awesome! i can’t wait to create fish in blender and add them to the scene.

COOL

Thanks allot Andrew ,

Great project it can be used in many things.

keep it up, you are the best.

Peace – Mustafa

oh cool!

cool, but why not a tutorial?

Dear Andrew-
you’re starting to freak me out!
Everytime i have a major project going, and i need a certain effect or look and the deadline is 2-3 days away, you come up with something like this.
Thank you very much, and keep reading our minds!

thanks Andrew, you are the AE Master

Looks kinda cold… Ice Cold!

hayyyy under the sea u bring me back to old times ^^ realy fantastic there was final fantasy song at that time it was call eyes on me it wass cool 2 thx budy for the old momorys ^_^

Great Andrew , gwe mukka ( u r war ).
Jeff ( UGANDA ) East AFrica

Think about being under ice too…

all it needs is Nemo

Stunner!

Some promotion-graphics along with that and you got yourself a jolly-holiday commercial!

Cheers your majesty, I bow before your greatness!

Awesome! Just a few minutes ago I was watching VC tuts! And then I see a new blog post!? Coooooooooool

Can’t wait for the soft 3d shadows tutorial too.
-David

Could be an dark invironment too =) Looks awesome

- Sascha

Very nice as usual. Cheers.

I love this thing,getting my virtual scuba gear out…

Andrew you are my hero, I’m buying the AE2 as soon as you make it available!

By the way, this one guy at the top is talking about a fish in a blender…reminded me of that frog in a blender.
This is sooooo funny!!

http://joecartoon.atom.com/cartoons/67-frog_in_a_blender

Sweet! I just made a tutorial using CC Mr. Mercury about how to make text flow about in a liquid like manner.
I’ll use the project file and embed it in the forum ASAP!!!

andrew how did you make the volumetric lights of the sun?

It looks like that you used clouds to make the sea level … how did you do the rays ? ..it’s really nice ..

I read this online blog website designers magazine all the time and today’s post is all about motion graphics and guess who is mentioned everyother time?:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/04/best-tutorials-for-cinematic-visual-effects/

looks sick! (I’m pretty sure you love the little mermaid too, and your daughter is just a good excuse to allow you to watch it)

Lookin good. Possibly even a bit better with some displacement for water refraction.

Andrew I got to learn many things from you hope it will help me to in my increment and your tutorials are very very intersting

thanx

Wow, looks great. And cool idea to do this in after effects! Thankyou for sharing your know how. Greetings from germany.

that is incredible man, thank you so much!

Oh Migthy After Effects Gouru

Very nice. Thanks for the project add

I think I’ll try to add a mermaid and talking crab in there somewhere…

Thanks Nice work!

great one Andrew i love it so much we’re in summer and we need something fresh something cool like this
thank you Kramer

Once again AK does for free what other sites would charge an arm and a leg for!

Mere thanks are not enough… I’ve already got all the VCP products I can afford (til HD comes out) – is there any other way we can donate to the site? PayPal token thankyous?

PS
Superville – you’re gonna put your fish ina Blender..?! That’s just cruel!

looking really wet

Andrew,

When you decide on a new project like this, what is your estimated time frame of completion? With trial and error, this would take me months…if I was ever able figure it out.

Thanks for providing these files to dissect. The subtleties of your work are inspirational.

Hey Andrew,
Shouldn’t you be sleeping at 2 in the morning ?
Haha, just kidding…
Anyway the project is great, thanks again
Oh, and by the way, I wasn’t in bed until 4 in the morning, may be because I just got After Effects, and also because I found this great website…
thx and keep it coming

Nothing wrong with The Little Mermaid! Arial is HOT!

wow andrew, looks good.
coincidentally i was going to request something like this a week ago. will still put it in tut requests, i think it could be quite a cool tutorial.

it would be cool if you make a new tutorial of underwater.

I like it! I think I will call it home
Thanks Kramer!

