ok

men you are awesome im mexican and i work to video produccer i dont know nothing of after but you techme so much with your tutorial keep doing please and i have acuestion what after you used 7 cs3 or 6.5 please tell me

Congratulations! your videos are really good, i have a QUESTION: where can i find how to use correctly those functions? when i was using this line : (z=thisComp.layer('Nulo 1').transform.position[2];
z/thisComp.width
) it didn´t work well, the program showed me a warning message 'Warning AfterEffects, incorrectly argument, expression disabled: error in line 1' then when i was trying to do this proyect i couldn´t finish it, the point with the particle didn´t work well... So i would like to read how to use those functions or if you can tell me what´s wrong with this line? i´m using After Effects 7....Thanks

PS: Sorry for the english i´m Latin-American...

Dear professional,

First of all i would like to thank you about your great Tutorials .. your way in explaining is very uniqe

But i have some question to you it is about
Simulation ... actually i don't have this list of CC , and sure i don't have CC particle World

so could you tell me how can i get this plug in?
and sure i'm using After Effects CS3

Thanks a million

mmm

andrew ur the best i ever seen

zillion thanks.........great tuts
im looking for this tuts

First of all, congratulations for the great tutos... i'm learning a lot!

For te people who is having problems with the plugins, here is the link where you can find these ones.

http://www.cycorefx.com/downloads.php

Thanks! From Brazil

thank you

great tutorials thx and please keep on doing it.

Wow i really like your tutorials. very interesting en cool..and funny to ...

keep up the good work me friend,

B2

no Å

Strangely this is the only tutorial of yours that keeps giving me problems, and I saw no keyframes on the project file version...

On the one I did from scratch, it sometimes looks fine before I ram preview it, but when I use ram preview it looks different than what I see from scrolling through the effect in realtime. It seems kinda complicated just to get a simple cool effect, I hope someone will develop a new plugin at some point to animate this way ^^;

thanks

hi love ur tuts i hate when sim ppls steal ur wrk and clames it its his

Dear Andrew !!!
Hail Caesar !!

We live in Cuba , and we follow every tutorial you put here, like a TV serie , like someonesaid here...the fact of you been an awesome online teacher is known already,,,,and we have certain connection troubles , but still we are learning, we would buy your package but the fact of us been in Cuba, prevent us from buying them , is there any other way of get them ?....pliz.. :(

excelente¡¡¡¡pero en castellano para los brutos como yo¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
igual muy bueno ,gracias..

Nice work man, need to get my head round the expression coding as I can see how powerful it must be...

Thanks very much, keep up the good work, and the jokes ;)

Henry

thanks i learned it.

Pretty cool r. Kramer! Good work! Tks

Hello andrew,

please can you tell me if it's possible to remplace the ball light by a particule system from ParticuleIllusion ?

thx

Best Regards

uummmm .... dude, think there is something wrong with the tutorial.... it, like, ... doesn't play.

Great tutorials though. love em.. i should buy one of your dvds

It's realy good,where can buy it?

great tutorial ...saha koyo

i'd like you know if it's possible to creata a form or a word instead of random moves in this tutorial. Something like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEfksvhwaQ

Nice work on all of your tutorials, i am only 13 but ur lessons are easy 2 follow

Pretty kewl as usual Kramer, you really rock on!

i do have a question though, is it posssible to make the particle more smooth and round?

Cheers and thanx for a this great knowledge you share with us.

Yo,

Thanks for a great tutorial, but I cant do the most interesting part because every time I bring the values for the particle down to zero, its invible or not even there so when I adjust the x,y,z position nothing changes so Theres no point in even creating the null object. this is so frustrating.

todo esto es una basura no sirve para nada

reallyyy very very nice tutorials..... thanks 4 all tis.

I think you can better......

hey

im just having trouble when you are switching everthing in particle effects to zero... im not getting that lone single particle. its fine before i switch the production and physics off but as soon as i switch it off everything dissapears
this is torrmenting me and driving me nuts. could u please help me?
i am praying there a simple switch im forgetting for this.
plz do help.

erh... link to project not working...

this tot is so goode ,and i think u r the pest.

