04/25/2013

Help! Whenever I try to move the Light on the z-axis it's not lined up right and goes into the street instead of going back behind the cars where it should go. How do I fix that?!

03/07/2013

Thank you sir God-bless you

03/04/2013

I've liked http://www.videocopilot.net; that here is the best tutorial.

03/04/2013

lol, 34:35 looks like a 3d movie scene

02/11/2013

Only need the sound FX. But nice tutorial.

02/07/2013

We are using Adobe After Effects CS6 and we have been following the procedures in the video of your but got stuck at time 16:30. We made a new light layer but it is stayed Gray. How can we fix this problem? Thank you! :)

01/10/2013

Thanks you for your tutorial to support my education on Adobe After Effects

12/21/2012

Andrew, thank you for every awesome tutorial that you've created for us! Thank you for sharing your wisdom with the world and making it possible for us to continue our passion in visual effects.
Now, I do have one question regarding this 3D Light Casting tutorial. I'm working with Adobe After Effects CS6, and when you tell us to Toggle the Switches for the (Ground Plane) it doesn't give me the option to use the (Classic Color Dodge), or (Luma Matte). The only time it gives me the option to make those changes is when I remove the (3D Layer - Allows this layer to be manipulated in 3 dimensions). Only then I'm able to us the (Classic Color Dodge) and (Luma Matte). Please help, your knowledge is very valuable to me.

11/27/2012

My TV/Video class is doing VCP tuts for an assignment, and the 3D Layer thing for this won't show up. More specifically, the color arrows won't show.

Using an iMac, if that makes any difference.

11/12/2012

i really like this :) thank yew sooo much

09/27/2012

its, pretty fantastic.thanks

09/12/2012

Hey when i hold Alt. and click position it wont let me pig whip........ Someone please reply to this comment to help me :)Is there any other way to do it?...... Please Help Thanks!

11/29/2012

Hold Alt, and click the "animation clock",it‘s left position attribute.

09/06/2012

just make that blue ball a red/orange cone, and you've got.... wait for it..... CHAOS SPEAR!! ^_^

08/10/2012

Find the truth, god bless you, Think about it.

08/03/2012

hey andrew sir thank for this tutts it's amazing thank thank thank'ssssss

07/31/2012

Under simulation I Don't have particle world only particle playground

07/29/2012

Andrew,you've got some crazy skills!I've been going through these tutorials and wow!(If you were waiting fr anything more,that's all I had)XD

06/28/2012

i have a problem dude. whe you get to the point of clicking Alt and click in the position. Nothing happens.... i have a macbook pro running AECS5 is alt changes by Command or ctrl or wtf xD
THx in advance

06/26/2012

Hey man. Nice Lessons. i used to hate all this video stuff but now i cant believe im the one making them with my own hands. all these kewl stuff has caught my attention hard.

06/26/2012

I really like your good will!! I'm carl walcott golden eagle, I view in africa democratic republic of congo drc!
drc here you called the father of the world!

06/15/2012

If you want your energy ball more visible, you can get a free plugin called unmult and just change the tail y orientation to 10 at the beginning of the video!

05/24/2012

To any of you comment readers I realized if you add the Mr. Mercury effect to the emitted particles it gives a much smoother and cooler effect

05/24/2012

First Time, totally enjoyed

05/23/2012

very good!

05/15/2012

thankyou so much andrew its soooo cool

05/14/2012

thank you

05/12/2012

i have a problem ..
please give me explanation ..

i used CS5 "AE"

05/10/2012

hey do u know where is the LUX effect in AE cs4 i couldn't find it can u help?

07/17/2012

Lux comes as a plug-in that you have to buy. The plugin is called "Trapcode". If you already have this plugin, just go to the effect tab on the AE interface and click "Trapcode", then click "Lux"

05/08/2012

Hi everyone!
I was trying to follow this tutorial, but I have AE CS5.5, here the tracker works very different, in fact, it does the tracking automatically, and no longer affects position or anchor point, now it adds kind of a new effect layer, so, I couldn't make the reverse tracking... =/
any ideas?

