11/27/2012

Hey, I'm having the same problem with the alien jumping up into my scene after I solve the 3D camera tracker with Boujou. Is there a fix for this yet?

09/25/2012

Man... Can you make a tutorial on 3d max too. Not the whole thing. Only for this particular tutorial

08/17/2012

PLEASE
GIVE ME THE ANSWER
I CANT OPEN THE "CRATER SCENE" MAX SCRIPT IN MY 3D MAX VERSION 2010, WHY IS THAT.

08/16/2012

I am from China,i really admire your gifts.I will learn from you all the time!

07/05/2012

you earned my respect the second I saw that you used firefox

06/06/2012

hye i dont have a PFtrack ... Plz Send me working download link plz

04/21/2012

the alien scared me so much LOOL

01/28/2012

LOL, that alien thing at the beginning made me laught for like 30 min. XD

01/12/2012

Hey, man, I´m from Cuba. Here is very hard tio access to the internet, but when we the chance we useit to get your website and download all your turorials. Thank you very much for your time and videos.

08/30/2011

U r Awsum buddy! :) Was seekin for such videos for soo long

08/04/2011

PLEASE
GIVE ME THE ANSWER
I CANT OPEN THE "CRATER SCENE" MAX SCRIPT IN MY 3D MAX VERSION 2011, WHY IS THAT.

08/03/2011

Thanks for you tutorial andrew kramer

07/07/2011

Great work man. i downloaded all your tutorials. I really want to thank you that, you've done so many vfx tutorials & shared & still sharing with us for free. You are great man.

Greetings from Bangladesh.

I love 3D and VFX.

03/13/2011

Pogs for Industry!

03/07/2011

thanks............

for
tutorials

02/22/2011

after effects tut 1

02/03/2011

nice work & thanx for the tutorial

01/24/2011

hai

12/29/2010

that alien actully scarred me lol
great tut tho keep it up

11/14/2010

superb!...

10/14/2010

Here is mine work : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtZM-PP2iw .. Greetings from slovenia ......
Wery good tutorial..XD

08/20/2010

The alien joke and your "What the heck?!" made my day. And I also learned a lot. Thank you very much!

07/15/2010

POGS! WHAT THE F***! Dude, honestly, I'm writing a song about being in school in the 90's and I'm thinking of as many crappy 90's things as possible. Anyway, I just thought "Pogs!" wrote it into my phone as a note, imediately opened up Firefox to do a new tutorial, loaded this up and BLAM! Pogs... I'm off to play the lottery.

07/07/2010

THNKS..........KARAMER
I LIKE IT....

06/04/2010

thank you verymuch for the wonderfull training
thank you Andrew sir and videocopilot

05/29/2010

Part1 link and part2 link is same. Why?

07/07/2011

yes, that's right. I think the website developer(s) might be mistaken.Here is the solution:
write www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_crater_p2/ instead of www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_crater_p1/
that's it :)

05/04/2010

jebus, this site is a gold mine.

Thank you andrew.

Adam

04/27/2010

Bonjour et merci :)
A tu fait des versions française de tes tutoriels ?

03/19/2010

Dear Andrew, master of all masters !



I need serious help and I hope you’ll be able to help me… Here is the situation :
I’ve been asked to make a music video with a very short deadline (25/03/2010)! So far so good but where it gets complicated and real time consuming is that they’ve delivered me the footage shot in PAL HDV and, most of it was shot on a poor quality green screen with poor lighting making it very difficult to make a good keying job. That’s the first problem!
The second problem is that it was shot not using a stand resulting in a quite shaky footage with quite a lot of motion.
Here is what the band would like knowing that the budget is close to €0:
- Me to create a virtual rehearsal studio set (done with After Effects)
- Me to create a virtual office (done with After Effects)
- Render the whole video in Full HD (not difficult)
Here are my problems:
- The keying is not great so I opted for quite dark rehearsal and office 3D sets
- As the band what shot with a lot of motion, I end-up having to key-frame every frame to match the movement of the camera. This is the opposite of what I usually do, in this case I have to animate the background according to the foreground and it is taking ages to get it right.
My questions:
- How can I get a better keying?
- Is there any way I could track the foreground in order to match the movement of the camera and apply it to the sets in After Effects respecting perspectives…?
Here are the software I’m using :
- Adobe Master Collection CS4
- Boujou 4.1 (only started learning it though)
- Moka for AE
I could send you a sample (15 sec. or so) of the footage if you’d like in case my English is not good enough for you to understand my problems… I’m French, nobody’s perfect.
Thank you very much in advance for your answer and respect for your tutorials and work!!!
Best regards,

Charles

07/07/2011

May be i can answer your questions. But i ain't assure you that my solution is correct.Here they are:

First answer is: In any composting application like AE, combustion, Nuke etc, first make a color correction, adjust brightness contrast of the poor-lit footage. Then apply a reduce Noise effects plugins(for AE)over the footage. Adjust it then render. you will get a fresh copy. After doing this, if the footage is still bad for keying, you can carefully mask out the foreground's good part then keying. It will work. I used it.

