Tutorials for Visual Effects & Motion GraphicsFree After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
Running Time: 9mins.
66. 3D Sparks Title
May 07, 2008
• Create and animate Per-Character 3D Text in 32bpc
• Create Sparks with CC Particle world in 3D
• Create Sparks with CC Particle world in 3D
Additional Tutorial Notes:
Per-Character 3D is a AE CS3 feature. Use quicktime when exporting to maintain color data in 8 and 16pbc.
Per-Character 3D is a AE CS3 feature. Use quicktime when exporting to maintain color data in 8 and 16pbc.


















Gracias por enseñarnos tantas cosas, a todos nosotros
Thanks a lot for teach us
Saludos desde Costa Rica
greetings from sweden.
Thanks Andrew!
I L b back
you are my only AE teacher, you are really really greate.
God Bless you.
greetings from sweden.
What can i do to become like you...
i whish i could work close that somebody like you...
i´m spanish and i need change my job...
Sorry for my english...Do you understand me?
I like your shortcut tutorials!
I hope you'll do a lot of them ;)
greez and keep on that awesome work!!!!
Yum.
no Erahn Stern-but your definitely funny.
Just Awesome, Simple cool n everything perfect.
Andrew, u r giving extra SPARK to the VFX world.
Thankyou n keep goin.
Sandy
Great tutorial!! That text looks so cool:D:D Yees,.
Thanks
Where do i find it?
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the name is shortsbydave
Andrew, can I have your babies?
These Short Cuts are great!
c
good work.......like always!
Flamengoooo...
Brazil
Thanks for the Tutorial
Did you go to school for design or something?
Gonna try out the sparks on some truck footage. Keep 'em coming!!
Gonna try out the sparks on some truck footage. Keep 'em coming!!
Also, can't wait for THE BULLET!
Once again, another brilliant tutorial!
~Will
thanx
really inspiring
Thanks allot, your teaching facilitates job security if you know what i mean
By the way, cool stuff as always!
nice tutorial..really thankss for all your tutorial here..really usefull!!...
p/s: do anyone know where to download the cc particle world preset?...
Can't wait.
- Derrick
3D Animation: www.Fire-Flames.de
Saludos desde Cusco.Perú
Regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Keep the good work, PLEASE!
Regards from Nicaragua, LatinAmerica
help!
thx
Saludos desde Cusco.Perú
When is The bullet coming out?
Keep it up!
Maikeul (FR/NL/IRE)
Josekenshin
Caracas - Venezuela
very very Nice
This is Mustafa From Iraq, I liked this tutorial, It is pure fan watching and learning from your tutorials.
Thanks again and god bless you man.
WOW sam looks younger on the dvd cover
I think thar's the magic of photoshop, it can change people in a dramatic way
jajaja
thank you for sharing your skills!
regards from portugal / angola
thanks!
you're awesome man!
-JB Productions
thanks Kramer
Thks, from here, chile.santiago
keep it up kramer
thank you andrew
Nicaragua, Rivas......
Muito Bom
Voce poderia fazer uma aula de puppet pin toll??:
Tnx for everything you do.
Good bless you for this wanderfull job...
when you teach, you recive a lot of thanks from many peaplos around the world, and all this energy become in magic to you and your family and your bussines....
Thankx Andrew do not stop ever to teach us all this wanderfull thinks....
from venezuela
I can't wait to get your newest tutorial :)
And for those who cant find the CC Particle World (i know that andrew has said this alot), but just take the installation disc and whup them right up
PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE ....
i like most the bullet effect last one,
waiting for the DVD . is it realy gona be made?
for us?
tks for the tut
you are my god
Lo único que no he logrado de este tutorial es el tip del color... no logro cambiar R-G-B sin modificar el color primario
Gracias desde México y como no se ingles por ello escribo en español jeje
LOVE IT ur the best andrew
Nick
Australia
but on my lens convex motion blur doesnt work , why? on other types on list above this one motion blur works fine
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Yes there is, increased render times and lack of support for a wide array of plug-ins. Note that the plug-in that Andrew uses for the particles is not 32bpc aware. You can work around these issues by pushing values into overbrights using a 32bpc capable effect like levels or exposure but you're not really expanding the range of values produced by the effect... just pushing it above white. This technique will not work for every 8bpc/16bpc effect.
