Hey, thx. Great

Oh god! Thank you Andrew!! Thank youu!!

parece interesante cuando tenga tiempo lo probare y opinare si me gusto gracias

Thank you, Andrew!! I’ve been waiting like a little boy for this!

Ohhh yeaaaah! This is very useful! You’ve done so much for so many people that wants to learn vfxs… If you ever visit Barcelona, I’ll guide you.

WOOOO Finally! Thanks AK!

cool =]
tnx andrew

Cool!!!!!!!!!! Thanks andrew

worck on it

thx andrew

wohoo! its great!

Awesome ! =P

Thank you ! =)

Oh my goodness! This tutorial is perfect to use for a movie I’m making! Thanks, Andrew! You’re the best.

Awesome tutorial! Also, when you’re going into the Effects> Video Copilot section, there’s an effect called “Dragon”. What is that?

Hey,thx for the cool inspiration!

Awesome!!!!!!!! thank you so much

You amaze me everytime Andrew! and you’re so actual too!

Hi,
Thank you Andrew Kramer For Great Tutorials !!!

hey! Thank you so much for this tutorial
I read your blog and i was wondering how to do it!
and just when i came here to ask this question , i got my answer!

What’s ‘Dragon’ in your videocopilot plugins menu?

Awesome, gonna watch it right now. Maybe it will help me on this intro I’m working on.

King Tut:

You’ve done it again! A thousand thanks! Now, I just need to grab my DSLR, my helicopter and go find a volcano. Where is that un-pronounceable one… Iceland? I’m gonna need a boat, too!

cool tut but I want to know what is that Dragon plug-in when u put the Optical Flares on the project.

this is toooooooooooooo good ………………..

You’ve done it again! A thousand thanks! Now, I just need to grab my DSLR, my helicopter and go find a volcano. Where is that un-pronounceable one… Iceland? I’m gonna need a boat, too!
i want to tock to you please tell me sir

Hey, Andrew Kramer – there should be a word much more powerful than just THANK YOU, to express my gratitude to you for all you have done.

Best tutorial by far.

Thx a lot Andrew! Hi from Bolivia!
best web site ever!

It’s really nice Tutorial. Thank you Andrew.

Epic Tutorial!
by far one of the best, useful tutorial

Like Borat would say….very niiiiiice hehe

Thanks for sharing your technique!

good tut andrew as always,but i thought that u will make a tut about your short……(is it the same technique or u will make another tut for it?

all i can say is that ur a legend.
thanks man.

Great tut Andrew. I loved the part about capturing the camera movements from a live “shaking-cam” shot and using it in the volcano scene to control the main camera. Awesome tools to use on my next video. THANKS. You’re the best.

Hello,Andrew!! I’m from Brasil!!!!
.Thanks for this tutorial, with simple explanation and I aim.
I learnt very much with his tutoriais.
Thank you and the brasil in the Top of the world of soccer Africa!!!
Davi

And I have repeated it still before left tutorial))))

Awesome tut. I did this very same effect in my Star Trek trailer last year for the launch smoke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HN1H_ShuIo

wow thanks! you made a tutorial for this! awesome³

‘Dragon’ plugin? Speak up!

I haven’t even watched this tutorial yet but I know it’s going to kick my ass as usual. The effect in the your original clip was fantastic and the first time since starting with vfx that I thought “How the f**k did he do THAT?”….Ha!

Thanks again Mr K & the VCP mob!

Awesome! Going to watch right now!

Nice Thanks AK!

The adding of a natural movement is excellent. Thanx for all the tips.

Great! could you please post the file?

That’s amazing Andrew.

What can you tell us about the Video Copilot’s Dragon Plugin?

Yeah yeah, great tut as always. Love the smoke, love the liquify explanations, love the flares -> So what’s “Dragon”?

You can’t just go and name a plugin “Dragon” and expect patience.

Incredible! I don`t have words. Amazing!!!. Thank you Andrew.

Thank you Andrew!!!
You take the time off to spend time with us.

Really enjoyed that Andrew. Great job.

I did something similar to this before!

http://vimeo.com/8702380

between 0:00-0:06

-

i gotta say, this is a much nicer result andrew made

can i ask why your not using AAE CS5 please??

thanks

Very nice and very informative also great
touch of realism.
Very nice Andrew.