Second Answer is: 2d3 has released a plugins called Steady Move for AE. you can use it to stabilize your shaky footage. or you can use after fx's own stabilization system.Then you can track it in boujou or mocha(warn: mask out the moving actors, or it will create problem).

Thanks, hopefully it'll help you

Cyan 3D, Bangladesh.

03/13/2010

Thanks for you tutorial

03/05/2010

this video very nice

02/28/2010

i just wanna say one thing.. You Are AweSome:)

02/16/2010

sweet, dude

01/07/2010

Itss perfect thanks very very much ::D:D

09/02/2009

Great tutorial, but when i'm exporting the camera tracking from Boujou, I can't choose for After Effects (.ma). (only maya .ma) Do I need an extra plugin for this?

08/22/2009

andrewww you the best...

thankss for you tutorials.....

07/07/2009

Classic alien statue lol

07/02/2009

happy to say that u done it well.....

06/03/2009

thanks man. i really appreciate all you've been doing for us learners or beginners precisely in this game of grafix. im an african, NIGERIAN 2 be precise. down here we got no school on grafix and stuffs. its kinda tough for us who wanna do this stuff 2 find a way to achieve em all. pls andrew, you must have seen the videos of T-Pain. Can u pls give us a hint on some of the skills used there and how we can achieve them all. i've been thinkin abt them 4 a long time nw. plssssssss. ps. i appreciate. kp it up

05/15/2009

Thank you Andrew for amazing stuff. I try created 3D part in Maya, here is result
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfHI4LJH_4M

05/05/2009

sony vegas tutorials is not allowed?

04/22/2009

Man I love you Andrew! Keep up the good work cause u ROCK!

04/19/2009

hi
wow that tutorial is exellent because have much tecnique 3d and effect for compositing
thank you ANDREW KARMER

04/16/2009

I just laughed my head off when you said "What the heck" when that alien jumped out of the hole. :D

04/13/2009

Excellent work! You can't get any better teacher!
Thank you so much for sharing with us!

03/29/2009

Thank you

03/22/2009

amazzzing!!!!
videocopilot 4 ever!!

03/21/2009

THX Andrew very nice.
Reno from Czech

03/12/2009

hello,
where can i find the project file?

03/09/2009

hey andrew, i was wondering, since i really don't have access to the internet like i used to (I used to have your tutorials opened on the browser and watch them while i worked in after effects), maybe you could set an option to download your tutorials, and maybe in like an AVI format (my computer is funny with quicktime movies) thanks and nice tutorials.

07/07/2011

there is a link of every tuts when you Click "Watch". find it?

03/06/2009

thank u so much

03/05/2009

Thank you!

02/22/2009

very good

02/08/2009

Thanks Andrew this tutorial is awsome

02/07/2009

This is really helpful for me and my movie...

02/02/2009

Great as always ! Thanks a lot, Andrew !!!

02/01/2009

Great tutorial, but when i'm exporting the camera tracking from Boujou, I can't choose for After Effects (.ma). (only maya .ma) Do I need an extra plugin for this?

01/28/2009

Lol
i saw the alien statue layer xD

01/10/2009

Hey Andrew nice tutorial. Here is my version (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=294rSFwXwtA), rendered out with V-Ray.

01/10/2009

Okay, I'll put a human going out of the hole! hahaha

12/15/2008

the alien scrared me!! :(
nice tutorial! i am going to have a go with it too!

12/11/2008

Dude u are crazee, (sense of humor) the one about the neon lights..friends not wanting to take the guy to strip club because of all the trouble he starts, haha lol, memories...but not of me of course..good wrk guy

12/08/2008

I used this tutorial to create a intro for my portfolio. Combinded with the "twitch" tutorial i used the wires to create the carrots comming out of the hole. Result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=970F8U1rgfA

Thnx for al the info Andrew. Keep op your amazing work. Verry inspiring!

Greets from the Netherlands

12/07/2008

flippant tant que ces tuts sont remarquables, encore bravo "j'en veux pleins d'autres"
encore merci

12/02/2008

Hey tats a really cool tutorial... could you please make a tutorial to do the same with Maya?

11/28/2008

nice man...
i`d like your braine...
:)
www.aria3d.net

11/26/2008

sweeeet.....

question: what video camera Andrew uses?