However, I would say that 32bpc is essential for serious color grading, film work, 3D renders and achieving naturalistic light effects (in combination with linear blending).
Hugs from Brazil!
I from Brazil..
by the way, also with that sparks you can do sparks to a gun.. but i guess everybody noticed that heheh.. anyways, keep up the good work and good luck developing your future dvd video copilot
AWESOME!
- Thought I'd stumbled across one of those live web-cam sites for a minute!
Beutiful tutorial, will definately look cool with some 3D Camera moves.
Great tutorial.Hey copilot friend, get the DVD coming up.Its gonna be Great i believe it.I just love this site .It made me leap to height i never though i would get this soon.
Andy, you gotta be proud coz not only are you teaching , enjoying and making doing magic, u are changing all this lives and many others out there.
We are behind you in all ways!!
Take heart!
BAADAYEZ! (laterz!! in swahili!)
PS. U have maybe tutorial on Fire Ball?
AWESOME TUTORIAL!!! That's a really cool effect!
Thanks Diego from Argentina.
muy buena calidad y muy claros....
Saludos desde Guadalajara jalisco.. mexico
Can't wait for """"the Bullet"""
another nice tutorial
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Can you please make a tut with CC shatter.
I think you can do something fast and great with this
Thx again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlqESK7sbW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlqESK7sbW8
i tried doing this but i dont have the CC patricle world effect. how can i get it? is it a plug-in?
And be sure to bring snacks... like fruit roll ups.
-Jeff Briant
i wish i had this tutorial 5-6 weeks ago...
i had made an opening video for an event at my college back then... u can check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6PBiRti1T0
thank u very much for the tutorial
Adi
just trying it .. and its play really nice effects..
thanks again ......
Thanks
Tim
http://www.1cup1coffee.com
Thanks agin and sorry for my bad English.
I've been wathing your tutorials and a week a go I had no idea about After Effects, i did all the basic training one and i'm amazed at all the things i can do now. I writiing to ask you something... I was watching your 3d sparks title tutorial and whe you tell me to enable the 3d character i don't find it anywhere at all, i work with mac and i have the afer version 7 pro.
Thanks!
by the way. I was wondering if you know how to create something like this video.. I really hope to see something similer to this video in your next tutorial cause I like your great and easy steps with all the details coverd in your tutorials.. please kramer I really need your help on this.. thanks
btw i think its a great intro for a video, i shure know im using it, thanx alot andrew!
http://www.xtreme-is-back.com/demos/SP-MinorityReport.wmv
Thanks
Tim
see ya
i'm using After Efects CS3 but theres no motion blur in my particles. I check the motion blur box but nothing happends! send me a mail...Thanks.
...
can you make a tutorial about tv network graphics?
I've seen a couple of tv graphics at youtube and wishes i can make some like those, if you have time you can check it out. i came across this guy's channel named "manuellaborer" I reside here in the philippines that why I idolized his work.... but I salute you more as you share the things you know, anf for FREE!!! so thanks so much!!!
Thankes.
Cant wait for that bullet tutorial!
Obrigado por todos estes ensinamentos. Com certeza, você colherá muito mais no futuro. Pois aquele que dá, tende a receber em dobro.
Agradeço de coração.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS2AAFE7C0-B669-4d4f-B0EC-2A287AB50DDE.html
That entire page is valuable.
@Freddie: It sounds like you don't have AE CS3. Per-character 3D was a new feature in CS3.
TO ALL! IF YOU DON`T HAVE CC EFFECTS, IT IS UP FOR FREE DOWNLOAD. JUST SEARCH FOR IN GOOGLE!!!
It looks alright at 32bpc in the composition with the super bright colors, but after rendering they doesn't show up.
Any suggest?
Thanks
Tim
Saludos desde Córdoba, Argentina.
Nice tutorial, thanks a lot Andrew!
greetings from Córdoba, Argentina.
