TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
June 30, 2008
• Create a complex energy scene with CC particle world
• Animate particles in 3D with multiple instances
 
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
Project file contains the tutorial example as well as my original comp. Check out Tutorial #26 for camera shake tips.
Running Time: 20mins.


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by Elias 11/19/2009
God bless you so much you are a mentor
by Rich Keel 11/10/2009
Been wanting to do this for some time but I never had the time or the CC particle World because I had an "illegal" copy :) - hey I had no money :)

Anyway now I have the CS3 suite and I could do this tut. Awesome! AK's still looks better but I found out some stuff I didn;t know before.

Thanks,
Rich
by The Game 11/08/2009
MAn This Is Very Good
Thanks Alot
by longyi 11/06/2009
cool! I'm from china.I love watching movies an want to make movies effects.I started to learn AE just a week ago.your video has a lot of help to me.Thank you.
by someone 11/02/2009
This stuff is so cool!!!!



I made a tutorial on youtube called adobe cs4
by Markuss 10/29/2009
Excellent!Im living in La Punta, San Luis Argentina.
Thanks for a great tutorials! I learn to much
( sorry but my english is to bad! ) in this site, congratulations!
by joseph 10/26/2009
wow man it is the best effect i ever see the best of the best.
by h2spot.net 10/25/2009
very nice tutorial...
by Igor Loss 10/24/2009
Amazing!! Thanks you so much, Andrew! I love your work!
by enzo 10/23/2009
Andrewwww maman, i followed this tut STEP-BY-STEP and guess what??! i NAILED IT :)))) man, i added my own craziness to it and turned out kick ass so thanks a BUNCH for your awesome tuts.. Am super excited.. oh i also followed your other tuts and nailed them too only this one i was able to go ahead and make my own moves. Think am getting the hang of it, photoshop kinda helps alot too so.. oh people lookey here THE NEXT ANDREW KRAMER in the house :)YOU ROCKKKKK ANDREW
by mango 10/20/2009
Andrew. You are famous. This tutorial made it to Comedy Central.
by Sengee 10/19/2009
Thank's very much site Mongolia
by SAURAV 10/18/2009
outstanding
i love it
gr8 work andrew
by Kao Yang 10/16/2009
Oh, My god. I love this one. I can't believe it. I love all of your tutorials.....and you.
by satyabrata 10/15/2009
I am verry happy for your tutorial so i love you
by sydney 10/12/2009
oh my god, that is amazing! great tutorial!
by Rutger 09/30/2009
Thank you very much for this amazing tutorial Andrew!
This one's very very helpful!
by kalyan 09/30/2009
hay andrew ... i love your works , great job
by rahul 09/29/2009
oh may god, nice work.
by mIrSooo 09/22/2009
Tnx for this! I love it. mIrSoooo Bosnia
by Taiwo 09/22/2009
excellent and incisive great job. thanks

Taiwo from Nigeria
by Brendan Peterson 09/09/2009
This was an awesome tutorial! It wasn't exactly what I thought it was but it still will look really good for my superhero movie.

thanks a lot.
by kalidas 09/05/2009
good...................man super.
by Largo 09/01/2009
Compadre te pasaste... excelente tu trabajo, te felicito!
by flavio carvalho 09/01/2009
muito bom esse tutorial ,
thanks ANDREW!
by Daniele Amadei 08/31/2009
Hi!!!
I've watched all tutorial and it's amazing!!!!GReat Job!!But i can't do the same on my Mac whit the very firts particle world called "sucking particle"...i followed all step but nothing appens...someone can help me?!
Thx again from Italy!!!!!
by Knight Walker 08/24/2009
Some one please show me a awy of downloading these toturials.
by Knight Walker 08/24/2009
I am astonished by what you guys have acomplished. I need to buy you extra staff like plugins graphics and more staff. Our country has no credit card previlages (Uganda) but i love your work. Get me a way Out
by jhor 08/19/2009
Andrew, you r the Amazing! your tutorials are the best in internet
by j money 08/16/2009
bro your tutorials are insane! greats stuff
by HESAM 08/04/2009
i can just tell you one word. AMAZING
by Steve 08/03/2009
…or the trkMat (for the smoke)
by Steve 08/03/2009
I cant find the "Mode" button anywhere in after effects CS4!
Please help

btw Great tutorial.
by Travis 07/28/2009
This tutorial made it to the Colbert Report. Check it out :D

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/07/28/colbert-on-tasers-bro/

It's at the section when he introduces his new segment called "Current Events".
by Jayesh kumar 07/28/2009
Thanks Andrew...
by Jim Ansell 07/28/2009
Tweek this a bit more and it's a great way to re-create the proton blaster effect from Ghostbusters!
by Matt 07/28/2009
Very cool man.

