Hahahah… very cool and unexpected.

hahahahahahah lol you are amazing andrew

COOL LOL!!!

hah, very funny… Question: what’s with the weird distortion right before the hand grabs it??

Ya elliot i was just about to ask that

awesome use of knoll light factory.

You are right, i dreamed too muh, now itès time for working hard. and thank you andrew for making me dreaming.

The distortion is called messing with your brain.

Hey,

youre right. To dream is my daily energie to work on my projects.

My question: What distortion?

the distortion looks likes either a displacement map or animated the liquify tool or the shadow of his hand lol

no clue where the distortion is, but super cool vid.

oh i think i see what you guys are saying. But it looks like the reflection of the hand lol

messing with my brain? lol andrew is that a joke or are you actually serious and i dont get it?

Seriously this is the 100th time I watch this and the only “distortion” I see is the reflection of the hand

Mhm nice lense effect.is it knoll light factory?

funny..hey Andrew let me ask u this question : why r u not seen in big screen movies just like the other geeks out there. I mean….u r one of my favorite graphicers including Allan Mckay and Ian Farnsworth but they both work on amazing movies like 2012 and so…I dont think u r not good enough to be hired but there must be something behind the curtains…

PS : Thanx for ur tutorials and dreams!!!

Haha awesome.

Oh the irony of this post.
“Big Dreams”…

Sweet.

Wow, did you guys see how big that hand was to move that car?

Be creative guys, that the point. the distortion is coming at the same time with the reflection of the hand and that’s look awesome!!!!

We dont need allan Mckay or Ian Frarnsworth, we got Andrew Kramer, can you imagine today your life without Video copilot. poor movie, poor effects…boring

There no limit, that what i learned here, just thing about it.

I know guys my english is terrible.

ANDREW IS A DREAM! GOD BLESS YOU MAN!

Surprising and unexpected enough, in appropriate way.

Wow!

there was a tracking for the light of the car?

I recall back in the day when I use to write Mr.Kramer and get personal responses like “Get lost” or “Stop writing me” from his personal email. Back when a little video on how to make a nuke explosion look real was up there.

Ever since he hit success though it’s been nothing but Sam responding to his email. “You have to consider the possibility that Mr.Kramer does not like you.” or “Mr.Kramer’s not here. Mr.Kramer went away. Mr.Kramer gone.”. I liked it better back then.

I’m sure if Kramer were to meet me we’d be best friends but success seems to have gotten the better of him. Oh well, I guess I’ll just wait for the next tutorial…

:p

Lol, I dont get it.

Actually MarkHawk, (I hope people realize you are kidding), I still answer many of the emails but now I have help from another Mark. As far as telling you to “get lost”, I don’t recall being so nice

Hi, I was just wondering. I was able to download your NY-footage.
Am i allowed to use it? Otherwise i have to throw it in my thrashcan…
greetings

Lol, Andrew Kramer you never cease to amaze me

LOL love it… very good

A Quastion !
Which one has the bigger Dreams?
Rich man?
or the poor?

The distortion is from the use of frame blending–> Pixel Motion. Am I Right? (I’m using it to convert the 5d MKII clips to 24p and get the same artifacts when it screws up)

And the non moving lens flare just made the whole image look fake to my eyes, it may have looked real half a second but I saw real fast that it was fake because -mostly- of the flare, this may be cause I’m a photographer. Maybe if you composited it in a fake street with an other lighting it would have looked way better, but for a quick effect it looks nice enough to fool an untrained eye.

And since it’s my first comment I’ll take the time to thank you for all your After Effects tutorials, great stuff! I’ve learned a lot from them. A friend of mine bought Action Movies Essentials 2 in 2K and told me it was just amazing images to composite. I’ll think of it if I ever get serious with effects.

Congratulations and Thank you!

@Andrew Kramer

Indeed I was kidding. I’ve actually had nothing but a great communication from you. For Example:

When I had received Designer Sound FX I had a slight issue with something cosmetic on disc 2 (It was labeled Disc 1). So I sent you an e-mail stating that my Disc 2 had Disc 2 content but was labeled Disc 1 by mistake. With in an hour I had an e-mail from Mr.Kramer himself. Even though the issue was merely cosmetic he offered to mail me out a replacement overnight for free.