Hey! That’s a good movie! Seriously the project looks awesome. Thanks Andrew!

DUUUDE! Awsome!

Dude! That is incredible! Could you please make a tutorial on this one?

Ironically, I’ve been preparing a similar tutorial for my classes for a few weeks, but I have not released it yet… But as usual, yours renders much better

Great work Andrew

Hey, great project Andrew! And you’re right about the render-time… jeez!

PS
I saw an Icelandic commercial (It was like a year ago, I just remembered it now), for an electronics company and they were showing their new products and they used your “3D-offset” tutorial, “Designer Sound FX” and the tutorial that comes with it. It was a direct copy and I was like “Wow, that is so ripped of VideoCopilot!”

AWESOME!!

i simply love it….thanks again

hahaha, that song is better in Swedish xD
Awesome frames Andrew, as always (:

LOL deny it all you want tough guy… you’re an Arial fan!

Lion King is the best!

The Little Mermaid is not my favorite movie either
since I now have a new favorite movie.
great underwater clip Andrew.

thanks Andrew for this project, but i got a question, How can i simulate fire above the surface, thats kind of a explosion you know i like go a little further i would appreciate your answer, Greetings from Dominican Republic.

aah, too bad. I can’t check the scene out. CC particle world makes AE crash on the new Mac Pro. Adobe and Cycore are aware of the problem, but have no sollution yet.

Any chance we can see a version of this with particular?

Anyway, looks good as always!

wow….if you use the 3d offset, words can come from the deep ocean towards the camera…thanks, andrew, i love the free templates you give

Be interesting to see what every makes of this, I just filmed 2 underwater scenes for my masters, and whilst treating it came straight to video copilot for inspiration (as always) thanks for all the help Andrew

Andrew, I think you made and explosion in the amount of viewers of the Youtube video. Also check out the comments people posted there for you!

It’s funny. The more I see your tutorials and look through your projects the more I realize that there are many aspects of AE of which I am ignorant (e.g. The many uses of Linear Wipe).

Great project. Who need psunami when we have Andrew? Seriously though, your techniques in conjunction with the wonderful psunami plugin will really spruce up my underwater work.

This is cool.
Actually, I have never seen the little mermaid.
You know how it is, I have two brothers (No sisters) and so of course when we were younger it was always, “EWW, a movie about a GIRL!? That’s Embarrassing!”

Very cool Andrew
Thanks

ANDREW THIS NEEDS A TUTORIAL!

awesome as always I’m stunned by the gfx

Filip

This is nice. It’s funny because i was about to send you an email about how to create this kind of scene. Thanks again.

What’d be more interesting, and beneficial, is pulling this project file apart and figuring it out, rather than have Andrew do a tutorial.

Assuming of course he isn’t putting all sorts of his usual subtle trickery into it, in which case FORK OVER THE TUTORIAL, MAN! You have people going through the D.T.’s out here!!

!wow, i just do one the last week
youn can see it here
http://www.vimeo.com/4444176

we can also add a bump effect like in the tutorial N°65 ^^
I think so

Would love to see a tutorial on this…

sweet!

that video has like 600000 views because of this post XD

Brilliant, as always!

By the way the only reason I’m linking to the Little Mermaid is because I have a daughter and NOT because it is my favorite movie : )

Riiiiiight!

HEY What´s up Andrew?… There´s nothing to be ashamed of if you like that movie it´s ok I think the little mermaid is so sexy too isn´t it? hahaha…

Ok Andrew thanks for the vid is quite cool, I appreciate all your stuff.

Cheers mate.

Very cool! thanks!

The water design, the light rays looks like Artbeats (Fire & water) Tutorials Did by Aharon Rabinowitz…

I am sooo using this if we ever do a promo video for our marine products. Thank you, once again Andrew!

Hey Andrew, I think you should sing “Under The Sea” on your next tutorial…lol. Or at least have Sam sing it with his guitar and have something fall on him…that would be wicked cool!

