3D MODELS
Andrew Kramer on June 3rd, 2012 9:14 pm
Last Friday I posted a new tutorial called The Jungle where we created a chipped title along with a detailed jungle scene. Today, using the basic idea, I added some CC Hair effects to create some overgrown bits of grass. What’s cool about the technique is the grass bits grow out of the chipped parts of the text and the entire process is 100% procedural so you can change the title at any time. Check out the short tutorial now!
Watch the Bonus Tutorial
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i love what can be done with cc hair
Really nice effect! Will go try it out immediately.
cool I thought I would never find a use for this effect and now i am starting to think of so many possibilities.
Haha cool stuff!! Again… cannot wait for Element 3D… and am dying for any amount of news regarding it!! (hopefully soon right?)
Hey Wren, Really nice work man, Huge fan of your videos keep up the good work!
Haha thank you! I’ll do my best.
I will look sure is great
looking great, thnx man
AWESOME! Very Indiana Jones-ish! Did you also use CCHair for those vines on the Concrete wall(BG)?
A I just love for you’er inspiring us. Thank YOU!!!
That was incredibly awesome! Thanks for always inspiring me with these endless possibilities.
Hi VC
Very Nice
And When The Element 3d Coming ?
And When U are Using Ae Cs6 in Tutorial ?
Thanks
Ingenious!
This isn’t a particular application mastery, this is real creativity!
I’d love to see what you could do with traditional material.
Cotton Duck, Gesso, Oil Paint, Japan Drier, Some diy Glaze Medium and regular studio stuff…
great bonus tutorial
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NEVER knew what to use that effect for! Thanks AK
SEPAAS
so VC is still alive…
I hope u post new tutorials every week
G.E.N.I.U.S.
Each time it’s like a discovery of a new world.
Thank you.
jungle… on concrete wall… you series? oO
Watch this first. http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2012/06/new-tutorial-the-jungle/
I saw this and is great! thanks
but concrete wall… it’s weird
may be this is some Korea or something else…
never heard of a concrete jungle? You must be living on jupiter…
you’d be surprised what grows on concrete >_>
This is awesome I like how you use simple techniques to create great stuff.And one thing more you are the reason I hate my studies. In fact you boosted it.
Bank gothic 4 life.
Actually it is called Agency and I have been using it too much lately. I’m not going to stop but maybe someday.
There are so many CC Plugins which do crazy things with spectacular results!
This was impressive! I didnt even know that this CC Hair exists until now…
Andrew Kramer, will you upgrade to CS6? We all can see that you love playing with big titles, and in CS6 you would have the ability to make it real 3d, give it a texture, transparency, etc..
Im asking this because I would love to see some CS6 tutorials with the new features..
very very gooooood
Thanks to Professor
I see comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ui4mVpaTK8&feature=youtu.be
When I try to use the CC hair effect it doesn’t go down, but instead goes out away from the center of the letter.
You’ll need to go back to the TITLE HOLDER comp and turn the eye backk on the first layer. Then when you back to the Comp, it should be solved.. Also toggle the Map Strengh value..
Thanks andrew for the free tutorials
I’m afraid CS4(32 bit AE users will be left over) how sad..
“It’s all about simple solutions to creative problems.”
Indeed.
Really, really nice.
Thanks for everything you’re providing us, it’s really amazing!
we should call this week,surprise week.Andrew you are like private Ryan,you always fight for visual effects because of people like us.and we love you…
oh yeah! this week was really awsome (after a lot of time!)
and I cant wait for Element 3D!!!
Wow, I’ve been using AE for years and I never knew it could do this! Thanks! You the man.
very nice tut, never knew how to use CC hair
this is a good start
ME EITHER!!! I knew that you could use hair in Maya to create grass or is it grass to create hair…either way thanks Andrew!
I haven’t even finished watching this tut because I had to just stop an say…great teachneique and I did enjoy this tutorial.
Amazing as always
Still waiting for Element 3D…..
Wow, I came up with a bunch of ideas on how I could use this effect for my own productions, just by watching this tutorial.
Thanks a lot for constantly showing us how much potential is in effects I didn’t use or just used a few times.
Keep up your great work!
Greatings from Germany.
I agree. Just curious…I’ve read several people say they have other ideas for this technique. I would like to hear some of these ideas.
Cool. If any of you want the Grass to MOVE. Then be sure to PreComp an Animated Fractal Noise Effect and Utilize your Hairfall Map. Just set your Map Property to the appropriate setting and play around with Map Strength!
Awesome! I really like these natural organic titles. Thank you very much!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMhtqvshwFA
please watch this video and reply pls
nice to see the tamil name
Would it be possible to get a hi-res of the picture. I like to look at them for inspiration when working on the tuts. Thank you for all the free stuff. You guys are amazing.