In the end I made the choice to turn down the offer. It was to nice of an offer to take. What I had worked and again… it was only a cosmetic issue. Other then this I’ve never had a problem with anything I’ve ordered.

I don’t know what else to say. Keep up the great work and I am excited to where you take this site and you’re career over the next few years.

@Nej

You need to check out the class at FXPHD on filming with D-SLR cameras. I don’t want to post a link out of respect for what AK does here. Do a google search and watch their July 09 orientation. They go over how to convert the 30fps on the 5D down to 24 without it looking like garbage. It’s great stuff.

Haha trop bien.

ха ха ха ….. класно!!! It’s so cool!!!

Loved it
Unexpected

Mmm it really looks like a toy car all the time! Look at the back wheel, also the back of the toy, from the begining it lloks like a toy car. Pretty cool color correction and stuff though. Keep the great work!

cool and very unexpected! the car seams a lil plasticy though…

Also look at the color of the handles on the doors, they are black instead of gray, and the finishing of the material and paint of the toy is not as good as a real escalade. Also the windows look fake. I really got it was a toy but what is interesting here are the incredible effects around the truck! NICE JOB!

Lot of qualifying statements Osvaldo… I think you’ll be amazed at what can be achieved with this $4 car.

hahahahahahahahaha it’s looks real in the first and then it will be a small car , but great very great Andrew

Well, well, a typical american gas vapourizer. -)

if you need a really usefull car try this:

http://www.porsche.com/usa/models/cayenne/

Really really funny video.
I think you’ve shown us that we can achieve great things without a Titanic-ous budget !
I used some VC presets at my cinema school (even if as a first grade I wasn’t allowed to use After Effects at the school… This rule pissed me off lol) and my teacher was stunned by how easy it was to change the aspect ratio or to add a little shake to a shot. At the beginning he said “Oh ok, give the shot to the digital design and 3D animation department, I’m shure they can find a way to do it”… But why ? I can do it myself with two fingers in about 20 seconds !

By the way, just an idea : wouldn’t it be a nice idea to make some stock shot like Action Essentials 2 but with landscapes and cities ? (Or maybe you know a place where we can find that kind of stuff for free or at a small xost ?)

Anyway, great job Andrew as always !

(as I used some VC Presets, you and Video Copilot where credited in the special thanks of my school movie)

I liked the flash effect that came from just one orange frame! Never thought of that. I usually use a solid that’s a few frames long with an alpha dissolve to give some kind of a bloom dissolve effect. Great! (and funny!)

HAHA this is very clever, i thought it was a real advert at first

Hey Mr Kramer, love the cool effects in this clip. This may sound amatuer but how do you create the cool lighting effect off the headlight, see this in music vids all the time, looks so good! what effect is used? or even better, shortcuts episode maybe?

I lold!

very funny,

haha , didn’t see that coming.

i knew that it was a toy car just at the begining

Well..you didn’t though did you lucas… i was looking at it thinking the shake was to big then i realized…

hahaha good work and a good model car (or a good camera)

yeh the paint on that truck isn’t anywhere as good as on you know A HUGE BIG CAR YOU BUY FOR THOUSANDS. duh. i like it for a swift blog post i wish i could pop out a little funny nice looking shot like that. thanks for all your tutorials andrew, splendid stuff [see i'm english so i get to say 'splendid' instead of awesome]. its the little things that make me go DOH like totally missing a whole host of things in menus I never knew existed. Its the same feeling I had when I realised where egypt was when I was a kid. NORTH AFRICA YOU SAY? WHAT?!

The distortion looks like it comes from moving something into or out of shot for reflections, that may of messed up your lighting on your hand, or real smart motion blur or something. anyway, i’m off to find out where morrocco is, you would not believe what someone just told me!