05/06/2012

Hey andrew i'm your fan and i'm only 15 i like your tuts they are great i just want to know how to make cool 3d texts in after effects cs4...........please!!

05/06/2012

its very nice

05/05/2012

nice...

04/24/2012

awesome.. i like this energy ball. ^^b

04/11/2012

Amazing. Sungguh luar biasa pekerjaan anda. Saya menyukainya. Very love it.

04/11/2012

Hey Andrew, when making the energy ball, my particles grow in number. Could you help? ps: using cs.5

03/21/2012

i am very crazy thank you very much

03/09/2012

I am crazy about it.really.

03/09/2012

Thank you Andrew for a fantastic tutorial. It´s quite easy to understand...and you´re funny too :D
Kudos to you!

02/23/2012

I wasn't even watching for the orb, I was watching for the light glissen thing for muzzle flash!

02/16/2012

omg, these tutorials are so hard, ive never finished one because they are so hard :( Anyways, I believe the tutorials are very good, but very hard..

02/09/2012

Why do you make it so I cant see the effects menu at
26:00 When you are messing with the LUX Solid? Why D:

02/04/2012

Hello, So, i cant see the Maks (n1.2.3) on the lower left side of the screen.. actually ive seen them for 5 minutes, then they did desapear again, how to make them stay there, i mean, how to show the masks ?

01/21/2012

hey andrew when i turn the eye off my tinted and exposed footage my light will disapear help me please!!

01/20/2012

hey andrew why is it when i turn the light source on 3d mode i can't see it

01/13/2012

Where do you learn this stuff? Is it all experience, or have you taken a class? College degree? Whatever it is, I would like to know. I love this kind of stuff, and I'm willing to learn, but I don't know what/where to learn it.

12/13/2011

This includes a little tutorial about 3D camera tracking from AE stabilize tracking. What Andrew calls "reverse" motion tracking. Thanx again!

12/08/2011

Tnx Andrew!!

12/01/2011

Did anyone's Light Source Comp. Disappear when they made it 3D Layer? Any Help?

01/20/2012

yeah just continue on with the tutorial and when you change the orient to camera it should reappear

01/20/2012

yeah just continue on with the tutorial and when you change the orient to camera it should reappear

11/30/2011

Andrew, I was wondering, if would show me some film blending methods, like we have seen in Titanic, that is turning from the old underwater shipwreck to a lively and crowdy Titanic, I mean hope you understand what i mean to say. Please anyone can help me with these matters.

11/28/2011

Hey I'm about half way through the video. And I am a noob, but I must say, that you should include a pulsating effect on the larger "aura" of the center, it added more of a feeling of energy to it in my opinion. I am really loving these keep it up.

11/20/2011

lol the energy ball is flying down the road and the ppl keep walking. :D Nice tutorial, by the way. Great work, original and helpful as usual!

11/11/2011

This tutorial was excellent! I am a complete newbie, at least with After Effects, and I was able to do each and every part. Would've been a good warning to make sure to have the CC effects at the beginning of the video

11/09/2011

This, literally, blew my mind

Wow. Great tuts man thank you so much!

11/09/2011

How about the sounds effect?

Explain please how you do it ...

10/27/2011

Pretty cool stuff. It gave me a lot of good ideas.

10/27/2011

Hi, amazing video, thanks... I'm from argentina, my native language is spanish, so excuse me if I make some language mistakes.
Anyway, could you do, some TERMINATOR tutorial? cos have seen severals videos on youtube, but nones is tutorial. Thanks again and greetins from Argentina.!

10/26/2011

Andrew When I Turn The Ground Plane Into 3D It Goes All Weird Unlike Yours, Can Anyone Help?

10/19/2011

How about the sounds effect?

Explain please how you do it ...

