that comes to mind is where they digitally make a short hallway much longer or increase the heights of shorter buildings and such.

2) Compositing digital matte paintings with live action (could be green screen or non-green screen) footage. Maybe replacing some or all of the backdrop with a futuristic or fantasy setting – and implementing motion tracking for short camera movements. The Japanese movie Casshern comes to mind.

Hi Andrew, How about some tutorials in “Particle Illusion 3″. That would be great!
You know, make better explotions and stuff

Thanks.

Superville, watch that http://youtube.com/watch?v=B0stRHsw5YE

The arrows in 300 are PURELY cg.

Just wondering if the waves in this are done in 3d or in after effects? If you reckon they are done in after effects would love to see it.

http://www.allbetsareoff.com/video/Nihatsu_Fusion.mov

i would also like to see how you would do your keying on a green screen with out using the keylight plugin.

thanks again.

tutorial slaughter

how about bullet time effect (i meant circles trailing behind a bullet (like in the matrix movie))
thnx in advance
PS: great work andrew, u rock !!!

@superville

i watched 300 several times in a row.. but i did notice some arrows don’t track well…

@radicalhorizons

that was a cool video…

Hey Andrew
Just wanted to know if you have a motion tracking tutorial….I am interested in tracking a moving object and replacing it with a 3d object….
thanks

aaron

I would realy like to know how to put the point of intrest of a camera from one point to another while the camera is moving forward like in tutorial no27.

God, i hope I will be the last to comment:D But I would so much like to see some X-Men type of special powers! Thank you for all your free (and not free) work! Appriciate it strong man!
God.

Andrew, would love to see you show off your skills in Sony Vegas. I’ve tried replicating in Vegas some of the things you tought us in your DVD’s on After Effects, but it’s pretty hard. You make it all look so easy! Please consider doing a couple of Vegas tutorials, and even a Vegas tutorial DVD – I’d definitely buy that as well! Thanks.

Something in the sense of organic / microscopic life forms would be great

imagine custom precomposed items as particles
that fake lifeforms then zooming out to a picture of a waterdrop

duno but i think it might cover some nice & good tips to get new users started with a bit more advanced AE.

in anyway…keep it up andrew, good work!

lol.. 300+ Tutorial Requests.. I guess when you asked for it, you got it. So I doubt this will even get read being at the bottom of the list but here goes anyway..

1.) Tutorial on 3d Text Effects – Awesome Text Effects etc..
2.) Particles – How can you make Rain Drops hit off objects in a video like adding rain? Example. I want to add rain to a scene and have it hit foreground, background and off the brim of someone’s cap. or the top of a car etc..
3.) How to be more like Andrew Kramer
4.) Too many to list here. I want to be fair.

Cheers!

Oh yea, one more. Motion Tracking. For instance, a tutorial on Motion Tracking where your Track point goes “Out of Frame” and you need to grab a different trackpoint. But when played back, the shot is all over creation.

So I guess the Tutorial requested would be Motion Tracking and Working through out of frame or multiple tracking problems.

If it is possible. make a tutorial on making it look like animals are talking

something like paths / advanced writeOn effects

in the sense of this stunning clip by d-strkt.

http://www.bd4d.com/home/infoFeatHome.php?iPresentationID=20

What about how to crush somone with a giant boulder, like in the action movie essentials promo at the end

Hey Andrew,

This is just a request for a tutorial on making cool effects for the game “Halo” or “Halo 2″. As I’ve seen a very large variety of people who have listed you at halo3forum.com..a wide fanbase is there for you, I just think it’d make for a pretty popular tutorial.

Thanks.

How about a tutorial on how to recreate your scene of the army guy getting blown up on the battlefield i.e. the shell exploding next to him as he runs across the field. And you could advertise your ‘Action Essentials’ into the bargain!

how about one of those vampire “POOF “effects.. like the one in blade

and 3DS MAX PLEASE!!!

Hey Andrew,
Lovin’ ur tutorials mate!
Hey anyway I can download the tutorials and save them on my HDD? saves having to stream it each time. – Plus I’d like to put them in my BIBLE section for After Effects.

Thanks!!

I wasn’t going to say this until I saw how many other people did; some James Bond intro tutorials would be awesome!

Hi Andrew

First of all i would like to thank you for all your help and support in making of Peri video clip :
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6TairuI2rJo

” Real Clouds ” from videocopilot is used in the project.

I have watched many tuttorials but the ones you have done are different because you direct them as a part of a short movie … i would like to see you as a director of your own movies one day
in your new project can you include matte painting and 3d tracking and using it in AE

Thank you very much
Murat

Hello there Andrew.

I would like to see a tutorial about creating fire Fireballs, Burning Text, everything!

3d Camera Traking PLEASEE

Hi all

I’m european and I thank you very much for all these tutorials M. Andrew Kramer, they are very interesting, especially for beginners like me .
Just wanna add if you know Ayato, a japanese well-known in visual effects, look at his website : http://www.ayatoweb.com/index_e.html
His effects are awesome and very beautiful, but quite difficult for beginners like me, don’t always see the links between the steps and how to continue :/

So I’ll be very pleased if you can try one of them (the most impressive effects^^) even if, unfortunately he uses sometimes others software, as Illustrator…

Thank you

Najib

PS: didnt read all the requests above, but I’m sorry if someone has already talked about him.

I was trying to wrap my head around doing rpf cameras in after effects with only half success– the 3d elements in my scene wound up at extreme angles to my camera and I couldn’t figure out how to line it up properly to the rendered 3d plate.

Any help would be hot, there.

Hi Andrew,

I am really enjoying your tutorials thanks!

I would really like to see some good tutorials about, for example, video footage that is shot without rain and you add it realistic afterwards.

I know it is possible because i saw on
– http://www.trapcode.com/gallery.html –
a movie about a BWM commercial where they add rain.

greetings!
Giso

ps how was your wedding anniversary

I would like to see some morphing tutorials – some of the stuff you see in a lot of commercials lately.
Here is an example – use your buddy for it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TkdWg3qpL54

Also things with text and how text can interact with each other – physical simulations and so forth – like flowing water text…

More with AE, you do a great job with it.

You should do a tutorial on how to get text to realisticly turn into smoke (like the text right at the start of the video) im sure he did it with 3ds max, but im sure it could be done in AE and looks just as good

please do it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7F0Ul0OoVY

I would like to see the “blood filling the vains” effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU2awTrEdN0

@ 9 sec, thats what i mean, would be great!

// Christopher, sweden

Dear Andrew,
everytime when you are about to present another great tutorial I’m like: “He’s not just crazy, HE IS TOTALLY CRAZY”.
But then my mind says: Wouldn’t it be a lot more crazy if he would try to explain us how to use 3D-Footage in After Effects. This would end up in a real big unstable mass of madness! Besides the fun: I really would like to use 3D Text oder several items like chairs or … chainsaws to create some nice moves in After Effects. Okay then, that for now.

Wish you all the best.
Greetings from Germany
Bye
Felix

Dear Dear Andrew..speaking of 3D I would really like to know how to use PANORAMIC 2D image and panning 360 degree using the AE camera? is it possible?? This would be a great thing to know…As Im writting this im getting the idea but simply not sure!!!

i would really like to see like what u left on the blog for video rendering (my faviorite is photo jpeg – saves so much space and time!) but for sound. i keep losing lots of my sound quality when i compress and interestingly not everything seems to be able to read uncompressed…

also somthing on how to manipulate the after effects particles would of course be cool – loved the previous tutorials on that

I would like to see a tutorial that shows you how to do a very cool superspeed effect. Similar to the one seen on Smallville. Also some with Zaxwerks Products, andTrapcodes Particular. Also a tutorial that makes it look like you are jumping really high. Or combine everything I’ve said here to make a really cool effect. I would also like to see a tutorial showing you how to render out cool breakdown clips of effects that I’ve created.

Hello Andrew,
I`m from Brazil, work with video production, here your tutorials worth more than gold man, hehehe .I would like to see a tutorial like the freezing time one, but in a 3D Motion Around the scene. the link below show`s the ideia:

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=sqRjiE_GAd8

Anyway, i think it`s a good one to learn.
thks for your time. and if you got more 5 min take a look in some of our jobs maded here in brazil: http://www.youtube.com/playhdtv

Bruno Brito.

A timefreeze tutorial with rotation, like seen in heroes, and/or posible interaction with floating/frozen objects

i’ve got another idea.. tutorial on how to make a cool demo reel

a great tutorial would be a updated morph tutorial using as little plugins as possible

I emailed you this, but never got a response. I was thinking that a “vortex” tutorial that would show how to do something comparable to the opening of BBC’s Doctor Who.

Here a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bh5rHhYiyM

i really liked to see one tutorial with morphing faces.

your tutorials are tthe best

hi andrew just want to tell you we love your tutorial very much!!! we are from israel.
we wonder if you can do a tutorial of making crowd in after effects its could be a fantastc tutorial. we love your tutorial we love you man. bye bye

Andrew, I would love to see the 3D fractal as a tutorial. I would also love to see that shatter tutorial that comes with your sound effects dvd, but have no need for sound effects. You should set up some kinda system (something like itunes) where people can purchase the individual tutorials themselves. Any chance on just selling me that shatter tutorial by its lonesome? I could really use it for a project on the horizon.

Thanks so much for posting all the great stuff that you do, they are so helpful in understanding such a powerful tool as AE. Write a book too, there just don’t seem to be any good ones.

You are a saint amonug men

Hi Andrew,

I’d love to see how to use and so to learn the path text effect, i don’t understand how to create an animated text.
I hope you know what I mean and sorry for my english

Greetings from Italy
Io_FraNo

PS your Tutorials are the best

A tutorial compositing a 3d model into live action footage. Including rendering out passes then using AE to composite it all together

More jokes, specifically how to structure a good joke. Thanks. And maybe some jokes centered around a 3dsmax tutorial on 3d text and how to do maybe a nice camera spin around a 3d logo or something and then export it to a nice shiny video format. That would be well funny. Your the man Andy, LOVE all the free tutorials and great products, theres really nothing out there like this and I think its great, keep up the good work!!! Many thanks for the inspiration.

I might be the only one, but I would like to learn how to make a 3d cd case that you can animte to spin around etc. Like the ones you see in album commercials all the time where you get to see a bit of the band video for instance and then the cd spins in rotating a bit, showing the front and back and reflecting light etc to make it look more real..

And I also agree with ever other poster here, they have a lot of great wishes, and I must say that I´m extremely impressed with you Andrew, and I´m so glad to see that you still don´t charge anything for your amazing tutorials! It´s so great to be able to watch high quality stuff for free, that´s not often we get to do that these days. But you´re amazing!

What about A long zoom. For example, start close on a subject on a rooftop, then do a zoom accross a few city blocks to someone on street level. Its similar to the infinite zoom, but is there a way to do that and integrate live action footage shot?

I got a great one, have you ever seen Smallville? If you have, when Clark superspeeds away is a really great fx, would love tutorial!!

well ive been thinking latly about buying this program and ive been watching heroes latly so if you would could you show me how to make some effects from heroes abit like the time stopping ability that youve already got on… but somthing more like fire on the hands or along those lines.

also a camera lens cracking shattering effect.

but if you already know some places for tutorials along these lines could you give me a link please.

Hi

First off thanks a million for the great tutorials, i am forever in your debt.

I am currently working on a project wich involves a product i need to spin in 3d space.
The client has provided me with high ress images of the front , back , top and bottom and the sides. This is all good as i can put those all together in 3d space in AE BUT…
the product has a slight curve to it on the top corners so i get a wierd thing happening. The question is, is there a way to curve the layers in 3d space so all my layers sit snugly together to create a nice neat 3d object.

Im sure the possabilities for this are endless and would mean AE users could offer
3D product animations as long as it was a fairly simple shape for a fraction of the cost of proper 3d.

Thnaks again for the great tutorials

mike

Hey!

I would love to see some tutorials on Water, all kinds on water from oceans to waterfalls, rain, rain on water with those water circles! everything on water! there’s really no good water tutorials on the webb, and if anyone could pull it off, it’d be you!

Thanks alot – Oscar

Hey just wondering if you could do a tutorial on a rotating menu…kinda like how the CD cover flow menu works…I would love to do this as a dvd menu but am a beginner at this After Effects stuff. BTW Great website i love all your work!!

How to make some convincing bullethits on a windshield

hehehe – am getting really good effect ideas from just reading this strip – keep it up guys

hey! can you make a tutorial what learn us to create a morph effect?that would be nice! AND i want to learn how to create a time freeze with a rotation like in the ninja movies or something. like jump up and freeze, and rotate round and continue! you are the best andrew!