Andrew Kramer dreaming !! that nice
next time dream that you saw a car flying with wings LOL

Love It! You sense of humour makes me laugh.
Keep up the good work all you guys at VideoCopilot…

As I first saw it, I thought it was a 3D model because of the background and the crane shot. Also the lens flare captured my eyes on the front of the car, hiding the toyish look behind the light and at the same time keeping my eyes from the really fake looking rear of the car. So I was surprised as the hand came in and moved the car. Of course if you watch it the second time you clearly see that it’s all fake, but it’s the first look that makes an impression.

Great work, Andrew. It looks simple but it is actually hard to do, to make it look authentic. The composition of the visual elements and the timing must be right, etc. A really elaborate shot.

Haha, nice!

did you shoot this with that new Sony??

Andrew you should be in marketing for a top company (not here!!)Because you made a $4 toy look more expensive!!!!!! So makes people think they are gettin a bargain!!!!

yeah…dreams…
…it’s just how you look at it…

Haha awesome! Shift tilt seems to be a popular trend of late and although I don’t believe you are employing that technique here you’ve creatively distorted the concept in just the right fashion. Great work.

Verry nice there!

Hairy hands! RUN..!

WATCH THIS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDjnKTaO1oI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQQyHRP2KM0

you shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel…

HAHAHAHA! Man, that was cool but I hate whoever took that car, its the one missing in my collection.

I LAUGHED SO HARD! XD Ahh it really surprised me

Do u guys know who “Andrew Kramer” of 3DS Max is?

cool, but I could easily tell it was a mini. Been done before in TV ads down here =)

Hei, Andrew,
Great job again, it really fooled me, that it was a full scale car,
I guess my eye is not as trained as the other wonder kid wizards
that saw through it right away. I need to get glasses.
I was actually anticipating the car to blow up to pieces.
With the Action Essentials bag of tricks a few tutorials with Blender and Max,
that’s something I am sure a lot of folks would want to see.
Keep up the good job we need you, and keep us laughing.

Andrew u have always been amazing man!!!
just wanna remind u that ur empire is growing up so fast (ur first tutorial,sky replacement, had around 240,000 viewers in 4 years and ur recent tutorial,blueprint reveal, made 250,000 in just a week!!)
KEEP IT UP MAN!!!

Haha, nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pakistan.

AWESOME! Great effect and it’s so funny!

i want one of those!!!

where did you buy it?

(i mean the enormous hand)

the lighting and lens flair totally sell this! COOL.

My first thought was “What the heck?” Other than that, It was EPIC! And awesome effects none the less. How did you get the lens glare?

JAJAJA GREAT EFFECTS!!!

WOW. At the beginning I thought that the car was real lol, and then I saw this BIG hand haha. Nice job AK.

honestly, I kinda expected it.

Nice Andrew… I love it!, and I would like to use in a short movie…

Thanx for sharing =)

that car is very realistic! hahahaha
hahaha very cool!! very funny!! good! hahaha

looks great!

wan’t expecting that one…

looks great!

wasn’t expecting that one…

oops, sorry bout the double post.

Excelent work.

Remember the old show “Land of the Giants” be cool to see that updated.

hahaha I was about to say was that in 3D max untill I realize that it was just a toy car! LOL

Nice job Andrew. The car looked real until your giant hand moved it. Great job on the realistic headlights.

That was cool…. but the bump and specular highlights on the rear windows gave it away before the hand came into view. lol

Then again, im always looking at the type of stuff. Very cool though!

hehehe cool

jajaja buena por la miniatura pense k era real!!!!

is this Sam´s car ?

Very, very cool.

Oh Andrew, love your style man… because if you’re thinking what I’m thinking, you are the man. Movies these days are so packed with VFX, you don’t see much work with miniatures anymore. I hope this is leading up to a tutorial on composting with miniatures or something, that would be awesome. It’s a lot easier to blow up a tiny $4 model car, than it is to do the real thing.
You look at a lot of miniature work from the 80s, and I’ve been surprised a lot at how excellent it looks even compared to some CG stuff today. The first Star Trek movie is a good example, and of course there’s Star Wars. There’s also a lot of good work in some modern movies using minis for set extensions too… LotR, first Narnia at the ice waterfall, and I thought I remembered a big part of that underground aztec style temple in National Treasure 2 being a miniature. Not 100% sure about that last one.
Anyways, can’t wait to see where this leads Andrew! Thanks for all the hard work, and I love VCP products… so much I might need a t-shirt to let the world know! My wife blew me away with the best unexpected gift ever last Christmas when she gave me Pro Scores. She’s set the bar high for this year… I’m guessing Action Essentials 2… that is if I don’t buy it first.

