TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
December 17, 2007
• Create a Unique custom Particle System with Particular
• Use Null objects to create advanced camera movements
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
SPECIAL RENDERING NOTE: To render with DRAFT 3D use the 'Current Settings' Render preset in the Render Queue.
Running Time: 29mins. 51 secs.


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by Patrick 03/09/2010
You sound exactly like the DJ from Burnout and SSX!

Nice tutorials by the way they help a lot :)
by Socrates 02/28/2010
Aristotle once said "those who know do,
but those who understand teach"

thank you sooo much for sharing your knowledge with all of us!
i am a beginner in AE but once i start making some money out off it ,i am going to buy stuff from you for sure !

Best of wishes Socrates
by satish 02/27/2010
Dude, awesome tutorial........
by squantrill 02/24/2010
Simple and clever camera control. Nice work and thanks.
by Ramsey 02/24/2010
Andrew you are an asset to this world. Thank you so much ! - India
by pankaj 02/20/2010
hiiiiiiiiiii andrew, i m a student of animation. and your tutorial is very helpful for us. it makes a work very easily. so thanx to u from all animation students.
by cepi valentino 02/16/2010
You Share Your Knowledge to the world for free ????
You Are Go To The Heaven MAN
by Anbu 02/11/2010
Hi Andrew.... Im from TamilNadu.... Im a very beginner to after effects.... your tutorials are really awesome.... u r a genius.... where did u get all these creativity from??????????? thanks a lot..... I am very addicted to ur tutorials..... I getting lots of ideas and knowledge.... Its a great thing that u r sharing ur knowledge with everyone..... Great work man..... don stop
by Nguyen Van Phu 02/10/2010
Awesome!
Thanks from Viet Nam !
by shabz productionz 01/28/2010
you are the best andrew
literally
the best
by adam 01/19/2010
Dude i dont have trapcode ????? were do i get that from ?
by Créathor 01/18/2010
Hello...
I'm from TOGO,a small country of west africa. I apologize if my english is not good at all.I discovered this wonderfull web site 6 month ago and i love all your tutorials...
It is a good thing to broadcast your knowledge.
THANKS A LOT, ANDREW...
by Ricardo 01/16/2010
very nice work . thanx a lot . but we are want to see more ....
by Sherwin 01/15/2010
thank you so much for this Beautiful and Perfect tutorials!!! from philippines with love!!! sherwin
by NuWanda 01/14/2010
Thanks from Malaysia.
Terima Kasih Andrew!
You're Just Great!
by 3d man 01/14/2010
thanks from syria
by Au Design 01/12/2010
Thanks from Turkey! :D We love you Andrew :D
by axis 01/12/2010
mates u got blur words cause u didn't read the tutorial notes! it's said that u have to use current settings in the render queue not best or whatever you use !
by Ross D. 01/11/2010
I love it... using the word, "shift...not...."! Funny stuff! As always...awesome stuff! Andrew is quite the legend.
by AriamCuba 01/09/2010
the god of after effects... :D
by Tanmay Saxena 01/09/2010
Oooh...!! Ur juzz awesome man....love ur tutorials they guide me a lot as i'm learning Animation skills from them only....They are juzz so much User Friendly...Thanks again...!!
by Janis 01/09/2010
I have the same problem

the words get blur,too

pls help me...
by LuckyBucket 01/06/2010
Great Tutorial.Great explaination.Great thinking.

BUT

the project cant be renderd :( the words or the titels gets blur when it renderd :(

any one can help me ?

oo and BTW thanks andrew!
by reudh 01/04/2010
You're the man =)
by gravesoul 01/02/2010
WOW!

many cool tutorials...

thanks for your sharing

from Thailand :)
by Andrea 12/30/2009
Andrew,
Mid tutorial, I have to stop and say... you crack me up!!!! Thanks for all of your wonderful tips! I absolutely love your tutorials and your sense of humor. You are an invaluable resource.
by m.prakash 12/28/2009
Hi Sir!

i am B.F.A painter from india. i would like to learn after effects. my friend refered this site.just i watch a tutorial from this site.wow! what a excellent works here. i am really thanks this site and speacilly ANDROW.what a tutorial this one.thank u .thanks of lot
by lost 12/10/2009
Thans from Brazil
by Roman 11/23/2009
Thsnx from Ukraine!!!!!!!!

NISE!!!
by Hussain 11/14/2009
ONE WORD......... AWSOMEEEEEEEEEEEEE

UR Great Andrew , your toturiols are such a big help
:)
one question!! Am i able to do Video editing or i would have to use Premier or Final Cut, or AE is enough for everything ?? :)

And thanks Again :D:D:D
by meridziak 11/10/2009
Wery nice turtorials!
there are better than ... "official lerning book"
You great mr A.:)
Keep your work and please mooore!
Gretings from Poland
?ukasz (luke.75@o2.pl)
by Raphael 11/08/2009
Hey Andrew, what's up!

Look, man. I'm from Brasil, and 1 month ago i even know the AE... i started to whatch your free tutorials and i've made some cool works here.. i'd reproduced 3 of your movies at now...

