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In this new tutorial we will isolate bar elements from a 3D render to build a customizable bar graph in After Effects. We will use expressions to control time-remapping and link values for the displays.
The tutorial is a cool 20 minutes for quick viewing and easy reference for when you get the call… the telegraph call… That’s a telephone call about making graphs. Be ready!

Thanks Andrew !!!!
THX cool tut ;]
Awesome. Really good for clients that want you to do business oriented things so they don’t have to use a power point slide.
Thanks Andrew … Great tutorial !
I knew 2011 would be a good year! I just don’t know what for… …yet…
Thanks for this cool tut
As I’m watching this, my mind is being blown. This is such a great idea, why did I never think of this?
Props.
Very good very grateful to the!
Yay!! been waiting for this tut quite a while now
Great tutorial as always!! Keep up the good work
Yay! New tutorial. Thanks Andrew!
Total Coolio!!
I really like the way the reflection follows with the animation! Awesome!!
It’s weird, but I refresh this site every day just to see if a new tutorial is up so I can watch it, even if it’s something I don’t plan on doing myself. Just watching you work is so fun.
Thank you for this very cool tutorial. However, I’m unable to open the project file because it was created in after effects cs4. You think you can save a copy in the older version of after effects for those of us who doesn’t have cs4 yet? I have cs3.
we thought that your gonna come up with
the same type of bar graph tutorial that
you have just showed us before in the previous
blog. . what happened? is there a part of this
bar graph tutorial?
Last of the double digit tutorials, thanks Andrew! Is #100 going to be astonishing?
I mean of course.. they are all astonishing, I apologize for my behavior.
a long time ago I need to say THAN YOU
Fiiiinally! #:-s
you’re like glass of water in the desert…
just a little more and i could die
)
YES!!! going to watch it right now and I just noticed it’s the big “99″!
Can’t wait to see what you have planed for the big “100″
Keep them coming! almost 100 tutorials =)
Very cool! you the bomb…
Perfect Work Cong.
TUTORIAL NUMBER 99!
thank you!
100 is near=))
Great tutorial Andrew, this’ll be great for showing prophits, etc!
Keep it up!
Hoo that’s greaaat
Thank you so much Andrew
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
GOOODDDD Andrew!! EXCELENT!!
VERY VERY GOOD!
SALUDOS A TODOS EN VIDEOCOPILOT DESDE GUADALAJARA MEXICO
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Awesome! I can’t wait to watch it!
this is some cool sh!zzle!!
Whoa thanks! You should also make a 3d tut, on how to make the graphs, and how to create reflections on objects, and create an amazing scenery
Thank you so much Andrew
Very cool! you the bomb…
Awesome ,thanks Andrew
Is this for CS4 only? – not able to open the file in CS3.
I wonder what tutorial #100 is going to be?
thanks andrew !
its very good but can you also make a toturial about the 3d part ?ok its easy to modell and animate these things but i the lighting and these thinks look pretty well.!
Awesome, that looks great
Hello Andrew, it´s time to say thanks from sweden.
Great site, great tutorials!
But, why not use .rla or .rpf sequences. The 3d channel filters working perfectly in after effects and You have a lot of more control.
(sorry for my bad english)
Thanks a ton Andrew! Hope everyone and yourself are feeling better!
Any chance of error bar control? Statistics nerd ahoy!
Cool! I wonder why your AE project was called Giraffe2…lol
Una vez más, gracias Andy!
I’ve been waiting on this tutorial for so looooong! Thank you very much sir!!!
Woo tut No 99. Who knows what nNo 100 will be!
I dont know. Awesome for sure.
Great stuff Dude
Thanks
you had a bar graph tutorial up earlier this year.
what happened?
thought you could do better?
We’ve seen 99 free tutorials full of awesomeness. Now we’re just waiting for the universe to explode
Andrew, How about animating these bars to music showing time remapping linked to dynamic audio points. Wow!, I can’t beleive I just rolled that off like it makes sense. Does it?
Great stuff!
Merry Christmas in advance.
great tut! thanks!
what about 2012? lol…alright
AWESOME TUTORIAL!
HEY ANDREW!!!! Your cool…
looks like a dangerous predicted graph for 2011! im quite scared now!
Awesome, thanks! Really usefull, I was wondering how you were going to control the animation, and time remapping is so simple. Lets see one of my teachers not give me an A if I turn in a graph like this.
Andrew, I knew something was wrong! And I had (emphasis on “had”)a pot full of home-made chicken soup, custom-formulated for those under the weather.
Thanks for this really nice gift just before the holidays!
Than you Andrew!!
It’s very very nice tutorial !!!
Good info, thanks.
I made something like this for Flash a while back.
Nice to know how to do it in AE as well.
Cheers,
Jon
Good Andrew good as as always. Keep it up!!!
Cheers
Renat
Cisco Systems
this tutorial good but the AE project only is save to understand the idea
wow,thanks
pakistan.
Thanks Andrew, very nice tutorial ![]()
(Türkiye)
Thx for this tutorial. Great and helpful.
Expressions FTW!
Amazing tutorial Andrew!
PS. Glad you feel betting! Maybe tutorial 100 should be that passing it along to neighbors technique
Great tutorial, but I was really hoping andrew would have gone into the 3d aspect of it more. I know the modeling is simple, but the lighting and shading looks really great and would have been interesting to learn.
niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ANDREW
Thx for tut. I need this 2mach.
think you Andrew for this tutorial,I always learn something new, this one really helped me.
Thank you man… I was in need for something like that.
Problem is that you move so fast that is hard for me to follow. ![]()
Great tutorials
Thanks vc!
