TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
May 07, 2008
• Create and animate Per-Character 3D Text in 32bpc
• Create Sparks with CC Particle world in 3D
 
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
Per-Character 3D is a AE CS3 feature. Use quicktime when exporting to maintain color data in 8 and 16pbc.
Running Time: 9mins.


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by evan 08/03/2010
Hey, i'm working in cs5 and for the first stream of particles, i can't seem to find the "options" thingy so i can do the motion blur for the sparks.
by nix 07/19/2010
hey andrew, u're #%&!ing awesome men, im learning really a lot AE with ya. so thx master! lol



by Ivor Skrine 07/13/2010
Brill video learn from it with fun....
by Carlos Hernandez 07/08/2010
For all of the people using CS5 and interested in this tutorial, you will see that the options of CC Particle World are not available (or at least for me). Now, since Andrew is mainly using the "blur" in the options, all you will need to do is apply a motion blur to the particle layer and there is your solution (or again, at least for me[x ).
by chris 07/08/2010
im using ae cs4 and i cant find the elipses tool i can only find the rectangle one pls help
by Lulu 06/29/2010
To sivaaj :
After Effects error:unable to allocate space for a 5000 x 4000 image buffer.


Press and hold shift-----Preferences---Secret-- Disable Layer Cache.Check it.
by JFX 06/29/2010
Another classic pay rize piece from the boy who do it best! Gotta admit fullaz I been stalking this site for a year now and I cant begin to explain how much my life has improved. ah well my bank account specially. This tutorial capped off for me! Two thumbs way up, up and away!
by DRboy 06/25/2010
Hey i just want to let you know that i try to do this tutorial on cs5, and i notice that i a lot have change, and it is a little confuse to do.
by Sandr0G 06/22/2010
Thank you!

You are awesome!
by sivaaj 06/16/2010
sir.........please
help me for this ""doubt""
when am taking render "spark tittle"
after effects shows this

""""error message"""""" shown below
like this.....

after effects error:
unable to allocate space for a 3880x3842 image buffer.you may be experiencing fragmentation. in the memory
by Leah 06/12/2010
Hi there,
I'm using AE CS4, and I cannot get the text to do that neon glow. I keep selecting RGB colours the way you said, but the brightness just keeps changing. It wont stay at 100%.
Any suggestions?
Thanks :)
by hofi55 06/01/2010
I'm from Israel and want to thank you with all my heart
Beautiful thank you explain that you have shared the world with this information.
I learned a lot from you and your right.
God bless you
by mambus 05/29/2010
you're the man dudes! thanks for sharing your great2x talent.God Bless you..
by Bahman 05/28/2010
Hi very very Tnx
by Megaposiedon 05/27/2010
you rock....buddy...ILU
by Espina 05/25/2010
You are the best. Thanks for teach us.
by pokemaster163 05/20/2010
thanks im going to try to make this at school :)
by yakuza 05/12/2010
your amazing man u too good :D
by Jasper 05/10/2010
Great guide, thanks. I used CS5 and had to deviate a little. Motion blur is set on the timeline, and I needed to adjust overall motion blur settings to make my lens convex look like stripes as in your video.

by Azhar 05/05/2010
i love this site
because this a school we are students
learn more in this school
i like Andrew
good job master
i learning more in this school new
thanking u
Azhar do the new
by noeL 04/30/2010
I can not said much to you and great admiration for your work, though a bit what I get. but i hope, it remains to always share your knowledge, although not all can be shared, thank you and always successful
by balochsaab 04/17/2010
Thx for the Tutorial. But just tell me please how you select the orange color on color table and the text become super white?
by Shekkel 03/06/2010
Thanks for this tutorial. It was useful for my project....
by robert 03/02/2010
thanks for the tip and the tutorial :)
by Stavros Cyprus(GR) 02/25/2010
Thanks a lot. Your Tutorials are very helpfull. This is the best side I've visit ever. Bravo!!! Go ahead.
by M I N O 01/31/2010
Thank you so much
by S 01/30/2010
another awesome tutorial, you are the man!!
by EnisBuqi 01/26/2010
THANKS THANKS THANKS
by Rodrigo 01/23/2010
It's an great tutorial, but here those tools "Animate,Add" don't appears, so i coudn't complete this project, if you can answer me on my e-mail, i'll be gratefull
by HASSAN 01/05/2010
YOUR TUTORIAL IS VERY BEUTIFULL THANKS VIDEO COPILOT
by Martin 01/04/2010
SHORT-CUTS Because I'm too lazy to make long tutorials all the time tm LOL XD
by Heon 12/25/2009
Andrew!!! THIS IS GREAT! i love ur videos!!! AND UR PRODUCTS!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D
by Sopan 12/07/2009
Hey...Andrew
It's Grate tuts ...
by tofer 12/06/2009
another very nice tutorial
take a look at my result
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNtgTTRM-QU