Realy thank you for you're doing this kind of work.


U'r the man!!
by alessio 11/04/2009
Dude,
you crack me up!
Anyways, great job. Thanks.
by omid aghassi 10/31/2009
Thanks from iran veri good
by Kenneth 10/28/2009
Hey, I have used this tutorial in the past, and I thank you for it.

Anyways, my computer is a VERY good computer, and it doesn't render nearly as fast as yours... Could you tell me why? Mine is set to half resolution, and it doesn't even render while I move the camera (I have to stop moving for it to render).

If anyone can help me find the solution to this problem, please contact me at darkesthour_12345@hotmail.com...
by vhirg 10/27/2009
thanks sir!!

you helped a lot!
THE greatest among all tutors!

-from Philippines
by Ibrahim 10/14/2009
Hey Andrew,Your Tutorial Very Amazing For Me,,,Please Share Your Tutorial For Me
by mango 10/09/2009
Thanks Andrew. I still don't get the null dolly keyframe. I hope you could explain more in the future tutorial.
by gland 10/09/2009
Hi Andrew,
thank you so much.. =D
Im from Indonesia
by Behrouz Safi 10/06/2009
Hey Andrew! Your freaking awesome!

Thanks so much for the great tutorials! You've really got me into After Effects.
by touffa 09/28/2009
thnx kramer for the wandrfull website :)
by by awais 09/18/2009
hi,sir u really awesome thanks for giving us tips on the A.E i became big fan of u from how many years u r in this field to get experience like u how much we have to spend in this profession.
by Erick 09/12/2009
when i rotate mine its like hanhing at the middle! T_T how do i fix that!
by Michael 08/30/2009
Hi, somebody could tell me why i cant watch a tutorials ?
by pablo 08/25/2009
hey kramer great tutorial i just want to know how many years yo have using these programs? cse dude you are not from this planet!!!!!! LOL
by Kira 08/20/2009
Oh !!, that's great mate and awesome tutorial i ever seen in my life
Andrew Kramer, you're the best ^^
by Zach 08/14/2009
Dude thank you very much!!!
by silvia 08/14/2009
Oh Andrew, you're just wonderful!!!!!
I work for a tv and I was just crazy when I saw your tutorials!

Thanks for your lessons...
best regards from Rome

Silvia
by vijayaragavan(vfx) 08/13/2009
realy i am very happy .reason beautiful demos and very advance technology .
by Verano 08/02/2009
yow andrew my man. wadup. i just like to say that i'm very thankfull for your toturials. they helped me alot. i live in suriname. a place in south america. i like the way you give your lessons. very funny way. i realy look up to you. your my hero and you inspire me very much. thanks for your wonderfull toturials master. keep up the good work. god bless.
by maverick06 08/01/2009
great tutorial man, but when i render the video the text gets blurred out...how do i resolve this?
by malainine 07/28/2009
Do you people know how to talk, also dineo, you need to set the see option of the 3D render option tool on. This is a little cheat and is explained in the video.
by ZSMB 07/25/2009
Hey Andrew nice tutorial... just fits the frag movie into I"m making :)
by Dack_Attack 07/22/2009
Do you people know how to talk, also dineo, you need to set the see option of the 3D render option tool on. This is a little cheat and is explained in the video.
by nimrod 07/21/2009
It so hard!

but I gonna watch
by dineo 07/21/2009
i have a problem her..
the text is blur when i render..
by Afy 07/20/2009
Nice..=)..keep it up! i like all of ur tutorial..
by okv 07/18/2009
gr8 tuts! thx andrew!!!
i've got the same problem as weston describe above. draft 3D doesn't stay on after rendering :(
by jellyfishin 07/13/2009

I learn more from u than class!!! awesome :)
by weston 07/08/2009
I followed this tut exactly and it came out pretty good but I'm having an issue rendering, the option "Draft in 3D" that allows you to see your text without it being all blurred, it works fine but when I render the video it removes the effect it doesnt stay on, anyone know whats up with this?
by Pinter_age 07/03/2009
great tutorial dad no thing to say....thank u a lot..
from moroco.
by Metal Monkey Studios 07/02/2009
Thx for the tutorial i posted the one i made on youtube go watch it just search metalmonkeystudios on youtube
by Thomas 06/26/2009
Hi, i dont have trapcode particular , where do i get it?, is it free?,
by ADRIAN 06/24/2009
Nice tutorial... geezzz...
anyways, im having a problem in making this separating xyz, when i try to export it the pop-up shows and it said "Cannot normalize zero vector". what does it mean. i hope you help.. thx...
by the way i'm always wathcing your tutorials and it helps me a lot. thanks agian. here's my email

madsick_02@yahoo.com

godbless Mr. Andrew
by Lili 06/23/2009
OMG!! It's Awesome
Thanks, Andrew. From Mexico!!
Gracias, Andrew. Desde México!!
by Derek Zigrossi 06/20/2009
Wow... last post was 2007... AMAZING MAN!!!! im new and learning, ive done stuff like credits and such like what u have shown here, and clones of myself like skating and shootin hoops at the same time... im young so its new and fun, your awesome man!!
by Kiker03 06/20/2009
thats Great DUDU i like ur tutorial...continue to teach us..