Good Job Andrew! i've been following ur work and i get surprised each time i watch the videotutorials. So i've got a Q for u. can you give me some Tips to have a good control of the stroke path and camera?

Thnx. God Bless U
(From Colombia) XD

hey andrew one more time thnx for this greats lessons.
i wonder if u can tell something about exporting video for web.
your tutorials are big size and they download very fast. wich format do you use? and settings use for?

thx alot man you are a master

You r really doing an amazing job.
Nobody could count your students, it's an immortal vitue,
May you live long.............................

Can you do this effect in after effects 6.5?

you can also do something like this with stroke and guassian blur

Hey Andrew, great tuts.
I'm tried using this to make a moving line(like this: http://www.beam.tv/beamreels/reel_player.php?jqbvsptxVy&resize=1 ) but I couldn't do it. can you help me out with this? I can understand if your too busy, but i would really appreciate it.

Hi man! I really appreciate that you took time to make these tutorials! Good descriptions! Plain, clear and some insight jokes/stuff There aren't any good AFX sites, or descent tutorials so: YOU ARE BOOKMARKED!!!

Richard, the Netherlands

Great tutorials.I love them but i have a problem whit my AF 7 Pro.When i want to drag or import something in it it just Not Responding and then it crashes.:(.If somebody knows how to fix it it will be much apriciated.

Great tutorial Andrew!
Just a quick question - If you wanted it to wiggle and then draw a specific shap (logo for example), can you easily do this with the same null object, or would it be better to have the null with the wiggle expression finish the same frame that another one starts (to draw your shape)?

Cheers for any advice

can you show me a tutorila on how to do this.please

Hi Andrew, This is one of the great tutorials you have here, but i was wondering...
Is there a way to do something like this 3d stroke effect but with text?

U THE BEST

thanks alot man you are hero

thanks.

Hi Andrew, the first time I would like to say a lot of thanks. But I have a quastion. How can I make this stroke in real 3D? I can't do that this stroke move around a object. Example if i want that this stroke moving around a text (3D layer), I cant do it. The text is always in front of the stroke. If I change the "particles" layer to 3D layer I can moving it in front of the text, but I it is always there, and i cant make a motion. I hope you understand my problem. Sorry but my english is not really good!

thanks andrew u learn me more

Hello!
I need to purchase the cycore effects - and the cycore site is for a better term 'lacking' - I am running AE7 and have basically opened it up today so I know nothing...
is 6.5 the correct version to order ($49) - or do i need the HD version ($249)
I understand that the package is on the install disk - but the support group does our installs and doesn't understand how this works - their response: "its already installed" - I cant wait 4 months while they try to figure it out :)

Thanks in advance!

thanks for the tutorial you shared..i've learn a lot

Hi, first time commenter, long time viewer. I love your work! I am a huge fan.
I am having a little trouble with this one and was wondering if you know where I went wrong.
I was trying to do the 3D Stroke Effect tutorial and I get as far as setting all the physics to zero and then I don't even have a spec on my screen. I see nothing, even when I continue on with the tutorial, nothing is there. I tried moving the playhead and played with the Producer positions. Only when I add gravity or velocity I see the particle. When I do that it's way to big and my streak doesn't look like a streak. Any ideas.
I am using CS3 on my Imac with intel.
Thanks

andrew..you are the best!!
you are really good teaching, and also funny (that's make you a better teacher )
thanks for all this tutorials!!
but..i'm having some problems with it, Im using CS3, I set up particular world as you said, all "0" (only logetivity, and birth rate are in defoult), the white object (solid)is not in a 3D layer, but, i don't know why, it just doesn't work, i cant see any "particle"
do you guys can help me? what can be wrong with it?
PS: sorry for my english, I'm brazilian, living in Canada, so i still learning english
Thanks guys

hi andrew i have a problem with this, when i use my cc partical world, i get 4 green lines going from the centre of the flare to the four courners. do u have a solution to this if so can you e-mail thanks.

hi i'm having the same problem as some others. when typing in the equation to link the null warning messages flash up saying there is no property or method named "this comp" i keep trying differet things but it won't work can anyone help? please email me. thanks a lot!

