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_672x416.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