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I don’t know what this is but it took a long time to make and rendering was really slow. What could it be? Some crazy test? A new production company logo? Perhaps a new tutorial idea? I’ll post a video when it is done. I’ll tell you it was created in After Effects and every piece is an individual AE layer.

AND, the background has a gradient!!!

75 RESPONSES TO “Mystery Comp”

andrew u roooock !!

It looks kinda like glass shattering over the videocopilot logo ^^

great men
i loveeeeee it…………

u r work is awuuuuuuuuusum……….

Still awesome

yeah man awsome a fkn GRADIANT!! ;D

Keep going, im excited what you build this time.

another great kramer’s idea !!!

you’re the best!!!

best regards from france !

Looks… interesting, whatever it is. Looking
forward to the vid.

It does look interesting…I have to admit I’m actually curious to see what this is and how it was made!

Knowing you this probably kicks tons and tons of ass…

Thank you kind sir!

Background gradients? I can’t decide whether you’re a madman, or an innovator.

It looks like a section from one of your dvd trailers, looks awesome though! Your tutorials are so inspiring!! Keep up the great work!!

THX
Great guy!

You tease us with your computer fingers Mr Kramer……..

looks like some kind of shattered wall falling into 1 piece again.

wow cool, really looking great;)

For a second I thought it was that super cool Fringe-style text intro deal.

Either way it looks cool!

(Excited)!!!!!!

Woooo… hold on! A gradient!? Nice, always wanted to learn how to make gradients! You guys are so fortunate! ;)

dang….cant wait at all….

Are you shining a light through some kind of alpha stencil??

VCP goes mystery

dadada-dammmm xD

looks great!

hum…call Sherlock Holmes!

Woot, creepy

Oooooh, looks spooky! I can’t wait to see what it is.

OH BOY!!! GRADIENT!!! (it’s so fun to say!)

A Videocopilot Transformer?

The top one looks like your projecting the Video Copilot text onto the “shatterd glass” somehow…

And I’m a walrus! Coo coo ca choo!

Zoinks Scoobs!

It’s shiny, so I want it!

I wish,this is new tutorial :D

by Fernando Araya

You get evertyhign in VC… MYSTERY, ROMANCE, THRILLER…. Hope to see horror soon :D

you never seem to amaze me…wait that came out wrong. You’re the High Priest of the Church of the Wickedly Cool…okay i should stop now.
Thanks a million for all u do. checks in the mail.

These are the test files for the fringe, that you have been working on, right ?

I think you should say “Hey wassup guys ANDREW KRAMER here with another MYSTERIOUSSSSLY WICKED tutorial” as the introduction for this vid. I dunno why I asked that, but it would be cool to know your listening lol. Or reading.

every piece is a layer……?
how…?

by Jack Daniel Jenkins

nope.. don’t believe you. not listening. la la la la!!!

Ugh, I understand the pain you must’ve gone through working with so many 3D layers.

I like how the text is on the broken pieces. It would be cool if it all comes together and forms the VC logo. Yeah come you can do it…

It’s a transformers trailer styled mutation…

Maybe too much detail on projection layer(over 20000)??

It’s so cool to be able to break stuff in AE constantly without having to notify insurance agencies or cleaning up the mess afterwards.

Yes…GRADIENTS!!!

Can you say Projection map layer?!?!?!
Hee hee

Whatever it is….it looks exciting!

its a glass, shot bij a sniper…
but the sniper used VIDEO COPILOT in stead of a red dot.
Wich is interesting, beacause you wanna know why the glass got shot…

I think some jealous man, is trying to steal the secret recept for a good tutorial!

To much fantasie?
However, its great!

Its IS a mystery!

Like the glass from a brocken window 30 stories up and there is dead guy lieing there! :)

I am already drooling. I love the way the text just falls on each shattered fragment as if it is projected by a projector. I can’t wait to see how this is done. Very cool FX.

Gosh I love the spelling on these blog / tutorial posts.

“That’s interesting………………….That’s very interesting”
-jack sparrow

I don’t know what it looks like, but i know one thing… it’s amazing!!!

Looks nice and interesting. Seems as though you are shining the VCP logo onto the pieces though.

Can’t wait to see what you are up to on this one :-)

Best wishes,

Mark

looks absolutly awesome and 3Ds MAXish :)

looks like a segment of the intro to the FRINGE tv show

it’s a TRANSFORMERS animation

Projected light “gobo” with VC logo?
Reverse wall shatter?

Looks very interesting…I look forward to the tutorial.

oh no.. if its going to take along time to render on your comp its going to be weeks for me!haha

Glass shattering?

Extremely cool

by PierceFX(one day)

i agree with luke, my computer is no where near your computer’s power, i try to follow along, but it takes 5 seconds to open the effects menu… much less render the shatter with repetitions at 200, it’s slow at a 1/4 of the resolution, it looks like shatter… but i see a few things that shatter can’t do… especially the individual layers,

awesome gradient by the way… is that one of the riot gear textures? with glass added? i can’t wait, i haven’t got a chance to try the HUD yet, and i can’t get sure target to work with auto-rotate, so i hope this is a little less annoying :D

did you really work on the fringe intro… your name should be everywhere, i mean, holy carp… you’re awesome

Awesome

A gradient background?! What will he think of next!!?

Background gradients are just like “What’s up! I’m Andrew Kramer…” line.
They’re a must!

I hope this is what I think it is. [crosses fingers]

a gradient?!?!

HAHAHAHAHA

When do you sleep?
In my country we have two hours more than in yours. but it is too much… Do you have nightmares? I’m just kidding.

Maybe if you can put under the water with an effect of light through the water, with a fractal noise technique and a Particular reaction of bubbles. with slow camera movements similar to those of a submarine that is finding something on the seabed.

mograph_geek
ehehe=)

Kramer you area crazy dog!

krazy se rans, this man is just impossible.

Looks like a piece of slate or something like that, but what’s really interesting is that it looks like the text is being projected as a light onto the breaking surface ( whatever it is ). I’m certainly no guru in AE so this is certainly something that’s maybe easy to do and I just don’t know it, but I have to say – it’s not something I’ve seen before.

VCP FTW!!!

if it is a projection, i suppose you could just do a mask where the text is transparent, and it casts shadows and all the other layers accept shadows, and you put the light source on the other side of a solid gen media less the text that is being subtracted from the gen media.

Just a thought I guess on how it could be accomplished if what i was guessing was correct

what kind of gradient? radial or linear – either way, i wanna learn! Haha. Can’t Wait!

reflections into pieces of faik glases, well this look like title design for a film trailer.

very coooooooool fx

its killer project …… your the perfect awesome guy AK …thx

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