Kid 12 years Norway

PLEASE SOME SCARY EFFECTS!!

Things you would see in scary movies ie. jittery movement, making a face more intense or scarier!

WOULD BE AWESOME THANKS

* I would like to see a Day for night and Night for Day tutorial.

* Car hit

* Outdoor rain creation

* Bullet time stuff (matrix)

* Horror movie style effects (arms getting lopped off, fingers getting severed, etc…)

I would definitely like to see a tutorial on how to simulate the “Hand Crank” Camera effect that Tony Scott and others have recently popularized, in films like “Man on Fire” or “Running Scared”. I’ve seen expressions for this before, but they are unwieldy and not that practical.

Your web site is wonderful ! I come everyday to seek for new things to learn
You are a very important person in the small FX world

Could you PLEASE learn me how to do the HEROES and SMALLVILLE credits ?

THANK you in advance !
Keep it up !!!

Just saw the new Scion “Little Deviants” commercial by Shilo. Thought a tut on a pop out book effect would be cool like in the beginning of the commercial.

Hi Andrew,
I love your tutorials so far!
I always wondered how to make a 3D Bullet, and animate it so that it hits a character’s head for example. Or like many other people say: 3D titling like in the promo movie from Designer Sound FX

Keep up the good work Andrew!

Greetings from Belgium

Hello Andrew,

i was wondering how After Effects could be used to integrate 3D Stuff into live action footage properly (Color Correction, Adjustment).
Apart from that, i would be interested in how to create some cloning stuff in After Effects.

Thanks for being my VFX Hero

Greetz from Germany

New sprint comercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW_9SYaWAQg
just, how is this done, if its done in a compositing app?

Hello,

Perhaps a simple tutorial on how to do realistic beams of sunlight spilling down on a back ground.

thanks

Have a look at the opening credits from the movie Casino Royale. Theres some pretty cool stuff going on there, such as how Bond is only shown in Black and white.

Hi Andrew, i am trying too make a realy big army. you know, i talk too them and there are like 1000 man down there. i tried everything, from 3d till pictures, an all with greenscreen because i have only 2 soldiers in real life. but it just doesnt look good. and allso it sounds like a cool idea if you can zoom out from my head (the one who give’s the speech) too see the whole army.
thanks allready

-Maarten
Amsterdam,The Netherlands

Hey Andrew, I would really like to see a tutorial on the whole teleporting effect. Like Nightcrawlers smoke effect from X-Men 2. Your tutorials are pure awesome, thanks for making them free!

Some tutorial like Dragon Ball Z MOVES!!! Flying men!, Super Punchs!, KAME HAME HA!(FireBall, you know) Electricity trought body!! Thats will be cool!

Andrew,
This may no longer be valid as it may have been requested on the RG2 posts but:

Slow motion with effects at real time!
Weather effects
Some plug-in tuts like Particle playground?

Anything realy, but i would like to know how to make ice, and ice cubes please.

Bring on Riot Gear 2

Mitch

My offer for a tutorial is:

Impressive effects (3d, visual effects …) as these:

Inside Heroes – Visual Effects

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=xFUHlQOpFwc

It will be nice a tutorial for “low-fi” filmakers, like
“how to blend fx and filters like particles / matte keying…etc. with low-fi formats like vhs…and how to avoid the awful “copy- paste” effect…

thanks!!!!

Alexis.

How about a tutorial how to use MOV’s with alphachannel (e.g.from Cinema 4D) in AfterEffects?

Hi Andrew.
I´m a big fan of our stuff and i purchased Riot Gear some time ago and
have had a lot of use of it.
Your tutorials are great, easy to follow and funny to listen to!
My suggestion to future tutorials would be to explore third party plugins like Silhouette FX rotoscoping tool.
Other neat stuff would be match moving and tracking tutorials.

Cheers
Göran

hello,
first of all let me tell you that i appreciate what you do for us by creating those great tutorials!!!
now i have a couple of things that i would like to learn.

first:
in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHY-a6CySec a lot of times people turn into cartoon or schetch lines and vise versa….how to accomplish that?

second:
on the same video at 1:59 – 2:03 the guy turn into torch…that would be awsome…

third:
create an effect where someone touch a glass , a screen or something and is making that thing ripple like water….you can see what i mean in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lue1O22S11c at 00:31 – 00:35

forth:
x-men powers….like ice man when touch water and turn it into ice ….nightcrawler teleportation….kitty passing through walls…mystics shapeshifting where she turns into anyone

fifth:
Clark superspeed from Smallville

sixth:
the time freeze and the camera move around the character in fast motion

seventh:
video wall or video cube like this video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5jfFrVMNU4

last but not least:
eye effects….like covenant where they change their eyes to black…or storm from xmen turning them white…or cyclops shooting laser beam from his eyes….or turning the iris color to another

i think you unterstand what i am interested in….creating super heroes powers….

thanks in advance,
Valentinos Demetriou

ps i hope you make anything of the things i asked….

I would really like to see a tutorial about 4 point motion tracking and some of it practical and perhaps more advanced applications. I’ve dabled with it, but never quite gotten it to work how I want and despite my efforts can’t seen to find any tutorials on it to help me out.

I would love to know how to simulate lightning flashes through a window, and also for indoor shots. not actually see a lightning bolt, just have dark video footage look like its being lit up by lightning.

Hi
Very nice site,
You help me a lot with AF, I’m a 3D artist and now with AE I can merge both and make great stuff.

One thing I would love to lear and I’m not the only one, it’s how to make background abstract effect.

Thanks a lot, and keep going

Hi!
I know i am boring with 3D bullet but…
It woud be cool to make tutorial for something like when bullet past in Matrix behind him he left some trails, so to make tut for those kind of trails.
PLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrew, these tutorials are amazing, first of all! Okay, I’d love to know how they did this effect in the music video for the Offspring called “DEFY YOU”. The camera makes these rapid moves from one side of the singer to the other and the background slash-blurs behind him. It almost looks like a morphing transition between two shots, but I’m not sure.

Would also like some more nested zoom techniques for live action shot to a live action shot in just a few frames.

Thanks!

Would love a quick tut on the way to animate text on in a stream as in the Video Stream trailer.

Thanks.

Will

Hello Andrew,

I would love to see how you did that atomic explosion in the city you did a long time ago but took it off.

Also how to create any type of realistic fire or flames.

Some more 3D exploding stuff like the new shatter effect would be great too.

Hi Master!
You made a while ago a great tutorial using the trapcode particular plugin ……..
I have the trial version and here is my question …..
why it doesn’t not interact with the other layer in my composition?
The layer where the particular effect was applied looks like is happening in 3d space .
But all the other layers are in front or behind …..
Is it because is not a fully functional version or is it not possible approach that with this plugin.
I’ve seen the same question in a few forums …. but no answers .
Thanks in advance and man!!!!! keep it up.

hi,
I am making a film with a Time machine, but i wondered how i can create such effect. I think i need two shots, one with people and one without and with a crop effect they appear, but how can you give that “time machine effect” with twinkles etc. I hope you”ll give a wshort tutorial about this.
Thnx in advance (sorry for my bad english, i am form the Netherlands )
Jochem

have u seen ryan vs dorkman 2. well if u havent u should check it out. just type it in in google. well if uve seen it. how do they make lightsaber burns on walls just how it is in the actual star wars. this would be a great tutorial

Realistic fire and rain effekts. (raindrops that can be played in slowmo)

how to do the “Sin City effect” where a person’s eyes or mouth are in color when everything else is black and white. Or….their eyes are colored while in the black shadows.

Also how to create a Mushroom cloud explosion or asteroids comming to the earth.

Hey love the tutorials they are awesome helped me so much can see my frist atempt at compositing and effects here lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7papYz_b8YQ

I would love a tut on the cold and warmth filters. mayby i missed it somewhere?

Keep up the good work!

Andrew,

I’ve got the basics down for good chroma key work. Most of it involves using either a static background or a background where the camera’s perspective doesn’t change (ie no panning, crane moves, trucks, etc.)

How would you go about compositing a 360 camera pan (or crane move, etc)? Lets say you have your background video (with no actor) where the camera moves in a cricle (point of interest toward the center as though someone is standing there), and you need to re create a similar shot for your foreground actor who is standing in front of a green screen. So when you composite them together it will look like the actor is standing in the environment and the camera cirles around him. Do you have any tutorial hints on how to do this and make it look correct?

Here’s a couple of things I’d like to see:

A realistic space ship scene, using some of the freebie models on scifi3d.com, flying around earth, etc.

Possibly a good earth tutorial that has visible layers of atmosphere and such.

Definitely a bullet time tutorial.

A tutorial on some of the grunge vines you see on tv commercials and promos for food network, etc.

It would be great to see how to create a thunderstorm, lighting and clouds approeaching to a city or something.

Keep up the tutorials

hi,
I am making a film with a Time machine, but i wondered how i can create such effect. I think i need two shots, one with people and one without and with a crop effect they appear, but how can you give that “time machine effect” with twinkles etc. I hope you”ll give a wshort tutorial about this.
Thnx in advance (sorry for my bad english, i am form the Netherlands )
Jochem

Hey Andrew,

Ok, lots of people are into the whole superpowers scene. So I was thinking do something along the lines as; flying, levetation (objects or etc.), walking up walls or… jeez I don’t know… Laser eyes or something?! It would be well apreciated because my friend (Paddymazz) and I are trying to make a series of videoes and effects along the lines as super powered human beings and crud like that!

So your tutorials would be MUCH appreciated!

Just a fan,

-Predator

I think this would be a good tutorial… this slide show is just incredible…

if you goto the web site http://mediastorm.org/0001.htm
and check out the show 1976 its just a fantastic slide show…
I have tried to reproduce it in AE and so far just have not come up with
the same results…

Hi kramer,
like millions of fans of ur work, i m one of them. I would really want to learn how a text can fly into bits like a smoke. an eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7F0Ul0OoVY where at the very beginning the title appears and flys off so smoothly into thin air in bits like particles. also, andrew. how can i should u my work, little example i did in AE. thanx,regards.

Hi kramer,
sory posting again .. but i just recalled. . A Bullet time Tut would do wonders to us. like neo does in matrix or in max payne the game. thanx.cheers

Could you do a tutorial involving the weather, geological and atmospherical effects? Could be a snowstorm or blizzard like conditions and then suddenly clear up using your “real clouds” product. Would be cool to see a tornado or at least the effects of a tornado happening. Make trees move, have someone’s roof pulled off then an earthquake rips through. And lastly, end it all with a meteor shower. Would be cool if you set it up like a scene in Transformers or Armageddon or whatever you come up with. Make Sam endure it ALL!!! HAHAHAHAHA

Your tutorials are awesome!!!..i would like to see in your new tutorial is how to integrating cg character to a live action set…

Greetings from the Philippines!

i would love to see some harry potter effects.
and maybe turn somthing in to water.

I think the Opening Credits to Standoff should be top priority as far as the next tutorial. It seems to be in Vogue (not the 90’s All-girl group En Vogue, mind you!) as the new flavor of the week. And Im all for new flavors, but would like to make said flavor myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zPm95sUYG8

hey hey

you have to admit there is a lot of titles effects and they are all good. i use most of them in my work, but it would be great to have some video effects, for example the blur zoom with all the colors, i have looked up on the internet but havent been able to see a tutorial for it, im sure alot of people would benefit from it.

a short description

a long shot and a close up up with a blur zoom with a nice colour as a transition.

thank you.

Andrew,

with the latest release of the second fantastic four movie, the effect of appearing cloaked or nearly invisible has been presented to me again. My favorite example of a person or creature that is “cloaked” would be when the alien from the movie “predator” is hunting Arnold Schwarzeneger. The cloaked effect is pretty amazing and is similar to the invisible girl effect in the fantastic four movies, but not quite as good.

I’d love to see as tutorial on how to create this effect. Thanks.

DW

I would like to see a tutorial on how to shoot at the screen and to create a cracked screen effect with a bullet hole on the screen with cracked glass coming off of it.

Hard to explain exactly.

Andrew,

Love the site and love the tutorials even more. I’ve been trying to use a similar effect that was used on the season 1 promo of Miami Ink (Discovery Channel). So far it’s looking pretty good but it mostly looks like a “cloud” is revealing the image rather than the image “growing” or being “soaked up” to be revealed. Any desire to make a tutorial that focus’ on this type of effect?

Thanks again,
Steve

AK– I wouldnt mind seeing a tutorial of your processes to create the color presets that you made– I wouldnt mind making a few of my own and could use a push in the right direction. — Love the site — thanks for your incredible insight!!