When I see things that are simple and effective the word that comes to mind is “elegant.” Andrew, you never cease to amaze with your elegant solutions. Well done sir! (BTW, I am hanging on to some cash for Element)
Cool grass ! This make me think to Stephen King in Creepshow (I was young and scare to see this grass growing on his face !) Thnak for this tips and your new site looks more clean !
Hi Andrew
very cool , thanks
you read my mind ? I had an idea to get more plants to put on jungle title !
Are you able to animate CC hair? so it looks like there is wind blowing?
This is awesome. Looks great. I woud have spent hours in C4D trying to get the hair to look this good. Also love the new site layout. Something tells me this means Element is coming.
wow. what is this, you fantastic
Great Tutorial as always!
its great…. i live CC Hair…
http://youtu.be/8s1KSU1tsbE
Here’s my mod of this cool bonus
Great! I’d never tried that effect before. Thank You!
Hey Andrew seems theres a bug on video preview whenever a mouse hover the preview comes and doesnt go away just a white circle stays!
This was very cool! thanks!
can you do a tutorial on clones overlapping i need help on that
is good may be the text offset alittle bit or amissing text is good
Quick question: What command do you use to get the main window maximized?
I know you usually are very thorough with saying how you duplicate layers, but you know, the most important stuff like maximizing a window, why is that a secret!
Maybe he has saved his own workspace on a shortcut… maybe
Just hit the Tilda key (The one beside “1″ on the keyboard”. That maximizes whichever window has the focus.
Even for a mac? That tilde key doesn’t do anything for me
Hi again I have tested this one : “)” braquet in english ? parenthese fermée en français.
Nice one-up to yourself Andy!
Wow… for some reason i just didn’t get it… :/
I really really enjoyed.. Thank you very much! so creative..
Hey Andrew, this is great but I really wanted to see the grass animate–maybe sprout, grow, and semi-rot over a two-second sequence. It’s really my fault I wanted this though. It’s great the way it is.
Maybe just keyframe some of the effects from 0 to where they are in the video and magic! Growing grass
David, I said I wanted to SEE it, not do it!
Good stuff, pumped for element!
I love these short tutorials just as much as the in depth ones.
In five minutes of down time I learned some new stuff. Thanks!
wow
looking greate,
This may only be a “bonus tutorial,” but the info and concepts in it are really helpful. I’d never given CC Hair much of my time, but now I see all sorts of potential for it. Thanks, Andrew.
Andrew, you could put a link to download this tutorial Thank you very much for all your knowledge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLlW3eYGXls&list=UUvtzzueOF6pCT6NO2YblBnA&index=0&feature=plcp
check out my new video guys, do leave a comment if any.
thank you.
Really cool AK and helpful too. God bless you really good
If you use this on your text in the first tutorial, a nice extra touch would be to add some CC Hair to the vines. While you’re at it add some 3d layers with grass coming up from the floor to tie the elements together.
Hi, Andrew! Very i like your lessons. Please show me how to make titles (with a stone plets wind blows the sand and the name appears) as Michael Jackson’s music videos if you have seen. I would be very grateful. Thank you!
You Magnificent Bastard!! You’ve done it again!
This is so awesome…. So going to use this….
Reminds me of Portal 2…
IT’S GREAT. VIDEOCOPILOT IT’S DANGA IN VFX
I would love to see element 3D, it might be usefull for the short film I am going to make.
Spelled my name wrong…
Even better than the last tutorial.
This one by itself is a great tool.
Once more, thanks Kramer.
Thanks for all that you make for bigger Graphic Community
Hi Andrew kramer your the beast in VFX I love your works
and Thanks allot For this beast and porffect Projects.
if somebody wants to learn how to make 3d text in after effects , please suscribe to my youtube channel and soon i will upload a tutorial.
if you can see what i have done.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6-0VxJmwdA&feature=plcp
Hi, Andrew, hi Sam)
Very useful tutorial, cool! I like the idea of short tutorials in which we could find many great trick and techniques, thanks! Keep on!)
reminds me of my favorite TV Series, Lost. any way you could include some DLC of a crescendo like Giachinno’s heard in like, 1:20 of shannonigans from the soundtrack?
Mr. Kramer you never cease to amaze me. The way you keep pushing AE to its limits and figuring out all its goodness is very VERY inspiring.
Please keep up the amazing work.
Greetings from Spain.
the new web site is quite cool bt can’t seem 2 download any tutorials. why?
Your stuff is as cool as always, Andrew!
But, what got me the most is that some grass strands look like cracks, and it is perfect!
Once again you presented a simple solution for a complex look – worn out/cracked and grassy. I bet the devs of CC grass are scratching their heads saying “Sh**t, look at that…”
I meant “CC hair” not “CC grass”, apologies
Cool stuff! Learning new things every day.
Please, post this tutorial in tutorials section of Video Copilot Mobile site.
“http://m.videocopilot.net/”
I always download your tutorials on my mobile and try them out on my PC.
I don’t have internet connection on my PC.
Thanks, Andrew & Video Copilot Team