God! really great FX! :O

That looked quite realstic…what was the footage shoot with? Thanks Andrew

U GOOD ANDREW AND DA VC CREW???

Wow! that looks ace. I tried something like it with particular using a pic for a sprite but looked nothing like as good as that. Never thought to use video as a sprite! Thankx

nice coming down in z line

I always forget about particular….this could have saved me hours of work. Me likee time savers.

Really realistic!

Only problem I see is that non of the bullets have any impact on the debris on the ground(no indentations from the bullets or breakup of the debris at ground level) other then that it looks nice. Lol

due make a tut!!!

NICE ONE!!!

How much time did you spend on a test like these??

Great job man !

i would almost run!

This definitely needs a tutorial! It’ll be really useful. Fantastic realism.

Great technique, you always making great stuff…
At the end the dust looks kind of fake.
THANKS FOR THEM GREAT TUTORIALS!

Great Job Andrew!

You are the best, definitely!

Any chance there will be a short tutorial or Video-Blog about this?

so cool, as always my friend…

Wooow so cool. many thanks mr. kramer

Good. You are learning well Andrew…

Awesome, that’s great, but that gonna be a tuts? anyway, thank Mr. Kramer

Amazing effects as always Andrew , I hope I can do something like that.

Great stuff! I know how to use AE2 and motion track, but I’m having trouble with my particular. Looks efficient, but I would love to see a tutorial!

awesome video – made me laugh! i continue to be amazed at the possibilities…

Oh man… Mr. Kramer, you impress me every time again and again.

How’s the “Dragon” Plugin doing?

Hey! Thats great! I love the aspect ratio!
Whats up with the building? Action essentials 4 maybe?!

That looked really great, but with a little adjusting on the ground and objects laying around(simulating movement) it could look even more realistic.
The idea is brilliant though!

I think Andrew was tired when he posted this blog…..a couple grammar errors in there.

it looks very realistic..

We need a tutorial for this :O! Awesome!

is that an anamorphic size for a video?

Why does everything you do come out so great? seriously though, you’re awesome, thanks for all the great stuff you share with us

Sorry, it happens only to me or are there more people who can not see the video?

Oh, that is sick.

Woah, how did you make the debris? This effect should get its own tutorial~

looks mechacool! hope you do a tutorial! …and i’d love to see lots more action essential 2 tutorials. recently purchased and always interested in potential uses of that product. you are THEE MAN.

That looks awesome!!

Now, you just need some guys (And of course, by that I mean Sam. :p ) who will let you shoot around thier feet and maybe down by the side of thier car? :p

I don’t understand people who are asking for a tutorial…what do you guys even come on this site for.

This is easyer then realising PIE is 3.16 backwards.

It looks cool but there is no need for a tutorial, just look at his old ones. Jeez

I completely agree with this Ryan guy, this can be easily achieved if you’ve watched the other Video Copilot tutorials.

It’s just a still picture with the Particular over it and has some added camera shake with some nice sound effects..

Only thing is, PIE is 3.14 backwards. ;D

I like pie and 3/4 is how much of one i can eat

Nice Action Essentials 2 pre-keyed element Andrew

This looks awesome! Definitely worth a tutorial.

Ese efecto se ve realmente muy bien! te felicito desde argentina! Continua con tus maravillosos tutoriales, son lo mejor!!!

you rock!

Not bad! Too bad the particles never hit the ground though This would work great in a quick cut.

I bet that this background is a still image as Andrew usually do to trick our minds!!

That was Hell Cool !!!!!!!

Hey Andrew, I just was wondering if a tutorial was coming for this or not. I’d LOVE one…because the ground hits it my movie didn’t turn out the best. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5aXqsd8r6U

Particular is a great plugin. The only time I used it was doing the ‘medical zoom’ tut. (And that was the demo version) Linking video to particles is quite awesome. But alas, I would rather buy a few bargain VC plugins than Particular at the moment.

haha damn you Lashan i was hoping no one would notice. I couldn’t delete my typo haha

Nice stuff Andrew! keep it up man!

andrew what if you make this video your new tutorial?
its awesome

Incredible! Nice one Andrew!

well done andrew!!!

i used this in one of my vids a few projects back, very nice bro!!

Awesome… Looking foreword to the tutorial..hahha

hey I used some Action Essential 2 stuff and made a Dragon Ball style fighting, I posted it on the form…do you think maybe you could take a look at it…

http://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=39525

I need a rope…. and a tree. Or a tut ! ^^ Really realistic fx. Impressive.

andy you totally rock.smart composition.

Andrew your the man
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

realistic wow awesome effect with a still image. i dont care if the derbis on ground dint change…

woooooooooooooow ,,, mr. Andrew Kramer This is like the truth

A tutorial would be nice! Nice work, Andrew.

