TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
March 08, 2010
• Create a ball transition effect with CC Ball Action
• Use multiple layers to cascade the effect sequentially
 
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
Download the Sequencer.jsx Script in the project file!
Running Time: 25mins.


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by Murugavel 08/25/2010
Hi Andrew...
Your tutorials are amazing. Really helpful. Could you please tell me where can i get hardcore 3ds max special effects tutorials. I mean without After Effects. I need 3ds max video tutorials like this. Particle Effects, Dynamics etc. Please let me know.
by samewater 08/23/2010
very amazing , i give you 10 Thumb
by Mahmoud 08/22/2010
thnx 4 tut
by JFX 08/21/2010
Have just finished this tutorail. Everything worked sweet as but I dont understand why I got this big as green X on the layer with the CC Ball FX. Its off the plugin. Any solution to this prob. Chur
by Juan 08/16/2010
You are just amazing!!!! tank you andrew
by raj 08/16/2010
it's all to good give me more tutorials thanks
by zZeroheart 08/11/2010
Hey Andrew,

I love your tutorials, they're all quite awesome! :D

Greetings from Germany ;)
by Dean 08/10/2010
What did you do at 6:36 to the two text titles?
by Mark 08/09/2010
hahaha u have been watchin ur tutorial
n i totally enjoy all the side track stuff

keep doing what u do
by vVvExon 08/09/2010
Great tutorial ! :D
I would love to see how you created the twict intro with the ball dispersion thing,
by Shan Ali Shah 08/07/2010
Thanks From Pakistan
by Stephan 08/06/2010
Hi Andrew, Great tutorial. I saw in sample video the reveal of a "cover box", I've been trying to create that. But I can't seen to get it working.
I'm still a beginner of after effects.
Any help would be great.

Thanks
by Rtiner 08/06/2010


Hey, what's up adnrew kramer's videm cofilet.net

Hi Andrew !!
I always learn AE's skill thorugh your tutorial,
and your all artwork is amazing.
Just I wonder how can I get CCball preset free?

If you know, please let me know :)
Thanks for reading.


by Nighttrekk 07/28/2010
Hey Andrew! you are the MAN! tutorials in a fun and educative enviroment. the detail and clearity of your work is amazing. keep it up, please dont slow down.
by Cudi 07/20/2010
I don't understand what you say at 09:32 Alt Home
To have the bars to the beginning I am blocked because of that. Please help
by Lina 07/18/2010
Otro gran tutorial,además me hacés reir mucho con lo que decís.
by Segun A. 07/16/2010
You're the best Andrew.
by baldo 07/13/2010
hola muy buen tutorial soy nuevo en este programa y el que instale no cuenta con los efectos mostrados en los tutoriales por ejemplo el cc ball action.
alguien pudier orientarme donde puedo conseguir estos efectos.
GRACIAS.
by Jellz 07/11/2010
Hey Andrew.

Thanks again for another great tutorial, I'm just having one small problem. Instead of the logo appearing as the time goes forward, it stays static then starts to disappear instead of being revealed. Any clue what I'm doing wrong here? I've followed the tutorial through step by step like 5 times now with the same results. Thanks man!
by Michael 07/11/2010
How do I install the Script?
by debbie 07/09/2010
thank you for this tutorial!

note to daric: you can find the sequencer script when you download this tutorial.. it's in the folder.
by daric 07/09/2010
hey how can i get the sequencer script ? can any one help me?
by ANIL REDDY 07/08/2010
thank you for providing this side for the people those who are trainers of graphic designers> and we all love this site. really we thankful to people those who are created this site? from the people of graphics designers? love u video copilot!
by Nero 07/06/2010
thanks a lot
by ezequiel 07/05/2010
Muchas gracias es genial
by Globo 07/03/2010
Muchas Gracias por este gran tutorial!!!!
www.globodisenios.com.ar
by Vipin 07/03/2010
when i did ctrl [,] , to crop my footage, its comig opposite. did i made any mistake?
by Kathrin 07/01/2010
on 8:00 when you say to click alt { i click it and the the screen is black.. how i can fix it? and when i check to view the other seconds before 24 it's only black... see: http://i46.tinypic.com/nxupgl.png pls help T_T
by Tahneet 06/30/2010
Hey Andrew u r doing a fabulus job ... i need SEQUENCER SCript you use in this ball tutorial how can i find it its not in the project THanx
by Ramona 06/28/2010
you are the best!
by walid 06/25/2010
andrew you are an extraterrestre man, you have an alien mind ;))
extra tut, i like it
by Zabi Shahrani 06/24/2010
A really awsom tutorial..,.,., good job andrew!
by Ian Egx 06/21/2010
What a great tutorial ever I ever seen!! It will be a good moment if you could invite one of us to meet and learning with you at your place. You are such a Great..Great..Great person kind!!!

