Wow , got to watch !!!
poor Sam … loved him…

HOLY SMOKES!

Awesome work Andrew, Thanks!

Thanks Andrew!

YESSSSSSS!!!!!
A+
cheers from Haiti

wow 20/20

thanks AK, u r the best!

nice! good job guys!

Dang! I´m working I can´t watch the tutorial untill I get home!!!
It looks amazing!!

EncosX
I Andrew… really compliments for this tutorial… very great.

I have see that you have a change the OS and after effect version. You have a new computer? You used vista 64bit ultimate or businness?

greting from italy and sorry for my confused english

Just AWSOME andrew. visit your website everyday, hope to see something new..

GREAT TUT…

thanks bro

Definetly Groundbreaking

I don’t know if I’m liking the CS4 Layout though?

Wow another long tutorial!

Awesome Job. Look forward to trying this out.
Sam with no hands! Can you keep that going in his next appearance?
I was hoping for a sneak peak of the new Action Elements, maybe next time?

“Damn Smokey!”

wooohooooooooo!
i love you man!
i don’t think that one day i could thank you enough for your (high quality) sharing
U are the best Andrew, you are my heroe!

greeting from Algeria

Yeaaah . I love header “NEW TUTORIAL” Hehe…
Thank you man !
Sam….

Pozdrav iz Srbije !
Regards from Serbia !

awesome!!! watching now…

Always the best! Thanks!

Wow, you seem to amaze me everytime Mr. Kramer

Man I am going to start my own movie studio if you keep doing stuff like this :p

oH great as usual BOSS. you know what andrew hopfely you’ll com to my country the way i’ll welcome you there… in the meantime keep up the great work

Holy carp!

Thanks Andrew! You’re the best!

Awesome. Just really super freakin’ cool I say!

Damn fun. Except for Sam.

cool

Thanks for that, that was great. I like it how these tutorials are getting more and more advanced. Really enjoyed it!

The ball of light is actually the Discover Card orange talking ball of light…

looks like Sam has reached his limit..

Wow. Not to belittle your previous efforts — which remain among the best video tutorials for creatives, paid or otherwise — but this is the most enlightening tutorial I’ve ever seen. I hope you continue this trend of ever-increasing quality

My birthday is in a month. Products will be purchased.

Thanks for this tutorial it is SPECTACULAR!!

Amazing.

That was super cool! I already made my own version.

Soo….uhm. My b-day is May 2nd, do you think Action Essentials 2 will be out by then?

I’ve been looking all over the internet for something like this. It’s too beautiful for words.

NOOOO, dude I refuse to come back here. Sam was the only reason I watched you Andrew. Say it ain’t so. Dude you have to bring him back from dead. Try that thing they did with Optimus Prime, I’m sure the same technique could work for Sam.

Great tutorial!

You owe Sam big time for this! I mean…you burnt off the dude’s skin and both his hands. I say you should let him co-host a tutorial to make it up to him!

Thanks for the Tutorial! You Rock!

oh no… oh no.. can’t believe it’s true..
I only see it in movies, but now.. i’m doin’ it in my comp.hehe
thanks mr.kramer, appreciate everything. BTW, what is the exact release of Action Essentials 2? Can’t to have it in my collection of your products.

Awesome! Your jokes are getting better every tut! I loved the ending.
This tut was a very requested one I am happy it finally came. Thanks man.

NO WAY!!!!
THIS IS SIC!!!!

SaaaWEEEEE-eT!

Love the finished product!

4.10am in the UK and just finished watching. Unbelievable! worth every phenomenal second… I can not wait to try this. Thankyou!

brilliant work Andrew, Just Awesome!

man that looks cool

Alas! Poor Sam we knew him well…Nevertheless cant wait to watch this new one!!

~Greetings from Texas!

I kind of reminds me of the vampire disintegration effect in the Blade movies.
Very cool!

Great Tutorial!!! Man every one seems to be better and better. This looks like the same kind of effect they used on the eiffel tower shot, shown in the G.I.Joe movie trailer.

Thanks Andrew these are great principals.