Kiker03
philsippines
by Ooops! 06/13/2009
Great!
by Zeeshan Rasheed 06/11/2009
Thanks man..superv one...Zeeshan Pakistan
by Andrew Murray 06/09/2009
First of all VERY NICE TUTORIAL! This was an amazing job. My film productions teacher REALLY loved it. We put this as a introduction in our Variety Show. (Comedy skit)

Hope to learn more about Adobe After Effects from ya.

Keep up the vids.

Thanks
by navid 06/07/2009
Very Very Excellent!...
Thanks
by zain khan 06/01/2009
i think u giees doing ammazing job it's fabulous i don'thave a word to tell, but when i learning affter effect (a.e) I Don't now what is motion graphic and all only some knowldge i have ,but i watch your video's.
and now i working on motion graphic it's fantastic thank u Andrew
by junaid 05/30/2009
hye Andrew how r u? very helpful tutorial, really u r the best,internet is my institute and u r my best teacher,i have learned sufficient some after effect basic and difficult techniques.i am very thankful to u my dear sir
by Frank Ortmann 05/25/2009
Hello Andrew and VCP-Team,

what you do is just wonderful! 1000 Thanks and kind regards from Berlin.

Frank
by Zikky 05/24/2009
Ja sem czech ale ty tutorial sou strasne goood!!
by Amila Sanjaya 05/24/2009
Im surprised!!
It's Cool!!
by lol 05/18/2009
when i render my text is blurry how do i fix?
by HaLo2FrEeEk 05/10/2009
Hey man, great tutorial, really helped me improve my camera movements. I found a neat way to simulate the depth of field on the text objects, too. Just add a fast blue to them and set it to about .5 or 1 and add a wiggle expression with something like (.5,2) and it'll randomly blur and unblur, makes it blend a lot better.

Thanks again, these tutorials are amazing!
by Vilius 05/08/2009
Very nice!
Thanks from Lithuania.
by MRM 05/06/2009
THANK YOU SOO MUCH IT WAS VERY HELPFUL.
i hope you'll make more tutorial video fro us
by KANNAN 05/03/2009
soooooooooo gooood
Thank You
by kjh 05/01/2009
I'm korean.very wonderful..
Thank you^^
by Marius 04/30/2009
Very nice Andrew. I wish to be as skilled as you.
This bobby seems like a nice guy too ;)
by louie 04/27/2009
you're an inspiration to us all :)
by Thijs 04/25/2009
Thanks you so much Andrew :D

I'm jsut using this for 2 days or something and i like your tutorials really much.

But i have a problem.

I want to get the text in the middle of the thing don't know how to call it. But if i do it whit the camera orbit's it's only go around the text it's go around all of them :S

I hope you understand it.

-Thijs Hartman From the Netherlands
by Mehmet 04/19/2009
Thank you very much man. Allah?na kurban (:

But i have a problem. My problem is im getting blur titles according to camera focus depth altough i clicked to "Draft 3D" button. An interesting point is i dont get tihs problem when i export video (file>export>avi menu). Just when i render from render queue.

My second problem is i have a bad english (:
I hope u understand me. What should i do?

Thanks again. You are a good guy. We love you.
by m.nageawarao 04/13/2009
very use full to me....... thanks
by d.show 04/13/2009
very cool man.
by Drizzle 04/03/2009
Thanks from Antarctica!
by andres 04/02/2009
muchas gracias por los tutoriales Andrew Kramer thanks master
by kaz 04/01/2009
Hey, I don't like to repeat myself; but your tutorials are awesome. Thx so much for sharing.
by Leo 03/31/2009
Ok Everyone. For those of you having the blurry text issue whenever you render your video. You have to make sure that ALL your render settings are set to (Current Settings). You can find these settings in the actual Render Queue or under the composition options.

Also you may need to save your project and reboot after effects again in order to see the changes take affect.

For anymore questions email me at: Leokahokuma@hotmail.com

-Cheers!
by Matthew Park 03/30/2009
Dude, awesome tutorial, I'm looking forward to alot more in the future. Thanks man!
by Sharviin Malaysia 03/28/2009
Fantastic!! good man...
by Thanakrit 03/25/2009
you are off the chain
by Waqar Ali 03/25/2009
Thanks Respected Sir Andrew kramer
by Leo 03/23/2009
AMAZING!!!!
by SAAD ALI 03/22/2009
Im crazy about your tuotorials.Im from PAKISTAN.They are very helpfull for everyone thank uuu.... sir and again thanks for my teacher Mr.ANDREW CRAMER
by MhawSayar 03/21/2009
Great tips!!!
Really useful and appreciate for it!! Keep it up Andrew!!

:D:D:D
by Faisal 03/19/2009
Hi Andrew

Man its awesome..very helpful
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