I'm your friend from Indonesia, thanks again. I always come to learn in this website every hour!!
by Rocky 06/20/2010
Awesome tutorial! One suggestion though: you could precompose the text layer at the beginning of the project that way you could use any name or comparably sized graphic by editing said comp without having to do the whole thing over again.
by Grapha 06/19/2010
Very Very Fantastic..
tank you.
by matilda 06/18/2010
Just thanks! Can you make a tutorial for the second example??!! Pleaseeee!
by matilda 06/18/2010
Just thanks!
by Matilda 06/18/2010
Thanks for the great tutorial!
You can make a tutorial for the second example?!! Pleaaaseeee!
by kamaru 06/17/2010
this tutorial is very nice
by vinesh 06/15/2010
so great tut man,i like ur tuts
by TKM-GFX 06/15/2010
oh men .....tahts pritty nice and awesome.... u r the best tutrial-maker i ever seen....heads up to you
by Charlotte 06/14/2010
Thank uu veryy much!!
by Ahmad 06/10/2010
I Love videocopilot.
by Richard v B 06/09/2010
This was my first AE project ever and it went flawless. Thank you Andrew. It was big fun!
by Ray andrialdy 06/09/2010
this tutorial very good
amazing!!!!!
by ARAMBAM 06/07/2010
Dude!!!!u r my idol!!!! heads up to u!!!
by pandi 06/07/2010
the tutorial published last time was so good i would like many such tutorials thank you so much
by ikisikmisbeyler 06/05/2010
Hello Andrew.. I am your Big fan and im from Inciya..
One of the most fantastic country ?n the world.
well yes so many people dont know anything about us because we are too small country in Atlantic ocean.

Our country Famous of Pearls and Inci means Pearl in english.

Me and my friends want to thank all of you guys for this tutorials

Incisiker folks. ( Farewell folks )
by Flayko 06/03/2010
Hello, i havent got this commands console on layers like you where u write wiggle(0,25) How do i open it ?
by Lama 06/03/2010
make a tutorial how to make this with the star. this is awesome andrew!! I watched it the 5th time and tried it to do it with the star, but I can't make it :S help please
by Liam 06/01/2010
my final image has like a whole bunch of missing balls, what should i do?
by Srinivas (I Max) 05/31/2010
u are a god of Creating Effects, thankful to god to know ur name
by Donald 05/28/2010
Nice tutorial as always. I had a thought though for curious minds. Instead of making the layers 1 frame long or using a script to offset them by 1 frame, you can overlap them by a duration 1 frame less than the length of the layer. Yeah?
by incisiker 05/28/2010
incisiker andrew
you need to check incisozluk.
there are many incredible after effects users
by Pat Rich 05/27/2010
Andrew, cool effect! I used it for a company project that I am working on. check it out.

http://videos.sorensonmedia.com/18e0e287-d863-47ba-887b-f17755056674/SIB hero test 1/bd11b23f-e5f3-4ec4-adda-8e4034db866f
by Tom Hertroys 05/27/2010
hi im tom im 13 and use everything here videocopilot lens flare riot gear twitch all the stuff there is i like andrew kramer verry mutch goot tuts andrew!
by newbie 05/26/2010
You're a god, man.. simply incredible.
wish you could post download links to the tutotials.. i could rewind it whenever and not wait to buffer..

Just a thought..

Thanks Andrew Kramer!
by jain 05/25/2010
wonderful tutorial... loved it...

u r great

thanks from the land of Gods Own Country
(Kerala)
by Neil 05/25/2010
whats up!!!
Neil Chawla here


great tutorial mate learnin a lot from you


cheers!
by snake 05/25/2010
fantastic
by BERNATIUS NOVE 05/24/2010
very....very.....good tutorial....u very genius ^_^
by xingu 05/23/2010
I have the sollucion , i've had a simular problem , and you can fix it by typing keybord (in the search box in ae) and the downloading the keyed up software.(wich alows you to change your keybord prefs).

then yust run the script in ae and that's all :)

greetz
by reeo 05/23/2010
I say thank you so much from indonesia..
by Ardavil 05/23/2010
Hi I have been watching your tutorials but I can not use it in my daily life . could you give a hand
by Jake 05/22/2010
One thing i like about you is that you explain what effects can do not just in the case of what the tutorial is about
by Espoir mvila 05/22/2010
you are a god! you help the world! thank u
by canon 05/22/2010
u guys really rock. these apps will sure change the world.
by AlexMamontov 05/20/2010
Andrew is so awesome
by Zabi Shahrani 05/20/2010
this is the best tutorial i have ever seen in videocoplit
by Raizan 05/19/2010
Hey, hail to Andrew !!
I have a problem with one thing.
At 10:05 u press ,,athyning,, nad aftert that movie the brown ,,text tittle,, is far away than red.