Will there be a tutorial on this?

Its not a distortion its just the reflection of his hand. Notice it only happens on the back of the car.

Great Andrew!!!

Andrew u r so fun.
My Dream is a day meet you .

I saw it coming, I loved the lens effects though!

I guess the distortion is a pixel motion thing?

no dissortion… just the shadow and reflections of the hand moving in closer to the model car. geez

kewl!
are you gonna make this tutorial with stock footage?

Damn its incredible how technology nowadays make people believe there are effects in stuff that are totally natural. what does the reflection on the hand on the car makes you think its a special fx??? Come on read what Kramer wrote on the text before watching the video. Brand new oldschool style , nice one kramer

PEACE

“Big Dreams”

So…i registered with videocopilot and bought action essentials 2. i feel cool now. do…do i get a jacket or something? maybe a secret hand shake? or how about the life size version of a fancy new car?

I want that!

Now That was creative lol

hahahaha so wonderful, the color correction, shadows and reflexions I did not expect it was a toy car, how did you shoot it? Was it with a red one cam?

I just bought Evolution… A little late but just like Tim.. I feel cool also.
i want the secret handshake also

HAHAH awesome video … hilarious …

Hey i have a small question, does anyone know how to make those horizontal glowing effects or horizontal glare effects similar to the ones in this video? They use them a lot in music videos nowadays …

oh and i thought it was a real cadillac at first lol

That was brilliant!

Haha, very nice.

Reminds me of Terminator Salvation and how they used model buildings and blew them up, and it looked really good!

Hm … maybe a tutorial on this would be nice, like a MiniEpisode tutotiral??

That’s crazy! I was thinking about doing a small scale shot with cars for an upcoming project I’ll be doing.

i love the hd cam ^^

Andrew! I have an idea for your next tutorial! You should make a city explosion tutorial if possible.

I want to know how to make a city blow up procedurally, like I’d want the buildings to slowly disintegrate as the shockwave goes over the buildings. You know what I mean? I’ve tried this many times, and I never liked the result.

at the first comment. what distortion? the camera man is the same guy that picks the car up. lol

Well, I liked the idea of the video, it made me laugh as the hand was coming down,

I’d just like to know, did you use After Effects for this, yeah?

and that city explosion tutorial sounds great, we should make a petition for it!

Great work once again, Andrew…how many times have you continued to impress us, give me a number

ROFL I thought it was real

looks good………..but that lens effect in the right corner needs some animation or smth……………but considering time and just the idea to show us some new stuff ……..this looked really cool………..

What I am doing? Im getting insane! These tutorials are really great! Since June … I do not see anything else… no tv, no family… just video copilot tutorials.

But I have to say… Andrew Kramer is not the only hero here. ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS. What a program! Its really a very powerful tool.

Yeah Im actually filing a lawsuit against Final Image Inc for lost profits. I spend all my time watching Video Copilot tuts and dont ever get any work done. LOL

haha, nice video, always gotta dream big:P

and i have a tutorial request: you know the game Prototype? well theres this that weird kinda muscle looking string come out of the body and that gives the guy great power. my idea was to make those kinda strings and then smash the ground. i already got the ground effect with shockwaves and everything but i need to know how to make the string realistic:S

Just amazing.}}I totally tough it was a real car, i can´t stop laughing

Toooo cool!

Thanks for making the video smaller… I would love it to be bigger but I can’t view it, my screens too small. The size was perfect this time

Cool and nice
But it has a big lesson and that’s: all Accessible dreams will be like a toy if we get them.

