Been waiting for this. Thanks Andrew!

Nice Work! :* You are beautiful Andrew!!

Sweet.. Curious.. I’ve seen a couple things you have done with pixel Polly.. how come you don’t touch the actual shatter effect in AE.. Just curious if its something that’s not as good as I thought.

Looking forward to this thank you

Really enjoy the focus on third party plug-ins every now and then. You know… besides Trapcode or VCP created. These are great tools but I like the exposure to new ones that may be worth a look at every now and then. But like all third party plug-ins you should never rely on them. You never know if your next studio will own that plug-in.

Tutorial Looks great so far d:)

Awesome stuff, yet again.

Wore my VCP shirt to work today.

Nice tutorial andrew !!!!!!

Cool, never seen a better tutorial.
I’m from mexico and barely speak English, it is but I am using a translator of Spanish and English
but I understand many things you say in your tutorials and if you and understood
thanks andrew you are the best xD

Alright it’s working for me now.

Gorgeous… Watching the tutorial.

Amazing!!! Love your tuts!!. was wondering if you could some day do some sort of typography related tut?????

Nice thanks a lot AK!!!!

Nice, didn’t expect it to come this early. Thanks my friend

@AK
Noticed your audio in this video is a much higher quality from a tutorial i was just watching (ie Angry Monsters 2)

Different mic? Rode?

Thx… you rock!

wow andrew,you are awsome

Thank you for another Smashing!!! tutorial !

As always, our After Effects Pro dominates

Thanks again Andrew!

Ba-Bam! Thanks AK. You are Marvelous!

WOW the glow makes it look very cool! when i first saw it i thought thats from optical flares.. its very hi-tec =P

i love your tuts i learned after effects from you =)
now i can make VFX just like i alwayz wanted since i’ve been 8 and saw Star Wars III

Awesome tut. yet again.

Lovely title animation and again good tutorial. I like the sound quality of your voice. Cant wait for the Sam on ledge tutorial. Thankx..

Cracked my ass in half at Shatner! And great work as usual, man

THANK’S ANDREWWWWW…
IT’S GREAT !! AWESOME !!
YOU ARE “CAPTAIN AWESOME” !!!! hihi
Ciaooooo from italy !

Awsome! Can’t wait to watch!

Thnx Andrew great stuff again………its becoming a habit nw…

To Andrew From All Of His Fans……

U R OUR HERO…

TRUE INSPIRATION…

THANK YOU…

http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1269433108543RA78

guyz if u like this give a cheers right here….

Hope u like this Andrew…for evythn u’ve done for the community, for us…thnx a lot

Hoping to c it on your blog if u can post…plz….jst a small example of hw much we admire u…

Very Cool, but God Bless.

Great tutorial. I was waiting for you to click on the Shatner 2 tab though. I was excpecting a remix of some original Star Trek with optical flares or something.

P.S. the pause after Andrew is what makes it priceless.

clap clap clap clap ….

Hey Andrew,
Could you please tell where you get your textures ? Do you photograph them yourself ? if yes then its no problem, but I wanted to know to buy those. Thanks. And I’m sorry if you already said that, I have no sound

where to buy those*

Hey what’s up!!!!

It’s my birthday today!!! In your time zone…
Thanks for this tutorial Andrew!!! A very nice gift for
me and to the rest of your fans…

Thanks for sharing a lot of ideas…

by the way, any news feeds for Adobe CS5?

Very awesome stuff!!!

First of all sorry for my poor english…. I am from Italy
I have to thank the day I discovered Videocopilot thanks to a friend of mine
I learnt much more from you than all the book I bought in the past
Will you be at NAB in Vegas?
Bye and thanks again

Incredible man. It is amazing what creative thinking and technique can accomplish! I’m excited to be learning more about scripting w/in AE and recently found some excellent resources on a surf: (Edit keyboard shortcuts, modifying a comp’s motion blur settings interactively (Active Shutter)
[OpenSource Licensed]or also known as [Freeware]

Scripts for After Effects CS3:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1242019#extinfo

Scripts for After Effects CS4:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1698043

AMAZING Andrew! Going to watch right now !!!!!

Awesome Perfect ending for my trailer

Wow, awesome! I can think of a few really cool ways to use this, not just with text . How do you even come up with this stuff, amazing work!

well i just bought windows 7, and i had gotten optical flares about the same time when it was released from a friend and now i can watch and follow along almost perfectly, i was also wondering when you would do a shatter tut, and now here we are, rally glad that someone like you can inspire the next generation so much and i really hope you continue.

thx Mr.andrew you are our hero

Thanks Adndrew very nice!!