@Chris

Thanks

11/23/2008

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

11/21/2008

gr8 work cramer,it help me alot to learn, it's also helps in my projects.


thanx man

11/21/2008

THATS YOUR KINDNESS... GOD GAVE U A GIFT, THATS YOUR KNOWLEDGE.... YOU ARE SHARING THAT KNOWLEDGE TO THE OTHERS.. PLS TEACH OTHER POOR PEOPLES. IAM ALSO YOUR TUTS FOLLOWING THANK YOU

11/21/2008

very cool rocks

11/19/2008

Thank you so much for the Project Files for this uber awesome tutorial. Who's the man?... You da' man... Sorry for sounding cheery. Just back from an Adobe Conference.

Can't wait for the Pro Scores. Santa better have enough fuel to make his delivery to the UK.

Anyway, just want to say thank you and to praise your awesomeness. Hope everyone is o.k. at VideoCopilot to, Tino, Tahna, and Sam - the entire VideoCopilot Clan... haven't seen them for a while.

Want to wish you all though a Happy Thanks Giving for next week.

Many thanks again. You not only spread your well founded knowledge but teach how to better ourselves through your work.

11/18/2008

hell I liked the demon coming out from the crate!
Andrew is a lot funny :D!
I laughed a lot with the car hit-and-catch Sam in the advanced car hit tutorial too, :D thanks man!

You and all your team are doing a very nice work here!

so, huh... thanks again!

(from Brazil)

11/18/2008

@Joe

I believe he uses Camtasia to capture the video.

11/14/2008

@Joe

Yeah, but that doesn't contain the AE Composition and he even says in part 3 "project file coming soon"

11/14/2008

please kramer public a tutorial of morphing

11/14/2008

Love all your ure tutorials...another great one again

11/13/2008

hey andrew very nice tutorial

very cool rocks

Im just wundering how to take pixels

out or how can you bring a 3D model from Cinema 4D?

ok cheers

michael..

11/13/2008

Chase, it in the 2nd part of this tutorial

and one question: what program Andrew uses to capture video?!?!

11/12/2008

Just out of curiosity, when will we be getting the project file Andrew?

11/11/2008

c cool adrew

11/10/2008

wow, it's great.....eeeee

ps: can somebody help me? i need a converter from mpeg2 (Sony) to .mov for AE

thanx

11/09/2008

Please, please, please oh awesome one, please may we all have the Project Files to this magnificent tutorial finally...

On another note, truly fantastic tutorials. can't wait to find out more regarding your new product(s). Christmas soon so hopefully Santa can deliver them.

11/08/2008

Incredibly cool tutorials!

Andrew, do you have an idea when you will upload the smoke movie? I can not find anything usefull to use instead.

Kind regards,

Jos

11/07/2008

wow.. great work

Greatings from Saudi Arabia

11/07/2008

gret great great tutorial awesome
yo are my inspiration

11/07/2008

thank you very much because I have never been like that and I have no a chance to learn after effect. I try to by myself I have to edit the vdo in NGO organization if possible. U donate some education from u. and I have no a chance to join the school and no training about it.
if u have any question from me please send some message to me at sai_tai@hotmail.com
good luck

11/04/2008

great tutorial...i tried it n d result was awesome

not every1 is so generous to share their knowledge with every1

thank u mr kramer
n when do we get the project files.???

11/03/2008

hah! you are great! thanks

11/03/2008

wow, that's awesome tutorial for 3d after effect,great, i love your voice, very stunning and sexy, great men

11/03/2008

great job AK.
a quick tip! instead of making debris chunks again why not merge them from the previous max tutorial. saves time and they look the same as the explosion

11/03/2008

Hello
Mr.Andrew Kramer
Tutorial full boujour ?
Thanks much

11/02/2008

mil gracias.... son lo mas grande..... un saludo desde PERU

11/02/2008

Nice ... :D

11/02/2008

Well here's my meager attempt at this wonderful effect. Thank Andrew. You are the man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNusy1lgGsw

11/02/2008

So awesome... especially you laughing at the alien 'that was a terrible idea...'

11/01/2008

Pogs ? we call them Flippo's in Holland.
Great tutorial Andrew, always with a sense of humor.
I'm gonna try and have some toast ejecting out of the crater, maybe with some eggs and bacon.

Thanks for the inspiration and guidance

R-CANE

11/01/2008

I was watching your wonderful video, but it was twice as big as my monitor and I found myself having to use the slider to find your mouse.

How do I make your video smaller so I can see everything your doing on one screen without adjusting it constantly.

Best,
Susan

10/31/2008

thanks for all these tutorials andrew,
i dunno if my email earlier on in the year got to you but - this answered everything that i wanted and requested so, thanks =] even if unintentional.

10/31/2008

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!