Just beautiful Andrew!!!
Speechless!

Wow, thanks a bunch. This one is sick!!!!

I loved this tutorial! Smoke creation, fire, YES!

BTW, I just got The Bullet and I love it, I’ll be watching those tutorials for years… I MUST get AME 2 when it comes out!
-David

it’s 1:00AM…. I gotta be up in 4.5 hours…. but I dont care!!! I’m watching this NOW!! Always top notch stuff from you and the guys AK.

Keep it up, because of videocopilot (I speak for myself and alot of people I’m sure) doors have been opened for creativity we would have either never seen, or not realized until they were obsolete.

Thanks!

VFX_Phil

Sick! I love it

Am I the only one that has a problem watching the tutorials??? They stop halfway through.

Another great tutorial!

lol…started work just before 6.50am (UK) and I haven’t done a thing yet apart from watch this. Better get moving and do a bit.

Will get stuck in to this over the weekend.

Ta

Another wow experience – awesome work….
Looking forward to test this

/Oscar

Adobe AF was for me same as Pandora box, very confusing with catastrophic results but with you guide slowly i learn how to use this powers and with every new tutorial you newer fail to amaze me how much power is in this program (if you know how to use correctly there is no limits what you can achieve )

Thanks for sharing you wisdom with us

nice one!

poor sam..

Big THX for sharing again and again and again!

Cheers from Germany

I’ve not done any of the live action tutorials, mainly due to lack of people willing to be filmed but I gotta try this one, thats just cool!

Maybe I’ll disintegrate my 2 year old!

Andrew kramer you are a good man, thanx for all what you do for us, you are amazing.:)

What’s what I was waiting for!

Awesome!!

Love you!!

Hey Boss, i just finshed working on the tutorial and i have 2 questions. 1st how to slow the burning animation.2nd when sam burned his hands trying to steel your indy thing how you limit the animation to stop at a cartine point ? other that that it was an amazing follow pit fast but hey thats why i run 2 monitors and have a pause botton. thanks champ.

OMG, thats pretty cool, especiall for us guys without particular and co

wonderful
:D:D

This hidden video at the end kicks ass…
btw I want to know if he tries to get the statue with his mouth

Keep on the awesome work Andrew. Best AE site on the web!

Very great tut but have any raw footages 4 us follow to learn, we’re really waiting for, thanks

BIIGG ANDREW!!
Thanks a lot man! Keep on!
Ciao!

holy carp, batman! this is exactly what i needed right now. i can’t tell you how much i love you right now, andrew. is it enough to tell you that i purchased all your products and always will?

Thank you for this very nice tutorial. But, can you please add the AE projekt file to the archive for download, Andrew? Thank you very much.

i like the new tutorial speed

AWSOME!!!

Thank you, for yet “another very exiting tutorial!”.^^ This one was one of the best ones, i think, because i really learned alot new techniques.

Wow, looks like Blade smashing vampires. It’s a long tutorial, but it’s a lot of fun with many tips.

hey Andrew:you before nextman; Now,süperman

super tutorial..thanks…

(little Katie’s hi )

ΔΔΔ !!1 AWESOME!! youare ANDREW KRAMER DUDE1

HEloo! I Like very much! IS AWESOME!! ROCK!!!

make more HEY ANDREW KRAMER!! SAM !!!

these blow socks!!!

Hy, Andrew. Thanks for this amazing tutorial.
Do you think about make some tutorial about new features in photoshop cs4 like 3d object in after effects? Looks like have some big differences instead cs3. I saw a tutorial in adobe.com and seems a new way to work, some new improvements in both programs and a big integration.
again, thanks for the tutorial.

u r the great. Sir crazy stuff from Ivory coast (Morocco)

Awesome tut, Andrew!!

Really funny the end tag (Sam’s hands). Thank you very much ;D

that Sam.. what a great actor!

GREAT TUTORIAL!!!!! Im so mad at myself though because i was fallowing the tutorial almost to the end and I hadnt saved my project then my computer froze!!!!