Hi Andrew Well i hope you read this i found a musical video with really cool FX & i hope you make a tutorial for this well this is the video Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBqxVEFtCX0 please wacth it & try to make the same Effect that of the minute 2:05 & if you want the others well if you’re reading this please!!!!! try to make that effect it’s really cool & well i hope you see the video.

hi Andrew—fantastic tutorials—–how about some 3d text ones..i have had some success with multiple layers of text sifted in z space 2 or 3 pixels…or using the shatter effect with the text itself used as a custom shatter map and the forces turned off ( great on vertical or horizontal lines—strange on angles on curves ). anyway hope you read this…..there are a lot of posts…keep up the good work

Hello together,

a quite short idea is the explanation or the rebuild of the intro-effects of the film: Domino (not Domina . The film about Domino Harvey got an astonishing intro with very quick changings in 3D. I think, a lot of Andrews already released tutorials are quite in this intro, e.g. IPod streaks and 300-like Speed Ramps & More!

Perhaps you like it and give a little help on a more complete topic…

Greets from germany..

Marc

Hey Andrew,

I’m a big fan of your work and AE in general and am looking to create an animated short film in AE.

If you check out: http://www.jamiecaliri.com/united/dragon.html you’ll get the rough idea of what I’m looking to do.

Now AE is the perfect tool to create the sets and the world around the characters… But the characters themselves require alot more work to animate.

So firstly, would it be possible in AE to parent body parts of a cutout character (as seen in vid above) and have them react like a rag doll, where if you move a hand, the arm will move with it? Would something like bone rigging be possible?

I think a tutorial would be brilliant for us budding animators reluctant to move over to programs like Anime Studio Pro or Toon Boom.

Kind Regards,

Tim

can you make somthing melt?
like a phone or somthing.
walk through a wall would be nice:D

Who would like to see some really cool FX from Smallvile???
Like flying, fast running, eye burning, slow motion trails, catching bullet!!!!!!!!
Andrew think about this pleaseeeeeeeee, i think it would like to a lot of people.
Again you are the best!

Hi!

I have been struggling lately with different kinds of image quality problems:

What to do, when videomaterial is very noisy, and You’re supposed to perform some keying or make effects on the footage, or fix the problems?
What kind of tools to use, to remove noise or other problems,.

Maybe this topic is already covered in tutorials or comments but…anyway

Example:

Recently I had to deal with a client who gave me some crappy hd material, with loud RGB-noise and bad track marks, the sgreen was made of somekind of paper, it was not blue or green it was something in between, the background had hotspots from the lights and so on… I was supposed to color key and insert new back grounds…when I saw the material, I refused to take the job, but instead I offered to arrange a reshoot.. Well, the client called me unproffesional and said “everything is possible if you just try hard enough and you are a real pro”…Well is it?, and how to explain your client that his footage is useless. Or what kind of footage is useless and what kind of problems can be solved with AE tools…

Problems or things to consider if you plan to make FX to footage, so you can shoot the footage and think ahead:

-Unsharp footage
-Noisy Footage
-Color Problems
-Shutter speed
-Lighting
-Camera movement

And how GOOD the effect( how real) it has to be, to seem believable in a short film or a movie, how much does your eyes lie.

maybe you can explain advance options of the WALKER EFFECT V2.0 PROFFESIONAL or some plug ins from TRAPCODE or other PLUG-INS you can give us a good tutorial about

I would like to see some particle transitions, like smoke titles, or sand blowing away the text.

a little advanced, but very interesting for people working on VFX. I´m working on an effect, where a helicopter is landing and a lot of sand and dust is blowing around the heli, several locations next to the heli and directly into the cam. the dust, made from particles, is in interaction with the obstacles around the landing ground. this is very much work in 3D and afterwards in comp. perhaps you got a nice idea to make a goaround (the particles)…

would be great….

greetings, marc

I would really like to see a tutorial on how to create an into like the Osbornes on MTV.

Also a tutorial as seen on your commercials demo, where the guy is holding a can of cola, then the image of the can jumps out of his hand and the commerial ends with only the can on screen with purchasing information.

Thanks, and keep up the great work, i love all of your products!!!

Some type of Walking Life/A Scanner Darkly effect. Some tips on rotoscoping.

Hey you know what would be cool is to do a tut on a zoom into your fingertip. Like the camera zoms into your fingerprint and into the human code of the fingerprint. That would be sweet.

Hey andrew Kramer, I’ve got an interesting one for you that’ll tie in with the world theme. I’m trying to create a kind of “digital moving” world atlas, sort of like this http://www.bonafidereviews.com/articles/13/images/1x.jpg
But I could animate it and bring up Countries to fill the screen + zoom down to capital cities (could just be a big dot + fancy glowing title for all I care) But basically I want to use this idea to create a fancy 3d looking interactive feeling “war-room” world map with a moving cursor that pretend “clicks” on something and the country pulses and brings up information etc.

I Also would like to see some kind of way to create a 3D Bullet, Not the trail (though that would be nice too) But a 3D bullet (I’ve got this idea of having it speed through someone and go out the other side while the camera goes inside the body… sort of kill bill style in one of the animation sequences).

If you could help with any of these I’d be really grateful. I kind of need help here for my Media coursework, since I’m making a sort of action movie trailer.

PS: Your work so far is great, keep it up!

One thing that I see a lot and really want to add to my movies is the effects that in horror movies, it usually shows a portrait of a person, but the background appears to be “scretching” from behind them, I am sure you are familiar with this effect. I would appreciate a tutortial.

Robert W. Notestine

I have searched around the net and so far the one thing that baffles me is fire. It would be cool to see any tips on creating fire to put into a video that has applications beyond one type of usage.

Hey Andrew thanks for the great tutorials! The tutorials I would like to see is the, “Getting Hit by Car,” and the process of creating the color presets. Thanks again.

SMALLVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it possible if u could ake tutorial on how to create flames or fire or somthing like dat

That would be nice
Thanks.

hey andrew great tutorials but i want you to make a tutorial of a bullet going into a human eye.

Hi again it’s me ummm sorry to reply again but
is there a way to simulate a real looking tornado in after effects
if there is a way could u make a tutorial of it.

Thanks!

Anything with a bullet!

you have the best AE tutorials in the web until now as long as im aware of, but the thing that really kills me is that i have a really sloooow.,. dialup connection, and its really a pain to load the flash vids cuz my conn gets cut off every 6 or 7mins (i live in a place in asia wth very rare internet) and it takes around 6 hours to completely load it… and i was jst wondering is it possible to create tutorials with maybe screenshots and stuff? thnx,. really looking forward to it.

oh yea, and like valentino mentioned above, it would be cool to have an iceman like freezing tutorial…

Show us some Morphing effect please.
just like in Good Charlotte – The River Video ))

Morph effects are always good

Ty and good tutorials..

Hello Andrew! I was really inspired with your tutorial “Time Freeze”, but i’m thinking to create something more amazing:)
For example such as one person appears in picture area, and not just freeze in a moment of time, but always moving from one corner to another, like a lot of people are walking in different directions, BUT IT’S ONLY ONE PERSON!!!
See what I mean?!
Best regards, and sorry for my “perfect” English:)

A guy getting hit by a car.

How about an inverse Kinematics tutorial. You know like in the show mythbusters and on that one commercial where the guys are like “Brilliant!”

Hey Andrew,
Do you know how do get they effect they got in the music video for Only by Nine Inch Nails?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0u0AG_floQ

The effect I am talking about is the gadget with the pins and his face is being made with with the pins sticking out. I forget what they are called but they make the shape of what ever is pressed in the back of it.

Thanks

morphing effects would be nice

Flame and fire effects!

Real looking tornado!

sorry for keep replying.

I am your biggest fan.

ANDREW 1#

creating all of the planets and maybe even a black hole/milky way all in 3d space to move around in.

Dear Andrew,

I think it would be great to see a logo animation which consists of many aspects mentioned before (like “fog-text” etc) because some of them are too boring for their own. A quite good examples might be the new Blizzard Entertainment Logo used in the Starcraft2-Trailers like the first 3 seconds here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ELhtXtnV3pg

It would be so impressive and informative to get a nearly complete rebuild.
Nice FX I think.

Greetings.

i agree with all the ppl who want morph or shapeshift effects
ummm. flame effects, some1 gettin hit by a car
an atomic explosion and somthing involving weather effects like:

blizzards
rain
snow
tornadoes

and dat jazz and remember You are awesome nad i LOVE your tutorials I like learning new stuff

Hi Andrew,
your tutorials are really amazing. I really enjoy watching them. For further tutorials I really think the new Blizzard Entertainment Logo would be a great idea. It looks awesome and there are many different effects which perfectly fit together.

I’m looking forward to your next tutorial.
Best regards
Jeffrey

Hey Andrew,

Many thanks for putting it out there. Although I am in tune with the Cow I found you though a google search! Bought Combustion plus Ken’s training DVDs (haven’t cracked them yet) last fall. Stayed away from AE because of Expressions. Since watching your tutorials I have spent the last 72 hours making comps (I have a 6.0 version of AE that I am limping along with), you’re so damned confident and engaging I want to buy AE 7 (for Mac) just to follow along.

During my Serious FX module I tried to add some lights to reveal the text form shadow and was unsuccessful. Any chance you have an itch to focus on lighting?

One huge tip I want to find out is I notice the Fly By and 3D effect with no Plug In text’s outer edges are faded and blurred. I picked up the Fly By – Glow adjustment layer but I still can’t get the “fringe” look on the outer edges of the first couple and last couple of letters. You mention using depth of field but I am having no luck with AE 6.0. Is it an AE 7 thing?

Getting the Serious FX DVD even though I don’t have the proper version. You’re that good!

All the best.

enzo

Additional possible tutorial: using ProAnimator with After Effects?

Hey Andrew! Great work so far!

I was wondering if “Exagerated Morphing” is possible in after effects. I would like to be able to expand a persons body features like mouth, arms, feet. etc. like using live action and making it act like an old bugs bunny cartoon. (All without resorting to a CGI program like lightwave 3d, etc….)

Thanx!

Hey Andrew! Could you make a tutorial of how to create the effect that comes out of the guitar in the following video. It seems pretty interesting.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GymuB1VP7X0&mode=related&search=

Greetings from Miami

Keep up the good work, thanks one more time.

1. i dont’ have ideas , what i can make with text !? Have you seen Teenage Mutant Ninja turtlles ! in beginning of the film there was a nice text , like a plazma , i have to hard speake in english ! can you make a tutorial !?

I have found a good tutorial in C4D for a bullet waves like matrix (circles grows from the bullet in slow motion, altering the background), I wonder if it is possible to achive this fully in After Effect. I’ll look for this.. if you have ideas …
Thanks.

The link (sorry it’s french) :
http://www.frenchcinema4d.fr/hub.php?doc=tutorials&article=431

Wil – France

Hi,
A tutorial which id love to see is how to make the text effects used in the credits of the movie “Ghost Rider”. The text just burns away and the particles are flown away. I think this will be a great tutorial which everyone would love. The link to watching the credits is below. I hope to see something like this soon. Many thanks.

Ghost Rider Credits video link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5qnrLiXGo

CGI would be the best of the best, that is the future!

Hello still there

I’d like to know how to change the weather , Like on a sunny day , change it to Rain , storm etc.. and how to change a road by a hole like an explosion with falling rocks etc…

hi
i like to know how to simulate eye’s wake up effect, how affect light to the eyes focus… can you make a little tutorial for that?
thanks

Atomic explosions…Fire…Water drop HD…meteor shower…3d bullet…SMALLVILLE

Andrew,
You know what would be cool. The bullet trails on Smallville and the Matrix. What do you think? Also the slow motion during the bullet trails.

Matrix effect tutorial !!!

Maybe some rain effects!

hi, i’m from portugal sorry for the bad english

andrew can you make a tutorial about a very fast healing process like wolverine’s power on X-man??

or one about 3d speed trace left for somebody or some thing wen the time is really slow and de “thing” is in bullet time or normal time speed.

I love special effects, and i want to say that tutoria about earth zoom is one of the most useful tutorial on your website

with that technique i can make some CSI zoom fx too.

i’m from portugal sorry for the bad english, I hope u can understand that

thanks

using riot gear to create the very slight distorted TV look from the new kanye video, ’stronger,’ which is hype williams’ sweet akira take-off.

come on, andrew. do it. do it!

fire! i want to know how to make fire! id love to see how to make fire in another great tutorial of yours andrew… like fireballs, flames that fly up, etc. thank you! please consider!

I wondered if you could show us how to do that shot in the final image promo video.

The shot is a man that is pitching a ball at the screen and the ball brakes through the black wall. Also how you made it really stormy and stuff.