Thanks very much !
A great tutorial!

@>Ashish Chauhan
That Video is so funny and i do hope that Andrew Kramer has seen it. It really does set out what we all think of him. Everybody should watch it. Thanks Ashish Chauhan. Ashish Chauhan’s Link:- http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1269433108543RA78 just give it a minuit to load! it’s worth it.

Ha! Very clever video

ohhhhh yeah, very cool tutorial my dear andrew.

Really love the look of this one, the text and the glows etc, like some high budget hollywood thing.

Tried to watch Ashish’s vid but got bored watching numbers count down forever

Hi Andrew Kramer & th Team..!
Its awesome.. Andrew Kramer can i have a favor plz.. Give me a little peace of your mind.:P

wow greate andrew you are the best . i lernt a lot of stuffs by waching your tutorials and find all things you are doing very interesting.
nourch from morroco

Andrew is hot !!!
LOVE HIM LOTS

Hey Andrew that was amazing! Can’t believe how much you can do with pixel polly!

Hey whats up with this

…Error: Your comment is too short. Please try to say something useful….

thats not fair we should have the freedom to make our comment as short as we like.

Nice Work! : You are Best In the World.

I Love You
I am Edris Mohammadi From Iran,Kordestan,Sanandaj

@>Ashish Chauhan
Wow this is incredibly great i laughed so hard because i knew that this had to be him on the picture…
simply cool

This is my attempt,messed up the timing on the shatter but pretty much was fun to make and learned new tips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAvy1Ia5ZZc

Sorry Andrew
but this shatterize movie has too much combinations of effects for me. Because of many blur, shine, glow, moving I can’t see and enjoy base shatter effect which could be cool. That single image of shatter effect is much better than the whole movie.

wow
verry good tuto
i wish to thank u for this
you are the best of best in world the after effects

NIce buddy u r doing good job

I love only live footage FX. Waiting for the ledge tutorial.

Please Mr.Andrew concentrate on live footage FX. All these static shatter & glitter can be done in innumerable other programs. Not worth spending time on these.

this will be perfect with my movie thanks Andrew

WHAOUUUUUUU!!!
Andrew I love you

Hey andy see this comment i left on a previous tut it might be nice to add

INSTANCE EFFECTS

create a ajustment layer then pre comp it

THEN DELETE THE AJUSTMENT LAYER INSIDE THE PRE COMP (just go with it)

Create new adjustment layer in side that pre comp and add your effects to it.

Then that pre comp can be used as may times as you like but make changes to the effects inside it and they will be global

amaaazing ,,, i am dreaming about u doing the transformer title intro … with all the metal and stuff

Thank’s Andrew! We hope on soon VFX tutorial with Sam.

thanks Andrew

Amazing Tutorial Andrew!!!!!!!! I hope the tutorial with Sam too!!!

Is it possible to do this effect on a person perhaps?

That’s so cool man! Thanks!

selvarajan, are you joking?

Nice tutorial i already tryed to do it and add some diffrent lens flares and sounds watch :]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAD1LkLOjbw

x = tutorial_subject

write(“Hey what’s up, Annndrew Kramer here with VideoCopilot…
DOT! net.
Welcome to another VERY exciting tutorial. Today we’re gonna be taking a look at creating x.”);

repeat(inf);

Also, “So I’ll go to eeffECT… Viddeooow Cohwpilotttt… Oppticalll Flearrrrrwwwsss.”

Thank you Andrew.
here’s my new intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7GijR18J8

This tutorial reminded me of this:

30 trailer text effects in 30 seconds

http://www.motionserved.com/Gallery/30-in-30/459317

My crappy text doesnt appear!! Even when im typyng and the color is white! HELP

Great tutorial. Really creative. Tried it on my own witz a gold-ish look but without too much details. It also looks really nice One again, this site is one of the best on the e-net and great tuts and of course great publisher !

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

great piece of tut andrew …

U R TOO GUD YAAR,…

Andrew fans assosiation’ india

Great tutorial (as always).

Quick tip for the viewers: To quickly reverse the order of the layers (i.e. ABCDE into EDCBA) select the bottom one first, shift-click on the top one, cut them (ctrl-x) and paste them back (ctrl-v). Voila!

