Andrew you are really great. I think you got a great tutorial site and its so nice of you 2 share with us :)

CAPS LOCK!!!!!!

If your expression doesn't work it's probably because you are not using caps... "thisComp"

Note that C is caps lock!!!

That was it for me! LOL!!!

Thanks Andrew, just started watching your tuts and they are really amazing!

Greetings from Portugal!

ang lufet mo tol, galing!

*you are the best bro, awesome!

Hi, great website...

Someone please tell me one thing, in the tutorial, at around 4min a something, the video just stops, the i play it again, a just keeps making the same...

Nice Andrew..
It's really good.

Thanks from Sri lanka

Nice Andrew
Thanks a lot....
I also doing some animation, by using Maya

ReAllY GoOd!!!!

Thanks a lot

This was really helpfull, thank you.

I have a problem... my "particel snake" doesn't get small and thin! plz help me!! :'(

this is awesome!! thanks buddy!!!

Thanks Andrew.

hi andrew

you are the best
and my master

a love after effects

congratulations

god luck

saludos a todos desde la paz bolivia

I learned a lot about CC particle world from this tutorial. thanks andrew :)

really amazing tutorial
thnx androw

MAN, You are probably like the only person on the internet who makes these really advanced free tutorials, thank you very much Andrew.

its tuto very perfect. good week is good work

For those whose been having problems with the coding, you have to end the code with a proper ";"
If you don't the engine believes that your code somehow is supposed to continue when it's not.

To Mr. Kramer.
Thank you for your tutorials, they are not only educational, but fun to watch. Although I suspect the "super-duper" exciting music you use at the beginning of every tutorial is the reason why. So, yeah, just to let you know... we're on to you man.


One thing though, you forgot to mention how you made the ball of light... I'm baffled by how you connected your glowing ball to the beginning of the particles.

Where do you get the 'Gear FX'? :s

Dear Andrew,
I can you are a very advanced user of the after effects, and probably the best I've ever seen, me myself am a beginner so i have a few questions hopefully you can get back to me,
The pictures of the walls, where do i get them?
I thought it might of been in the project so i downloaded that, but could not find it, I don't think it is there.

Aaron (:

I figured it out, thanks for all your non-help! I'll post the solution in case anyone else had the same problem.

It seems like after effects does not realise the values are already set to 0, in Radius X, Y, Z. So just go to them and move the values away from 0 and then back to 0. Voila!

@ Steve (and the others who had the same problem)
You need to Alt click ON THE STOPWATCH (it's an image of a little white clock). I clicked all over the place until I saw a popup and I happened to see Alt click in it.

Hi Andrew, thanks for the wonderful video. However, when the video gets to around 4 minutes and you turn everything down to 0, you have 1 particle. This is not my case. I have many particles. I am using the newest After Effects. Help appreciated.

Oh and Michelle, when I have the particle type as line, when I turn it down to 0 it disappears but when I chose another particle type, say lens convex, I can see the particle. Good luck!

Hey Andrew... u seriously rock big time man... thanks a lot for all the wonderful tutorials...

Really cool!

Thank you Andrew!

You're the best! ;)

I can't get my particle to show up. As soon as I put the gravity at zero they all disappear. Suggestions?

Muy interesante la pagina, realmente el algo util para nosotros los fanáticos de los videos caseros....desde Chile saludos para todos.

Hi man, I want to congratulate you for your work and notice you about break donwload link for this tutorial... Thanks from Chihuahua, Mexico.

heee, id love to make this tutorial butt uhm i was wondering..i'm missing pictures "grundge gray09" where can i find these?

Yau are a fastest MAN !!!!
Sorry how y can open the program ??? :)

Hi i wish to have command over AE, but getting resources is so hard. i wish i could purchase your training videos but am way far in Africa. Is there a way i can be helped. i might go crazy if i dont learn AE.

great work

WHOOAAA MAN!!
I love your tutus! You're just awesome!! You rule ^^

sry but, for me, the tutorial is imcomplete :(

Hello! sorry for my english). I try to make this tutor. And i find some problems. On 5th minute Andrew set a CC particle world and set producer and physics at zero. And then he show what particle stroke is builded up. But when i repeat from Andrew i can't see stroke. If only do not set to zero velocity, for example if i set velocity 0.01 then i see stroke. But in this tutor velocity 0. why it's happened?
thank you for answer.