I dont know what to press then my red is under the brown but on same place :/ then i cannot continue.... what now?

by Darrin 05/18/2010
I can't get past the alt begin and alt end brackets. The keyboard short cuts are different on the Mac so now I'm lost..
by Severin 05/18/2010
Thank you very much Andrew for all your tutorials. I'm self taught in Maya and AE since a few month and your work helped me a lot - and a big thank you to the team behind the secene as well. I bought the Design Bundle a few days ago and it is just great to work with. And one more thing, I hope you now can afford a version of "Saving Private Ryan" without the dinosaurs, otherwise let me know and I send you a copy. Good luck from Switzerland and keep up the fantastic work!
by julie 05/17/2010
I love your tutorials! Thank you so much! I am an After Effects beginner and your tutorials have helped me out a lot in understanding the program. I also love your little side comments or tangents. They're hilarious! Keep up the good work :)
by pankaj shetye 05/12/2010
dear sir,
Thank you for such a wonderful tutorial
i just wanted to tell that the video uploaded does not play full as it stops mid way.


Thanks and regards
pankaj shetye
multimedia developer
by marcel 05/11/2010
Duuuuude! You are a find. I'm a producer turned director, turned shooter, turned editor, turned motion graphics beginner and you are an inspiration. I can't stop the learn and you are one of the best.
Thank You. I'll buy the products so more can learn.
by Don 05/11/2010
hey i am studying visual effects in south africa just wondering if they are any schools in the states with short course that can look up and i love the tutorials Andrew.
by lasbuzz 05/10/2010
hello andrew ;;;;;;;; im interrested on your tutorials but my only problem is that i not understand english well ;;;;;;; u speak it so fast lol ;;;;;;;;; try to translate the site in many languages ;;;;;;;;; i speak french lol
by Mike Nathman 05/08/2010
@Michelle: extend the 25 layers out to the end of your comp, or the end of whenever you want them to go away, and make sure they all stop at the same point. Andrew does this but does not say it like it is a step.

Thanks Andrew!
by Jake 05/08/2010
lol cc BALL ACTION!!!
by Michelle 05/08/2010
HEY ANDREW!!! thats my comment below, but anwyays, i managed to figure out how to fix my issue and it works wonderfully.

And i wanted to say thank you for all these amazing tutorials, that helped me do an assignment for college. :)
by Michelle 05/07/2010
Hi andrew!! i find your tutorials amazing, but i am having a little issue with this one. The result you get on 8:15 is not what i get. All my compositions are at the exact same place. not a different time from the original animation that we did. I've followed your steps OVER and OVER again to make sure i didnt do anything wrong and i keep getting it the same way. I dunno if its because im using CS4. I tried continuing on to see if maybe later it would fix itself but the result i get is that from the middle the set of rings start moving until it makes the image then it starts to disappear from the middle outwards.. and thats not what happens to you... can u please help me.. i really want to do this effect.
by JC 05/07/2010
Getting that X across my screen on renders. Anyone resolve that patterning of the dots? He touches on it in the tutorial but a solution is never addressed (he thought it was the resolution of the preview but that did not fix it).

Appreciate the thoughts.
by Rychard Vale 05/04/2010
Hey, someone could teach me how to make that text? i cant make one =\, heelp :/
by Edward 05/04/2010
lol saving private ryan, that really made me laugh

Thanks again Andrew
by ajay vikrant 05/03/2010
they r all great.
keep d gudork going on
by Amir.S 05/01/2010
andreaw.. you #%&!ing genuis! I started to learn from you! Your tuts are amazing Im goiung to buy
your sound programms as well the Tut programm where you show how to make fire ect. GAMBARE GAMBARE ANDREAW :D
by ark 05/01/2010
Hi guys I wanted to know where I can find video tutorials 3D BALL RELEASE "
concerning the creation of "Twitch"
I could help.
THANKS
by Graham Nichols 04/30/2010
Hi Andrew,
Great tutorial. Can you create a tutorial to show how you made the 'Title Card' please? That was uber-cool.

Thanks to all the VideoCopilot team for a great website/products.

Graham
by andrea roque 04/29/2010
hahaha (;
by Senthuran 04/29/2010
I crate a add for my company... tnx Mr.Andrew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBBE2fKOvM
by Gökhan G. 04/28/2010
Hello Andrew, very nice tutorial.
I wonder if there is a simpler and/or automated approach using the collision detection features of After Effects. And some assistance of scripting maybe?
by Rick 04/27/2010
I really love this effect! Thanks so much again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWltE-5gxVw
by Douglas Webb 04/26/2010
Great tutorial.

Is there one (or more) tutorials where I can get the technique for making the "Title Card"?
by mack hofberg 04/26/2010
very useful, very funny, another amazing tutorial
by clfy 04/26/2010
its so cool
by Saufenix 04/25/2010
Oh my god, I love your humor, and I love movie quotations, nice job with jurassic park :D
Always fun to watch one of your amazing tutorials!
by zion 04/25/2010
you are a very good man andrew
by Rick 04/22/2010
@Blitz If you buy Optical Flares it comes with a tut for the wall of light. A great purchase IMHO!
by Rick 04/22/2010
Another fantastic tut! I'll be using this one a lot! Thanks Andrew!
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