Thanks!

Hey Andrew, After Effects is great for making movies, but not for skate videos. Don’t get me wrong i love using After Effects for the little skits we film. You see i also make effects for the intros to local skate videos around here but ever time I’m done with a clip in After Effects, the skate clips turn out to be a little choppy after it is rendered. I don’t know if it is the type film mini dv uses or if its a setting you have change in the render queue. Any suggestions?

can you make a heatray and disintegration effect tutorial?

Hi andrew, I’m currently working on a project that involves someonw walking through a wall. I have done several different renders of this effect using A.E but im just not happy with it. I was thinking maybe you could do a tutorial on it (with a little extra kramer style to it) maybe with the wall bubbling as the person walks thorugh it.

loving my new Designer sound Fx dvd!!!!!

Thanks

Hi Andrew.
Can you make a Matrix Camera fly-Around effect with super slowmotion. That effect was very popular when matrix (1) came.
I hope you understand what i realy mean. Cause its kind of the time-freeze toturial you made, just add a camera fly around and remove all real time elements.

Fan from Norway.

andrew-

love the tutorials, so keep it up i guess. the only question i have is this. to get video into my after effects program, i have to export it from avid. now, there are a hundred different ways to export it and i was wondering what is the best way to get the highest resolution. as to not lose to much quality on either end, importing to AE and then again, exporting the comp back to avid. in essence, quicktime reference, QT movie, MPEG and so on. you could probably cover this in your next tutorial on animating a robotic pop tart that eats flying peeps.

keep fightin’ the good fight

Hi Andrew,
you’re doing a great work.
my idea/ demand to know how to realize an fire effect like they did:
http://www.imaginaryforces.com/if.html

(go to projects->commercials -> nike – > ignite)

it’s weird, they used that so often, turn it red-orange -> you got fire
turn it blue -> its water

i think you can generate it in afx, but dunno how. maybe it’s simple to you to explain us?

thnx a lot

greetings from munich

hi,

i thought it would be cool if u could make a toutorial with someone comeing out of a tv like in the ring

Working with the physics and settings of Trapcodes Particular. Particle generators are something I feel are incredibly useful, but not touched upon NEARLY enough. Plus, Particular has some really tough settings that dont have support for at all, not even from Trapcode!

Hey Andrew!

First off I wanted to thank you for all the help you have given to everybody. I am spreading the word about your page to everyone I meet!!

I have spoke to many people about what tutorials should be given on the Internet for after effects. Soo many people have told me that they are looking for “How to make an Asteroid” whether it would be crashing down to earth, or flying through space. That would be an amazing tutorial!!!! I believe lots of people would be very happy. Thanks again for all your hard work!

-Eric

what about a 3d flim strip … a good looking one .. the video wall sounds good

i just wanted to thank you andrew you have taught me so much so fast i feel i owe you something … maybe when i film my first big movie you can be the fx guy hahaha well thanks alot budd will donate some money to your site for the tutorials when i get lil bit of cash

I agree with max a few comments up about some-one coming out from a tv.

hello,
i was wondering if you could make a tutorial on morphing….
for example from one static image to another (same picture) but in a different angle….i’m new in afx and i thank you as i’ve learned so much from ur tutorial…..thx again for all ur hard work

Hi Andrew,
Love the tutorials, I check them out almost every week. Here is a tutorial idea about how to make an interesting slideshow with after effects. I saw this amazing wedding slideshow at, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPn_lVI5IQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emefeedia%2Ecom%2Fentry%2F2300701%2F
and would love to see your take on this! Thanks for all the excellent tutorials!

Dude
These tutorials are awsome. Keep up the good work. The 3D stuff is what I’ve been working on. I cant seem to get a single person on a still pic though. Im trying to acheive the look in this vid http://youtube.com/watch?v=DCGoRld0xXc it’s around 13 sec. It woud be awsome if you showed that 3d effect. Thanks

Any chance we can get a tut. on creating something similar to the 20th Century Fox intro? with flood lights and all. that would be cool.

Hey Andrew, i have purchased many products from you, practically the whole collection so far and i have to say they are awesome! I also really like your tutorials as they have helped me film many of my independent films. One thing i was wondering, i am currently filming my last short before i go back to film school and this film is for the Vancouver Film Festival. I am needing some help in creating a flashback sequence, sort of the same style as you would see in CSI or other crime shows. If you could help me our or create a tutorial about it.. i would be an even bigger fan!!! might even buy the sound effects program as it seems wicked..

thanks a mil.

take care

Carlo

Just wanted to know if you could show us how to make graphics that appear in 3d space and are moving with pre-shot footage, sort of like the graphics used in the opening of the “Planet Earth” series….I’m sure the footage was pre-shot and they added the graphics later, but it appears that the graphics are part of the shot and the camera is moving around them like so… THANKS for your consideration….I’m sure that this could help many people out…I also see the effect used many times on “ABC Family” promos incorporating there logo into the footage.

I don’t know if anyone has requested this but I would really like a tutorial on compressing video for internet or dvd. This would be very helpful and I cant help but to notice how big, nice and high quality your videos are on the site, and how fast they loud. Thanks

Hey Andrew it would be awesome if you made a tutorial on reflections like on sun glasses, windows, close up shots of a persons eye and you can see the reflection, etc…

Hello Andrew, I think a tutorial to make an intro like the one we can see in the begining of spider-man 3 (but not that level of course).

Hiyeee Andrew
How r u doing.Can u plzz tell me how can i make Equalizer according to music.

Hey,

I would really like to know how they made te lightbulb/videowall in the groove armada – get down video clip.

Love your site!

greetz from Holland

I would like to know how you pulled off that great ground expolosion that can be seen on your homepage. It looks very real, like the dirt from the footage is really moving with the explosion.

Please make a tutorial for that one. I’m sure you already know how you did it:)

SHOW US HOW TO MAKE 3D TRANSFORMERS LIKE THE MOVIE HAHA JK

I would like to see a follow-on to the Earth Tutorial.

I’ve been trying for a while now to emulate a meteorite heading towards earth and the camera pans around the meteorite and then moves into a position behind the metorite as it heads toward Earth.

I’ve seen some tutorials somewhere that uses Particles to emulate a burning sun, which I’m sure could be manipulated to look like a meteorite. My idea was to give the idea, not just of the speed of the thing but also the size and power, possibly adding timelapse etc.

This might be beyond After Effect, but I think it’s achievable…but could be a good challenge. I would like to use this as an intro for a product that provides protection against power surges.

I’d probably be pushing it to finally add a forcefield around the earth that deflects it?

cheers

i would love to see some adobe flash tutorials.

Hey Andrew, loved the new sky replacement tutorial. Any chance of doing a sky replacement tutorial for night time exteriors?

-Bob

yo andrew,

ever thought of doing a tutorial on in-camera special effects.—this tut could include instructions on how make a split diopter shot or dolly zoom also called or even doing forced pespective. just a thought

hello Mr Andrew Kramer

Sir i saw your tutorial they are awesome. sir i am learning compositing . i need to know how can this effect can be done in AE . like a ball breaking through a window. and the according to the perspective the glass shaterring. thanks

hi Andrew…

You’re awesome man.. i keep thinking how can you find out all the special effects technique by your own… And i’m always be a big fan to you. I’ve done a lot of green screen keying and it’s easy, but i’m wondering how to do an easier rotoscoping / masking technique for complicated background (with no green screen) because i’m tired of doing frame by frame masking. Thanks alot…

You have been doing some time remaping, and 3d projection… why not combine them to get a matrix-style effect?

Now, I know it would not work on overly organic objects, such as people. But could work easily with boxes or quite possibly cars and whatnot.

Just, slow to a freezeframe, then do 3D projection on the object, slight camera move, slight move back to original position, then time starts again.

Just an idea.

I know this is more technical than creative, but how about a tutorial concerning the proper work flow for dealing w/ 3:2 pulldown. Basically how to pull the fields apart (for tracking, rotoscoping, etc) and then how to properly recombine them on export. All the tutorials are great!!!! I look forward to seeing more in the future.

Thanks,
Adam

we just bought some of your dvd’s and they are awesome!!! I was looking to do some heat haze. Any ideas?

Keep up the awesome tutorials

Hi Andrew,

Love the website, the tutorials, the gang! Would love to see some panoramic tutorials. Wondering if it’s possible w/ AE? Please keep up the excellent passion. I am with you…

Wishing you all the best!

Hussin Khan
Coventry, UK

I know what no one has said yet:
I just watched a thingy on discovery with the bulls, pamplona and all that stuff, and in some clips the only thing that had color was the red cape he had in his hands; So I thought to my self that knowing how to make everything black and white except for one color would be awesome ! I am sure MANY people would love to use that in their movies, documents etc. It’s a great effect, just wish how to do it! Hope you see this Kraminator. =)

- Me

I’d like to see more tutorials that mention me by name.

Hi, I have been trying to figure it out by I just can’t get it. My suggestion is about the THE BLUE PLANET: EARTH tutorial. I have been trying to make the earth 3D so that you can move the camera anywhere in the space and will still look as 3D. This is what I am trying to say: Lets say you put the camera on a side of the space, the earth won’t look round, it looks FLAT!!!! just like a picture.

So I you can, please let us know how to make the earth entirely round. I guess you will need to do it somewhere else like in MAYA or something and then export the 3D earth to After Effects. Am I right?

Thank you, and I will appreciate very much your help.

BESTS

Andrew,

Any chance that you’ll be posting the Sin City tutorial on the website.

Thanks

Hi there, Andrew!

I think it would be a cool tutorial where you show how to make Shockwaves like a Jedi when he uses the Force.

Keep on!
Regards from Germany,
Lucas

Please do a tutorial on how you did the Designer sound fx promo, i know the project is with it but how did you do the backgrounds expecially the little blinking light at then end similar to ending of terminator films.

Please these would be so good!

I need a tutorial on how to combine CG with live action, putting CG behind live action, and then how to get rid of the tracjing points used in filming.

Hey Mr. Kramer-
Here’s a tutorial idea: make one the explains how to make it look like someone is walking on grass when there is really no one there, so the grass is just crushing into the shape of a footprint. Kind of like a scene from The Invisible Man.

After watching an episode of CSI (Season 7 – EP 17) I saw a technique that I would love to see, and would probably satisfy all those looking for a bullet time technique.

I realize we can’t have the camera move once time is frozen, this requires many cameras and probably hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware rigs… but.

I would like to see the camera zoom out, once time is frozen, showing more things behind the original camera position. Not sure if you’d start zoomed in and work your way out, or what but hopefully this is not too difficult.

Thanks,
Mat

Hey Andrew!
First of all – Great tutorials! I really enjoyed your tutorials and I wish you’ll make some more.

If you could make a tutorial which you can set a trail of a beam or something like that. Sounds pretty cool. Maybe not, nevermind. ( But really, it will be awsome ).

I wish I could support your excellent packs but I live in israel and its kinda hard to purchase your DVD’s.

Thanks a lot for your tutorials, can’t wait for more!

hey Andrew,

Great tutorials! Can you make anything that would help in developing scary effects? It is very hard to make movies without a huge budget! maybe some screeching noises would be great ! Thanks!

Do you put any of your films/movies/tests/golf clubs/footage/audio/renders/ on this site??

Hey Andrew Kramer,

I love your tutorials. I was wondering if you could add tutorials on how to make special thunder striking someone, ice attack, fire, or something. I always wanted to create a 10/7 minutes film super power film. But I have no talent and tutorials on how to do them. I want the thunder kinda like Storm from X-men. Ice effect, fire effect, thunder, or possibly fly effect. Would be cool if you make them.

Hey Andrew,
your video tutorials are the best!!!^^ – but,how about a tutorial for Cinema 4D? – When you know something about the Joints or the Ik – System, could you make a tutorial to these things, because i have problems with this!And to After Effects: Could you make a tutorial with great rotoscoping tipps?I want to make a movie with my friends and i will use your tutorials for great scenes!!!!!!
Thanks, MAX ROTH
Germany

Hi Andrew,

I use Keylight for Keying out, just as you do. I have just received my new Production Premium CS3 Bundle today, and I see that the new Adobe Ultra is with it which is specifically for Keying.

Have you played with it yet and what do you think, or will you stick to Keylight?

cheers

How I add this article to Digg?

I think itd be really cool if you made a tutorial for the bullet effect (not bullet time), but where they add in a bullet and the trail behind it. I know it is typically done in 3d, but maybe after effects can pull it off.

can you make a tutorial so it looks like the kamera goes through a wall or a window???

ANDREW whats up with a grow effect .. can we please get a good grow effect tutorial ..

