02/13/2013

Very good . Ae

01/26/2013

I am having some trouble with using the rendered file of the planet in Tutorial number 52. I follow your instructions in the tutorial, but when I try and bring the file into a new file of AE to do the exploding planet tutorial I cannot work with the file, as it wont let me scrub anything through the time line. I can add things to it, and AE seems to be working well, I just cant seem to get it to work.

12/13/2012

great tutorials whenever i try to duplicate a precomp and i change an attribute in one it changes in all

11/05/2012

if we are doing liquify it should stay in a particular place. EX 1. if am I doing liquify in the hand it should stay in hand it should move in another place.

10/18/2012

You are awesome Kramer. Thank you!

07/31/2012

Hi all,

Thanks for all the great tutorials!

I just completed this tutorial step by step, and ran into a problem. If you apply the CC Radial Fast Blur to a layer that has a CC Sphere applied, you get a bounding box:

http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc368/ehoagland66/CCSphereBox.jpg

This is because the CC Sphere maps all the layer pixels (including the CC Radial Fast Blur) to the ray traced sphere.

In order to get the desired effect:

http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc368/ehoagland66/CCFastBlurPrecomp.jpg

You have to perform three additional steps (first, turn off the CC Radial Fast Blur before you precompose):

1) Precompose the layer containing the CC Sphere effect and select "Move all attributes into the new composition" option, and ignore the expression warning for this step.

2) Apply the CC Radial Fast Blur to the precomposed layer.

If you preview your main comp at this point, the planet will rotate due to the duplicate on top, but the fast blur will be stationary. That's because the precomposed layer beneath that contains the CC Sphere is no longer rotating. That looks terrible, so on to the next step.

3) Go to the map layer and then twirl down [Effects:CC Sphere:Rotation:Rotation Y] -- In the expression you will see a warning triangle that represents the warning you got when precomposing. Now you'll edit the expression manually to get your rotation data from the comp that it's actually in. You'll need to change the global 'thisComp' to a different comp.

Change (thisComp.layer("Lava Map").effect("CC Sphere")("Rotation Y"))
to (comp("venusmap").layer("Lava Map").effect("CC Sphere")("Rotation Y"))

*Note: if you named the comp containing the rotation data to something other than 'venusmap' then make the appropriate substitution.

Now when you preview your main comp, you will see the fast blur rotating with everything else. Life is good.

I labored over this for hours so I decided to share my findings. I've had this problem with CC Sphere layers before. Now I finally figured out how to fix it.

Hope this info is helpful.

07/02/2012

greatest effecta

06/08/2012

Hey is there another way to get into transfer mode besides F4?

05/06/2013

"Toggle Switches/Modes" button on the bottom

06/02/2012

Hey there, I love this tutorial, but every time I try to rotate the Lava Map, it rotates in the opposite way of the other 2 Map layers. Anyone know why this is?

12/21/2011

Hi, great job, but i have a problem... I can´t in the composition of -lava map- make it a map, please tell me how, thanks.

11/18/2011

Just completed this tutorial. Great job on the detail. THANKS!

10/07/2011

uau. that is preetty perfect Angel, you doing good

09/16/2011

where do i get the venus stuff??

02/15/2012

Check the Project files, go to the tab before this one and next to play it says: Project files.
Or look on google :)

09/15/2011

Hi Andrew, I can´t in the composition of "lave map" make it a map, please tell me how, thanks.

12/21/2011

at the same time that you take the composition Lave you must hold press "ALT" and move the composition on the first map

08/19/2011

Hi Andrew, I am using CS3 but I don't have CC Sphere. Where can I download it from?

08/17/2011

Hi Andrew, as ever, greaaaat tutorial & you're the best tutorial man in all over the world ! BIG THX 2U !

08/05/2011

I can't overlap the both composition. 4:26

03/28/2012

just follow his lips

07/01/2011

mantab

06/24/2011

I like you sooooomuch
you are amazing

06/22/2011

Hi everybody
Pls someone help me!Click to rotation but I doesn't understand what to say at 5:25 .... Click.
Sry some mistake I live in Hungarian

05/07/2011

Omg i made a speedart ages ago on 2012, and i made a half-destroyed earth on PS it took me ages and it didnt look half as good as this ! AARGH.

my channel : Neondesignzhd
youtube

just in case u wanna check it out.

05/03/2011

Andrew tx man this was my first job on after affects :D

You're AWESOME Thank You XD

04/13/2011

At 0:53, I do hold Alt and double click but
the timeline doesnt pop up, instead a Layer:Map comes up and another window with the VenusMap pops up. please help me

04/07/2011

Thank you very much. I like watch this tutorials.