:D thanks a bunch
by srinidhi 11/18/2009
you are the master thanks for helping me out.........thank you brother
by Shafi ahmed 11/09/2009
Thank u very much Andrew.Iam very Happy with your Tutorials.Iam learning good effects form this site.
by Pazzaz 10/24/2009

Thank you, great tutorial and easy to follow.
Rather pleased with my effort and thank you for
the rendering tip Leo. Learnt heaps
by mango 10/19/2009
Thanks Andrew.
by yubb 10/14/2009
very good!
by Ruslan 10/05/2009
Dude, if not for you, i wouldn't be be making motion graphics with After Effects. Thank you so much, now i know what i want to be as a job.

Thanks
by Jason 09/22/2009
Thank you so much Andrew, you rock!

The sparks is going to help me so much!!
by jadg 08/30/2009
Wow Andrew EnergieVision
by shahwal 08/24/2009
hi Andrew nice tutorial,I want to ask one question how can i find my enable per-character 3d in animate text
by shahwal 08/21/2009
Hello Andrew
Thanks for nice tutorials i have learn after effect software only for your tutorials,I am trying to learn after effect professionally.
by Sukhjender 08/14/2009
Hey Andrew u always best dude............................
by Carlos 08/11/2009
Excelente trabajos, Te Felicito , y mas aun por los Tutoriales

Is good, Excelent Job, Congratulations
by 2b2a 08/09/2009
dude, thanks! I added some cool camera effects and added wiggle so it would go all over the place, and it turned out very nice!
by Alberto 07/30/2009
Hey Andrew you rock, Merci beaucoup, Gracias, Thanks a bunch, Magnifique! keep up the good work
by Ramji Shrestha 07/25/2009
That's great tutorial Andrew!
I like so much and try it.(Nepal)
by Makar 07/20/2009
Andrew i have a ploblem,i rendered that video,and when i play it there is no shiny effect,no superbright!
Whats the problem?
:(
by DarkEntity 07/20/2009
As alwayz!!!!!the best!!!
by prabhakar 07/07/2009
nice effect
by Deepak rathee 06/24/2009
this helps me alot dude u r the best one thanx alot
by Shota 06/20/2009
great job man! didi madloba (thank you very much)from Georgia!
by Trackmaster 06/15/2009
I am a total noob, just downloaded a trial version of this, and in an hour I made that! Never would of thought I could make something like that so quickly.
by Isaias 06/14/2009
First of all thanks for teaching us man!
The problem is that when I render the final proyect and then I look at the results the sparkles are gone and insted they are white, I already checked the fast blur and yes its turned on so I dont know what to do. Can you help me out?
By the way I'm using AE CS4.
by Robes 06/09/2009
Saludos desde Ecuador ::
De lujo el material :: Gracias por compartir tus conocimientos

Greetings of ecuador, south america
Material is deluxe, thanks for share your knowledge
My english is regular but there is, whit the with support google xD



by frexis 06/04/2009
Thanks
by ssdock 06/02/2009
i cant seem to do it now but thanks:][:XD
by AlesTemple 06/01/2009
Muy muy bien !!!
Gracias !
Very nice ! Thanks !
Saludos.
by urbo 05/27/2009
hey
first of all great tutorial, but the sparks... i don't have that effect. where can i get it or how can i make it ?
tnx for help :)
by Dylan 05/17/2009
...ummm...i cant find the elipse tool. i think i have a newer version or something but i can find it.
by kowshik 05/06/2009
how can i get the particles to slide through the x-axis..if i change the position the whole bunch is getting displaced, right from the origin. i need a solution for this
by Romelq 04/29/2009
Men File>>>Export>> AVI or other formate. Ready to go !!
by sadaf_110 04/29/2009
bro plss help me how to save file in avi or other formate
mean like a video ?
by rice 04/27/2009
ai shi ni le,,,hahaha
by Amine 04/26/2009
I've got a problem... When I try to add videos it works well in AE but when I convert them in MPEG or AVI or Quicktime sequence they become green... Anyone help?
by erik vargas paredes 04/25/2009
buena muy buena la pagina pero como puedo renderizar con 32bpc?????????????????????????