Great tut)
Thanks Andrew
I made something simшlar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1a-KvGLDbk

Hey Andrew Great tutorial…
Here’s what i’ve done following your tutorial…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB067Snq5MA

Instead of use the text in AE, you can use a 3D render too! Would looks great.

Amazing tut.

I was wondering is it possible to use CC pixel polly to use custom shapes, or images, i know you can do it with particels but this is a lot quicker would be awesome if you could use custom images as the shatter instead of just the triangle and box.

@Paradoc: LOL exactly

IM A STUDENT OF PHOTOSHO, THIS IZ REALY NICE STUF TO IMPROVE MY CREATIVITY THNKXXX DUDE,,,!!!

Andrew, Did you change the Website’s BG colour? I find it different…

Hi Andrew,

What lens blur effect did you use for the sample video? Box blur doesn’t give accurate circles of confusion and I’d love to know how you did it.

Thanks.

Muchas Gracias Andrew, Soy Chileno y soy un fanatico de tus tutoriales y de esta web site
Espero alguna dia poder llegar a tener conocimientos tan expertos y delicados como los tuyos.

Saludos. Desde Concepción, Chile.

This looks really awesome! (As usually ) I hope to be able to check it out tomorow!

Looks like I’ve got myself a new intro! The best tutorial I’ve seen around Thanks Andrew! Love ya

Hey Andrew, great tutorial as usual. By the way did you have a hand in the new Fringe into? I just say the pilot and noticed the intro had some interesting familiarities to one of your posts http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2010/01/hbo-behind-the-scenes-1983/ Coincidence?

Andrew please I have a problem… On my video, I made an intro like this: the title hits a metal wall and particles come out of the impact as an ember fire.

the problem is, I can`t creat the perfect ember effect like the BREAKDOWN [counter strike] video on youtube. If you want you can check it out on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5pGgE3oTHo

Please help me andrew!

Andrew thanks for the tutorials that you give
I want to say…
television in Indonesia
often use the animation that you give
so. remain always make great tutorials
I’m waiting for you always

AK, thx for your time and efforts. I enjoy your tutorials and this site immensely. Keep up the great work!

very thanks mr andrew

You go beyond the technique and put the spit and polish on it which is what makes these tutorials shine. Thanks for all the great work.

Thanks once again!!

That is pretty cool Mr andrew, your tutorial will still remain no 1 in all tutorial sites, great job and keep it up…..

Andrew,
I’m really love your work. Do you use a mac or pc or does it matter. I currently have a pc but it seems like most graphic and motion designers use a mac. It is considered the industry standard or have pcs’ just being getting a bad rap.

Wonder stuff! Love info like this.
Here is my take using this latest
dose of VC goodness. I think it
makes muster… =)

http://www.mahspot.com/assets/video/mahspot_title_shatter.mov

Hope this finds you well and please,
keep the yummy tuts a comin! Brain
is hungry for more…ME SO HUNGRY!

Cheers Andrew!

Oh yeah, Youtube…just in case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3VxaYpkPE

Thanks again Andrew!
Love this place!

Is there a reason you added the blur to each layer in the comp instead of to the adjustment layer?

Great tutorial!

Once again, thank you Andrew. I can express enough on how I appreciate what you do here for us at Video Copilot.

Here is test #2. My first C4D to AE project. =)

http://www.mahspot.com/assets/video/mahspot_jelly_title_final_01.mov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6x6zhwCbA

At first glance, I thought it said “Shatnerize”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJdd5127kw

My attempt =D

At first glance, I thought it said “Shatnerize”.

At first glance, I thought it said “Shatnerize”. fgfgsdddddddf fgf

Is there a reason you added the blur to each layer in the comp instead of to the adjustment layer?

Great tutorial!

I found you can get a similar effect if you use the sampleImage() script, link it to a control gradient and you can get a nice wave going through things. I haven’t applied to to remake this effect but it runs through a simple scale parameter easy enough. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13YECdpAHI&feature=channel
http://grproductions.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/pop-wave/

plz andrew i use ae 7 when searching pixel dolly effect not present how can i find it thanks

Hello guys. I’m suffering cuz of this Brilliant Tutorial ((shattering)) when I reach the ((Sequence)) Step I can not apply the step Just Like Mr.Andre.Inspite of having Sequence Script.Plz I really need a hand
Regards…..

Hi, nice work you are my after effects idol.
I have a question, so in the shatterize tutorial you said ALT+HOME, but witch one is HOME? ALT+H? cause i’ve already tried that but is not working.So if you can/want help me i’ll be greatful. Keep the awsome work. Bye