NEW TUTORIAL: 3D Crater Part 02

In this tutorial we will be using 3D max to build a 3D crater and learn a variety of useful techniques.

87 Responses to “NEW TUTORIAL: 3D Crater Part 02”

by electrikFrenzy

Thanks Andrew!

Nice work.

THANKYOU SOO MUCH,
i’ve learnt so much!!

Thanks andrew, greath tutorial!!
Very Nice!!

by Kilian Koeltzsch

Keep it up Andrew, you’re by far the best!

How I’ve been waiting for this one :D The second most interesting part in this series ;D

I’ll already thank you for the great jokes (I forgot to in the last one :D)

by Jorrit Schulte

GREATT!!!!!

WOW! AWESOME!!! AMAZING!!!

your fan from Russia ;)

You are probrably the most loved after effects tutor in the world !

i mean it.

ps.: i´m not gay ! =D

Yeah. Thank you so much. Today is my birthday. Thats the best present!!

by ömer tatlisoz

thanks Andrew…super… :)

Nice work man.

yabadabadoooooooooo

It’s Like Frindge with the names of location!!

BADASS !!

by Radio Controlled

mmmm,mmm time for some work me thinks!

cheers andrew

Awesome Awesome, Just Awesome. Thnx Andrew, U always keep up the gud work going.

Thank you andrew!

thanks for the tutorial…you published it so fast.. Thank you for working so hard for us.

AHHHHH AWESOME!

yay, part 2 of the great crater series

No jokes?

very good tutorial

Andrew you’re a LEGEND,

thanks man, awsome

Well as usual I loved it, I think I’m going to make mine
by combining your 61. Growing 3D Vines “SEWER” as the bottom of my crater, because almost every street in California has a sewer beneath it :)
My only problem is I don’t own a Camera to make the shot aim down in the crater :(

Thanks Andrew

Yeah! Great Great Job! Thanks from Argentina.

What a surprise. Thank you Andrew!

YIPPEE!!

oh we have the fringe text there on the pic

i wondered if you did the 3d text in the new mise en scene shots on the program
i was aware you did credits
didnt think you did that tho would be cool if you did

by Thorsten Miess

thats looking so damn awesome

by ErvinTheGreat

Thanks man. It’d be interesting to combine the 3D tracking with some sort of model… like a mech or something. It’s possible if you can model it or find one online.

Hell yes! Cheers mate

by Samuel Lourcey

Sweet! looks great.

Nice1

Hhhey this is great when will the next tut will be post in
i will want to you add some JOKES and it true!!

Your fan #1
Jedde

wowzer . been looking forward to your 3ds max stuff. thanks.

@Jeddel
haha
u said that u r the #1 fan
and yet, andrew just uploaded this new tut and u r already asking when is next one gonna come out.
That’s not being a fan
that’s abusing andrew’s kindness…

Awsome Andrew :D

Regardings from Norway :)

Andrew…you are truly a GFX hall of famer in the making (you’re still young…lol) no doubt ranked among the best in the world. Thank you for the contributions you’ve made to no doubt thousands of short films, student projects, commercial endeavors, and peoples epic masterpieces through the tutorials you share and the products you sell.

by Silent Video

Thanks Andrew i was waiting for this tutorial.

You are the best

Awesome as usual

thanks, great tutorial.

Hey Andrew,

Thanks for the great tutorials!

I would just like to apologize for not buying any of your bundles yet, but I have good reason….

I find it really difficult to understand the hordes of motion graphics “designers” on vimeo who are passing your work off as there own without even attempting to challenge the design and make it their own. Some mention your tutorials but most fail to even mention you at all.

How would you recommend I use what seem like great design enhancements while being able to make them my own?

thanks again for such amazing contributions!

TTTHHHHAAAANNNNKKKKKK YYYYYOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!!!
It is not possible for me to repay you for what you have done to help me - You are the MAN!! - -

thsnk you , you cant even imagine how much this helps, all of your tutorials are jam-packed with great tips. I watch at least one a day or so.

Bravo,
keep up the great work!

Thanks Andrew!

your imagination go far…farway

Thats too hard for me but thx anyway :P

Andrew,

If you are not the best, definitely you are the greatest. I have combined boujou, 3DS Max, this tutorial with Reyfire and FumeFX and the result is drop dead awesome but still not as close as your work.

Greetings from Downtown L.A.
Squidfingers,
Framestore.

Man this is great ive now finished my meteor crash and crater video.

thanks check out my youtube

http://www.youtube.com/88gabe88

nice

Andrew, please tell us how to recreate your cool 3d tracked text, like in Fringe :D - or just some advanced 3d text tutorials in general!

Thanks as usual :)

I was waiting for this, thanks man.

by Codemonkey123

Great work Andrew. I can honestly say I have never watched one of your tutorials and been dissapointed.

