This website simply ROCKS!!!
Thanks for the efforts.

OH my god!! Hope you can post it today Andrew!! Its so fun and exiting to watch tutorials! I always learn so much!!

Awsome! Can’t wait!

aren’t you meant to be taking a break?

Look forward to that tutorial though…

cool+++++

nice!

Nice!

Shouldn’t the numbers be reversed so Sam can see? Or is he a numbers savant? Haha! Just teasing! Looks awesome!

meow!

Robocop without his targeting system….probably dead

Another excellent tut, I tried creating a computer screen but I just couldn’t get round to doing all the little numebers and letters, so I gave up. This tutorial will help many, many people…me being one of them

Great one!

Very cool idea.

Andrew! Your Great!

No breaks???

Thanks alot for these tutorials.

Can’t wait, but I am still waiting for the camera moves tutorial you talked about at the same time as the organic mesh tutorial.

There’s something wrong with your RSS Feed, each day or so it seems to re-flag old posts, which makes it really easy to miss new content like this.

Roscoe, Sam is a reflection on the screen!

Sam i so funny guy
Waiting for tutorial !!
It will help me a lot!!

Thanks for beeing so active in tutorial production. Your the world wide leader in the AE Tutorial Industry!
GREAT!

Wow! I love your VFX tutorials!

sam got his own ironman suit???

Man that is sweet, i was watching this just last night on the DVD special features. The only thing i think would really sell it now is some sort of mild fisheye type distortion and for the elements inside the HUD to move with the heads movement.

Take a break, have a good xmas!!!

i can only say that’S great !! ^^

Sam is Back! Looks great!

hellz yeah.

gr8 idea, it will be awesome to have the tut ASAP.
thnx in advance.

rss works without problems here, mayde a problem with the reader?

Oh Sam Loya! Where would Video CoPilot be without him?

Awsome Andrew!! Post this tutorial and take a big X-mas break!!!

ok andrew. new level of coolness…

wow you are the most productive tutorial maker
they’re the easiest to understand and in such detail you are truly amazing

I saw the film “Iron Man” 3 days ago and i thought “it would be mad if video copilot make a tutorial for the heads up display”. Thanks Andrew

I thought that HUD in IronMan was done in 3D

Very cool – I’m in the middle of designing some GUI elements for a short film I’m working on. I was just watching Mark Coleran’s reel for inspiration – this tutorial should help, too. Go Andrew!

Allways wanted to do this but never made it look realistic, very glad to see you are making a tutorial tnx

Looks really awesome! I have never actually watched the movie Iron Man, but I have heard a lot about its CG. Can’t wait for the tut!

aaawwww, Sam is back… that’s so sweet [sniff sniff]…

Cool, but I can’t really see how I’ll use it in a future movie

I hope you do find time for this tutorial… I realize it is a pretty simple concept… but to watch you do it would be amazing. It is difficult sometimes to come up with just the right composition for these kind of tech/layouts.

Can’t wait.

Extremely cool.. I’ve been working on something similar for the last few weeks, your timing could not have been better… keep up the excellent work Andrew…

Looks very very nice. Mr.Kamer you are The BEST

i ALWAYS wanted to do this!!!

now i can show my mom i am robo cop or the terminator!
now i got proof >:D
Hope this will be on soon, cant wait to make my own targeting system with after effects and try it out on my car

Looks cool!
I think the hardest part is letting reflect the lights on Sams (of course gorgeous) face…

ah, Sam is back. Will he be the next terminator with nice HUD

Andrew,

Not sure if you and your readers keep up with the fxguide.com. They put out a great podcast with an interview with Dav Rauch from the Orphanage called Behind the HUD of Ironman. Here’s a link to the MP3 file.
http://www.fxguide.com/modules/fxpodcast/files/fxg-080508-ironman.mp3

You can see a list of all their podcasts here:
http://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcast.html

Looking forward to the new tutorial!

I can lend you the suite if you want, Andrew.

awesome!!

Looking forward to the new tutorial!
I just love rss feeds for this!
Great work, great products, great tutorials !

Looking good so far, but i think what really sold the Iron Man version is the Reflection of the display in Tony Starks eyes, nothing in the eyes make it look flat and dead

Anything is possible…

Awesome idea! I love to watch your tutorials !

Sweet, you read my mind. I was looking at putting together a video playing with this effect–now I guess I can wait a little longer!