03/26/2011

Awesome tutorial, thank you. I am seeing a great deal of your influence in some of the graphics being used in commercials up here in Seattle. Especially Riot Gear. Please keep up the hard work!

03/26/2011

Great Website!!!! I really like it, I love the Format very Good Job!!!!! Great Tutorials and Great Material. Keep Up The Good Work!!!



-Abiel

02/28/2011

epic tuts!!

02/24/2011

Thank you very much!

02/24/2011

oh By the way.. its not Alt-double click its Shift-Double click took me an hour to figure it out :P thanks though

03/26/2011

Ryan- Thank you for saving me some time.
Andrew, you and your team rock as always.

02/23/2011

Legend!

02/22/2011

Thanks man u great. me is great fan of u... I want to copy ur brain to transfer my head... lol !!! thanks

02/10/2011

I can't express my admiration!
I am very grateful to you for this great tutorial!

ANDREW YOU ARE THE BEST AND YOUR SITE IS ALSO THE BEST!!!!!

THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH:)))!!!!!!!!!

If it is not secret i would like to know your east and west sign of zodiac

01/30/2011

i am happy because your tut are the best

01/21/2011

hey thank u you are great i'm learning a lot from you ,are very cool your tutorial are good greets from mexico

01/20/2011

thanks...you are PRO

12/28/2010

Thank you so much for all your tuts..You are the "BEST"..

12/28/2010

hi andrew thanks for this tutorials, is amazing all animations tutorials and very cool FX

12/14/2010

HEY ANDREW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im your BIGGGGGEST fan, i think your tuts are amazing!!!!!!!!!1 I go home and i quit my job and dropped out of school in order to watch your tutorials alll day long, so now i dont have a job and all i do is go blind cuz i look at my computer so much :)
You are amazing

12/08/2010

hi, I'm your china fan . you are so cool. thank you! ??

11/30/2010

I appreciates your work,it s a great tutorial,thanks

10/30/2010

IS IT POSSIBLE TO INVOKE THE "SCALE" TO OP. BY USING A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT. WISHING YOU WELL .

09/24/2010

Thanks Andrew, you're the greatest!

09/20/2010

Andrey, thank you for a great tutorial! It was lots of fun! Instead of working, I took a sick day and started learning your damn tutorials. Addictive crank - one twitch at a time! Myself and everyone here really appreciates your time and help!

06/15/2010

what version of after effects, andrew has? asking because of the advanced compostiting can it be done with cs4

06/01/2010

wow i did it with the tutorial it's was free fun thanks

05/30/2010

hey men...
take a look...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pag6te_a4Zk
and go to 01:10...
wath you see...
...
hey andrew... you rock men... thanks for everithing...

05/29/2010

Thanks from Hungary! @Kyle Easter: Double click on that.

05/22/2010

Ha don't let George see what your doing with the falcon lol you might get sued

05/13/2010

hey, im really excited about learning this but i have came to a stop because when i Hold ALT Double click nothing happens, i am using CS4 amy ideas?

05/08/2010

When I hold ALT then double click it doesn't bring up the same window as yours is there something I need to set up?

04/22/2010

CC Sphere is a prt of Cyclore Effects

Its an Third Party PLugin

02/13/2010

Hey Andrew, how do you get the cc sphere effect?

01/12/2010

amazing. you do it with a great ease. mind blowing

01/10/2010

This tutorial and effect, hands down without question, was just used in a Discovery Channel special entitled, "The Sun". It was just a program talking about the sun and it's affects on earth and they had shown a dieing earth model and everything from the position of the sun to the planet and where the orange yellow glows took place was exact to this tutorial. Hats off again Andrew to saving the world one amazing effect at a time! Just had to tell ya. Wish I could find a video....

01/09/2010

For everyone having trouble with CS4, highlight the new "map" layer before dragging "lava map" onto it.

12/19/2009

Oh damn! Too bad you didn't get into the advanced compositing! Seriously, if the effects artist job should some day fail. You should go stand-up comedy!

11/29/2009

hi. im frm malaysia. can i use some of your videos in my final project? its for educational purpose only. thx. love u guys..l.o.l

10/21/2009

thnks 4 the tutorial you rocks

10/12/2009

Thanks Andrew. Yours tutorials are books to me. I always come back for reference and redo.

10/10/2009

Men, this is absolutelly awesome site and tutorials... you are rock .... perfect work

09/16/2009

hey ANDREW ur work is awesome...i m having no words to define ur greatness ....whatever ur making us learn its a lot better for a beginner to begin with. THANKS A LOT MANNNNN

09/13/2009

Hey tut Andrew! But wheres you get the background from?!