hi my name is mohamed i love my jub
and thank you for prjects After Effects
thanks Andrew

stunning! hope i'll be like you someday.. apir! hehee

very cool

i like this tut and found a cool thing
turn on the grafity and velocity to get a great effects

hey u r tuts is superb yaar

thank u

i love u

all this is nice... but how u learn all this ? :D

Muy ueno el tuto lastima q ste en ingles... jejeej xD no cabe duda q sos el mejor. a ver cuando sacan unos cuantos tutos en espanol.

www.videocopilot.com

MY HOME PAGE

The greatest tut ever

Thnkng you

Sam

awsome dude keep up the amazing work !!!! 10000/10000

Very nice!
That's cool effects....

thnks

hello this video's are excellent

at the beginning you sad there was another tutorial. Whitch one???

thnks

yo dude im 13 and i work on makin videos and i do lots of editing and i learned alot from watchin your videos .i am very grateful and hope u continue doin wat u do

word up

Hey, Guys, I know Andrew is a beast, and I paid for the Key of AE,So now I have a serial key, But I don't know where to got this folder:Riot_Gear_FX
I absoluty need this folder for the Grunge Grey :)

you are realy doing a great work...
you deserve respect as a professional and for sharing your knowledge...thanks a lot...
please keep going on...
you are a great man...i think that all of the AFX users arround the world appreciate your tutorials.. but not my CPU.. due to the particles..hahaha

I am from Sweden, i also like this.

Free to use!
Understandable also like the guy above said!
Can you please make more?
Karna my friend even can use it! He is 12!

U do rock!
?

First of all your the best!
Understandable and easy to use.
Couldn't understand some of it but ill try.
Keen to watch more!

U rock!

Ei, Andrew!
your tutorials are great and the best. your site so far was been my resource center in our little projects. hope you'll continue to share your knowledge... your truly a great thrust of after effects industry. towkintel from Philippines. (it's obvious, your works are globally recognized.) tnx.

you are the best, i love you Mr andrew kramer

I really like your tutorial, and all the After Effects Users will same me.

thanks for the fantastic tuts its very helpful to me...thanks a lot

Love it!! try adding a light solid to the head of the trail so it lightens the box as it moves... ;)

Dude your the best
Thats all i have to say :)

Hey these tutorials are amazing and I just started to use After Effects. The one problem I am having is when you explain to alt click for the positions to be the same for the Null space. Nothing happens when I alt Click. I am on a Mac Pro machine

I have the same problem as everyone else. I can see a single particle when everything is turned down to zero, but it's when I use the expressions to link the particle to the null object that it dissapears. I'm using AE CS4 and every other tutorial seems to work fine except this one. I've linked things before to null objects by using that same expression, so the expression works but something happens to the particle. Hope someone manages to figure it out.
Thanks for all your tutorials!

@Taztus : Same problem here, I think this tutorial was made with an old version of CC particular, I don't see any other reason. I tried every single option and there's no way I can get the effect needed...

Great stuff, as always!

I have one question though...

...

Just kidding! keep up all the great work!

does anyone know how to to this effect in cs3, cs3 doesnt have the option for simulate particle it only has particle playground which doesnt have the same options so i cant do this effect

i dont get how this help with light writing like how i see pplz do on youtube like nanno im trying to do dat

Hey Andrew!

I have a problem.. i can't see a pixel when i make an particle world and set all te setting to 0.. it all disappears..

If i change the particle to Lens Convex it will go to a really strange place..

Also when i do this an a new project.. i can't see a thing when i put all the settings to zero..

What can i do, I'm just a beginner, so maybe it sounds stupid..

greetz, Taztus

In the minute 6:20 when he set the positions. It no appear my the icon to connect the world particule with the null object.

Hi Andrew- thanks a lot! Great and funny Tuts! I love it! Greetings from Germany.

Max

hii, sir i have downloaded 3d oceam and 3d stroke
but sir both are plugins are not show in after effects. so please sir u tell me how to install this. i have need of 3d stroke plugins....

Dude! You are the KING! These tutorials are fantastic. I love your sense of humor as well. You move quickly, so it's a good thing I can pause! I don't have any of your company's awesome effects, but I was able to use my own picts of a brick wall, and it turned out great. Keep them comin'!

plz include more 3ds max tutorials
plz
plz
plz
plz.............

hey for u guys who are wondering "3d Stroke effect? where do i get it??" clcik project, you will get a file called 30.zip, and open it up, you will need to get WinRar to open .zip files, and inside it you will find the effect "3d stroke effect.aep"

Hello,I'm Korean.
Your tutorial is famous in Korea After Effects Users.
I really like your tutorial, and all the After Effects Users will same me.

hey,i am chineseman, i love movie,now ,i found friend all the word,if you love movie contact me
let make a word just belong to our.