Would love a tutorial on creating anamorphic looking lens flare.
Lots of tuts on the spherical looking stuff, but I don’t recall seeing one on anamorphic flare. Was that achieved in-camera? Looks nice however you did it.

You’re one of my heroes!

nice man! you are such a big inspiration to me Andrew. im having trouble with thinking of ideas for intros. i dont have a video camera just video copilot and AE. what are some cool intro ideas?

I have to join this conversation and answer to Chad: Yeah, me too, I always just watch tutorials and never get any work done. Well ofcourse sometimes I get stuff done but the point is I always find myself waiting to see Andrews work more than waiting to learn stuff :p

btw, Andrew, now is your chance to get the free products from adobe you were joking about in the earlier tutorials

such a tease…

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

nice…

it’s funny.
i like to make such a imagination.

I totally thought its a real car lol

I’m dreaming . . . of a videoblog I heard of once a long . . . long. . . time ago.

hey..Andrew that’s funny lol…
hei guyz too..that displacement you are talking i never seen that i think it was just the shadow of andrew’s hand..
nice use of knoll light factory..
you know i played the video..many times and rewinded and forwarded..hhehehee..nothing
hey wait..speaking of dreams i always dream a lot.
some were future events that always happens..but some are very dark and scary like that one that i dream. It was the 1st of July and my dream was dark, you know, the environment was some kind of war of the worlds scene and me and my sister was running continuously, never knowing where to go..and what happens is there someone seeking for my sister. It’s like shes’s been going to kidnapped by that guy..I see him in the dark..It was so scary that we run to save our lives. And then there’s these scene in that dream that the radio announcer says that there was no dates to all days of July..That gives me the creep..he say that all calendars of July were blank. and i check it and it was true..it was really horrible to happen in reality. I have lot’s of dream, that i can’t even remember the other’s. But just like what i say, many of my dreams were happening in reality..

Hey Andrew.

Just wondering if you used a special lens or if you went for a tiny aperture to achieve this effect. For something so small, the depth of field is massive. I have been trying very hard to achieve something very similar (although a bit closer) with a 200mm Macro and to get anything like that you need allot of light. It also involves hands and I have the small problem of my actors complaining (They’re only 2nd degree burns, go figure). Also what frame rate did you shoot this on. Im finding that 50fps is still to fast and would like to avoid frame/ pixel blending.

Kind Regards

you are awesome andrew.
keep it up.

i think the distortion they are talking about is the reflection of the hand coming to the car. the first thing that make it looks fake that you can see is the shake of the camera. nice job Andrew! I’m 15 yrs old and I’m very interested with your works!

Typical reply:

Whoaaaa HAHAHAHAHA!!! (falls over laughing…drools and dreams about MR. KRAMER…also wishes he was first to post so he could mistype it…FRIST!!!)

Look people…yea he’s a good tutorial maker and knows AE very well…..but lighten up a bit!

And if you ever need a kidney Mr. KRAMER DEAR SIR, KING OF THE UNIVERSE!…I will GIVE YOU MINE!!!
waaaaa!!!

Hey Andrew…. as usual AAAAWWWESOME!! If ever you in Cape Town South Africa (and no we don’t have lions in our back yard) you’ll be more than welcomed by the AE community!!!!

really good!!

Hey, just wondering what font is used in this video? Thanks!

car would have looked bet red

better sorry

surprise !!!….stop touching my new car

Ha ha, it’s like think big…

How come all the negative responses are blocked, Andrew?

Such as: “Didn’t really like, better luck next time.”

What is the point of the comments section if it is filled

only with fanboy stuff like: “Love you Andrew!” or

“Awesome, your the best!”

very coool

Awesome idea just shows that you can make something ordinary looks extra ordinary and usable for cinema if done right. LOL, perhaps getting a lambo remote control car and make it look like a full size on in a film that you are shooting!