porfa: gracias
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by JOHN 04/11/2009
IT WORKS REALLY NICE BUT WHEN YOU EXPORT IT, SPARKS COME OUT AS JUST WHITE, NOT YELLOW GLOWING.
I EVEN TRY TO BLUR MORE THE CAMERA AND THAT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING......CAN ANYONE HELP?
by eXTR3Me^^Mad 04/10/2009
Woohoo nice one! but a problem...: the particular thingy i couldnt download it. i went on trapcode dot com but i clicked download it sayed "url wasnt find" or something i dont remember
by remg 04/06/2009
hey is so nice, but i need the cc particle world, please help me!! my msn is

remg87@hotmail.com

thanks
by sukhi 04/04/2009
hey u r great andrew
by kaz 04/01/2009
You tutorials rock. I've learned so much from them. And I even like your jokes
by destorm 03/29/2009
5 stars on your personality alone man...dope ass tute's man!
by Luka 03/29/2009
Very nice tutorial, easy to make.
Perfect job again, keep up the good work!
by Leo 03/25/2009
Ok for those of you who are having the rending/exporting issue where your text keeps coming out pure white, the way to fix it is on the top menu click on:

-Edit
-Templates
-Render Settings

Then under the settings section click on

-Edit

Locate where it says (Color Depth) and then make sure in the drop down menu that you have

-32 Bits Per Channel

Selected.

Now what you want to do next is make sure your composition is selected along with the work area you have displayed. Now on the top menu again click on:

-Composition
-Add To Render Queue

From there you'll notice the render tab is available on the bottom where your work area is located. Just click on:

-Render

and then you should be set. Now for people who notice what happens next is that AE will create a full rendered video of your text with all the colors however the output display is in the .AVI extension and the problem with that is you run into a major data file (Mine was over 80mb for just a little over 3 seconds!!!!) That's too big! What you can do from there is just take that .AVI file and put it back into AE. Then create a new composition using that .AVI file and then from there you can use your regular (Export) settings however you want to compress it into a smaller file and more compact file extension; I like using Quicktime but you can do whatever you normally use.

That should clear EVERYTHING up... If you are still experiencing problems. Email me at:

Leokahokuma@hotmail.com

-Cheers!
by matt 03/21/2009
Great, how do you get the CC particle world?
by Jim 03/19/2009
Thanks Andrew for the great tutorial

and thanks

Lucky_rocketship 05/15/2008 for your solution to only getting bright whites.

"Ok! figured it out. if anyone else is having trouble exporting 32bpc. you need to go to your render settings under the render queue. Under that, there should be a pulldown for color depth. change that to 32bpc and you should be good to go!"

worked a treat as anyone who was having a problem with the lack of colours were not using the render queue, they, like me were using the
"file > export:" quick option.
by kadiye 03/17/2009
Wow Andrew great video.
Thanks u so much for all your cool tutorials!


/From Somalia
by xedx-simo-ww 03/17/2009
wwawww
by Danial 03/14/2009
i love ur tutorial.
hey guys, where cn i gt cc particle world.
pls, i really wnt this coz this intro is awesome.
pls help.
by Sansom 03/13/2009
dude u rule... your projects are amazing and really fun to make =D
by tailaday 03/08/2009
e/body know thts only blast by andrew
by Stionse 03/06/2009
where can i download CC particle world??
by Please read 03/05/2009
Is it posible to make an effect like this which blows out a 3d text with a snow storm? I mean like the particles in the beginning of this video!

Thanks for your answers!
by Attila 03/03/2009
Hi! I'm from Hungary and i have a big problem :S
Whwn I use CC Particle world and I turn ON the FORCE MOTION BLUR it is not works ! I try lots of thing but nothing O_O pld help me if anybody can
THX, and of course thx Andrew 4 tutorials :)
by Samy Bogdadi 02/27/2009
Hey man, I love this tutorial, but I cant get the first particle thing, the dots in my video, how can I get them. I downloaded the preset thing, but I havent got it.
by Darthfloyd 02/24/2009
you are a genius.... great great tuts.... andrew larger than life... keep up the good work bro...
by Karthik 02/16/2009
Your are the king of After Effects . . .
Thanks a lot . . .
by manuel 02/14/2009
Hey man great tutorials, how long have you been using ae, cause i dont know where you get that cretivity, well thanx a lot
regards, from peru
by I love George Bush 02/09/2009
Great job
by ravikant 02/07/2009
andrew ur great man. i am ur fan plezz one request for u plez teach me after effects i am come to us...
by Fred 02/07/2009
Astonishing! I'm deeply impressed, I managed to pull this one off. And, a question. Are these all your ideas? I mean, you're the original grounder? Or, never mind.

Andrew, this one had a special sparkle ;)
by Pedro 02/04/2009
Awesome!! Thanks

Pedro from Brazil!!

D.U.G M.V PALMEIRAS
by Ava12 02/04/2009
Awesome!!! Very nice tut! I think your tutorials are best in all Web!
Helo from Kazakhstan, Almaty!
by by ibrahim 02/02/2009
Thanx
by Ralfy C 01/28/2009
Hey AK Thanks alot men!! your awesome.
by Owen 01/26/2009
I figured out where ellipse was, but I am using CS4, and cannot find,"CC particle world."
by Owen 01/26/2009
I am using CS4, and I don't see an ellipse tool, you know where to find it?
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