I just cannot ever underestimate the extent of your talents, Andrew, this is truly excellent I’m a little lost for superlatives to express how great you are such clear vision of what you want to achieve and how to achieve it. Also your generousity in giving so much to the community in your words “awesome”.

Becky

not to be to critical , as i love this FX , and all the other FX you bring to us mear mortals,but this looks like a weather sky with ‘godrays’ over some mystic ocean….
am i going mad….?

I think it looks more like under an ice cover…

Ice, Ice, Babe…

Soo neat!
I definetly think you should do a quick tutorial for this if you ever get the time

Not only is this beautiful, but it shows amazing talent and skill.
It looks like this is a perfect example of where one would see falloff as well.

Hey guys, just from experimenting with this, i added an adjustment layer on top with some curves to make it lava-like, then if you go into the “floor” layer, you can add some very well placed text

It does not appear that the water surface at the top is moving… seems static.. no wave movement….but thanks.

andrew, the “the Little Mermaid” its a Great movie! its not the best movie of disney i think, but its a Disney´s production!
the movies of Disney are the top of the animation.
is the VideoCopilot of the animation!!!

by the way, my favorite movie of all time is The Lion King!

thanks Andrew

this definately looks like its under water, but what bothers me is why is there a cloud scene above?

i dun have internet at home..but i still visit ur cool website…thanks for ae. project file…

Reminds me of the volumetric-light tutorial from maltaannon.com

Regards,
Lucas

hello mr andrew..

how about the next tutorial is make sam loya under the water scene? *evil smile*

lol

Someone just wrote this in wordpress blog.

http://tappilahti.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/videocopilotnet/

Alpha class

hi andrew
no words for how good your website is and how helpful i have found all your tutorials. i have bought some of your products but cannot understand why you dont charge us a small fee for all your hard work. i would be happy to sign up to paying monthly for what you provide us with in terms of tutorials presets etc. personally I would be lost if you gave this up for something more lucrative so hence the query/suggestion.
thanks for everything
a massive fan!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Andrew.This is a brilliand idea but i was always wondering how do they imitate the “floating” effect in movies or videoclips.For ex. a man swiming into the scene.All this hair and body movements that look so airy.If you could help me that would be great.thnx in advance.

Man, I wish you would’ve created an actual tutorial for this one. It’s really good, but complex.

you R obvioustly succeeded!

Here is my tutorial using this project file in a bonus clip.

Length: 13min

http://vimeo.com/4502917

Hey this is cool!!! I just watched THE SPIRIT, and they had some sweet underwater fx, that they did, any chance on a tut for that!? Keep these coming, very hot!!!!
Michael
Houston,Tx

i see VC is contributing everywhere on internet. u see the mermaid video has got so many hits. hehe…Andrew you contributing a lot!

HI A.Kramer
Thanks for this under sea scene. It’s cool. I can just put somes fishes

Thank you very much Andrew you’re the best.

wow, thanx Andrew

Hey Andrew great job that looks amazing!

hey Andrew good job indeed! I doubt you will see this but if you do Ive always been curious as to what other jobs you have worked on outside of VCP but relating to AE

ps: my brothers name is andrew, but he’s totally lame

espectacularmente sencillo, gracias Andrew

He Speedy,

I would like to see a tut with your twister!!!

Rob

Hi,

I just did an underwater scene a couple of weeks ago, Follow the link:

http://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=15159

Great Amazing Background for titles

AHHHHH Excellent project!
By the way, when does ACTION MOVIE ESCENTIALS 2 would be ready?! I’m working in a project in wich i could use that material! check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tLnlhu2xK8

Please please Andrew! give us ACTION MOVIE ESCENTIALS 2!!!

http://www.alpha-dsgn.com

oh lord.
look at that, its gorgeous!

(applause!)