Thanks,
-Clinton-
maaan, a yellow thing appeared on the on
the particle world effect control pallete saying
the effect does not support 32bit. is it ok to ignore it?
god bless!!!
Worldship ups mac software
Nick: Does anyone else having problems rendering the outcome?
It looks alright at 32bpc in the composition with the super bright colors, but after rendering they doesn't show up.
Any suggest?
like for me, freddie, when i render, even though i'd been working in 32 bpc, it comes out all white, AND its got diagonal lines across the screen :\
can anyone please help, it'll be much appreciated
thx,
freddie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofAkFdFUtsI
See Ya ( great job ! )
See Ya ( great job ! )
But for the rest it work great except the fact that the text and the particles only appear in white when I export it.Can somebody help me on that problem,plz.
Thanks
Short cut tutorials really works. Keep up this great stuff!
Andrew! You can check what I have learn from you.
www.pekilorok.net
There is a little trailer which I build up for our small rock festival here in Finland.
whats the problem?
do i need computer upgrading?
WITH YOUR HELP I MANAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME TO MAKE ONE MOVIE AE.
AGAIN, DANKE MAN
PS. Till now I never realy understand the logic behind AE and his GUI
great job
My birthday is May 20th ... I know what I'm getting now lol ... good work bro. Keep it up.
You could give us a help with Blender!
continue comme ça car tes tutos sont tres interessant
encore merci
Because I'm here to discuss some technical issue!
I've noticed that you hide some tricks in this tutorial. I mean the result is shown in the preview of "here's what we're going to be creating" but not shown in the tutorial.
I think the reason may be lack of time since it's a short-cuts or u just leave it for us to explore and experiment!
the little tricks are turning on carema's Depth of Field to make the scene realistic and blurring the text a bit to give it a yellow glow.
BUT there're BIG tricks.
For example you make letter "e" in the word ".net"
so close to the camera and just in the middle of the frame when it passes by,
(shown here: http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm170/kevin1649/910aaaac.jpg it's under 20KB
and "e" is relatively bigger than "t"(in "copilot") or "." which really brightens the scene and make it so sharp.
Also when this "e" comes to its final position, it's NOT in the center of the frame. in fact it has quite a bit offset.
Through experimenting I find that changing the camera's position and rotation a little will achieve this.It's so slight that we can't even notice but it makes the characters' moving path totally different.
Also the character is rotating around x, not y or z which are shown in the tutorial. so another animator has to be added to move up the anchor point.
BUT that's not enough! Setting the offset z position to be twice the distance between camera and the text's final position can make them stay closer to x-z plane rather than like a line due to rotation.
Also I've animated the z position in range selector from -1000 to -500(camera z position is -480) to make the last few characters getting in a little slower and more elegently.
Still I find my project just doesn't look as sharp as yours, although this is not a complex one.
Is there any other trick I missed?
Here're 2 of my project's snapshot
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm170/kevin1649/ca6ba508.jpg
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm170/kevin1649/9241306a.jpg
BTW I've watched all your online tutorials and it's the first time I comment, cause when I wanna add a comment I find there're already so many comments.
bead free pattern seed
didnt get that why you get thrown out of the mentioned places
i would greatly appreciate a tutorial about keying explosions (i.e. artbeats) and using 3d tracking data in ae
Please someone answer the question I think you will help a lot of people.
sorry for my Engliash
replace (at) for @
0 for o
1 for i
and dot for .
thanks in advance,
Matthijs
I'm just asking me how or from where you get these
great ideas!!!!
Love the jokes of the guy doing it too, awesome!
Why? I want long and complicated tutorials!!!!!!!
i keep watch them but they cut out the important parts of the effects how to apply them ... when we miss out the Most IMP part... whatz the use of buying that...
but when watching the Andrew Kramer tutorial... he tought us from the very begining til end without anycuts.. and it was really eaxy to understand...
They called them self they are adobe certified...yea, hey mite be... but they dnt teach nice... teaching is not everyone cup of tea...
i love andrew Kramer tutorial... long live...
Perú
nice one andrew...
love it
ANDREW you best
Thank You