Best Whishes
Muhammad Hussain
Pakistan

great Andrew I’ll watch it NOW

Very cool effect. What do you think about substituting Particular 2.0 for Particle World, the advantage being the dust particles could interact with the comp light and the flare adding even more realism to the scene?

Awesome! The parallax tip is phenomenal, and so simple!
Looks great! Was that CS5?

Nice Andrew, we all thank you! When will the glass shatter camera projection tutorial from the short film you made earlier this month come out?

once again . Thank you so much Andrew !!

u rock – Thank you Andrew For Great Tutorials !

Thank You so so much!!! I watched your sample video from the original volcano blog post over and over to attempt the same result on my own [no es tan buena] – Lets just say I needed this tutorial I really appreciate it!

hey, can you guys make a basic tutorial, where you can find this and that and so on that would be a huge help btw, I’m from Iceland…

YES YES YES YES YES!

I didn’t saw that tutorial coming. it’s the 106 tutorial, you work hard, that’s because you love what you make, right?

@Kristinn: You can check out the free After Effects Basic Training:
http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

Thank you very much AK. One question: When will be tutorial showing techniques of Payment Plan.

cool
make a 3d tutorial,are the best

the shaking tips is awesome!!!
great one, Mr. Kramer!

i tink i am in love with Mr. Kramer!!!

thank you so much for da tuts!!

Hey Andrew,
Again a awesome tutorial you made there.
But I wonder what the recommendations are for a image to become 3d like that, cause I suppose its not achievable with each image.

Thnx!

-Roy-

gr8……
wonderfulll

es interesante pero todavia se ve que es mentira

Thank you Andrew this is very amazing! I’m already happy for the others tutorials who are comnig but this on is realy awesome.

Brilliant. your work is awesome as always Andrew!

Awesome tutorial! You have helped me so much in grasping the beast of a program that is After Effects

Andrew, thanks for you tutorials! all awesome! I learned a lot from you. thanks again!

I couldnt help but Notice the “Dragon” Plugin? What is that?

VERY WELL DONE ANDREW! that was awesome …

Did anyone else notice “DRAGON” under plug-ins?

I’m guessing that it summons a REAL dragon out of that volcano. It’s a plugin you can only use once.

@Dragon: The “Dragon” Plug-in is one of 3 new tools we are developing at Video Copilot. Dragon is a codename only and the plug-in does not have to do with dragons, although it would be cool if it did.

I’m really wondering what technique you’ve used… because the result was so convincing… I’m going to watch that now

Great!!
Awesome Andrew^^

HEY, CAN YOU DO A TUTORIAL ABOUT (HOW TO REMOVE WIRE IN LIVE FOOTAGE) IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.

YOU ARE MY HERO (ANDREW)
I THING YOU WORK WITH JJ Abrams IN HIS NEW MOVIE (SUPER 8). ISN’T IT <

Thanks for this one. Can do alot of nice looking work with these tips. Again, thank you Andrew;)

Pure speculation on my part, but Dragon could be related to a 2D fluid simulator such as Turbulence2D for creating fire and smoke. Dragon = fire. Of course, I’m probably wrong, but it’s fun to guess.

Hi Sir,

This Awesome but, if u make a tutorial for blast smoke than it is good…

Good work…great

Thank, great Tutorial!
What about telling us what the 3 new tools are ?

Great tutorial! I noticed that you have some new plugins when you were appying optical flares, what about them?

Hey Andrew,
thanks for the tutorial. I was hoping you would come out with “animating a still” after watching the recent test video.

Very excited to hear more about this “Dragon” plug-in you are keeping under wraps.

Stefan

EPIC! Really helped in bringing more techniques to this process. Excellent work.

as always another great tutorial, much thanks.

Yes mate!As usual awesome tut!Lemme know if you are ever in Ireland (as if lol) Anyway thanks for all the great resources Andrew!Very much appreciated xD

@Andrew:
“the plug-in does not have to do with dragons, although it would be cool if it did.”
Sounds like the last statement from Iron Man (“I’m not the hero type! Cause that would be erroneous and … fantastic”)

greetings from Germany

Can’t wait (I have said that before, didn’t I?) to watch your new tutorial, looks like another cool one!

