Very cool! Please do a tutorial!

haha that’s awesome

So sweet Kramer!

O_o

I’ve tried that and failed….COOL MAN!!!

EPICNESS!!!!

now…..wheres ther tut?

I can’t wait!
you are a legend!

you beat me to the first post…. XP

video wonderland copilot !
thx mrK (the man before mrT)

that looks awesome, a tutorial on that would be great!
Thanks

Great, you always find a way man. You are amazing! Looking forward to the tutorial Andrew!

Cool. Can’t wait for the tutorial

Wow! Nice. I always wanted to learn how to do it fast and easy in 3ds Max. But I think After Effects will do it too. I’m waiting for the tutorial.

wow i’ve been trying to create something like this thats perfect

when is it coming?

Freakin’ Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

Make the text look 3D extruded and fly the camera through the city and add some cars adn more text…..:)

and then make a transformer render from max and stick it in there too

Good thinking, maybe a 3D terminator while I’m at it… Lol

every minutes a comments … i think we’r addicted , no cure for the vcp desease imo

I was literally looking into do this very same thing in ae just yesterday. My first roadblock was finding good building textures. Where can you find those?

nice andrew… Very NICE…
you’re better then all…
bye

WOW!!!! amazing!!

with some glow effects will be cool. but this is awesome without it too.

loooool look how much Kramer is involved with his community, he’s so close with us. VC ftw. <3

Nice .

That is cool. I made something like this a while ago with just one building. Turned out pretty good.

that is very nice. I am trying to imagine the sick camera movements you did in it.

That would be a VERY cool tutorial!!!!

Pleeeeeeeeeease????

(even a short one!!!!!)

Dude. If you made a tutorial on a transformer. I would buy every single of your products 3 times. Not even kidding. My mind has been amazed by that movie so many times. California love <3

Ok guys, WHO EVER THINKS ANDREW KRAMER IS AN AWESOME GUY AND IS YOUR AFTER EFFECTS HEROE, PUT THIS IN A COMMENT AND POST IT

Love your stuff bro. keep it up

Wow…that looks pretty good!

wow I cant wait for this…….this looks like it will take a long time to do

Pentium 3??

I can’t wait for another of your tutorials!!!

Nice font, I am pretty sure it’s called “Capture it” Just if anyone wanted to know.

Very nice!
2 questions:
- did you compose the building textures in PS, or in AE?
- are the ‘flares’ a blurred dust layer, or a particle effect?

Massive respect from Belgium!

I’ve already done this in class. Yeah took 10 minutes to render a 5 second animation (1920 x 1080), and I ended up with 200 layers or something.

Wow!How long did you work on that one?

What! No radiosity coming from the glowing text!? (joking)

In my experience it is much faster and easier to do this kind of complexity in a 3D package.

Good practice I suppose.

–
Kevin

holy crap, SHOW ME!!!

Im very impressed with this. Im going to give it a try tonight and see what I can come up withl

Anyone knows where to buy Dual Pentrium 3??? I only have Dual Core, that’s sux…

@Peter:
- compose in PS faster, imho.
- too obvious about flares, he loves to use Particle and apply lens blur over it

Yess please do a tutorial for this

Hey! NYC isn’t that crime ridden anymore….that’s an old stereotype!! lol

That’s Awsome. If not a free tutirial, that would be something Id buy a dvd to learn!

is it just me, or is part of the “B” missing? XD

hey..hey..
its looks great!!
cant wait the tutorial….
hahahaha

I love the fact that you have the Sears Tower aka soon to be Big Willy Tower.

Im not going to lie, that is freaking amazing!!!!!!!!
nice work.

I just… WOW!!! don’t… words missing…. AWESOME!!! DEMASIADO CHIVA!!! TOO DAMN INCREDIBLE!!!!… don’t know what else to say…. inspirational… that’s the word….

I agree with Kevin. A couple of times I’ve committed to large scale 3d after effects comps, then regretted it when my comp got bogged down trying to refresh tiny changes.

Looks awesome, and no doubt valuable skills to be learned (and awesome if you don’t have access to a 3D app) but in terms of speeding up workflow, a 3D app is much faster for this kind of thing, and you also have the possibilities of all the awesome effects available in the 3D apps

I’ve actually been thinking if that was possible and I thought it was, but awhile ago (2008) a friend did it. Can’t wait for a tutorial!
-David

You don’t have limits, that’s good, seems you are doing somethin you like… so much.
And we can learn a lot from you.
Tznk’s!!
F.

Woah! Very fast machine…where can i get one andrew?

ehehehe that’s nice!!!!
Don’t forget we should buy his product for support him!!!! ^__^

This is something im really interested in . cant wait

Niiiiice!