Hi Andrew, the tutorial itself is great as always, pressing the stop button now and then and playing around with some new learned brings out even more !

I think i've never learned so much in so little time than with your stuff.

Keep up the good work !

Thanks

hello

I was wondering if i can use this program with the CS4 Series

because i don't want to save for nothing...
I really like the programs that you and the company designed =)

bye,!

Hello,

I was wondering if i can use this program with the CS4 Series

because i don't want to save for nothing...
I really like the programs that you and the company designed =)

bye,

Hello from Russia! =) Super, Super and Super tutorials! =) Thank u!

Hey Andrew, your astonishing with your techniques and know-how. One quick "noob" question though. I'm trying to do the 3D stroke effect but I don't have "CC particle world" or any of the CC's for that matter. Please help!

this tutorial is not for cs3 after effects, doesnt work

I"VE GOT IT!
Ok to fix the "invisible" particle, mess around with the gravity, do something like 0.001 and keep trying something till it shows one little particle

great great great great tutorial Mr. Kramer

is this effect avaible only in 3d area or i can also do it on a filmed shot?

can you leave a light streak on a moving object like a person snowboarding going off a jump

hello Andrew. This happend to me to:

After Effects warning: Class 'Layer* has no property or method named 'ThisComp'
Expression disabled.

Error occurred at line 1.
Comp: 'Comp 1'
Layer: 2 ('White Solid 1')
Property: 'Position X'

I did what you said with the Null object etc. but that "popup" showd up :S

I hope you will take some time to help me out here..

And once again Love your stuff :)

Is there a way to control where the particles go?
i want them to be able to follow my hand.

awesome! very inspiring!

thanks!
JA

you are realy good at doing tutorials, but i have been sitting hours after hours , trying to figure a way to see that particle you see when you turning down the X,z,y, to 0. everyone to 0, then i have ignoring it , tought i would see it maybe later when i did som stuff u did, and still not seeing it. many other have also the same problem. hope you will respond this one. it would rly helped me out.

(mark 4:20)

by the way,thanks tuts!
it helped alot.




nothin says lovin..
like mE :D

this stuff makes me so happy :]
my heart skips beats.

WONDERFUL. i love working with this type of stiff. and its all so fabulous.


AH I GO TO ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL IN OHIO.

Hi Andrew,

Your tutorials are amazing! I'm really new to the AE world, but quickly getting pulled in and LOVING it!! Your tutorials are really easy to follow and you learn a great deal! Even if they're not to the "t" what i'm looking for, it's a great bouncing off point and has opened my mind to so much more of what AE is capable of! You help my imagination flourish!!

Truly,
Laura Ashly
-California

Great tuts Andrew!

thanks from India...

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

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...

Estimado Zuto Kido:

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

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

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

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

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.

Where can I get the particular plug-in?

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

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

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

it is a very good work

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

thax .its really good lison

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 ;)

very good. It really surprised me

Mar
www.marcosbort.com.ar

Thanks a lot Andrew, keep the coming.

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

Innocent from BOtswana

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

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.

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


it was a very great tutorial


thx.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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?

22 g tuhadi galbat he vakhri he

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

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.

Awesome, this is a really nice tutorial

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

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.

where do i get 3D strokes for AE?
tnx

Takes TOOO long to load!

OMG

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..

thanks so much. all your tutorials are amazing

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

Good! nice work :)

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

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

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

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?

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'm from china ,Thank,s very much

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

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 Kramer, you are a GOD

Dude your like the rainman of expressions!

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?

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

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

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

Love your tuts!!!

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

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?

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

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

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

Nice i can use this tutorial in my school
Thanx

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.

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...

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!

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

hey it is the best as i think...

thank you from turkey, you are perfect

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

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

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

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 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

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

Thanks man great tuts

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!

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.

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, 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

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

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 andrew u learn me more

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.

thanks alot man you are hero

U THE BEST

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Can you do this effect in after effects 6.5?

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

thx alot man you are a master

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?

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

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

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

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.

I think you can better......

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

todo esto es una basura no sirve para nada

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.

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.

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

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

great tutorial ...saha koyo

It's realy good,where can buy it?

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

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

Pretty cool r. Kramer! Good work! Tks

thanks i learned it.

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

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

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.. :(

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

thanks

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 ^^;

no Å‚adnie panie kolego

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

keep up the good work me friend,

B2

great tutorials thx and please keep on doing it.

thank you

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

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

andrew ur the best i ever seen

mmm

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

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...

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

ok