Grow effect … a plug in tutorial about all the cool features. with the most popular plug ins ..

where did u get the pictures from your zoom video .. good quality pictures to use ???

so, I saw your “serious fx” podcast about these animated wires or whatever it’s called and I thought that orange creative cow logo at the beginning where the tv switches on and off looked pretty sweet. how?

great tutorials by the way, very enjoyable and useful. thanks for them.

Andrew,
Just saw your freeze time tutorial. GREAT! But could you take it one step further? I have seen this in commercials where the actor would actually touch and/or manipulate an object that was frozen, such as maybe the boxes you froze. You can see the other actor wrap his hand around the object and in some cases I have seen them pluck the object from the scene, look at it, and then put it back.

Can you do this?

hey! first of all I want to thank all the guys at videocopilot especially andrew for making the tutorials. I was wandering if there could be more sci-fi movie-esque tutorials (e.g buffy. smallville, supernatural there have been some cool effects on ‘Heroes’ http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/) and, after just seeing the 5th HP film I tried this effect with trapcode particular and I was hoping that people could download the file and improve it and then post a video clip or tutorial (http://www.trapcode-people.net/filedetails.php?fileid=316) P.S keep up the humour!

hey, first off, thanks for the amazing tutorials. there are two things i would really love to see, one would be the “gatorade” (i think thats how you spell it) effect where everything is B&W and just one thing is in color. also seen in the rice crispies commercial now. also, just a general one on motion tracking would be nice too. thanks for all the great tutorials.

Tutorial ideas:

Graffiti writing on brick wall which actually looks like it’s following the contour of the bricks without the images looking fake.

Making elements grow and following patterns. Writing or patterns following the layout of a staircase, building or wraping around corners of walls.

salut!!!
un tuto pour faire une explosion serait le bien venu…un peu comme l’explosion du magasin dans le film “les fils de l’homme” au tout début…
Apprendre a integrer une explosion, exploiter le susteme de particules pour les débris…
merci

In english: lol … oups!

Hello!
A tutorial to show us how to make an explosion…a little like the explosion from the store in film “children of men” to the whole beginning…
To learn how to integrate an explosion, to exploit the system of particles for the remains…

Thx you!!!

(ps:excuse my english please)

Hello videocopilot!
I think it would be great if you showed how to mask a man/girl running from a explosion from the back.

I have looking for this kind of tutorial but doesn’t find it!

Hello Andrew.
I was thinking: what about a flying tutorial?
I had some ideas using your techniques.
^^
A flying fx, looks good, and simple to do.
Remeber the advanced sky replacement? So, i use that thechinique to key the person and make them fly.
I’ll make an example video and i’ll post it here.

If you wanna contact me: douglasmss@hotmail.com
Thanks for your attention

P.S.: sorry about the english, it’s 03:18 am, i am almost falling in sleep, and my vision is getting dark… oh mannn
xD
bye

Flash and Photoshop would be great tutorials for your site.
Especially to those like me who are visual/hands on learner. Before i did not know a thing about AE. Now i know the basics to try and learn things on my own.
I’m an artist, i like to draw and sometimes paper is my limitation, sometimes i like to take it to the screens. But around where i live they do not have many high tech schools to learn most of the adobe programs, It is my last high school year and im interested in computer graphics and web designing. How can i learn those things if only colleges can provide me with such help.Thats why i come to you VIDEO COPILOT. I wanted to learn how to be able to color my cartoon characters on Photoshop better, and even maybe bring them to life with 3d studio max. Unfortunately im very bad with 3d programs as of right now and i’ve got the hang of Photoshop but im still limited. and flash would definately be a plus to be able to create my own website with my own templates and layouts.
It would be just great if i could use all your help with my creations. Imagen the light strick or the sord with one of my cool cartoons. I could even design a little mascot where you could add on the screen for all your tutorials. You inspire me alot and you open doors to those who are limited at times. So even if at this time you are focussed on AE i just want to say thank you for all your great help.
It would be awesome to have great help out there like there is here.
I’ve tried many tutorials from different websites but there is no other like VIDEO COPILOT.

Hi Andrew.

Firstly, I would just like to say how inspired I am from your work. You show how to use Adobe After Effects in an easy and effective way to understand.

I am only 13 years old, and have been doing Visual Effect work for about half a year now. I think I am doing quite well and (like yourself) am having to self-educate myself. I want to create a company called: ‘Hit And Flee Productions’,
so be sure to check it out when I have made the website

Anyway, after seeing the latest Harry Potter movie, I thought that there were some pretty darn good effects in there (focusing on the spells mainly). So I was wondering if you could possibly have a play around with different stuff and see what you can come up with and make a tutorial on it? I am sure that many other people would also love to be able to make some of their own Harry Potter type effects

If you don’t feel like making a tutorial on this, then please, please, please e-mail me (connor1adam@msn.com) giving advice on how to go about creating the spell effects or compositing or whatever

Thanks so much.

Connor.

Yeh, Bullet Time would be interesting.

We’re waiting
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thanks

Hi Andrew,

I have been looking around on the easiest way to rotoscope in after effects. Any possible future tutorials available? You always have great tutorials and easy to follow steps. Thanks for everything!

Can you do a tutorial on how to make the butterfly effect. In the movie the butterfly effect when the main character goes back in the time, the objects in the back ground shake at different intensities while the foreground (main character) is not effected. This is would be an awesome tutorial

Have you seen Heroes? then you probably know Peter Petrelli, you at the last episode where he is about to explode he is glowing..
Can you make a tutorial how to make that?

I’m from italy and i found your tutorials very cool, but, pls
it should be very nice if i could read what u say , sometimes it is not so easy to me understand what u explain (just becouse my bad english i mean) so i think it may be usefull for me and more other no english language speaking people to read and lestening to ur lessos.
grazie, gio

I’d like to see a tutorial on how to make the text rise out of the sand like in this trailer for the next Resident Evil movie.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/residentevilextinction/medium.html

Hello, Mr. Kramer. I’m just starting with adobe after FX and with your tutorials It’s really easy to learn.

Well, to the point. I have to do a Make-a-movie homework and my group choosed Harry Potter. I’ve searched all over the internet and I just can’t find how to do a spell like the movies, please do a tutorial about that, I have two more months to do it. Thank you very much.

Andrew Kramer Rocks!

Hey, Great site. I was wondering you you could make a tutorial to show how to morph to make one person look like they are transforming into someone else. I am making a vampire movie and would also like some help on how to make a vampire burst into charcoal like in blade. Ive been trying this effect for a while and cant get it quite right. Thanks a lot

andrew kramer is the freaking best period …. im going to hire you sometime soon to do some work

this is my sister http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q0VgEB89Jg

Hey Andrew, I loved your last tutorial …. Can you make a tutorial of how to make a realistic looking photoalbum with lots of pictures with the pictures moving within the frames.

Ben H

hey Maximiliano, I had to the same project and I kind of know what your saying. If you’ve got trapcode though it would make it alot easier. if you have go to http://www.trapcode-people.net (or link above) and type in magic in the search engine and a AE7 file will be available to download that i posted. It’s not perfect but it is as close as I could get it. Although Andrew defenitley would be able to. I agree also think that there should be tutorial about ‘magical’ type effects. I would love to see Sam Loya attcking random strangers in the street with a wand (when I mean attack I mean spells not actual physical harm!) Anyway just wanted to give you some advice. P.S I thought the demon face tutorial was awesome! just need to shoot some of my own footage to work with. Also (i know i’m dragging on here) I kinda need help with another project. I have my actor (chromakeyed footage) and a cat (also keyed) I wanted him to ‘morph’ into the cat. I have tried the distort feature but it kinda looks well bad so if there was a tutorial on that. it would be great because most tutorials out there kinda suck and dont explain much. sorry I’m asking so much it’s like youe at the mercy of the bloggers

so andrew hi can u plz make a tutorials how to cut heand and heads u have a susicade tutorials but how to make the head just fall and be on the floor like here
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-is63goeBgc
or the wall effect like in this video ^^^when they tuch the wall with the light saber plz i relly need that

Hy Andrew!
I’m looking for an effect like a mirage / fata morgana.
for example: a man is walking on a street toward the camera. far away he is blurred behind a big glimmering heatwall and when he gets closer he is in a sharper focus. do you know what i mean?
Here is an picture of the effect: http://www.beeindruckendes.de/Beeindruckendes/images/FataMorgana4.jpg

its really hard to make this in real locations without fire and so i hope you have an idea how to simulate this in after effects.

hey again! I just posted a clip on youtube of the kind of tutorial i was looking for. obviously i’ve already created it but i need comments and advice to make it better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5czxq8kSi9U I also added a sweeping motion camera but sine i couldn’t get the footage i used andrew’s 3D projrction tutorial to simlate an alley and simulated the floor for the sparks.

ok so i dont know if this has been asked already or not but i didnt feel like reading all 550 replys to this blog.

What i think would be cool is a tut on how to create a simple (or not so simple) looping video background much like some of the ones that come on your dvd.

i dunno just a thought, oh and by the way love the tuts.

J.P.
AZ, USA

I also would like to see a rain tutorial. Also as I emailed you before a glass (c-thru) monitor like they used in Minority Report.

Thanks and keep up the GREAT work.

How about a tutorial about adding an advanced rain effect to your footage. Like, doing the rain, adding rain drops, making the ground look wet (eg. a road), doing a reflection for the wet ground.

All that stuff.

Hi there. thanks for the greatest tutorials Ive ever seen with my small eyes. now to the request. http://www.trapcode.com/gallery/funkstorung.mov on this link is a musicvideo with trapcode particular and in one seen, the footage seems to be tracked 3dimensionally, and then with the tracking data using a 3d camera to move as the real camera. so that the trapcode effect moves in sync with the footage. Looks awesome.
I think it should be able to do with something like the blue planet part 2, (?) maybe, well thanks anyway. ,cheers

Andrew, do you have any cool ideas for how to make a DNA type thinger… i am working on a project and i am trying to think of how to make cool looking DNAish things. THANKS!

Hey AK, can you PLEASE make a realistic shell ejection tutorial for guns.

http://www.genarts.com/genarts-demoreel-qt-large.html

Demo of genarts plugins … can you explane some of the effects in the movie clip. I thing there are great ones.

Andrew, first and foremost, you are a legend!

You honestly are an independent filmmakers ‘dream come true’!

I love all your products, especially ‘Film Magic Pro’, which brings me to my request:

I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on how to make our own colour filters/grades? And explain things such as “Start Luminance”, “Saturation”, “Color” etc, and how it all works.

P.S. ‘Film Magic Pro’ absolutely kills Red Giant’s ‘Magic Bullet’, not only in cost, but in rendering time too!!

Keep up the awesome work!!

JD

First up, thanks. You have helped me so much already mate. Your tutorials have helped me get much further along than any on the web so far.

I would love to see a tutorial on how to create the bullet trails easily. I know its a bit old and naff, but im trying to do it for a project with a buddy of mine. I have AE7 pro but no expensive plug-ins, as i’m just a hobbyist.

I know your probably a busy man so thanks again.

Seb (UK)

Hi Andrew,
recently you did some planet tutorials, so, how about a tutorial, where you show, how we can make a solar system of our sun? I mean, how to rotate and other things!

BTW, I like your “art” very much, hope I can catch up with you

Cuky (GER)

Could you please make a tutorial showing how to have someone or something such as a fighter jet flying over things like grass land or cities from the view of either a cockpit or externally from the aircraft itself.
Thanks!

Hello Andrew,

If you can do this, I want to see a tutorial in AAE which show you how see a human trough a door or wall. I mean, you can make someone invisible easily in AAE aplying the “distort” effect but how to see someone who is behind a door for example.

I know it’s poissble because I saw it in a Montage but I don’t know how he did.

If you don’t understand me (because I’m French ^^) just do some morphing tutorial.

ThX.

Hey Andrew,

Could we work on intigrating 3d max obects in After effects?… IE: Like bolders in that promo of yours. Thanks

I’m sure it’s got something to do with a plugin, but something similar to the Gnarls Barkley ‘Crazy’ video.

Andrew,
superb tutorials.

I liked the sky replacement, but want something more. Could you show the sky developing dark menacing clouds. So going from nice day to dark and menacing and how that would affect the lighting of the foreground. Don’t know if it possible.

Cheers.

Steve

Hi Andrew,
I believe the best keying is as best as the original camera shoot. There are many not proper info on the setup of a green screen. A Green Screen Setup tutorial will be of good use. Something like, screen material, distance to object, lights types, light distances and locations. I mean exact details of the best setup if possible with drawings from front, top and sides with an actual shoot. Thanks.