Thanks for the paralax effect. Simple in fact …
Waiting for Dragon …
Hurry up Andrew! We can’t wait
Euclid

Hi Andrew,

It’s good to hear about the suite of 3 tools being released…. Is one of these QuickMatte? It’d be nice to see it released before I’m 40 (I’m 15 now…)

Anyway, thanks for the little bit of info about “Dragon”… I’ll expect a launch date soon… Haha…

Thanks from the UK,

.:Cam:.

When I try to use the stamp tool, I did EVERYTHING you said to do, same mouse and keyboard controls, same everything, but it just copies/paints the picture over. I am using CS3 is that why?

hey andrew take a look at this : you won’t sleep with it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4

GREAT JOB

-hmk-

“What’s in the box” is a great movie.

the tutorial is great. after watching it i can’t believe how simple it is to make such an awesome footage from a still. i just need the right effects lol

Visually looks amazing and I look forward to watching the tutorial. My comment/suggestion would be to add at helicopter sound that is not in motion. When I watch the video and hear the doppler effect of the helicopter and I’m watching a stationary camera position it seems out of place.

thanks Andrew

Oh yeah, I did notice that Dragon pluggin. Sounds like a new product from Video Copilet>?

Lol~!

hey , nice technique.

More distortion. thanks AK.

Is that dragon pluggin somthing new? I noticed it in the tutorial?

I Second the comment what was the Dragon Plug in??

Awesome Tut works great

Great tips. Things I never would have thought of. I’m definitely purchasing Optical Flares just too keep you guys happy and continue this wonderful site.

Hi Andrew !
Thanks from Munich in Bavaria

Big big big Andrew!!!

thx for the amazing tutorial as always. this has helped me a lot learn more about using after effects to it full thx again

Thanks again for this nice tutorial but PLEASE don’t forget about the tutorial of Sam crashing the car’s window. For a long time I’ve been looking to do that same effect of the glass shatter in AE and 3dmax.

That picture almost looks like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in the infra-red spectrum…

How hard would it be to do the opposite of this tutorial and make a still out of an animation?

hey andrew a have a question about the trapcode particular plugin for cs4 ; could we invert the emission of particles
and transform it from inside to ouside

thx i need this ;p

exuse me i meant from outside to inside XD thx hope you answer me

Very nice. I would like to see more of this type of tut. Many times all I have to work with is stills, this type of tut has lots of usage possibilities. For what it is, it looks better than many “end of the world” movie fx, less is more, again.
Thanks!

Your like some kind of hurricane of creativity. Hurricane Andrew and Typhoon Sam. Sam is a typhoon of inspiration.

Hey Andrew, Im trying to create a news marquee kinda like bloomberg or cnn. Any suggestions?

“My comment/suggestion would be to add at helicopter sound that is not in motion. When I watch the video and hear the doppler effect of the helicopter and I’m watching a stationary camera position it seems out of place.”

Please don’t post such garbage. When someone gives you access to tips and tricks that are used in the industry for FREE…please, please, please, please, don’t give in to the urge to critique his work. I don’t want people like you to be the reason Mr. Kramer ends up deciding to charge for his tutorials.

Sorry for the rant…the comment just seemed out of line for so many reasons.

“Hey, Michaelangelo, I like the Sistine Chapel, but I just don’t know if I agree with that old guy and the younger guys’ fingers touching…can we change that maybe??”

Man you are the VFX Man…I’m so glad to study in the Andrew Kramer’s VFX college!
Regards from Colombia Man!

it’s so cool ,but i just have aecs4 how can i get aecs5

Hi Andrew am from Ethiopia
Am working on project exactly like this and expect this tut what a coincidence tnx man keep tut as teach
If u got any break u should have to visit Ethiopia we really worship u

What the heck is that Dragon plug in doing in VIDEOCOPILOT slot in the EFFECTS? Whoa! Pretty exciting. But, hey! What happen to the QUICK MATTE Effect? Anyway, thank you so much for the tutorial AK… More power…

OMG coooooooooooool.
but what happend to the glass that breaks tutorial.

Great Tutorial Andrew as usual.
It would be great, if you make a little Tutorial from the “Onesize: Playground Titles”, with the fight sceen.

Greez

B!zzy

kudos on another great tut

Ok fantastic tut as usual! But I have a question, when you twirled down your plugings to pick Optical Flares I saw another one on the twirl down menu that was called ‘Dragon’.
What was that?

I agree with Marçal Solé…

Keep doing ya thang, Anderw! And to me this is one of your best tuts (although there’s about 50 runner-ups from ya!!).