Yeahh!
greetings from Latvia. Thanks
please share with us the complete scene and especially the materials in 3Ds max ?
Excellent tutorial – Thanks VCP!
Would it make sense to modify the expression and use it with a full 360 degree render? So that I have a 3D render inside AE which I can choose to watch from every angle (of one axee) – every frame is a different angle. Does this make sense to anyone out there?
Did you make this with Cinema 4d ??
Excellent tutorial!!!
Awesome, finally, it’s out. Was looking forward to this tutorial. Thanks, Kramer, looking for more tutorials. Peace out, live free.
YES its finally here!!!
it’s that!!thanks Andrew
it’s wholesome. thanx for being my personal online teacher. i started using ae about a year ago. now i can boast of some great jobs for couple of clients. there’s shortage of multimedia trainers in my country, but your site has being a world library for me. thanks for sharing.
bolaji -NIGERIA
n1ce work!
I hope the next tutorial ( 100th ) will blow up our mind!
Awesoem, Andrew! (As always)
By the way… 1 to 100 tutorials!! I can’t believe it!
I’m really looking forward that tutorial. I’m sure it’ll blow up everithing!
Cheers from Argentina.
Thx for this tutorial It’s very very nice tutorial !!!
Sri Lanka
yessssss..! i was need this tutorial.. Thanks Andrew!!!
Woah ! Nice done !!
Keeping the site up-to-date is the best way to keep visitors.
Sweet. I’m going to check it out.
Andrew, is there any chance of you showing us how you did the bar graphs in the first blog you posted regarding this tutorial?
yesss. great . awesome.
thanks.
The number 100 will be EPIC.
hi andrew,
taking this opportunity to give thanks to your video tutorials, its very useful specially to those students and non-professionals who can’t afford studying like me. you dont know how helpful it is, not only to earn money, find job and add to skills, but it can also be used to spread the Words, finding it more interresting to the listeners.
thanks again for sharing your knowledge, more success to you and your company… keep up the good works
I bet the 100th tutorial will be a crazy amazing one!!
tutorial Number 100 in 2010 I believe, Cool tutorial.
Andrew, you keep pulling em out of the hat, very impressive.
Where is the rabbit?
New is always beautiful.
Thank you, Andrew. Cool.
Hi Andrew,
Can you do a tutorial based on movie 2012. Building fall effect due to Earthquake.
Heyy Andrew, Really nice Tut as usual !! Thanks for this huge work !!
Greetings from Casablanca, Morocco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuI6cnIJF3A
I Myself did The Modelling And the Animation,The lighting,but the 2nd animation-i mean the bars moving according to the numbers is from my guru andrew kramer
Check it Out………………
I tried to replicate the lighting that Andrew has been used in his scene, I think I’m almost right. If you want to download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0Q1Y5Y93
It is made with Cinema4D. To fit 100% play around with the lights.
Sorry for my poor English.
I bet for the big 100th tutorial he’s going to do something super lame and boring just to bug everyone that expects something great. Like how to make a new orange solid.
Yeah Archat…. Cool idea ! I hope Andrew will read your post..
hey andrew,Im kinda new in filmmaking, and your tutorials are great, just one question…how much time did you spent working in AAE before you made all this stuff? And in your oppinion, how much time should take to 15 year old gets on your level of editing?
its so cool andrew, sos un duro, aca en colombia te aprecian mucho!!!
Andrew. I was just wondering what material you used on the bars.
thx andrew! another fantastic tut! I refresh to ur blog several times a day (lol) just to see if any new vids come up even though sometimes the tuts don’t have anything to do with my works/projects, I just have a great time viewing them and watching u teach. =D
Looking forward to see the tutorial…not this one…the 100th!!!
If its not “nuking a city” then dont post it big man haha u’r amazing!!!
Ur man Dextrmania from Dexter’s lab!!!
@bob
Just use Arch@design material in mental ray(3DS Max) and set fall off in the reflections with fresnel mode of 3.5 IOR,any diffuse color….then throw an HDR map in the environment slot…thats it.
or just car and paint material and HDR in the environment slot.
did i get that right andrew..?i bet u didnt use the scanline renderer this time..
Hey Dextrmania there is a very easy method than that——–just use melt on those bars in 3ds max and make sure u cliked on custum and rise and decrease the amount and keyframe them……….
Later if u can see some black color at the bottom of the bar then just apply relax and adjest the amount till u not see the black color and thats it done………….easy…
So if u guys need the bar animation u can download it from here done in 3ds max 2007………
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=88KVF3IF
if u want the tutorial just ask me….
if u cant see the plane just right click and select unhide all………..
Yo’re excellent Anrew! We love youu
)))))))))
Oh my god that`s so awesome, can`t wait for the 100th tutorial!!!can you please post it in a new blog show?
This is an awesome tutorial! What’s great is that it can be used in so many ways. Thanks a million Andrew.
Hello friends when you going to do a tutorial human torch?
Brazil
Are those numbers the millions at the VC´s bank account Andrew?
In that case…You and your team really deserves it!
Great Tutorial!
Thanks!
Gustavo from BA-Argentina.
Pavan,
Thanks for the Max file! Could you share the tutorial with us?
Thanks in advance!
Oh, and thanks for the master, Mr. Kramer!
it’s amazing tut ![]()
thanks
God bless you Andrew. much love from Rigel pictures Nigeria
AMAZING!!! Thank you!!
Awesome!
Can you make 3D pie charts happen too???
amazing tut but i have an easier way to it
///u isolate each bar and just freeze the frame when the bar has reached its destination \\\
I think a great name for this chart would be “average days between tutorials on video copilot, by year.”

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