Hey Andrew,
How about a tutorial to do the oh-so trendy trailing light effect seen on Sprint’s current campaigns?

http://www.sprint.com/

Keep up the awesome work!

A few things have been bothering me, but just more advanced tutorials would be nice.

Advanced keying to place an object or person into another moving scene. Like place a guy on top of a car while it is moving, and have it scale, rotate, and move in and out of frame.

And knife fights! … No.

Or maybe how to have someone ran over by a car, or being hit by a car while being in another car.

Hey Andrew, I always appreciate the tutorials you do, I wont be picking up CS3 for a little while yet, and would love to see a short over view of new features!

Hi Andrew,

I’d like to see a tutorial how to do this kind of FX.
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=GNihwzGNk6I

I have been trying to figure this out for quite some time know. Hoe do you do the follow the line pr path trick with the camera. You know like following the contours and crevases of a logo or something then flying out tward the end to reveal what it actually was we were sliding around on. I hope this makes sense. Here is a link of what I’m talking about. “Follow Me”

http://mn8studio.com/mtn08.htm

PS I just purchased some riot gear for rioting and some sweet sound effects as well from your site. Can’t wait to get them. Thanks.

Oops! Sorry about all the miss spelled words. It’s time for bed. But I have one more request if you feel this is worthy enough. At the end of this guys radical intro to his show reel. He signs what apears to be a signature out of some sort of partical blowing in the wind. That would be an awesome tute.

http://pierremichel.net/

3d max animation instead of Cinema 4 d!

i’d like to know how to do the mission impossible face off/on sequence.

I’d like to see a tutorial where you show how to make stuff move randomly

Hi
Great tutorials.I wonder if there is a chanceto put tutorial like this video:
http://blog.davidrobinfilms.com/2007/06/16/wedding-photo-album%e2%80%99s-in-3d/

Hi there! Can make a tutorial about the demons again, but now in a 3d motion version instead 2d motion? Thanks

ummm want to buy forums for this site seems like so many people visit you every day just to see whats new or read the blogs and you’ve got quite the community so far, forums would be cool maybe that way some of us could help eachother with out requesting your god like advice some questions on this blog i could probably help others answer or sort out their issues as well as others have ‘tricks/tips’ that could help some out. i think it would be a cool community… love your tuts, love your products keep ‘em commin!!!

J.P.,
AZ USA

I’m a bit shy and would like a tutorial on how to pick up chicks!

Seriously though, another advanced techniques DVD, or a tutorial on how to generate and create Matts for explosions and such. Actually, BOTH!

Andrew have you been getting my emails by chance?

bullet wounds tutorials IE- where the body actually shows the hole of the bullet in the shoulder or whever, after the person has been shot.

andrew ive been loving all your work and everything….please man please make a tut on how to make realistic fire… i dont want to buy tons of stock footage of fire when i just can make it myself =D
thanks andrew

keep up your AMAZING work
cant wait to see the next tutorial man

Or a tut. on advanced cloning. IE – where the clones interact with each other whether its hitting one another or handing something off.

hey andrew love your work and your tuts…
i would love to see a tutorial on fire like flame throwing or stationary fire… that looks realistic of course without using stock footage of fire… creating it using particles or refer us to a plugin… thanks man
im looking forward to your new tutorial

- your buddy alex

Hey Andrew, my idè for a great tutorial is to make a 3D freeze room like in Heroes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhFGakLkIs
I have heard that the film makers use many cameras and front different angle to create a 3D like in the clip from heroes, but maby it could be possible to create something that is almost the same:)

Hi Andrew

this is a very nice effect … take a look and please try to make another greate tutorial for this.

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/gallery/swf/index.html#u_sContent=firstborn

thanks

Hi AK.
maybe some meteor explosion like the armageddon (the one that falls in france)

Getting hit by a car. You’re bound to do it sooner or later!

Sparks would be something. Don’t forget the reflection on other items around and the ground.

Hmm, i tried to make this “evil Zombie Sickness” effect, growing from my arms and out to my fingers, slowly using AK face tut and the adding a linear wipe transition, but darn its hard to motion track my own hand, not to mention moving fingers :S – i also tryed to moving the masks with the fingers but that doesnt really, also moving the mask sux big time -.-

but i think u could all imagine how cool to would look to make this color and texture zombie effect from from our wrist veins and slowly growin out to our finger tips. well atleast i think it could look sooo nice ^^

Anyone thought of this? ideas? tuts?

AK?

I would really like to see how to make a car look like its exploded.
Kinda need that effect for a film project i’m making.
Also some more things on Particle Illusion. I just recently bought the Serious Effects & Compositing and you used a lot of particles from the program. I’ve had that program for a long time and I haven’t exactly used too much. SO any help in that field would be awesome.

And I must say this is my first post & I love Video Copilot awesome website!

-wow any plans on adding page feature to the blog’s comments. e.g. 50 comments per page

-by any chance, are you planning to put up a special video on what third party plug-ins do you use/recommend and etc. ?

p.s. great site, love your products.

The demon face tutorial was great thanks! One thing i would like to see as many people try to improve with a budget is the effects of guns…I do not own any Airsoft guns so your help with making a fake gun richocet was great

BUT even better would be making realistic gun shells fly through the air one at a time as a huge shotgun or pistol shoots off!! The only thing missing from a realistic Gun fight!

Thanks!

hey, could someone please create a tutorial of the crysis-text effect at the end of the trailer? i think ist realy cool, sry but my englisch isn’t good

link: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/87431.html?playlist=featured

Hi, your work is great!

And here my idea for a tutorial. In this film the cars have lights, and the billboards too. This is a game video, in the original game there aren´t these lights. How can we make such lights by our own?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY2Jzoy15vM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdigital%2Dwarriors%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2Findex%2Ehtml

I would like to see some more space tutorials and like the demon tutorials.. not another demon but like horror tutorials. I’m planning on doing some scifi and horror movies and the space tuts and demon tut gave me some idéas. But keep the tutorials coming, I like them whatever they are about

Alex

plz i want tutorial of the tracker controls (virtual screens in air), plz plz.

Hi,

I would like to see a tutorial on how to integrate all the passes (bty, occlusion, shadows, reflections, etc) from a 3D program to make a composite.

Thanks!

Ed

Some tutorials using motion 2 or shake with any of the other ideas wuld be awesome!!

thanks andrew you da boom

Hey Andrew,

Awesome work by the way. I have been wondering how you get such nice grades on some of your work. I understand you use the curves plugin and solids with overlay, but I noticed in the time revamp you had an awesome 300ish grade that I can’t figure out how you did. I have a problem making my own grades and making them look good. Just wondering if you could post a tut on grades only. Thanks

i’d really like to understand how to integrate 3D stuff in a video footage .. with camera tracking (with or without boujou for example), just like this : http://www.blip.tv/file/225651/ (great short movie by the way)

Hey Andrew WHat About A Tutorial Explaining How To Make A FX Preset Like The Lightsaber One You Made?

Anyway Love The Site

Bret Dethlefsen to make that signatureeffect that you are after on http://pierremichel.net/ site you can actually combine two tutorials on this site and make it happend. I made this for a earlier projects of mine.

First off you need to animate your signature, tutorial “33. graffiti writing” and make a handwriting istead of a graffititext. When you have done that start animating your stroke “30. 3D Stroke Effect” and move it along the signature when your handwriting appears.

I haven’t acutally made this with the CC particular world but you can apply that 3D stroke effect to Trapcode particular and when you do that you can tweak the settings for the stroke and apply wind under the turbulence field settings.

In the end of this video the strokeffect is applyed although the videoquality is so bad so you might not even see it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Awyu5EgS3w

This effect is not the easiest things to do, but you can mail me if you don’t understand.

hi all,

i’m thinking if it were to be possible to make a scene where a cloud of dark smoke dissappears and the image you want to display is behind it, may sound simple to all you “pros” out there but im totally wack at it.

cheers.

first off im a biggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg huge ultra fan of you
mr. kramer i would like to see maybe somebody on fire that ‘d be cool
and i really liked your world globe tutorial
i have your serious effects
designer sound effecrs
and riot gear

You should try making shapeshifting or something like that

I’d love to know how they’re doing that creepy motion and speed effect in those horror movies. I see them using it in some commercial spots too. I don’t get it- it doesn’t look shot backward, it doesn’t look like a straight frame-rate conversion- what are they doing?

I’m just gonna second what a lot of the other people on this comment page are asking for:

COLOUR GRADING 101 (and how to make “famous/popular” colour grades…or give it that “Tony Scott” look, e.g. “Man on Fire”, “Domino”)…pleaseeee

Keep up the good work Andrew!!! You are a champ!!!

I am trying to create a logo treatment where the logo is revieled via blowing sand or using some sort of particle effect to produce the logo. What do you think?

hey andrew , great site and great tuts u got there
And well ofcouse the demon face tut was just spectacuilar but will u still make a day to night tut well i’d be reeeeally gratefull for that ! thanks..

BULLET IN SLOW MOTION!!

Can you make a tutorial of a burning human or something like that, I try to make a movie with that inside.
Your the best Andrew!

I love your tutorials, they help alot.
But like all the others say … C4D,C4D,C4D,C4D,C4D –
Tile design ect.

I would love to know how to use trapcode inside of AE7. Some of the colliding particles special effects like in harry potter, or shooting beam/force lightning effects.

Love this site!! Check it everyday…
thanks..

hi

waht about a a tutorial about a force field from star trek???

Hello, Andrew. Just found your site, already a huge fan =) awesome tutorials.

It would be cool if you oculd add some more “how to make a good intro” tutorials Always fun making cool intros

I would love to know how to do the dusting effect from buffy the vampire slayer. Or something similar like a disintegration effect.

Andrew,

HOW ABOUT????

A slow motion vfx effect of a gun fire? You see it all the time in films where the bullet flies slowly out the end of the gun as the muzzle flash (action essentials) slowly burns.

Also another idea.

Advanced cloning (not one guy just duplicated twice) showing how to use one or two actors to achieve the effect of a crowd (as in “THE 300″ or zombie films where there is a hording mob).

Or a tutorial on Heat Distortion (is this easy?)

Thanks again for everything!

-James Cawley
In The Dark Studios

Hi Andrew! I’m a French guy so excuse me if my english is not perfect ! OK, personnaly, I would like a tutorial like: “How to enhance and restore video shot with amator cam, or in bad condition, night-shot, noisy…” you know what I mean I hope!

I think a lot of people would like to ehnance their shot with After FX whereas they have not professionnels cam (like me !)

I try to make some movie with sense and meaning about my friend and my life, and you’re very helpful in my quest!!
Thank you Andrew !! (hope my idea interest others amators!!)

Andrew,
I know there’s a request for a spider-man intro, with all the webs and stuff,but what about the actual web-coming-out-of-wrist effect. You flick your wrist and and poof! just like spider-man, a web goes flying out and catches somewhere. I thought this would be easy, kinda put some thought into it, but I still don’t see a good way to make a web fling that doesn’t look really really cheesy. I know a lot of people would like to see how this is done.
Thanks fo the great tutorials already,
Luc

Hey Andrew,
I’ve just gotten into AE and I’m really hooked. I was wondering if it would be possible to create a decapitation in this program. If so, a tutorial on that would be much appreciated.

Also, how do I get the Lightsaber preset like in the saber tutorial?

Thanks and keep it up!

Hi Andrew,

First of all, there is no words to express my gratitude for what you’ve been doing. I have to say (just like all the people here) that you are the coolest guy on the entire internet, and I am a big fan of yours. You are The Man.

I’ve been reading this blog since the begining of it, but just now decide to participate.

I want to give a vote for some of the requests above:

1 – The idea of Tobias outside to inside camera (for me the best one);
2 – Matrix Bullet trail (not bullet time, that I think is impossible). I tink this is possible with some particles as a matte for a displacement map, like you did in that “City Explosion” project.
3 – Car crash, like in your reel,
4 – Advanced Cloning (interacting with each other, like passing an object or something like this),
5 – The film burning effect, like the Tarantino/Rodrigues’s Grindhouse trailer (Fight Club have it too),
6 – 3D move match (Boujou, Pf Track or something else),
7 – Zaxweks Invigorator,
8 – Slow motion bullet going out of the gun.

And a sugestion of mine:

A scene where the red an blue lights of the police cars are continuously flashing. We don’t need to see the cars, just the lights flashing everywhere, do you know what I mean?

Thanks a lot for all you’ve been doing for the independent filmakers and mo-graph designers all over the world.

Greeting from Brazil!!!

Hey Andrew Sorry For Posting Again But WHat About A Tutorial Explaining How To Make A FX Preset Like The Lightsaber One You Made?