Thanks Andrew! I will definitely use your project.
How is it going? Did you shoot on Tuesday or was the “quick tutorial to improve difficult fight scenes” a joke to show some Star Trek footage?

Great Andrew

Hussein
Iraq- Basrah

That’s awesome!
A couple of days ago I was watching Whale Wars on the Discovery Channel when at the intro thay had used this technique, and i was wondering how they did it…

if adobe after effects is a religion then andrew krammer is a god

pretty cool, and one of my screensaver is somehow like this“

i got another underwater project with moving waves above and another with fish, both from other sources, and combined them with this one… i’ll try to post later.

Sorry if someone posted this already, but I didn’t read all 100+ posts.

Add a CC Vector Blur (Amount: 100) to the “Surface” layer. Go into the “Surface” comp and set “time*200″ expresion on the Fractal Noise. This will make the surface look more like waves and less like clouds, plus give it some movement. You can reduce the scale of the fractal noise also to make smaller “waves”.

Haven’t tried this, but…
To make the “ocean” seem less deep, you could also add a vector blur to the reflections on the ocean floor to make it look like the light is focusing more sharply on the floor like it does in a swimming pool or a shallow inlet.

You are the best!! I watch STAR TREK…the end title is amazing!!!really…I honor follow your work and your knowing about AE…the best end titles ever!!!you are the boss!

I saw star trek today! great movie! did you get to go to the premiere? btw the end titles were good but aren’t they kind of copying men in black? just a little? anyway good job!

oh man, took a girl to see star trek and i made her wait through the credits so we could see your name. of course, we had to wait until the END of the credits, but there it was! congratulations.

Sure Target used on Star Trek credits?? WOW!!
That is soooo amazing!!
You rock man!!

awesome,simply brilliant,thank you for this Scene Andrew,may I ask what texture you are using for the ground in the scene?

Wow you totally Stole My Idea!(Great Minds think alike?)

I have already made a video just like this! Just without ground floor. I’m going to post it for you. I’ll even leave you the project file.

Underwater Video Background Sample
Created 02/03/09
http://vimeo.com/4564874

I see what you did there! You posted the little mermaid thing for your daughter, “NOT because it is my favorite movie”. However, you do admit that it is your favorite movie, clever! j/k

Cool!

Mr. Kramer I pray you wish the Misses happy mothers day from all your loyal fans (even tho I hate to be called a fan.. I am one)… but neway… we all wish her a happy mothers day!!.. Do somethin nice 4 her… afterwards you can make a tutorial on how I can get myself a good wife

kidding I’m only 20

Hello!!
tanks for the nice stuff andrew!!!
but could you create a tutorial for these fine underwater animation??

Keep up the good work!

Just too gud…

please post a tutorial about this…

Hi,
i like this
Andrew kramer please make tutorial for this video…please

Sorry I’m not going to be making a tutorial for it but you can’t dig through the project file.

Hey did you do the titles for the underthewater.org spot??? I forgot the exact name of it but it had the little mermaid at this sort of effect on the titles.

I think this is better if it has more bubbles! a real looking bubbles!

hey I was going to be making this in 3d, i didnt yet know how, but I NEEDED THIS SOOOOO BADLY!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! ANDREW YOU’RE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!

As usual you are the man. One of the Afrikan artists here, this has come just in time. i am workin on this mermaid shot in softimage and this looks sooooooooooooooooo cool.

check out the WIP on cgtalk:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=43&t=761476

will definetly use this as soon as i have studies how long it takes to render.

thanks dude!!!

nqo

I wait new tut coming..

>>By the way the only reason I’m linking to the Little Mermaid is because I have a daughter and NOT because it is my favorite movie : )<<
of course it is!

dude Andrew it must have been an honor to have worked with JJ Abrams. I thought the man was gonna screw up another classic just like every other director who’s tried. But it seems he has accomplished the best. I sat thru the entire movie even the end credits. I see you used your signature sure target for the credits lol awesome dude. Love your work. Keep the dream alive videocopilot all the way.