09/10/2009

This is great Thanks a lot

09/02/2009

I lIke this soo mach i found this site today from a video on youtube and t he amzing thing is that all of the tutroials you can do For no money (sorry for my bad enlgish but i think you understand)

08/16/2009

Same as JimK, saw the shot in the Discovery show 'the sun' and it was immediately "Ah! Andrew Kramer!" whilst pointing at the tv like a moron. :) I had to get back on here and check to make sure and it's pretty much exactly the shot from this tutorial.

07/19/2009

Greetings from the Philippines!wow!really nice.i love that tut so much.i love looking at cosmic energy or the universe or something like that.A Dead Planet!that was amazing!

07/18/2009

Just found out about your site today, it rules:)

07/12/2009

emm the fils just stops at 4:35???

07/10/2009

This is a great tutorial, but I'm having probs, am using CS4 so have to keep looking for the stuff I need (cursed by the drop down menus)!

I create the planet no problem and the light, but when it comes to the lava layers, the map is in sphere and not flat as it should be, what have I missed?

06/29/2009

Great work... I just foundout about your website last week and I got blow away by your work and tutorials.... great work man... !

06/09/2009

Andrew you are the man!!! Never saw tutorials good as those....you are the GOD!

06/07/2009

Great tutorial. I saw the outcome of this in the Discovery channel program "The sun" that premiered tonight. Needless to say I was surprised to see it but recognized it immediately!

06/03/2009

best website ever , thanks so much guys!
i'm actually gonna buy something of you one of these days!
keep em coming!

05/30/2009

hey!!@@@!!! It's Cool
THank's for Many tutorials.>>>
tuLOy mo Lang Yan!

05/16/2009

I have AAE CS4 and when u say that i should drag the "lava map" to the "map" holding the "Alt" button it takes the place, but in my CS4 it dosen't work, so how do i do it in CS4?? please answer!

05/12/2009

mine comes out (rendered) with a green cross bang in the middle. how do i get rid of it?

04/27/2009

Awesome Work!!!
Can't wait to try this one out.

04/24/2009

Greetings from Singapore! Merry Christmas! The turkey is almost ready. Could u pick up a tennis racquet for my brother on your way. The pigs are doing well.

04/03/2009

your work is amazing, great tutorial.

03/31/2009

VCS são fantasticos...

03/24/2009

i dont have cc sphere and cc glass... i dont have any cc things!
but thanks all your vidios are so helpfull!

03/17/2009

Great work! Really easy to follow and really cool ideas.

:)

03/11/2009

Thanksssssssssssssss
I ;love Thiese tuets very muchhhhhhhhhh
thanks lot

02/28/2009

I've used this tutorial to create Mars in this video. i hope you come and have a look. http://www.zooppa.com/jones-gaba/videos/3346
thank you

02/28/2009

download the project file,this is a great tut :)

02/10/2009

How do you get the space background?
I've looked it up, but I couldn't find any brownish backgrounds

02/05/2009

You are amazing AK

01/29/2009

Thanks Andrew, this is cool stuff. Really helps to broaden my knowledge of After Effects.

P.S. 90% of you can't spell and/or have very poor grammar. I doubt 90% of you are from other countries.

01/18/2009

Hellow, I saw you tutorial and, when i try to save it as Quick Time movie it didnt save me, so you know what the problam?
Thank you

12/31/2008

Exuse me. I can`t render a picture without black backgroud, and i can`t render to Quick time movie. Why? :( very good tutorial :)

12/17/2008

This was apt for a project am working on, thanks for sharing!!!

12/13/2008

I need help!Where is the map of the venus?Or where i can download?PLS help!

12/13/2008

Andrew, Youre really great! I'm making a movie and i need a kind of metheor reaching the earth very quik. Only, I have no idea how to make that. Can you make a tutorial please? that would b very cool.

Greetz Martin

11/20/2008

Simply this just amazing. Keep it up Andrew!

11/03/2008

thanks for the tutorial
but it seems , it wont save it as a quiktime movieeeeeeee =(!

11/01/2008

haaaay i remember seeing this in a dreamscene background

10/14/2008

i havent got cc sphere why?

10/10/2008

Dear AK,
I have an observation from reading comments of your tuts.
You have comments up to date even if the tutorial is v old, this means whenever any one starts watching your tutorials, he keeps on watching other ones even if they are v old and wait for new ones.
Keep on it man
You are the master
I like your easy way in explaining things as if it is a peace of cake.
I'm in video editing business for quite some time and I really like the mere progress you give to us as pros and to all others.

10/06/2008

Hi Andrew! Really Nice one.....again...Your tutorial are always Nice anyways! Thank you!

09/27/2008

Awsome tutorials! I tried to make the dead plant but I didn't have CCsphere. I downloaded the project and I still didn't get CCsphere. Email me how I can get it

06/05/2013

hey...man..you're the boss... Nice tutorial... i love u...