PS: Is Sam ok after the car crash? He is absent since that tute.

by Codemonkey123

@ Jeff Thomson

Man if you watch the tue he shows you how to add 3d text.

yes !
More 3DS max ….!!!
Thanks Andrew

this is the best site in the web!!

i didnt even know that you can add an image map to make a real displacement. this is fantastic.

hummm the keep clear text reminds me of…. Fringe

It feels like an never ending story this concept..
thank u so much..
for me u are the pilot!
Videopilot A.Kramer!!!

by Peter Valcanas

This is really well done! The only thing that could have possibly made it any better is if you had Sam crawling out of the hole! lol!

Thanks again AK,

Pete

Awesome!!! God bless you!

This tut is so badass it blew up my power supply, no joke.

Like always!!!…i feel more like a PADAWAN…Andrew “PALPATINE” Kramer, somebody notice…all the PUNISHER WAR ZONE work`s, looks like VIDEO COPILOT STUFF…(twich)

It would probably be a good idea to show the use of an occlusion pass to be able to control shadow density on the ground.
Just a thought :)

Thank’s Andrew for this cool tutorial! :)

You are crazy man!!! Thank you for all!!!!

From Puerto Rico… Thank you Andrew!!

Andrew, I agree with all the people in this blog, my sincere thanks, finally I can see the posibilities of after effects and translate my photoshop abilities to video. Im amazed at how you make this seem so easy, and I (and I guess, the rest of your public too) would like to see some of your profesional work, because if you can make things like this with such easy, i only guess what
can you do when you have to work for weeks in a proyect!!. I´m sure it will inspire us, is there something in youtube or in other page where we could check??, thanks again.

Yes great great tutorial!!! but i’m mac user so i use Cinema 4D. Are you planning to convert these tuts for Cinema 4D?

Andrew - great tutorials. This last series has been awesome (as usual). I am currently tracking a couple shots for a commercial using PFTrack. I’m having a hell of a time with it because it is basically just tracking dirt. Do you know if Boujou handles that kind of stuff better than PFTrack? Cheers.

Legacy

Just rewatched “The Movie”. Anyone else notice that between cuts from medium shot to close-up of the cards that 4 of spades suddenly replaces the deuce (2) on the completed cards pile. As such Tina shouldn’t need to touch that four again so why is it in his hand to be screwed up at the end???? ;-)

This movie should have an imdb.com listing.

Thank you, the truth is that it is not so easy when you perform in front of the computer. jjajaaj. Thank you

Just great,
to me that was the coolest tutorial so far.
looking forward to part 3.

thanks…………… beautify tutorial!!
but one thing. i think it will be nice if u spend some time to show us how ur texture were prepared from photoshop.
maybe integrating photoshop into ur tutorial will also benefit guys like us.

You are really good

Greetings from Yenagoa
Bayelsa State
Nigeria

It’s really in time :) Thanks.

Anyone have any tips on what to do if your track slips or jitters at a few frames? I’m not to sure how to fix this and don’t want to try another solve.

wow Im from dominican republic thank andrew tu eres el mejor

thats amazing! is there anyway we can do that in blender?

Whea did the VCP babe go to…you crashed her trying a bus his!
Stil da best man!
B

Andrew,

The steps are literally the same in blender. Terminology is a bit different. I do tracking with syntheyes ($399) and export to a python script to blender. From there you setup your scene almost exactly the same. It is more the concepts and techniques that are important. Blender is quite capable of this sort of work.

Thanks

hey kramer and the videoCo. fans -
I just wanted to follow up and show a small example of what Andrew said on the blog that if you think that “you don’t want to learn about light sabers or slideshows, there is some great information in each tutorial that can be used in various creative ways” - he has a excellent point.

So I took tutorial 71 and mixed it with the beginning of tutorial 75 and basically do tutorial 71 in 3ds max. Confused yet? ;) me too. check out the link

http://www.fantasy-pixel.com/test/3dtextTest.html

great tutorial. really great.

thank you very much

Do you plan to use Maya in any of your future tutorials?

i would love a tutorial to create a 3d title that match a footage like the “keep clear” text in the above picture in cinema 4d. i’ve find that text really awsome. thanks a lot

why do you need a tutorial for this?
he showed you a tutorail for creating text in cinema4D. then he showed you a tutorial to track footage and import it in a 3D program.

you know already everything.

Thanks for the awesome tutorials. My only complaint is now I have to buy 3ds Max. Are the people at Autodesk paying you??? They should be!

Se my 1º test :)
http://www.vimeo.com/1995653

Thank you for the tutorial.

U r the best!

Great tut as usual!

I really love the tutorials but I never recreate the stuff myself because that’s not the purpose of these tutorials…
I’m always annoyed when people use tutorials in their projects. If you’re a true motion graphic designer, you can come up with something of your own. Use these tutorials as a way to learn techniques, not to copy someone esle’s work in detail.

Watch the tutorials and look at HOW he does it, instead of WHAT he’s creating.
NEVER browse for a tutorial based on what’s being created, ALWAYS browse for how it’s done.

Andrw… it’s great ! I love your tutorial styles… You’re the best!

Fan from Poland.

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