WOW!!!….

Looks awesome!

You love the font CaptureIt too, don’t you? :p
It’ll actually be our new font in a week or so.

keep it up!

Nice one, looks mustard. Looking forward to the tut.

Many thanks

man… you are a AE Superhero!!

man… you are the AE superhero!!!

that man is unstoppable!

Looks great )

Penitum 3 Dual Core .. hahaha yaar u r just Awsome .. and that is for person .. in graphics u r guru

Very intensive render
it will take forever to render on my PC .
I think there’s a useful plug in called “Plane Space” from redgiant can do all the stuff here it’s perfect.
but we need the tutrial without addition plug in if you can.
Thanks & looking forward to the next one

That’s awesome, Andrew. Great work as always.

Looking forward to the tutorial on that one for sure!

I can’t believe how much I am learning just by hanging out on the site and checking out stuff. Oh, and I ordered 4 more products from ya. Those help immensely, of course!

Cheers!

hhahaha…make spiderman in this video..

Dual Pentium 3… puh, I don’t think my Core2Extreme can handle that :p

Regards,
Lucas

I’ve done something similar to this before but not that much of 3D!I was trying to simulate a small company in AE to make an ad,it’s very amazing to work with flat images and create something 3d
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Can’t wait to see this tutorial! Seems fabulous…

Wow ! . I’ve made something like this, but it was bad . I love rain, smoke, lightnings, so you can add it, and show to us how to make it so realistic (i mean on lightnings, thunders, rain) in this “3D” city…
And… You can ADD some car with 3D option for Photoshop images, am i right ? You can use in After Effects CS4 3D objects like in real 3D ? Hm…? I’ve seen that anywhere…

Best Reagards, Djordje !

Hey Andrew !
I was serching on a tutorial how to do a 3d city, and guess what ? you’ll make a tutorial on it !!
Thank you very much,
From Japan.

andrew, you are the best! please make a tut about that! it looks so awesome!!
greets from germany

Nice work and looks stylish to me…
How about adding a flyby camera, a bit of skyglow and some city traffic?

Good work!
See you soon with the new tutorials,
Zander

Looks pretty realistic to me. Can’t wait for the tutorial. You are famous even here in Latvia (somewhere in Europe). You rule A.K. You and Sam Loya are a great team!

this will make a very sexy tutorial

thank you. look forward to this

this scene would be awesome in stereo while we’re at it ..

hiiii iliked zis site

Looks awesome. But to make it photo realistic you just need to take real pictures of building as a texture.

Hi Kramer,

Awesome look on that pic. I was just wondering, would it not have been easier to create say 8 buildings in 3dmax on a ground plane then texture them (inc street ground plane) then import the render & camera data into AE. Then add a 2d city back ground and use the pan move data from 3d max to animate the scene?

Hi Andrew! Can you tell me how did you do that? I mean the blury water droplet “in the lens” of the camera? Did you use a still image and add a blending mode to it or use one of a previous tutorial made by you and Aharon?

Thanks!

al2cl3

*sorry for two post in a row, we cannot edit our post*
I ask that because they look’s soooooooo realistic!!!
Btw sorry by my poor english, if there is some errors.

THis looks great. I can see massive potential for really enhancing a film and increasing its percieved scale if use appropriatly

Thats pretty cool

Does it include something like a ground plane, street map?
would be pretty cool to get down on street level

Somebody was asking about this effect on the forum and nobody had an exact answer for him. I hope the tutorial is soon.

Became stronger than before, many entries in a short time, that’s the attitude.

Thanks as always, That’s looks very interesting.

We all know Andrew only made this so he could fly the camera around and pretend he’s Spiderman.

I don’t comment often, but I am SUPER psyched about this one. The still looks incredible! This one looks to have some good depth to it that others of this type have been lacking.

Know That we all know your technique to use a hot air baloon you can’t fool us lol just kidding
Can’t wait for the tutorial to come out

Really nice work Andrew, as always!! I would definately really enjoy a tutorial on how to create something like this and to see your workflow.

Just to ventilate some thoughts I don´t know about the rest of you guys here, but another thing I would really enjoy is to see a video capture of you Andrew, working on a “real” project. What I mean by that is it would be really nice to see how you work from beginning to end when you come up with your ideas and to see your everyday workflow. To see how you tackle things when things go wrong, the shortcuts you take and how you solve every day problems and issues. How you try out different effects and ideas that eventually leads up to the final result.

Even thou tutorials are extremely great and I love to watch them and learn, all tutorials I ever see are always of finished and already tried methods and ideas. This is of course one the whole ideas of tutorials, to teach and share ideas of things you know and have figured out etc.. But to see how you would go about starting out a new project from scratch, working with the ideas, how you try out various things to get to the final results that you always manage to create so great, would be awesome to see.