Great stinkin’ job, man!

Hey! Just wanted to say thank you for doing this. You’re very creative on your solutions and it was a slick tutorial. Thanks again.

@ mr roper. Do you mean something like this?http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/07/breaking-free-news-templates/
You can just find it in blog/projectfiles, it was under your nose haha

really cool tutorial anything you do just look so real!!
i took the idea and tried to make a kind of bullet time or a freeze frame effect inspired by your technique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJ65th3DSM

thank you master
very gooooooooooood one!
I think that was {afterburn}

that’s very very Cool . you are very Best ANDREW

andrew you are tha bomb…

Hey Andrew ……
Iam Naveen ….
Please call me this is my no: 09633620627
I have many doubts in AE………

Could you do your next tutorial on a MARVEL like intro???
and is it hard to make animated films?

Andrew,
I feel jealous about u.dont know how many peoples like u, i am one of them.u r a megastar.god bless u nd long live u.although i’ve uploaded an animation,named “perfume” with d help of ur two tutorials.if u watch i’ll feel honored. Again i love u nd jealous u.

i can’t think after effects without u. u r a …what can i say….u r a mega star!!! we love u Andrew. ok, i have uploaded an animation in youtube Named “perfume”. I’ve made it with the help of ur two tutorials. if u watch,i’ll feel honored. plz plz watch it.u r also in my facebook friend list.

sorry, i didn’t give u my youtube link.its here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-s0aZaRwds

Talking about bombs (see above)…
Andrew wouldn’t it be a good idea to make a tutorial about making (fakes) nuclear explosions? Or something like that perhaps? That’d be nice, I think…
But well, you’re make the tutorials, so you choose

nice tutorial thanks from pakistan

Hi, the other day few of my friends visited an old scary palace in India. He took a few snaps over there. i have created a small video combining many photos together, making it wider and animating using the same technique as here. the corner pin. there were no cameras used.i have used action essentials dust, optical flares and zaxwerks 3d flags as well. and yes the sound is from one of your projects- Payment Plan. Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial and your tips. Here is the video:
http://vimeo.com/12323150

Great job, man!
As always, you’re the best…
Cheers, from Argentina

OOOHHH cool…. But I’m waiting for the tutorial promised with the short film you did…

Hey andrew, thnx so much for this tutorial, I’ve been making a lot of shorts recently and this tutorial saved my life trust me. Thank you and please, keep on making tutorials more often Cheers from a Spanish guy living in Vienna (Austria)

What do you use this for?

Awesome Tut …!!

Here’s my Volcano:
http://www.luegner.ch/fxphd/Eyjafjallajokull.mov

Keep up the Good work, Andrew & Team
Greets from Zuerich, Switzerland

woaw that’s so cool

That Parallax effect was disturbingly easy!

This tutorial comes in pretty handy, because I’m currently creating tv bumpers for my school

frozen crossing 2 is out check it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a08ViuvORRM

i love your tutorials there the best you can get for adobe and photoshop and whatever else you use one question which adobe do you use in this tutorial???? is it cs5

i love you tutorials andrew your a natural at this type of stuff and deserve to be were you are and you are the only person i’ve ever known so good on all the adobe products youre amazing but just one thought which after effects do you use in this tutorial is it cs5 ??????

Great Tutorial! This is my first ever attempt of animating a still. Its not much, but I hope it will only get better with practice. Thank you Andrew Kramer! You Rock!

http://www.vimeo.com/12376838

@Deep Biswas. Very good!

Thanks for the tut, Andrew. Really awesome!

Amazing tutorial – applied this theory to a montage of stock images. Here’s the result – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-2gy_LZWi8

that was just….awesome :O

Love the Andrew’s humour and Pro quality tutorials for no penny. due to final handheld camera shake parallax effect is loosing its space. but who knows it might happen also in real shot too haha great tutorial, Thanks.

Hey Andrew thank you so much I needed an affect like this to make a camera move for my new Burning Building video!

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_iwdv2kpuk&feature=related

Thanks

thanx Andrew

you just make a great job

I have a question …

What is the Dragon Filter that you made …!?

it’s in VideoCopilot Filters

Hi there!
Really nice tutorial.

this is my approach.
http://www.vimeo.com/12425234

I used my own lensflare project instead of OF.
You can download it at http://www.the-pi.de.
Feedback appreciated.