Sounds great. As all other of your tutorials, this would be very useful.

No way! I was JUST stopping the DVD on my TV, just to take a look at the interface!

that’s so great mr.androw we love your work .. .:)!

Your tutorials are so inspiring! I love it! Hope you will release it today, cheers from sweden.

If anyone don’t know what Andrew is talking about, just check out this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNGpsxNH58g

Awesome Can’t wait to see it!

I love all of your tutorials, they are so helpful! I would love to see a tutorial to mimic the end credits of iron man as well!

Awsome!!
I was searching about this earlier when the movie came out. Can’t wait to see youre tut!
Thanks.

10 thumbs up

Cheers Andrew for ruining my day, I have been working on something similar for the last couple of weeks Doh!!!

I have been waiting to get my hands on a HD camera to film the live action element.

The graphics have been developed. And tracking with out stickers on the head. Using a two lights one red on right and blue on left and using the catchlight in each individual eye as a tracking marker. Then in layer setting the pan behind tool to a null object so if the eye moves left the icon moves in 3d space left. This would be for individual icons but when the whole head moves the whole interface moves.

I was even going to use the lighting technique from of your previous tutorials

Seems like you beat me to it, well I look forward to your results. That is meant in good spirit. I really like your work .

If you could include opening icons in the HUD in z space I have been trying to work out controllers but to no success.

Look forward to seeing this,

Happy Christmas

Rich

Can’t wait for this tutorial. Loved Iron Man and all the effects and it will be cool to do some similar effects that were in the film. Thanks for all your hard work!

OMG!!! Thats awesome! Hope its done soon. Got 2 Weeks off, perfect time for a new tutorial

pretty

sweet cant wait/

If I can change my font size to 75 point I would. I have been looking for a well explained HUD for over a year now. I just wish and hope you added interaction between the actor and screen like they were adjusting the dials. That would be icing on the cake.

thats pretty amazing.
you should pack more stuff in there like the original, so its really high tech!

good one, but it’s gonna be better if you shared your approach to FRINGE series intro

You should see some of the classes over at fxphd.com. They did a whole quarter on UI displays last quarter and this quarter had a class that worked on creating a UI that was similar to Iorn Mans.

Also I’d try and project his face on a 3D object and have the camera move along all 3 Axis’s. That was it’s a little more interesting.

Dude…this….is…awesome! I really need this. Hope it’s not in 3D max or anything…just in After Effekts…right?

The method is pretty open ended, you can add reflections, additional elements, interactions, targeting etc. Just depends how much work you want to put into it. I for one am looking forward to a little free time this holiday, so I’ll leave the fine details up to you

that would be tottaly awesome

Saaweet dude! Some nice “bleeps” and “bloops” sound effects would make this an ever cooler shot!

Hell Yeah! Awesome

Sweet! That looks interesting. But you should call the sample video, SAM Ple video. I know it doesn´t make any sense but I love the joke behind it.

Okay don´t kill me, because of my terrible english.
I love your website! I hope you will never stop teaching us cool things like that

thousand thumbs up for u andrew.

youre MY BEST DIGITAL MANIPULATING TEACHER !!

I LOVE VIDEOCOPILOT SO MUCH!!

anything is possible for u in after effect!haha.

andrew will create roBoCob that will destroy our world..

lol..sam in iron man..wawawhahwhahw..so funny..

Man, I needed this 2 weeks ago.

Cool stuff I loved Ironman!

Sam…is….iiiiirrrroooonnnnnnn-man.

Nice Andrew cant wait…..Make more science fiction tutorials

Sweeeeeeeeeet!

We ask for super hero tutorials, and we get ‘em. AK rocks, and Sam of course. Hi signed picture still sits on my desk.

Looking forward to it, Andrew!

Yes the heroes effects are amazing.Andrew please make some of them !!!!!!!Thanks and merry christmas

Holy Shish kabob! It’s SAM!!!

I thought the SAME exact thing this morning while I was in the shower! I was like really really wanting you to do this tutorial! Maybe there was some telepathical thing going on this morning!

Anyways I am so excited for this tutorial! I can’t wait for it! And I hope you make it look awesome!