So to see you hit the “record” button when you start working on creating a new “real world” project from scratch, or when you decide to create a new tutorial about something and to see how you work from beginning to end would be totally awesome.

I´ve tried finding these types of “workflow” videos, but I can´t seem to find any made by anyone basically.. Ever project starts somewhere, and even how well trained you are and how much you may know, every project is a new challenge, and to get to follow along with someone as great as you Andrew and see how you tackle these challenges would be awesome

Just a thought

It looks realy good I’m going to use it for my new film I can’t wait for the tutorial!!! an afcorse the new DVD!!

This is awesome!

But, to the slow render…… I think you should get Adobe to pay for a new computer, That will PERFECTLY render anything you need in less than a minuite!

(We all can have a fantasy right?)

Hard Time? Intel Pentium 3?
Then I am quintessentially buggered, Kramer, old chum. I’m running AECS3 on a laptop with Centrino Core 2 Duo. CS3 being annoying, rendering from only ONE of my 2 processors. Ah, crap.

could you post the project file?
I would love to see exactly how you did it.

looks amazing, ive always wanted to make a blade runner esque city shot

@Steeth:
I totally agree with you!
that would be really cool to see AK figuring some of this stuff out. I think it would be very enlightening.

@Rob Coxxy:
haha, you think you have it hard?!
I don’t even have a duo processor!
I am running AE CS3 on 512 mbs of ram on a windows xp 2004!
Pretty much the worst case cenario, because I am trying to work with HD footage. On just some footage with basic effects it will take about 15 minutes for 10 seconds of footage to render!
yeah, so you get the idea.

Please make a tutorial, this is awesome… you are awesome!

I’can`t wait to watch it!
I want to learn more of ilumination in AE, and this looks perfect!
thank you!

A tutorial would be greatly appreciated.

This it TOTALLY better than getting Mugged, lol. Looks friggin awesome!!

Here’s a quick thought, with soooo many VC peeps here really interested in your process in a ‘real’ project, ever thought about doing it up doc styles for a behind the scenes look, clearly it’d be shown way after the actual work aired as I would assume with most projects confidentiality is huge until its aired.

I could see that doc selling out quickly if you guys decided to sell it or include it on one of your product dvds.

Either way I own 4 DVDs myself, love em all, and I’ve had my eye on the Pro Scores for months now.

For an editor only a few years in, your innovation is inspiring.

Rich D wrote: “Very cool! Please do a tutorial!”

It is fairly simple just get or make a picture of the side of a building make it 3D and position the anchor point at exactly the dissents behind the image as half the width of the image. precompose this and turn on the colapse transformation switch. alt click on the stopwatch for the x rotation and tipe: index*90 now duplicate this layer 3 times. now that you have the basic shape you can add a top by making a square solid that is the size of the width of your original picture and make it gray. place the anchor point at half the height of the original picture behind the gray solid and offset the x rotation by 90. now go back into your original comp and duplacate and offset the sky scraper. add a light, a background, some text, and a camera and your done.

thats great ….!!!! can´t wait for the tutorial

I’ve been waiting for something like this.

Good!!!

You are my idol!

I was in Inner Mongolia, a Mongolian boy, I very much admire you! My English not good, I can only use translation software to communicate with you.

I do not know the translation is correct or not, I hope you can understand. In China now you can not see the tutorial, which is a big regret. I have read many of your tutorial, very cool! Really thank you! ! !

Well it looks like a simple effect, of course if you have cool photos :>

@ Rob Coxxy:

Hehe, guess I’m better off then you

(1 GB Ram, XP Service Pack 2, AMD Sempron Processer 3400 [is that good? I don't know a lot about PC parts], but I do only have 1.80 GHz which is horrible. Can’t even play Brothers in Arm Hell’s Highway!)

Still love the city.

Need to correct myself:

I meat to say “@david” since he said that. Sorry.

Amazing Work Again!!! Working on the border covering news, I always turn to Video Copilot for different ways of adding elements to a Story.

Hey Andrew i really got to say this..u r just amazing, all ur wrk inspires nd gains me confident in what i do…coz i am half way thru ma course(Editing & VFX)in India nd nothin up to this level has been thought in here…so i am learnin mostly frm yr wrk..thnx nd keep postin more of these…U r really a perfectionist…

inpossible to possible

Le serviteur d’AFTER EFFECTS a encore frappé, KEEP ON GOING ANDREW.
FILIP, Lyon, FR

Man what are you eating ? You are awesome !