So long, Pi

I don’t suppose any of those tools you are working on are a GPU-accelerated fractal frame plugin, or a true 3D beam plugin?

Andrew .. You Are The Master Of GFX .. God Blessed You For Your Sharing Knowledge with others ..

That is RAD! Yup, I just said rad, its just that cool! I can make some great use out of this. Thanks Andrew!

greet tutorial but
just see this add http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1LoJt7IZw&feature=related
how to make this advertisement pls think

Hi Andrew, Gopal is right, you have to reply to this message. The video is here, the Ultra Tech Cement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1LoJt7IZw&feature=related . I had last watched this ad, may be some 3-4 years back, and ever since then i was wondering about the technique that might have been used in making this wonderful ad. At least tell us something about this.

“Sorry for my bad English”

I dreamed I met you, we greeted and talked for a while but rarely because they speak the same language.

Thanks for your tutorials.

actually read all the comments?

Greetings from Argentina.

Nice tutorial, could you try making tutorial about creating glowing sand effect like in Prince of Persia sands of time movie? That would be awesome!

I’m having issues with the paralax effect. I’m using CS5 (not that I believe that is part of the issue). I can adjust the first two corners for the effect, but when I move ahead in the scene 4 seconds and hit reset and attempt to move the two corners opposite of the ones I modified there is no change made in the animation. The animation is applied to the first 5 frames or so, but not from keyframe to keyframe… I love your tutorials, and this is the only issue I have ever faced. I thank you for all the work you do!

Here is a clip i made using this tutorial:

http://www.vimeo.com/12468812

Howdy,
Quick hello and thanks for all the help, seriously digging the tutorials, especially the bits when you abuse the fat guy.
Keep it up!

Howdy,
Thanks for all the help, seriously digging the turorials, especially the bits when you abuse the fat guy.
Keep it up!
Tav

Hey andrew a friend of mine is attempting this tutorial its coming out great. BTW how do you keep coming up with ideas for new tutorials

AE + VC + AK = WOW

Hi, good stuff. A while ago I did a 2d to 3d in AE. What I did is modelled a heart in Zbrush and then rendered and composited in PS with multiple passes to give it a real look. The heart was then totally 2d. Then in AE I dropped the 2d render into the comp and used the depth map (of the same model, grabbed from zbrush) to control the blur amount in z-space, thereby simulating a DOF effect on a 2d image (actually, used the same map for the blur effect on the particles). Have a look here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIiZ3tOMKP4

There is no DOF enabled here.

this is cool
off topic:
Me and my friends just recently entered a video
contest and need lots of views to make it to the top
five. We would appreciate if you gave our video a watch, thanks.
ps: don’t watch the other videos it’s based on views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7lEAnQQSzc&feature=player_embedded

Ah Andrew… im still here since very beggining tutorials.
Must say you made a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE leap in AE tech.
This tuts are godly amazing, Your progress is stunning.
Keep good work and MOOOOORE tuts;)

Video not found: http://video9.videocopilot.net/efc5e19e65fe9ca2cbd9818d45ac92a1/videotutorials/106-Animating_a_Still/data/tutorial.flv
:*(

you should’ve at least tried to pronounce it correctly! Eyjafjallajökull

Hey Andrew !! really cool tutorial, thanks for everything, and if i’m not mistaken, i saw that you’re working on a new product….am i right? when you went to apply Optical Flares in the video Copilot section of EFFECTS, i saw DRAGON or something…. can we know what’s that about? ok, thanks for everything Andrew, you rock !! greeting from Argentina !

Awesome Tutorial Andrew!

This is the first one I can say I’ve had almost 100% success in learning and executing. Here’s my result if you’re interested….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHFQrn2R54

greet tutorial but
just see this add http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1LoJt7IZw&feature=related
how to make this advertisement pls think

PLs make a mocha tutorial:D Great tut

thanks Andrew! its amazing!!!

This one is amazing Andrew. The render is so realistic!

Here is some free hand-held tracking, download the AEP, it’s all attached to the NULL object. Just pick whip and use.

http://ridgelinecreative.com/blog

Tracked from a Canon 7D with a 50mm lens. Moderate movement.

gr8………….thx

Astonishing!!

Thank you for the great tutorial!

THX! You are amazing!

Thanks for the videos about After Effects. I was outsourcing some of this stuff before. This has helped me out a lot!!!