Thanks man great tuts

You probably have heard this a million time over.. but Andrew Kramer is the best ever... I love your tutorials... They are ohh soo simple and easy to follow... You sources are pretty good too.. Love your stuff bro.. Keep it up

Hi,

I like this tutorial, but I don't really like it if you say "with built-in tools from AE7" and it's not the truth
My CC Particle has the same green lines (X) on the screen. It seems to be not free... so would be helpfull if you say/write that somewhere so I don't have to watch the video and wake up like "huh... made for nothing"

Ricky

Good tutorial, but you neglected to mention how you made the position of the particle interact with the room lighting in the example you started with. (A very important effect for believability.) It's pretty obvious to me that you probably just parented the light you created to the null layer, but perhaps it won't be to some. Keep up the good work, I really enjoyed the AE basics tutorial series.

Hi, i would just like to know how to install trapcodes into adobe AE 6.0 , can you help me out?

Hey, remember to not enable 3d on the particles solid, as the 3d effect wont work.

Hey Andrew
Thanks for the tutorials.
Really appreciate your work. Keep the tasteful stuff coming. If you could do more text tutorials that would be amazing, good ones if possible, the level of JUSTICE, music videos.

Thanks a million

thank you from turkey, you are perfect

hey it is the best as i think...

man..i think i've watch all of the tutorials at least twice!.. great work as always...

Hi Andrew, AE's god!
Same problem as "brazil canada" and others, when I turn everything down to zero, everything disappears, I dont have a single particle like you do.
Keep up the good word, you're great!

just wondering,
wanting to do a video with these moving around me,
possible?
i can tseem to figure out how to make them go behind me
its not like photoshop where i can cut my self out and paste behind...

Andrew,

Greetings from the Caribbean, just dropping you a few lines to say that I appreciate for efforts here man, I'm a print designer and have just started off in motion graphics. Your tutorials really help me along that part. Keep up the good work, you're good at it.

Thanks a mil.

Nice i can use this tutorial in my school
Thanx

Where did you get the "CC Particle World" plugin???

Dear Andrew.
Thanks for the tutorials. and good luck for you .

This is a fantastic tutorial!
i'm a new user of Aftereffects and my english isn't the best!...I copied from another comment...
"I cant do the most interesting part because every time I bring the values for the particle down to zero, its invible or not even there so when I adjust the x,y,z position nothing changes so Theres no point in even creating the null object. this is so frustrating!"
...regards... form italy

It worked great for me, but I tried to duplicate it in the same project and only one emitter shows up - any way around this?

Man you rock.
Thanks a lot.
May God bless you

Love your tuts!!!

hi andrew..

first of all, thanks for the awesome tutorials.. some give me some trouble but still i can mostly use them for my school work.

just notifying also for everyone else who reades, this tutorial does not work as nice in widescreen. there's a problem with the particle height expression. i'm trying to figure it out and i'll post it as soon as i do

greetz

hi again,

as the result of my previous post, no formula would probably solve this, but if you do want to make a widescreen edit of this,
make sure you use a "square pixel" composition

that's that... this is an awesome tutorial by the way, definitely going to use it for school

Thank,s very much. Really you great.
Thanks Tutorial

RE-ENTER the Postion to "0", even if there is a "0" in Producer -> Radius X, Y ,Z. This will reduce the Particle to a small line like in the tutorial.

But i've got the same problem like the others, I've downnloaded the CC-Particle World from the HP für free. Don't know how to deaktivate the green lines, or is it, cause it's for free?

Dude your like the rainman of expressions!

Andrew Kramer, you are a GOD

Hello,
your tutorial is very exellent. congratulation. But i've a problem when i change position effect: cc particle word. I have not the expressions option for move and whrite this you whrite.
You know solution ?
Thanks

Andrew! You are great. Good job Andrew. I wont to talk with you I'm from Tashkent I'm not English
I'm Uzbek ...