Is the AE2 release date ready?

yo, nice one. i am also thinking about any “living” element comming from the deep blue…falloff preset sounds helpful

how about make sam on under water scene? =)

green screen rules can did that? hoho

really nice colors, i was trying to make underwater scene few months ago – http://vimeo.com/1556543 – but now i see, how it should like! i got a real comic look

Hey Andrew , U rock man … This is the Masterpiece , i had seen all your tuts and ended up as your FAN thanks man for sharing such wonderful and creative stuff …

U ROCK !!!

hey .andrew ..u r the most happing man in our field .thanx dude .god bless u

Thank you sir ^^
I think You are the best!

As I told you, Andrew: You HAVE the Power!

Thanks for teachin’ us.

thanx for the evry thing……you are the best

thanks 4 everytime, Andrew!
I’m always watch n learning from Japan.
you r the best world wide teacher!!

hi andrew! i can’t open this proyect on my mac. you should make a tutorial about this, it looks great.

This is what I need! Thank you!

Hey Andrew. Im one of your biggest fans and I think your work is amazing. You done a tutorial on the HEALER which was realy cool. Could you please, please do a tutorial on how you done the terminator footage at the end as I am going crazy trying to figure it out, would be so greatful. Hope to see it. No1 Fan Dean.

hey Andrew this is very cool and u r mind blowing ..but u should’ve posted tutorial of this.I m waiting for new tutorials..And all the very best for your new Product…..

I very happy sam works Andrew kramer and Ilove you Andrew

I REQUIRE NUTRIENTS!

Or put simply, a tutorial for this massively awesome project!

hey andrew why don’t you create a tutorial for this it would be useful for people that are new to after effects not saying i am but im still learning so u get the idea and i learn alot from your tutoials so please make a tutorial it would be awsome!

i know this isnt place for things like this, but i have almost this same problem. i was thinking about videointro for my friend, who is a swimmer, and thanks to you mr andrew (and copilot crew) with solution in your(s) tutorials ive create this (7secs) http://vimeo.com/5719229
background: texture + tutorial #77/78 (Soul Removal/Energy Wipe)
lights: tutorial #90 (Ancient Titles)
thanx!
ps. sorry 4 my english

what font is that it looks sick

What? – Little Mermaid is not your favorite movie?!

What’s not great about it? – except the crab having the same name as me..

wow your the man andrew

Hi,

I doubt many people are going to looking back this far in the blog and then check out the comments but..

I downloaded this project when I first got AE CS3 middle of last yeaar and thought…damn. All it needs is a submarine and it would be perfect.

Well finally I got enough experience to be able to do just that, all due to Andy of course.

So here it is http://vimeo.com/11837316

I added the sub, a free 3DS model from Turbosquid, using Zaxwerks Invigorator plugin .

Can you make more project files on creating the natural worlds such as the tropical rain forest, looking inside volcanic lava activity, traveling in space with planets, being sucked in the Sahara desert, or just creating a ficticious planet with lush green life, and civilians of different creatures….Or even create a “the world after tomorrow” files. That’s cool!

many many many thankssssssssss

dude you absolutely rock. this is perfect!! thank you very much.

So cool….master

ha ha you named one of the layers colour correfcion

Your d best, Andrew…
u rockzzzzzzz

i dont know how to say thanks to u man u saved me from a critical situation thanks alot

i thought you used that new plugin at red giant and it was called psunami but when i took a look and read you use a 2d image wow great job ^_^

hey i have after effects cs5.5 but there are things i cant do i downloaded red smoke but i cant edit it to see how it works it tells me that i need to install flares so were do i get it

u are very creative and clever.

thank you very much

Because of this tutorial I managed to finish my credits the video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf-jLLuQD9E&list=UU4ZQ5isvb08BePL3mMS8B9w&index=1&feature=plcp

were is the project file link ……

thanx for reply

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