Very nice!

wow..i love ur tuts andrew!!!!!

nice

cant wait for this tutorial

I’ve been meaning to ask Andrew. Why the name Videocopilot? or then again it’s probably that simple and it just flew over my head. lol. Love the website love the tutorial.

i am always impressed by your timing…

when i am working on a project that needs glitchy stylistic vfx… you come out with twitch … when i need some sound design elements … designer sound …

pro scores …etc .. and etc. and the greatest thing is…

your products are affordable… in price … but priceless in value!

you are THE most reputable resource a design student could ask for …

thanks from Tim @ Expression College For Digital Art

peace

I guess you are about to post it… I was also thinking of taking advantage of that technique

Nice do Andrew!
I’m really interested by this tutorial! working a lot on visual effects like this one…
Can’t wait…
Thx Andrew.

Chris

Wow!!!
Eagerly waiting !!

Nice work Mister K.

If we track his eyes, Sam could probably roll his head as much as he wants. Now if we could only figure out how to make it so he could turn his head… Can Sam rotate his head 360 degrees?

Looking forward to it.

Martin

Looks like VIDEO GAME.
I love it

nice dude. Ironman turned out to be one of my favorite movies. This should be a fun one to play with =)

As always – wow. You the man!

give me that!!!!

welcome back Sam

Nice Fx

boss……………. Really great. But boss please working with thinking particle and dynamic video tutorial. Please………. boss. I think You really know thinking particle 3.0, Great dynamic and world kind of realistic movie also work with post production thinking particle only and its special effect so dynamic so please make some tutorial with thinking particle this phyx too hard i think.

nice! i actually tried my luck doing a still image copying the Iron Man cockpit view, but it didn’t turn out this nice… great job, are we to expect a tutorial soon?

Sam Loya to president!

Sam is back!!! We havn`t seen anything with him for a long time but it seems like Sam is back (It sounds like a movie title, doesn` it……SAM IS BACK!!!!!!)

Yeah! Let´s do it!!!!

Sweet!! big fan of video copilot can’t wait merry christmas

ohh my god i tried that like a month ago and mine looked crappy but its good to see you brought it up thats great ,funny how our i deas so close. i cant wait for it.

OMG waiting for the tutorial! It should be very helpfull for my newest video!
Thanks you andrew for free teaching
http://es.youtube.com/user/flashman7

Great! I can’t wait to see it!!

This one’s pretty sweet to:

http://vimeo.com/1518322

Hey, I love your videos! You have taught me so much and I don’t know where I would be without your tutorials. Rest assured, I have always credited you in my movies when I used knowledge reaped from your great tutorials. I hope you will soon make a tutorial on force field effects; it has been something I have been wanting to do in a movie.

awesome, I’ve been looking for a good way to do a HUD, and when you do it, it’s always a good way! Your tutorials always have more valuable tips than I can shake a stick at, and I’m talking about a big freakin stick!

WOOOW!!
AND SAM IS BACK!! i havent seen him since the “THE BULLET” DVD

Can`t wait for this tutorial, i like those “real life” tutorials much more than the motion graphics title tutorials.

When can we expect your 3D text tutorial and or your quickmatte plug-in?

Cooooollllll… Nice work man…

This’ll be perfect for a sci-fi comedy series I’m doing. I pray I can adapt it to make a Dead Space-style interface…

Woow I can hardl wait this tutorial. I’s very cool.

YYEESSS finaly haw ben waithing soo long for this one.

Quick tip, once all the graphics have been done do a pre comp without the live action footage. Once completed do a track on a eye. Using a sphererize or similar shrink the composed hud to eyeball size, via a null put the hud over the eye lower the opacity or using a blend mode put it in. Mask and feather and voila a proper hud reflection on the eye. Repeat for the other eye and hey presto reflections in the eyes.

man hope tut is coming soon!

Man, you are different. You always post tutorials, that people can actually use in their work.
Thank you for being a useful teacher

in an interview they said that everything was done in 2D. i think in nuke. so basicly if you have time you could do the same in AE.

hey andrew.. does rendering out in quicktime in ae lead to loss of quality as compared to the raw footage..

and i do see loss of quality of video if i work on after effects. but thats not the case in final cut pro, or avid… Why is that?

Hey Andrew, very good ideia…please check out my reel

http://www.halexsieber.com

Brilliant, This is going to look really good. Andrew? Why not put up an Xmas theme for the site tomorrow?

@Andrew Excellent work as always, I remember trying to do something like this a while back, after listening to the interview by fxguide. One method i tried to emulate was by pasting the HDU on the inside of a sphere, and rotating it, I tried it by using the ccsphere I think but I got stuck and it looked pretty weird. I would appreciate it if you would do something like that.