***BTW ALex I don’t know if anybody anwesered you abou the glow streaks tey, I try to skim as many responses as I can but there are soo many. If you have Magic Bullet Looks by Red Giant there is a music video preset that adds a glaring effect like that, I don’t know off hand what it’s called. But if you have looks and use the thumbnail view of the grading option, you can select the grading that apply’s it and isolate the thing that creates it.

if you don’t have looks I’m sure with some experimenting there’s a way to do it with AE’s standard effects but might take some work….or Andrew might shed some light on the subject lol…get it shed some light on the light glares! I know that was lame and appologize.

Aaron hangs his head in shame :0(

Totally Love it! Can’t wait to see more!

LOL MY MAN MCKRAMER IS ANDREW DUDES!

kramer andrew is make the BIG CAR my makes the belive! YES ??

I thought at first it was a CG car… just a minature

loved it xD
hahaha to everyone that thinks that there is a distortion effect before the hand grabs the car, there is no effect, is the shadow of the hand moving in the car haha
great andrew(:

fitst comment ever

@Aaron Poisson of Eyeris Productions

HAHA good one … thanks a lot man … I’ll look into it, hopefully Mr. Kramer will enlighten us … get it lol … never mind lol haha
Thanks a lot though.

Some of the negative comments i have seen on the forum can hardly be categorized as constructive criticism……
No one on the internet provides the kind of quality tutorials free of cost like the guys at video copilot do…
So considering you don’t pay a penny for such amazing stuff,
the criticism needs to be constructive and not just criticism for the heck of it…..

that car is surprisingly cheap.

simply amazing. andrew what was your big dream or are you still trying to get there?

Hello Andrew, nice to see you still going strong, of course you can see that it´s a toy car, but watched the first time you dont see it and thats “messing” with the brain, very very nice, good work and keep up the spirit, God bless/Dan

Hey Andrew,

whats about the Video Blog? Any date for release?

mets nots CRITicicm mr Kramer Andrew make no belive the hAnd! SOCKS MAN! DUDES!

Hi Andrew
please watch Ong Bak 2 trailer it has all riot gear elements

That was friggin awesome. Amazing what you can do with particle effects.

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

Onk Bak 2 Trailer with Andrew’s opening and other VC effects.

a-ha-ha-ha-ha! is anvir tahini idioti! make no enlgand speak! a-ha-ha-ha! i good make HOLLIWOOD with kramer!

like it

hahahaha
I Like it……
Great ANDREW

My own attempt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvCPST9KHD8

Thanks Andrew! I work for the Air Force and have been trying to figure out how to get an “over the top” shot of one of our F-15’s. I’m not a 3D software user so I couldn’t just create one, but after seeing this short teaser I got out my model Jet, built a box our of green construction paper and bam a great jet shot I can use in virtually anything! Thanks for the great work and I absolutely LOVE Action essentials 2. The more I go through it the more possibilities I find for using those awesome elements. By the way…how do you like your sony ex1? Just purchased one and waiting for it to come in so I can start using it. Thanks!

talking about Big Dreams – here is another cool video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2BHOEG7Oy0

hhhhhh…fany.. you are man

would love to see a tutorial on this one.

Good Andrew Tahnks for your all tutorial…

Goood Anrew Thanks for your all tutorial…Iam 17 particle artist Turkey …Im useing AE for comp.

No tut requiered, its just a toy car filed on a peice of metal with some Cg lights and a bit of editing and CC done..

Briliant none the less, at first i though it was a 3D model car lol

Impossible!

Great work Andrew first and foremost, but can anyone tell me how the lens flairs where made.

Thanks.

a-ha-ha-ha-ha! hipojoe said peice! -aha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

He already made a tutorial on this. Just hit the tutorial tab on top of the screen.

How did you do the great lens flare?! I see it everywhere these days! I want in on the gang!

its called sony ex1 magic

It was good, Andrew…

is good MAN! DUDE! THIS IS SOCKS!!!!

Andrew rulez!Very nice cc, as always…:)

When you are planning to teach us your fringe project, especially the 3d part?

I always wonder how far down Andrew scrolls in his blog posts. Does he have a limit of say something like 50 comments and then goes like: “Forget about it!” Or not?

Andrew can you tell me where i can buy the same exact car? please
Thank you…

wish i have that car man..! with U… ABRAKADABRA… i got it…