I'm from china ,Thank,s very much

good tutorial. i had the same problem of the "invisible" particle. but i went ahead and did this:

"RE-ENTER the Postion to "0", even if there is a "0" in Producer -> Radius X, Y ,Z. This will reduce the Particle to a small line like in the tutorial."

-i actually did this step 2 or 3 times while adjusting Birth Rate and Birth Size until the particle looked like the tutorial.

now if I could just change the color of the 3D Particle Stroke cuz it's coming up PURE BLACK!!!?

I just tried this and i am using cs3, it isn't the same particle world as the one you are using here.

After analyzing the video over and over, i can't get a thin result playing with the death size and birth size.

i have done many of your tutorials, really amazing,
but this is the only one that i can't seem get to work so far, the only thing i can think of is that something has changed in the most recent version of particle world, what do you think?

I just tried this and i am using cs3, it isn't the same particle world as the one you are using here.

After analyzing the video over and over, i can't get a thin result playing with the death size and birth size.

i have done many of your tutorials, really amazing,
but this is the only one that i can't seem get to work so far, the only thing i can think of is that something has changed in the most recent version of particle world, what do you think?

wow this tut is very very very nice thanx to maker of this

I can nearly swear that there is no Z coordinate for my Null object, so the whole bit worked until the point where the expression linked them. You said you use After Effects 7, so I was wondering if it was because I'm using CS3? Nevertheless, a great tutorial! It's great that you make these for everyone to see, and, not to mention, they're all free...Well, most of them anyways.

Regards,
William

hey,

thanks! really cool tutorials here ... the only problem with this, is that, because the solid layer is not 3D, you cannot have it cast a shadow ... that's a shame, any other way i could have a shadow from the moving particles onto the floor?

regards,
k

Good! nice work :)

its really helpfull web site and this one again give us help
Regard
salman

its really helpfull web site and this one again give us help
Regard
salman

thanks so much. all your tutorials are amazing

I think everybody got chance to see the tutorials...but for me bad luck..my internet speed is 128kbps and its too slow to watch such a high quality videos.......Wish I could download..

OMG

Takes TOOO long to load!

where do i get 3D strokes for AE?
tnx

I'm trying to get more control out of the POINT null by parenting it to another null which I would offset & rotate to get corkscrew/ circular effects, but the expression wont allow it to work when parented. Is there perhaps a workaround?

Excellent tutorial as always.

Awesome! I have to get familiar with these expression thingies! so keep-em coming! Thanks.
I'm a buyer! I'm a buyer!

Awesome, this is a really nice tutorial

It's tremendously well-done! By the way, I am no good in expression and thus, is it possible to manually control movements of the 3D-stroke effect in AE rather instead of relying on expression?

Hope you reply, thank you.

Your tutorials helps a lot. You explain things with great clarity and simplicity. Not to mention your classic jokes. Wehehe!! 'Keep it up and may the force be with you. ;0p

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Hi Andrew!

I've been doing your tutorials to learn after effects, and I have to say that you are the best teacher online that I have ever witnessed accross all programs.

I have a small problem with this one though. I can get it to work every single time when I do this by itself, I can't get it to work on existing projects.

Do the calculations have to be different for PAL/DV screen sizes? The particle is still connected although it moves only extremely slightly.

Calculations problem?

I want to see it ,but the page be can't to watching``````

U r very funny.
Hillarious!!!
I like your comments better than the tutorials. of course that u have know how of what u teach, we can see that 10 thousand miles away, but your comments, man makes me crack.
keep doing this awesome work, and whenever I get the chance I will telling about my friends and people that I know in the industry about your marvelous work.
From Brazil, USA, and much more, here is Mario .
Have a good one.

Hi, whenever I do something on After Effects (or I try to get ahold of you "project") I cant seem to save (well I can but my PC doesnt reccognise the file when it saves it.. Its the same with photoshop. Any help?

Samkin@live.co.uk

hey you are amazing - can you show me how to draw in real time with real motion paths in free hand - the official tutorial from ADOBE touched on it but - it was never clear - I know you would do it better.

We are using some of your stuff to build our music video.