Is the background a still picture? Is it the same technique (camera rig) as in the last tutorial?

Great! Looking fantastic! It will be great to create something like a quick tip tutorial to show us how to made something like that. I think that will really help you to sell your product even more!

Best regards Stefan

Looks fantastic! Wow.
Did you do any tracking for this shot or just animate the emitter across the perspective plane?

Actually I feel like the AE2-elements don’t sit perfectly well in the scene. The shadowy parts of the debris should probably be more blueish like the shadows in the plate and I’d try and match the color of the debris better with the color of the concrete since that’s the dominant color and most debris would have to come from those concrete parts.

I did something similar as a test here;

http://vimeo.com/11707831

Are you going to teach us how to do this in AE ?

perfect….just perfect

just a a little detail i noticed: you could make the composite even more realistic looking, by varying the rotation in which smoke and debris is flying off.

a bullet impact only throws debris UP if it hits a horizontally aligned surface. in case of the rubble field in the shot, debris would fly differently. (always align the impact 90 degree to the surface it hits in the shot)

also: you are hitting some very prominent and easily visible (bright) pieces of rubble in the shot – you should definitely keep some scorch marks in place after the smoke clears.

This is soooo good…
But i also believe the shadows need more blue darks!

But this is incredible! When will you become a VFX artist/Compositor in holywood movies?

This is pretty amazing. I think all it needs is some film grain. If Twitch or something like it was added, it could be really incredible.

hey check out my version of thathttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMpxkXYway8

Hey Andrew I have a action essential 2 and I noticed that the way you use it is pure genius. I love the way you combine tons of videos to make it perfects. Like there I noticed dirt charges, sparks, and smoke. Thanks for sharing this

Thanks again! Hope to see a new tutorial soon.

how Steve Jobs would say, Amazing Andrew. Please Tutorial!!!!!

Great mr.andrew, very coooooooooool wrksss

WOW…awesome….I have to go try this now….

Looks pretty damm good to me. Nice work.

wow this is great. never knew such things can be done with Particular. is it possible with CC Particle World???

Reminds me of the end shootout sequence in District 9

Great job, looks very authentic!

For all those so-called, “experts” with the, “Not realistic enough” or, “We don’t need a tutorial.” How about you show us all how great you are and post one?

Let’s give Andrew some props, guys. He works very hard at what he does and still shares his knowledge, free!

Perfect. Please create a tut for this one — it has universal applications.

Quote from Lynton: “Only problem I see is that non of the bullets have any impact on the debris on the ground(no indentations from the bullets or breakup of the debris at ground level) other then that it looks nice. Lol”

You can easily achieve that effect. Just use the Aux System generator in Particular. Set the main particles to the bullet hole graphic, and use the aux system to show the dirt hit video as the sprite. Just set the aux generator to only show one particle, with no movement.. maybe some random rotation to make it more realistic.

A tutorial would be amazing if you can spare the time

hello Andy,

I’m a noob with after effect, never used before, I spent the last 4 weeks watching your tutorials, and.. man, you are a God, I’m here just to thank you for everything, I’m learning so fast!

PLEASE! A TUTORIAL!

Please post a Tutorial, Sir!

I’ll make you a tutorial:
1. Take a house destroyed picture
2. Add a null object and put some traking data on it (it can be from a wiggle (it seems it’s what Andrew used, the camera movement is very mathematical) or a tracking data from a real footage that you tracked).
3. Open footage 3 clips from Action Essentials 2. Color correct them.
4. Layer» new layer» solid » effect» trapcode particular.
5. Than play with the settings and instead using a sphere, use a sprite and the clips as texture.
Voila

Really good visual effects. The only downer was the sound fx of the gun shots.

amazing !!!
i was wondering if i could do as good as u
here is my test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL3U82A3GXk

Hey andrew can u made a tutorial on this because I can’t make the sprite working with a clip .. hope u will made a tutorial on this greets from me u’r the best

Yeah, a tutorial would be awesome!

Tutorial plz. xD i know this probably is easy but i’m a little bit noob in after effects xD

WOOOOwwww! Nice shooting! Good thing I wasnt the target! hehehehe
It really makes me think… I DO can redecorate my backyard! It looks prety much the same as the footage… SO: a little of work in AE and MISSION ACOMPLISHED! (I´m a genius I know)

plz make a tutorial for this magic… we need that
plz my master

Dear. Andrew

When you will do this project tutorial for us ,,, because we are need that one

Thanks

Hassan Al-Tarooti

Andrew, not wanting to sound really pushy, but is there a possibility of a tutorial on this please?

Great fx, please make a tutorial! it could really help me out with my own movie!

i love it very very much!thanks,but we need a tutorial

Can we please have a tutorial of this Andrew?

and more than a year later, here it is!:http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/dynamic_machine_gun/
hehehe, XD Thanks!