10/17/2011

Fantastic effect Andrew.. and moreover a Great tutorial... I really wanna thank u to take so much effort and time and make such beautiful tutorials for us. Thank you.. Hat's off to you!

10/16/2011

Whaw... NICE VIDEO .. I LIKE THE VIDEO .. I LIKE THE EFFECT.. BUT 1 I DoNT LIKE : ~ I CANT DO THAT ~

=_= ... its very hard for me .im a newbie

01/29/2012

I am newbie too... but Andrew's tuts are easy to follow so I had no problem going along with what he was doing :)Though my final result was not alike Andrew's but my result was satisfactory~!

10/13/2011

Really nice!Thanks for the tutorial.
P.S How was air distortion effect made.Hot air around the energy ball.In the original clip, not the tutorial one. It drastically helps to add realism.

10/13/2011

How to loaddown this vidio

10/07/2011

I have a feeling that this effect would be very useful in a Harry Potter fan film.

10/04/2011

I used my light source instead of LUX....
But when i added particles using particular..i cant color them.....they juss render out white...
cant apply color corrections either :X
Some1 pls help

09/25/2011

thnx for the tutorial, this is my first tutorial in AE, hope to learn much more. thnx man!

09/21/2011

wooww....
keren..
thanks gan.

09/10/2011

Im andrew kramer....wait were not done we still have a lot to do! Thanks for the awesome tut!

08/29/2011

our demo is in youtube an type "nth degree in nepal" an you will see

08/22/2011

Cool :D
Now I can make the "Expecto Patronum" from the Harry Potter :)

08/21/2011

thank you!

08/16/2011

coooooooooooooooooooooooool!

08/12/2011

Really fantastic tutorial, Im currently trying the 30 day trial of CS 4, and I actually worked the whole night yesterday on completing this tutorial.And I already feel like ive learned alot about AE. Unfortunatly... When Im nearly 95% done with the movie, and you want me to take the Street Footage Comb and drop onto a new comb. My AE just freezes up, and if I click anywhere with my mouse it says (Client is not responding) and the only way out is Ctrl+Alt+Delete :/ Also if I just try to render without doing the last step to reverse the motion, it just freezes up. I guess my Computer is just too weak to run with the full power of AE :/

Im running Windows XP SP 3 on Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz, 2.53 GHz, 2,00 GB RAM with a NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1024 MB DDR2. With newest drivers ofc. I really wanna work with AE, so I will prolly find myself next to a computer store soon, if I dont figure out why the program keeps freezing for me when working with the "serious" animations, as in theese tutorials

10/07/2011

I think 2G Ram is the problem on your computer.
Cos, 1.5G memory will use for the background.
(AE set it at default and can't be change more low).

08/11/2011

That’s a Rembrandt

Here is a shocker; that looks like my street in Manhattan – 13 Street and University Place
Light (your light) goes down University Place, where it starts is corner with 13 Street and further up one block is Union Square, further down is NYU. Those streets never sleep, safe place thought
Andrew, it’s amazing how your mind works – the perception of details is phenomenal
I try to follow with Adobe CS5 and often settings are different from your CS3 but that won't stop me

Thank you for sharing your talent

08/05/2011

Hi Andrew Thanks for this Tutorial I'm 17 and have been watching your tutorials for some time now.There Awesome Honestly ive Learnt So much from you.
Thanks

07/21/2011

yea baby exellent brother

07/06/2011

Man, thank you so much for all the good job you've done, I'm learning very clear all you teach, I'm from Brazil and my english is not so good because I learned it by myself, however, you have the ability to teach and it makes so easy to learn.

Thank you and congratulations !

07/04/2011

how can i get trapcode plugins and where from?

07/03/2011

Wow, that looks like in Harry Potter movie. ;)

07/01/2011

one thing I dont think you went over... In the original video, it seemed like there was a slight displacement map created by the orb... Could you maybe do a small tutorial on this as well?

06/28/2011

loOOOl i actually thought he was being serious @12:27

06/24/2011

nice tutorail :) but whay can't i click apply?!