Our tunes are at www.myspace.com/theredlimit
Thanks again Andrew and Crew!

Hey man, you have given me more than you know, I am now the greatest graphical designer my school has ever seen, when I look for colleges, I compare the stuff they BRAG about to the stuff that you have already taught me! I have a self worth I have not had in a long time, and you sure as hell have given me a future, thank you so much Andrew, and seriously man, God bless you dude.

basically the particalls are massive,b but i have specified them to be small!

they only follow the Z of the null.

spent 3 hours on this, and it doesnt work. please advise

hi andrew ihave tried to watch this tutorial a few times , it only runs halfway then stops ,
i enjoy your stuff a lot .
pieter south africa

so gooooood how do you do it amazing man...... lov it

Thank you Andrew! You rule! Waiting for more tutorials !

Hi Andrew I have been watching a lot of your tutorials, but this one on 3d stokes and using the particle world is just not working. The expression that you have given just don't work and I'm not getting that cool trail, when moving the Null object around. Is there another way to use the expression or another to simulate a similar style.

Cheers and thanks so far for your tutorials

guess this was created in 7.0.1 AE and I have CS3 so it has to convert, but complains that CC Particle World is missing, is this AE's particle or 3rd party.

Nice Demo

Thanks a lot to Andrew, Sam, and all the other guys from video copilot.net


it was a very great tutorial


thx.

Great tutorial Andrew.
Now if anyone wants the camera to follow the particle from a distance you can do the following.
Create a new expression at the camera position and add this:
x = thisComp.layer("NullObject").transform.position[0];
y = thisComp.layer("NullObject").transform.position[1];
z = thisComp.layer("NullObject").transform.position[2]-800;
[x,y,z]

Where at z the "-800" is the distance you want it to be from the particle and "NullObject" is obviously the NullObject which the particle follows.

im 9 yrs. old i watchin ur tutorial men thank yo
u

Thanks a lot Andrew, keep the coming.

By the way how/where do i get more of those presets?

Innocent from BOtswana

very good. It really surprised me

Mar
www.marcosbort.com.ar

What are u a Robot? wow Andrew your the Smartest person ever!! Thanks For the tutorial it helped me a lot! so Thanks and i hope you keep doing cool tutorials! Cya ;)

thax .its really good lison

Andrew... You Speack Spanish ?

I hope you can do video tutorials on spanish !

Agradecido me despido...

Espero hayas entendido lo que dije jejeje

Alex from Chile

it is a very good work

You are just great... i'm from turkey i was just hangin around then i found this web site, i'm glad. i'm not using after effects but when i saw the tuts, my mind has changed... i'll try it... you're really amazing... thanx for your prophecy :D

nice tourtorial like always but i have a quastion i bought adobe after effects cs3 profesional but i dont have particle world effect plz tell me how i can get it or where

I am a very poor student.I want to create different many 3d animation but i am unable because i have no plugins to create any animation. so if you give me some plugins do more free than i can do create any animation 3d/2d.My country is bangladesh

Where can I get the particular plug-in?

Poor little guy trapped in the box here I'm gonna go let him out....Hey Andrew you guys and girls are doing a really awesome thing, please keep the excitement going.

Hi Andrew

This Tutorial is amazing and simple(iam beginner)

All your tutorials are amazing and cool i realy learned lot in this.

Thanks for free tutorials like this...

Jak

andrew ich will ein kind von dir : )) nice work !!!!

great tutorial!!!!

This is my second day to learn AE. And I got a great tutorial from you.

I am Asian, your words is easy to be understood. the explanation is so clear.

i hope i can be a pro like you in motion graphic.

Thanks for sharing

Estimado Zuto Kido:

Si te sale ese error es porque tienes el objeto null no-puesto en 3d

hey andrew very cool tutorial

but is deare a way to make that graphic that goes around the letters like in the sport chanel?

like a circle that goes around or like a line goes around

if you know please tell me thanks

michael...

ZOMG IM SO CONFUSED 2 MUCH MATH! HOW DID YOU KNOW ALL THAT?!?!?!

Great tuts Andrew!

thanks from India...