Andrew! I’m dying to know how you made those machine gun muzzle flashes in that video on the homepage advertisment. Under the text “Welcome to VideoCopilot”
I’m pretty positive it’s not from Action Movie Essentials. I’d love to find out, Thanks!

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PLEASE MAKE A
TUTORIAL
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I agree, make a flying tutorial

Yeh,
Everyone wants to fly

I agree with Lachie1134, a flying tutorial would be great!
I would also like to see a tutorial incorporating blender
with after effects!

I dont like the blender Idea,
but I would love to see a flying tutorial.
I have always wanted to see a flying tutorial
but have struggeld to find one.

Please make a flying tutorial!!

cool requests!

i have one, and the knowledge and techniques can be used for other kinds of effects too.
What about an expecto patronum effect using Trapcode particular, but making it look really good like the movie.

anyway, thnks andrew, ur tutorials r awsome!

Hi Andrew..

First let me say that I simply love your tutorials. Every single of them gives me goosebumps with incredible idears they can be used for.

How to my reqest, which I have wondered why isent made yet since its probably the single most desired effect since the emergence of DV

Could you possibly invent a tutorial or plugin (Ill buy it if you do) that can create post production Depth of field in fast action scenes with a lot of camera movement (hense masking subjects frame by frame in a 20 mins movie, would take a millenium)

HEY ANDREW
I will be glad to see in your amazing site an opening flying logos for broadcast programing.
and let me say you are ACE number one!
best regards
Pini
Israel

I would love you forever if you post a video on how to a superman fast run. I see them every day on youtube. but the tutorial is really bad in explaining how to do it step by step

Hey Andrew, I love your tutorials! I would love if you could do a tutorial on a bullet time matrix effect where a bullet is stopped in the air or maybe anykind of object, and then go even furthur so you can move around the object.
Thanks so much!

Andrew,

So I just watched “GHOST RIDER” they did the demon effect from your last tutorial alot. How about a fake rain scene with lightning on a computer generated environment. (TAKE TUTORIAL 17 and add some desert texture or something) then add lighting lighitng and rain, that would be amazing. Thanks again for everything you do,

-James Cawley
In The Dark Studios
http://www.myspace.com/inthedarkstudios

Andrew,
The tutorials just keep getting better and better. I’m kind of a newbie to after effects and your site and everything, but for me every tutorial is like the christmas present you just had to have.

I would really like to see a tutorial on how to do the amazing picture frame effect used in the HP commercials, where the frame is an image and then its real life and so on and so forth.

I also think it would be cool to see a tutorial on how to create a transformer effect. I know that sounds like alot, because of the 3D and all, but even a simple effect to transform an object into something else, would be amazing!

Thanks
-Michael

Not sure if this blogentry is still be observed by Andrew, but I need the following tutorial.

A high zoom into a flashing cursor from a pc terminal screen, (something like Matrix). and as closer we zoom into the green flashing cursor, the bits and bytes getting visible like 001110000110100001101010.

Then the camera turn and reveils a 3d screen of the 0011000100.

^^

I would love to see a detailled 3D Fractal tutorial as shown on the blog!!!
Keep up the good work

With regards to the flying tutorial, I have a great technique for that, I guess i could put together a tutorials for it if that’s what you guys want… does that sound good?

hi there, first off just wanna say i love ur work and ur tutorials are fantastic, very very helpful, em i know u probably here this all the time but i would love to see a matrix bullet time effect ive seen a tutorial of one before but what can i say it doesnt come close to the standard of ur videos or tutorials, so yeah to see one from urself would be great.
look forward to seeing more of ur great products and tutorials,
keep up the good work

Hi there Andrew and the gang! I read with interest that you may make a DVD with all the TUTs on this fantastic site. Im very interested, but, would the format be PC/MAC only or would it be DVD player friendly? The latter would be fantastic as I could watch them in bed while my Wife watches Desperate Housewives and its very handy to watch on the TV whilst following on the PC! Thanks for all your hard work and late hours, it really is much appreciated!

Hi again Andrew and the gang, Ive seen this Question knocked about on a few sites and nobody seems to like the question. Is it possible to get the “Sin City” look (Black and white scenes with a splash of colour matted out), without roto or using the leave colour tool. In the making of the film it is mentioned that the single colour is pulled from the original footage and used as a matte using the sapphire layers plug-in. I have a feeling the advanced sky replacement TUT where you use the colorama plug-in to pull a matte from a specific colour comes close but Ive still no idea! It would be great to see your idea for this and would be great for wedding videos and the like. Thanks again for the fantastic hard work!

Wonder about how to make Police/Fire/ambulence takedown,strobe, and rotating lights. something that can either be put on a moving car or to use on a title screen(ie lights on a wall)

Hey Andrew, I’ve been a bit of a hiding visitor. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all your tutorials, makes me want to buy new RAM for my Mac and zip out some sweet little videos.

Anywho, my wife and I were watching The Italian Job last night and I noticed a couple scenes that I wanted to replicate sometime, but figured I would bring it to you, seeing as you can probably do it in a quarter of the time I would be able to. There was one scene where the police are looking at the hole where the safe fell through in the beginning of the movie. You see particles of floor and all that was in between falling down. I’m sure it’s a simple particle animation, but I began to think of what all else it could be used for. Perhaps using particles to scatter gravel or the edge of a cliff. Who knows.

2nd, When the van sinks, I was trying to figure out how that was composited and also when the dead body floats to the top.

Hope you get the rest you need. I appreciate your sharing the great talent and knowledge you have. Have a great day!

Silly me! Just read the whole blog on the DVD TUT! You are on a winner with the sin city TUT! I hope that magic number 50 comes soon, If the sin city TUT is going to be like what i think it will be, then I will simply have to call you the Master of the Universe! England loves you Mr Kamer!

Few text/title tutorials would be cool. Like how you can titles look more professional and maybe 3D.

Hi Andrew
I watch every tutorial you publish.You help me a lot!!!But I’d like to learn to make a special effect when someone turns invisible like the tv show “the invisible man” where a silver liquid covers his body slowly and then he becomes invisible!!It would be a cool effect!!!Thank you
With love
From Greece

I agree with Darius Wilhere. It would be great if you could do a tutorial on some of those cool 3d animated fonts you use alot.

Hi andrew ,
thank for this web site, and for you tutorial.

i see the superman movien all them, and i trying make the Titles FX used in that movies, but i cant.

im try used trapcode 3D Stroke like used in the one of you tutorial but in not the same FX,

if you can i like who kinow to do it. or you create one tutorial for this.

im search all internet and found nothig tutorial about there.

thank you…

Hey Andrew thanks a bunch for these tutorials. I’m in school for film but I’ve learned more on my own and these
tuts than in the two years I’ve been here. So, I’m writing a screenplay. lol
Anyway, I’d like some tutorials on how to produce an affect like the MBA or NFL Promo commericals. I’d also like a tu
tutorial on how to create the Gnarls Barkely affect. I think it’s sort of a silk screening. You actually have one color
animation on your GFX Tut. Thanks/

hey andrew. just want to start off by saying thank you! your website has helped me tremendously!

i was wondering if you could do a tutorial on something more design driven in after effects. for example, here are some guys i found on motionographer:

http://www.fubiz.net/blog/index.php?2007/07/16/1209-we-are-play

i love the mirrored effect where objects and pictures appear from the center and look like they are reflecting each other. usually these are layered together. you see it in the reel of the link given above.

anything like that would be great. for some reason, your tutorials are the only ones i can follow. Thanks for the time and keep going!

Hey sweet work Andrew, I was thinking a good idea for a tutorial would be to learn how to make a good looking splash page for say an internet site. That would be cool anyway just throwing it our there.

thanks..

Hey Andrew love your stuff seriously wicked.

3 ideas for tutorials,

*How to make Bulltet holes. like in a wall
*How to hit some one with a car digitally.
*video wall.

i think these tutorials ever one would enjoy.

once again love your stuff your a champ.

Ok, how about a competition of some description where the winner has themselves feature in one of your tutorials.
Obviously you’d have to outline that the winner needs to submit a raw movie in a certain format, and that they would have to be willing to act in a certain way for a few seconds.

And if no-one is up for that, i’ll just send you one of me
I’d love to be manipulated, crashed into, shot, warped, colorised, demonised, blown up or whatever… but in the AK style!

May already be covered above but just in case…

How about a tutorial to build the classic pan/dolly straight through a brick wall into the next room. And/or the camera move from outside to inside a building so that the camera appears to go through the window glass in to the room.

or… a shot I’ve always admired, and a lot of people I talk to don’t even reallise it’s a spceial FX shot because it’s so subtle is the shot near the beginning of the movie ‘Contact’ where the little girl (young Jodie Foster) runs up the stairs with camera on her face, turns a corner, runs along the corridor into the bathroom. Camera pulls back to reveal we have watched all this as the reflection in the bathroom mirror and then she opens the cabinet, moving the mirror.

Hey!
I love your Tutorials they are the best! and you alot of letters i see. Can u plz make a tutorial of Trapcode Particular, plz.

Hey Andrew

Some great tutorials I was wondering if you could show us how to blow up a car or some other vehicle with pieces flying off etc
Thanks keep up the great work.

For the activist within you. This tutorial could actually have benefits around the country. A tutorial on removing telephone poles and lines around a neighborhood but with a tracking shot or in a car. Could be used to show what neighborhoods would look like if people could get telephone companies to bury their lines and plant trees instead. This was a HUGE issue down here in Florida after hurricanes a couple of years ago. To date nothing has been done by FPL. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-10-26-florida-power_x.htm Might be to difficult of a tutorial though to fit in 10-15 minutes. If you can it would be great. Thanks Andrew for all your great tutorials and hard work.

wazaaaaaaaaaap! yo andrew am still hopin uz av my tutorial concepts lined up! u avnt got those phone lines runnin yet?

this is nu…kinda.this is one concept i already done but maaaaaaaaan there was a lot of layers involved. i mean a lot. i need a shorter way to create someone reaching through a wall and picking an object from another room or/ walking through a wall. i used ripple fx + displacement mapping + … u rily don wana know.. lookin 4wd to givin u some tuts sometym tho!

some flying tutorial would be very nice.!!

Hello Mr. Kramer,

I was wondering if there is anyway to simulate GLASS SHATTERING when bullet fire shatters windows or a auto impact suct as in “The Bourne Supremecy”. Or even when a guy is thrown throug a glass door like in “Beverly Hills Cop”.

I know you alread did something similar in Sound FX (which I already purchased), but I would like to see something that may be more practical to films.

Hey Andrew,
I think you should do a tutorial on how to do a holographic/a hologram of a person eg. like in star wars. Thats would be great!

Also how to make items float.

Thanks, Dillon

Flying is over rated.

Hey Andrew. I would really really like to get a tutorial about Cutting off Limbs. You know…removing body parts, cutting off a head, you get it. That would be really appreciated.

Thanks

-Andy

As usual your tutorials are awsome! I would love it if you made a tutorial on morphing.

please id’ like to see how to make someone be hit by a car

Hi Andrew,
Any chance of publishing your tutorial files to DVD right now??? (not waiting till you reach 50 total) We need them desperately!!! We are graphic designers in Australia, learning AE, much enjoying your stuff. Please let us know if a DVD could be made available…… many thanks, your friends/fans in Wollongong

Hi,Andrew
I really want to learn how a man gets hit by a car and secondly I show in Star Movies in their promo of Jurassic Park, that the titles were coming from behind the dinasours. How they did its a
one scence. If you can come up with such tutorials
O yes the DTNC tutorial was cool.and was really great

thanks
Abhishek Masih

Hey,
What I’d think a good tutorial would be is eye replacement where you can change the colour of someone’s eye like on supernatural and smallville.

Thanks

Hey Andy! I love ur stuff – how can you make it look so easy!

I have an idea for a tutorial – what about some action movie essentials work with the explosions?!? Like what you did in the old promo were the guy gets flung by an explosion! Sweet!

Mabee?

Hey all, me and few friends, (one who has DSFX and AME, WHOOHOO!) are getting together to be in a little production thing called finalrenderfilms. I’ve been using finalrenders youtube account lately and we decided to join together. We’ll be working out of his house. Check out this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak2275KFlsw

that is me flying, but when the camera pans up, that sky is artificial…I am working on a video tutorial now on how to make someone fly, and do the pan up sky replacement at the same time.

I’m doing a tutorial right now on it.

Please view, thanks!

Hey Andrew,

You’ve got an awesome website, and your tutorials are incredible! I have short film I;ve been writing about the after life, in a heaven atomosphere. I’ve been working with some ideas for compositing angel wings.