06/18/2011

Andrew,
I have always wanted to know how 3D, special effects and all that were done. I have learned so much just by watching your tutorials in 2 weeks. Now I am using After Effects for different projects plus, I will be going back to college to learn this stuff even more. There is one thing though. Do you know of any tutorials that teach how to write your name/signature using trapcode particular?

10/08/2011

I don't remember where (i googled it) but I learned how to do light streaks very similar to long exposure light painting with a camera. You can use that to write your signature. There's also a tutorial on here on how to stroke something using lights so maybe that could help.

06/18/2011

Hey Man u r Awesome and please i want something from u please man , i have looked in youtube and other sites but i did't found it
please can u make dragon ball z effect
if u can please make a video

06/16/2011

Dear Andrew
I don’t know how to thank you. I learned a Lott from you...you are just amazing...every day I am learning new stuffs from you...I have humble request...if it is possible could you please avoided 3d party plug-in..because we are a student and we don’t have money to buy 3d party plug-in. But if it is not possible don’t worry teacher ...we all like you and respect you.

06/15/2011

I don't do special effects, but this really helped me get started! Great video, great help. from the UK!!!

06/14/2011

HEY ANDREW! GREAT PAGE! GREAT TUTORIALS! THANKS FOR THAT. MY NAME IS JUAN AND I'M FROM COLOMBIA. IM PRACTICING AFTER EFFECTS WITH YOUR HELP HERE! I WANT TO KNOW HOW CAN I MAKE THE EFFECT OF WAVE ARROUND THE LIGHT. I GUESS IS WITH TURBULENT DISPLACE, BUT JUST CAN'T GET IT. THANKS AGAIN!

06/01/2011

hi

05/26/2011

hi good

05/24/2011

Hi, I am from China, thank your selfless, China website look at your tutorial need money. My English is not good, but can understand you do video. Thank you! I am your fans! Support you!

05/17/2011

I LOVE THIS TUTORIEL .................
OH THANK YOU 3SHIRI

05/16/2011

Hey bro...
Thanks alot... You are just awsome! Keep on posting more tutorials!

05/13/2011

hey how do download cc particle world cause i've tryed alot but it won't work

06/07/2011

effects, only full version.

05/11/2011

great!!!!!

05/18/2011

hi dank

05/09/2011

Hey, I was just testing this, and I may sound likea bit of a noob since I'm just testing out the basics, but I cant seem to get the intensity of the elipse solid when combining 2 with "add" blend mode. Its just the same colour, and not intensified.
I may sound stupid, but is there a fix for that?
Thanks.

05/07/2011

thank you
Hayta really are excellent training
I do not know how much English
Because I iranian
Again, thank you

05/05/2011

Wow you are Dr.after efx

04/08/2011

This tutorial it totally awesome. Pretty much every tutorial is awesome. Your work is really helping me gain some really cool skills.

Thanks a lot man!

Keep them coming

04/11/2011

Yo bro! Your sick with it! My Goal for 2011 is to be like you with the skill, I'm practicing 24-7, relentlessly. Thanks allot for the training I plan on spending thousands with you bro, of course when I get it. Holla

04/01/2011

i'm a huge fan of your work. i really commend you for ur effort to share ur knowledge to every one around the world.its an honor to be part of this. And my advice to u is keep up the good work and cut out the jokes, they're crap....

04/14/2011

Well, but it's the cool point for me when I watch the video.Keep going, man!

04/12/2011

Andrew can do whatever he wants. If he wants to joke around and be himself; it's his tutorial...he can do what he wants. If you're looking for serious lessons, go to school. If you don't like the jokes, don't watch the videos.

04/04/2011

i agree with you, this man is amazing, but i dont like his jokes

04/03/2011

Cut the jokes!!!!:S:S Are you unable to have an orgasm or something! Jokes Rule all!!!

03/29/2011

yes
very good i love this
thenky

03/24/2011

good tutorial for growing students thanks for tutorials