Awesome. Almost lost my breath in the beginning only by watching it

That end “movie” was great! Sam did a fantastic scream at the end…
-Greetings from Finland

Wow that bonus video made me laugh a lot

Thanks again Andrew

Nice work Andrew. I guess Sam is your “Kenny” from South Park.

make more tutorial ANDREW KRAMER !! make 1 every day and kill SAM !!! a ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

this vieod socks! yes? make explode the buscket ?

SAM your face is so fun lololol
por SAM, Andrew please leave SAM RUN first lolol

SAM YOU ARE SO FUN

THANKS…………………..
YOUR THE BEST I EVER KNOW

hey you upgraded to vista!

great tutorial.

Very cool. Thank you. I just try it. Here is my test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL3GpUlrN6I

That is awsome

Huh!

Thank You . Poor sam

I love the new tutorial Excellent work! ^__^

Very nice; it was about time a ground-breaking tutorial was made again If you ever need stock footage but don’t have time to make it yourself, (I’m sure you already know this) go to detonationfilms.com; they have some great free stuff and some not-so-free stuff, plus a HD web site for HD footage.

Incidentally, where in the world did you get that sweet girly scream at the end?

AMAZING!

AMAZING tutorial AK!
poor sam… looks like he reached his limits.

make ANDREW KRAMER SAM !!! ROCK AWESOME DUDE!!! blow sock!!!

Thank you so much VCP! There is so much Information about workflow and cool Tricks in this tutorial you gotta love it!

hey Andrew Kramer! You man man Dude! Rock! AAAWWWEEESSSOOOMMMEEESSS !!!!

I come to video pilot!! Andrew Kramer hero in beatiful Zair!

I was just about to make a tutorial on how to do that… but your gfx’s look much better… a lot better

Great tutorial Andrew *thumb up*
And I love your jokes
Next tuorial with Sam will be 18+, won’t it?

NO WAY!!!

this is epic!!!

Sam is so hot!!!!!…. what?

Was this inspired by The Watchmen movie where Doctor Manhattan disintegrated people by touching them?

I did a clip for our cod4 clan website and used the tutorial as a guide here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/clancy30

Awesome Tut!

Hey you’re on Vista now!?

To clancy30: How to slow down the burn. Check your linear wipe layer

WOWWWWWWW. a litlle complicated, but the final shot is amazing, you are the best andrew!!!!! and sam too

UP THUMB1 UPTHUMB!

very nice
great tutorial
really Kramer you’re the best again
thank you so much
and we’re waiting for the new tutorials

ANDREW KRAMER! is vista make particle ? yes ?

ROCK MAN! ROCK MAN ! texture particle make world seams SAM DIE!!! a hahahaha!!!

I finally found time to watch this one. Great tutorial. Much kudos for producing the entire effect using AE’s built-in tools. I tackled mine with Particular, gaining a bit more control over the particles but sacrificing much of the render speed.

Keep ‘em coming!

Wow thats a pretty cool effect there andrew.
Recently did a remake test of your Meteor film here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–h0spYiSUo as a test for effects for a film we’re making for UK Cinemas, so any U.K dwellers, check us out cjcinematics.co.uk or thefacesofblood.com
We’re using ALL of andrew & co’s products so it should be pretty good.
Thanks andrew, couldn’t have done it with out you (:

Oh and that comment went a bit off topic but i was just saying because we’ll be using that effect in it too.

Great technique. And btw great tutorial. I found a real cool Production for Philips. You have to take a look at this. Just amazing.

http://www.cinema.philips.com/?ls=gb_en

Where’s Sam Footage? I download the “Project” but isn’t there Where?????

i have a question ,can we use the same tutorial technique but use the particles and Disintegration to do the effect from the day the earth stood still when the particles eating everything in its way ,any ideas on how to do that?

Now you have to make a re-materialization tutorial so we can learn how to get Sam back!

is no footage? yes ? is no footage Andrew kRaMER ?

Wow. That granade look awesome! I love the color of the granade. Green is my favorite color. It looks like it came straight out of blasian movie.

This is cool to use for a fuse (hey that rhymes) on a stick of dynamite

make the fuse, yes? sir Kramer Andrew ROCK!!!