Do you think you could do a tutorial for creating moving angel wings?

I think it would be really interesting to see a tutorial of the compositing techniques to make animals, like in the movie stuart little, speak and open their mouths.

http://www.myspace.com/trentemoeller

The video called “Moan” (kinda sad, made me tear up) has some amazing effects in it, some subtle, some very intricate, like making the dog sing the song. This could be done many ways, but looks like it was done with a standard effects program (AE maybe?).

I have been playing around with the idea a while. Maybe you can throw in some input?

I was thinkin when i saw the new lightsaber tutorial and i come up whit a idea.
I think it would be realy cool if we get a tutorial where you show how to make copies whit less opacity after you if you runing fast.
you knowh like in the sonic games for exaple.
It would be realy cool if you can make a tutorial whit a expresion or somthing taht make copies after you whit higher opacity in the front and just lower out at last.

hi there.
Been watching the rolling stones music vid for Like A Rolling stone by Michel Gondry and was wondering how you
would create that effect of rolling round the still image, similar to bullet time in the matrix. We’ve seen the tutorial
on turning photo’s into 3D but we can see that it’s not the same. Were gonna try some ideas so if we come up
with the solution then we’ll let u know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlEHCZBXo9k. Take a look…

Have you ever seen Predator 1 or 2?
In that case, the predator have a cloaking field witch is an awesome effect a tutorial about that would be superb!

I would love to see a combination of the blue earth planet and the earth zoom. I tried it myself and failed horribly. I think the effect of flying around in space, maybe circle the earth or w/e then zooming down onto the city would be really nice.

Definatly some tuts like the can of pop and marlboro packet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtMYy070Uvc&mode=related&search=

I work in AE everyday producing adverts for local businesses and this kind stuff would make my job more fun. Allthough I do love all the grungy type effects you produce, I would like to see more clean type product advertisment style tutorials.

Hope your reading this one

Take care, Craig

How can I make wand effects like thoose?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Qm27bhaYw&mode=related&search=

or like thoose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tc1i8b0VoY

Hi Andrew! In the tutorial number 12 you did a simple intro, but causes an amazing impact. Can you teach us?
Thank you. Regards!

In the Minority Report with Tom Cruise we can see a large use of VFX.
One of them that I like to suggest: the sound wave weapon effect, at the car assembly factory and the virtual PRECOG computer. Thanks!

I’d love to see a tutorial explaining how to use After Effects CS3
to remove 3:2 pulldown from a Canon HV20 24f .m2t video clip.
Thanks.

JM

How about advanced compositing

I saw Stranger Than Fiction recently and really liked the animated “numbers” thing. If you haven’t seen the film, the main character is kind of obsessive about numbers, distances, times and so on – when he’s thinking, he sees numbers defining the world around him (here’s a link: http://www.mk12.com/video-popup.html?video=/v5_quicktime/2007/stf_endtitles.mov&title=STRANGER%20THAN%20FICTION&date=&info=2007&type=client – click on “View two”). It’d be interesting to know how to go about doing something like this – seems to involve loads of layers, so presumably a lot of it could be automated with expressions or scripts or something. It’d be ace if you could do a tutorial on how to do stuff like this – I especially like the bouncy unfolding effect, the way everything pops up like sped-up mushrooms.

I don’t know if you have scene the 1999 version of House On Haunted Hill? But there is a really nice effect where the ghost shakes his head. What I heard was it was shot with a high speed camera and the footage was slowed down. Is there a way to do this in AF or am I screwed and need a high speed camera?

Hey there, I too saw this link a while back and wanted to know how to actually achieve an effect like this..

http://trapcode.com/gallery/web_BMW_Precipice_Breakdown.mov

If not something like this, how about some copositing like this???

Thanks again.. LUV all your tutorials,,

Hello Andrew!
I realy want a tutorial that shows us how to make a modern logo.
I have a few examples down here but I don’t know how to make such logos, please help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY6TSvxbGEU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sCgeuzabQc

Alternative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg1ptoNJZmI&mode=related&search=

Turning some one to sand! That would be sweet!

Hey Andrew – amazing work you’re doing here. Just awesome. Couple of ideas:
1. 3D motion tracking/stabilizing. You showed 2D in the Face Warp tut, but is it possible to do 3D so the face warps stays with the character as he moves?

2. Have you ever seen in movies (I saw it in a commercial too) when we see a car smash into another car, but we see it from the perspective of the interior of the one that gets hit? Hope that makes sense. It really jars you when it comes out of nowhere.

3. Someone mentioned it before, but how to have someone get struck by a vehicle like in one of your promo vids.

4. Particle FX. I have no idea how to work with particles.
Thanks and keep up the great work.

I would LOVE to see a tutorial on someone getting hit by a car! that would be SaaWEEEEET! Would love to see more of those action hit by car slash broken glass slash horror knife cuts slash oh my god gonna pee my pants slash oh wait I already did effects like that around here to spice things up! That’d be tight.

- E-Rock!

Hi Andrew! :]
My suggestions for tutorials Are:

1.Making all these “motion Decorations”….the “plant\leaves-like” decorations that evolve….. like in here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrAPmo0d4nQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scTQlU9Jj4I

and basically-just an eye-candy decorations like u see throughout the 1st video :]

2.To create a table of still picture frames, and made a video clip-built in with them. all with camera movement
like in beginning of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRO6H0-4Xo&mode=related&search=
just without the cheesy leaves :]

3.Creating a 3D world made out of 2D+ With a person…… like in the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTNoLcPqd4U
or maybe making some cool stuff like in this entire vid? :]

4.MASTERING the GREEN SCREEN!
how to shoot right, without getting green color bleeding on the edges of a person…
and how to get rid of those efficiently … in post.

THANX! :]

IDEA!!!
GOTTA MAKE IT- Andrew!!!! :]

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How to make an Effects of a Television Shuts Down. That short blink
And How to make Distorion-like in the TV’s reception…[=snow].

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How can we make an ASCII video from an original video footage?
The easiest way?

Hey.
I’d love to see how to do the Stargate Wormhole opening effect in After Effects

HEY ANDREW,
i JUST WATCHED AN EPISODE OF SCIFI CHANNELS ”EUREKA” AND THOUGHT THE INTRO TO THE SHOW WOULD MAKE A GREAT TUTORIAL. WHAT DO YA THINK?

Hey Andrew, I like ur tutorials but i would like u 2 create tutorial on BACKGROUND replacement
Hope 2 c it sooooooooooooon

i have been doing after effects for a while and LOVE your tutorials, i have learnt nearly everything i know from them, thanks!
i have tried nearly every one of them but there are a few that i would like to see:
300-style orange colour look

black and white with some colour on particular things like in sin city (i tried it but it wasnt great)

in some ads you see people walking round with tags with words above their heads

bullet time

and particles

ok i can breathe again!

thanks againfor the tutorials!!!!!

Hey Andrew

I have the ultimate tutorial request!
GHOSTS! Here is what i mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJ6v_mnxII
It’s my favorite commercial of all time, hope you’ll think about it

Hi Andrew,
here are some of my requests:
1) When I’ve been watching HP:Order Of The Phoenix in the cinema, I was stunned by the scene on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqmj_-mE2Gk (00:50) – glass bursting – so it will be cool to see how that can be done.
2) How to make both fake flame and explosion.
3) Also, how to make beams (or whatever do they call it) which can be seen on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsv1NTepYzY (00:27 and after)
I like you tutorials, and I especially like the two about light sabers. They helped my a lot when I was doing my project 4 school.

Since someone brought up 300 I thought I would mention that the HD version of the DVD is well worth the money. It is one of the first DVDs to actually take advantage of HD for the extras. One of the things that they do is have a commentary track that has the movie playing on the screen along with a picture in picture of the movie with no effects playing simultaneously with the commentary talking about how the effects were done.

I really need to learn more about how DVDs are organized because it would be neat to pull some of the blue screen footage out and use it with after effects.

I’d love to see a tutorial on making people or objects appear “cloaked” or semi invisible similar to the creature in the movie predator. Simply keyframing opacity isn’t the same thing as seeing light displaced around a person giving them the illusion of being cloaked. Any ideas on how to do this?

I would really like to know how to make “James Bond” intro with that GunBarrle and blood. Where that man goes and shoots. Would it be posible to make with AE ????

Hello Mr. Kramer here is another idea:

Here in Chile we got a commertial of cookies that has a really good effect of disapearing hair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5A8w5De_44&mode=related&search=

That’s all, thank you very much

Hey Andrew,
Since you are a Master of Compositing (MC), in after effects is it possible to simulate a dust devil or tornado plus rising and disapating and make it swirl and appear to be in 3D perhaps to be used with text ripping by. or other applications. anyway, making a dust devil in AE has me stumped.

Pop! Can you do some scary 3D movies with 3D Glasses

Pleeeeeeeeese! PRETTY PWEESZ

Hey Andrew,

I was thinking you could do a tutorial based on some cool flashy transistions like they use in the Saw movies. Im always trying to replicate that real fast editing thing they do when they show quick montages of horror
or in flash backs but can never seem to pull it off.
Cheers dude

i forgot one thing: yesterday i saw a video on youtube that was made to look like sin city, it also had this great rain effect that looked exactly like the film’s one, he said he did it with after effects but the plugin was missing, i wonder if you could do a tutorial that doesnt need a plugin…

the video can be found here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9o5oBsvaYo

thanks again for the tutorials!!!!!

hey, i was thinking, could you do a tutorial of a sequence where there
is sum martial arts kick and someone goes flying through a window.
thanks again for the tutorials, they are great.

ummm! kip up the good work!

I was wondering if you could make another AAE CS3 Basics vid but, can u get like really in depth with the video tutorial and explain it very throughly.
I would gratly appreciate it!

Andrew, Your tutorials rocks.. By the way i’m watching your tutorials all the way from London and i’ve also bought all your products. They are GGrrrrrrrreaaaaat!
Can i make a small request for a turorial to help clarify how cloning is best done in Ae. I want to create a freestyle music video where the subject will be versing itself with the help of cloning. The seen will end with one shooting the other in the end.
I’ve seen some good ones in Youtube but the weren’t that clear – but your tutorials helped solve many of my projects.

I am sure you will consider my request.

I wait in anticipation and thank you in advance.

By the way i’m looking forward to Riot Gear II.

i saw transformers today and was wondering if there was any possible way of creating a transformer, using pictures of the different stages like the earth zoom thing or 3d or something….. i dont really know, but it would be great to know how, chroma keying would be great too.

thanks!!!

i really want to see a tutorial with the entire creation of a tv comercial or some….how to use transitions, how to move from one thing to another with camera moves….make a video wall and with the camera ,move around it.

I just saw this cool behind the scenes of a BMW commercial at the Trapcode website.

http://www.trapcode.com/gallery/web_BMW_Precipice_Breakdown.mov
http://www.trapcode.com/gallery/web_BMW_Precipice_Final.mov

Full article here:
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/7306.html

Asside from the final 3d image, and the heavy rotoscoping, I think the “day for stormy afternoon” look is very doable. It has skyreplacement (which you’ve done so well in your tutorials), and they use Particular for the rain, But the thing that gets me is how to acheave that color correction.

I tried to match the look, using their footage as source and reference (check links above), but have been unable to get even close to those hard shadows that trully sell the stormy afternoon.

Thanks =P

here’s a big list of some of the most common things i see people asking for… and i think any of them would be great. i know some of these require other programs or plugins. could you at least mention the items that are beyond the realistic scope of a 10-20min tutorial in AECS3? or suggest programs for the more difficult suggestions?

cloaking/invisibility
phasing through solid objects/walls
cracking glass and/or freezing water
breaking glass
motion trails
morphing
spent ammo casings
interacting clones
interacting with time-frozen objects
interacting with cg objects
weather effects
creating, manipulating, and interacting with fire, liquid, wind, particles, burning/melting, etc. basically super powers
car vs man – 1 of each winning
infinite zoom in/out (even to the microscopic level like getting a virus?)
video wall
growth and evolution? (right now my skills only allow for creationism)

How about a fairly easy way to make a person walk through and solid object. Door, wall, etc. but not from a side view like the traditional way, I mean like the person coming straight at the camera. Like they walk through a door, you see them and then they come toward the camera. I’m doing this with a hurricane fence for one of my movies but it’s alot of work, and I wanted to see if you had and eaiser way.

hi andrew, whats about a simulation with rain or snow? i´m working long time for such, but i don´t get it. do i need the particular from trapcode, or can i do it with “CC particle World” or “CC Particle systems”?

thanks for all!

ps: i love your jokes!