Sweet!!!

When is this coming out?

awesome cant wait, and have a merry christmas hope you get all the present you want

Excellent, looks very good

OMG that is mad cant wait for the tutorials

Aha… I was wondering when you were going to make a tutorial like this. I would actually like to see a tut on something like when he was ‘designing’ the silver armor on that holographic table. Maby a 3DMax tutorial?

I recall mailing you on this subject:

- – - -

/i/ by Eric Harrison
May 3rd, 2008 @ 2:59 pm

I’m back, and your back, and I’m sure youv’e seen IRON MAN!!!

So go ahead and develop some tuts on that cool 3D Holographic interface,
The tut can include advanced tracking skils and filter/material settings to create 3D hollographic meshes and combine them with sprites and such, /i/

Man, ur the best!!!
I can´t wait to see this tut.

Hi Master, I’am from senegal west africa and I’m very glad to be part of videocopilot student.
I learned lot in after effect since I bought your dvd (twist, evolution and riot gear)and I think you’re the best in after effect world.
I told my friend youssou wade to buy those dvd for me.
I wish you long life.
God bless and guide you master.
Happy new year

Eagerly waiting for this tutorial….Thank you.

Waiting for something like this since a long time. Thanks for coming back to 2D.

It looks awesome. Will you create a tutorial for that?

wow Andrew….this tutorial is so cool…if i make a 3d interior of the suit,a video with my head and project this sequence with the heads-up hud it would be just like iron man…wowww…please post it soon..but have a little vacation…and marry christmas…Andrew..thanx…actually i accidently browsed this website..i cant understand why there isnt any post or commercial in the big..vfx sites…this site is the coolest of them all…greetings from the rioting greece..!!!!!!!!!!!

How long til we get to see the tutorial!
OMG i loved Iron Man! This should be so awesome!

Wow… That’s very cool!

I swear this man never sleeps! you are very inspirational. Thanks for all the great products and tutorials.

Hawke Taylore
Taylore Studios
http://www.TayloreStudios.com
http://www.AudioVisualConsortium.com

hey Mr Kramer

That tutorial is mad and stuff, but i just saw “The Day The Earth Stood Still” and there are these spheres that come to earth, u would no wat i mean if u saw it, so im just asking can u make a tutorial on how to make those sphere, that is if u can, itll be really nice.

Thanx.
From Roy

I can’t wait for this tut sir! I have been looking for this very tutorial all over the net but no joy as of yet till you upload yours or someone beats ya to it I was kinda hoping that you would have this ready and uploaded by now so i could escape the joys of xmas with the inlaws lol hope you’ll have this uploaded asap.

also I have taken the liberty of finding some examples you may or may not wanna check out

http://www.vimeo.com/1518322

http://www.vimeo.com/1912400

..am i ega..lol

Merry Christmas to you an all the bloggers…..even tho it was a few days ago lol :-s

Wow!! Sam is Back!…. cant wait for the Tut!

Well, this is just what I need for my next movie. I would like to learn more about 3D animation. So if anyone knows any good site with cool video tutorials in 3Dmax let me know. And Andrew, good thing your surname isn`t Drew…
I`m member of a Trash association in Croatia, and we have Trash film festival every year. You could apply your movie ( the one with ninjas you were talking about in tutorials ). Reward is Golden Chainsaw and everlasting glory. You can visit us at http://www.trash.hr
In fact everybody is invited. The battle for the Golden Chainsaw continues…

When is this tutorial coming out????? Andrew help! LOL
Really waiting on this one!
Thanks
michael

oh schweetness!

Andrew! Your Great!Thanks for these tutorials

I can’t read all posts around here … so if i repeat something in my words bellow, excuse me. I will give you one important tip for this tutorial,
HUD REFLECTION IN SAM EYES, seem to me you forgotten this small but very important detail.

Regards from Serbia!

Looks like Aharon Rabinowitz did this tuts… Using Particle illusion and After effects…

Wickey Woop Woop Yes, Goin to be good

I like the depth of field work. Although, i’ve already done something similar that’s a bit more complex. I created the assets in illustrator, and only used AE preset plugins to animate it.

http://vimeo.com/1518322

check it out and let me know what you think.

finally.. the long wait is over.
exxxxccitttteed..

SWEET!! CANT WAIT

Not only Robocop, look at what happened to obadiah stane without his targeting system.