This tutorial has sparked my mind… Vampires + Action Essentials (not to mention the potential in Act. Ess. 2) and you have yourself a kick-a$$ film! Great tutorial!

Andrew, I wonder if you’ll ever end up working on a project which involves Illuminati symbolism without you noticing…

So Sam has runaway from home, had bugs under his skin, vamped out, been hit by a car, and now disintegrated. Now that’s tough work…don’t forget your wheaties Sam.

Holy disintegration Batman!

Awesome work Andrew.

tqs & very interesting ….keep up

BATMAN Andrew Kramer dude is make essentials no ooo !!!!

Conor
April 19th, 2009 @ 5:23 am
This tutorial has sparked my mind…

a hahahahahahahaha! say tutorial Kramer Andrew sparked the mind! hahahahahaha SPARKED mind!!!!! ahahahahahahahahahaha!

is make tutorials in swit , yes ? andrew kramer ?

helvetica PIRATES ANDREW KRAMER!!! id yes!! ahahahahahahaha! i make too? yes ?

inspiring tutorial… thanks 4 the knowledge….VCP is the Best

Now we need a water effect like the one comes splashing on discovery channel.

That was cool man. You crack me up man thanks for making these tuts amusing

Andrew? I suppose you could use this same effect in making someone come out of a wall or something!? Like a chameleon effect?
Thanks
Vic

Great job on this one. Super useful and informative.

AK, Congrats on the cool shout-out for this site and your work from J.J. Abrams in this month’s Wired mag.

OMG!!!

Andrew is definitely an inspiration!

I think this is my fav tute so far!!! Thanks AK

Andrew, first congratulations for your work!
im from spain.. my question is:

why the detail level of this tutorial is worst than the granade video you posted a few days? i folow all steps of the tutorial and dont get the impresive high detail level of the granade video preview…

and i can’t see the project file when i push the project button in this tutorial.. why?

anyway you are the best! i really loves your work and how you explain all this stuff. Andrew forever!
Thanks for all master Kramer!

is the SAM GS footage not included or will it be at a later date?

That was a great tutorial andrew!!! I am still laughing from the middle when you went back to the render to show sam burning again…lmao. Going to the studio now to film some footage so I can try it myself.

Very Great, i suggested this idea before in other tutorial blog,
do u really accept ideas and do it as tutorials for us ?
if u do, this kind of u , if u don’t so ur mind is connected to us some how ! Awesome man, amazing, it drives to different ideas , a lot of it – go ahead with success

wow! This is what i have asked for. Amazing work.
hope new techniques will come in the future. All the best.

an other cool tutorial thx andrew you rock so much

i learn lot of stuff with you

much apreciate blog and site

keep cool attitude dude

Really great tutorial

Thank you a lot Andrew

Hi Andrew,

question: where did you get the BG and graphic in front for your last video with Sam in this tutorial? Maybe you can tell me?

videocopilot is becoming too violent.

Nice one… I tried something like that for my 2009 wishes. This one is juste perfect.

Loved the design that you made for the tut,
Thanks A lot Andrew

This one got me popular with my firends….exept the one who got disinagrated….lol!

oh well

AK, you’re THE MAN !
—————–
I dare to say it : this is the most advanded tutorial – technically – you’ve ever made !
Color correction, luma mat, this reminds me the last part of The Bullet DVD, where slight adjustements bring real improvements at all …
Not easy to follow in fact, and you do it so fast, and such a natural way : how impressive guy !!!
Keep going on the good work, i’ll wait for AEII (the HD version if it’s still on the run).
You say in the tutorial today’s software allow such better things than 2 years ago (blue planet and so) … For me, in fact, YOU have pushed it TO THE REAL NEXT LEVEL, and not the software. I mean, as all of us, you have progressed too.
OK, now I prepare a new layer for my credit card, called “Hot Stuff”, so it’ll be ready when AEII comes out !
Greetings from France.

Stanley

Excellent as always! I did my version of this one, adding a bones disolve with the FORM plug in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3QF9JCXWw0