Thanks from Czech Republic
by KASHIF 07/28/2009
Really Very Good.
by Alexander 07/26/2009
From Costa Rica.... U simply Rock !!!!
by vipul 07/25/2009
thnx dude i loved it
by pavan 07/24/2009
hi andrew .....how r u..i love this tutor very vll...thanq 4 this exaiting tutor.......thanq
by ag 07/23/2009
hi
very nice.I wants more more ...really


bye
by MACK 07/22/2009
MAN U ROCK.!!!
by Julio 07/19/2009
thanks andrew!
I made one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lhjYDyI2z8
see ya
by ricka 07/18/2009
i dont have CC end other stuff wier i can get it??plz help me!
by cyz 07/13/2009
thankyou very much i like it
by claudio 07/09/2009
estubo super bueno,lo maximo, sigue nomas
by Jacob 07/09/2009
great tuts man! thanks a bunch u been of real help :)
by Sai Tai 07/09/2009
Andrew your my sun shine for my lofe
by Matt 07/08/2009
Great vid. i saw alot of them and they are great! keep up the good work =)
by Raphaello 06/30/2009
Great Great Awesome ANDREW. i guess the after effects icon should be replaced with your photo. you are a real rare guru. i always wanted to do these kind of things......keep up the good work ANDREW
by shinwa 06/29/2009
goooooooood
by Goldenreelprod 06/27/2009
This is a great tutorial check out my video of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNa336VnnDQ
by Killerbunny27 06/27/2009
Uhhm.. when i change the X and Z radius it does something wierd, it makes a square and i cant figure out how to change it..
by P2 06/25/2009
Why dont yo work in Hollywood movies?... i dun think i have seen ur name in any...any personal reason?
by Daniel Sanabria 06/24/2009
Ta bonito!
by Daniel Sanabria 06/24/2009
Mierda! que bueno!!!!
by Daniel Sanabria 06/24/2009
Puta!!!! Que exelente!!!
by Dragondude1105 06/23/2009
This is awesome, but I just can't get the "sucking particles" part to work. went to -1.5 velocity but it doesn't flow inward. Dunno what I'm missin. Otherwise, I really like this effect! :)
by V.C 06/23/2009
AWESOME! DANCES FOR YOU. FROM CHINA ....
by editmax 06/15/2009
thank you ,very nice
by tom 06/15/2009
your best!!
by ThePerson 06/14/2009
Sorry, but for some reason this is bothering me. The streetlight should sway a little bit. But this is awesome. Seriously.
by Nicholas Donaldson 06/12/2009
Hey there! watched a few of ur tutorials now :) (by the way there awsome ;)) i just wanted to thank you for all your tutorials considering i didnt have a clue about using the program when i started now i can do quite a lot.
so thanks and.. hi from Cyprus:p!

p.s keep up the increadible work!
by Sreejith Thadathil 06/08/2009
Dear Andrew Kramer... What a brain you have!!! Your own works are really looks like a hollywood film standard... Great... Keep it up... Expecting more unbelievable works from you...
by Ice CRO Killa 06/08/2009
Tnx for this! I love it.
by kishan21 06/03/2009
Andrew,so cool..thanks for ur amazing tutorials..
by Illroy 06/03/2009
Unbelievable...
by ehsan 06/02/2009
oh! what a punch.Keep posting more effects.
by sam 05/31/2009
hey Andrew

when i do the phisics -1.5 thing it still doesnt go sucking in it just still goes out O.o

why?
by CHARLIE 05/28/2009
NO MAMES, ESTE WEY SI SABE COMO SE USA.
by fawad naseer 05/22/2009
Hi there
this tutorial is awesome. Andrew You are a genius
by xDeanxVerx 05/20/2009
andrew the joker man
by tommo 05/11/2009
hi
does anyone know why when i put a video into a composition on cs4 it always appears blank at home and never works but in cs3 at uni it does work.
the videos are mostly quicktime and its really frustrating could anyone help me please :):)

by Pagi 05/06/2009
Hi Video Coliper is a ammazing Site. i love it. my special regard to the Mr.Andrew Kramer.
his tuturial are very interestings.
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by medoali 05/06/2009
this veido is goood and coool
thx
by Dibakar Jana 05/05/2009
You are the GOD
by Stunt 05/05/2009
wow , very cool
by Amon 05/04/2009
Andrew Your One hell of a genius I cant even think how You come up with this tutorials cause they are just awesome I'm getting Money through www.xmations.net thank you.
by Jamesinho 05/04/2009
:D Just done this with a pic outside of Glasgow Central Station. It looks AMAZING!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
by ytsejeffx 05/03/2009
wowowow!.....its amazing!....hope i can do it without errors
by yinge 05/03/2009
very good iob it is
by monali 04/30/2009
wow! very gud Andrew. I love u Andrew
by brian Guerra 04/29/2009
NICE! thank you
by Samuel 04/28/2009
are u human lol.. am new to AE and need some tips on how to get started.. you are gr8.
by Vincent Oliver 04/25/2009
How on earth do you start to work all this out, does it help if you are a qualified brain surgeon

I enjoyed it nevertheless.

Thanks
by tanner 04/24/2009
holy shit that's awesome i didn't know you could do things like that in after effects.
by Haseeb Sheikh 04/24/2009
Great effect! Thanks for the tutorial Andrew! It's awesome! :D
by cariaga 04/24/2009
i see fedex

thanks for the great tut
by Robal 04/21/2009
Its made at After effects cs3?
by thom G 04/20/2009
Not sure if anyone else has had this problem... I noticed there was question about it further up.

*Setting the velocity to a negative value has no effect*

Here's why it doesn't work...

The reason being that the negative value does not affect the the particles in the way you would expect, instead it's actually the radius of the emitter that is the corner stone of the sucking. When you start playing with the size of the emitter the actual start position increases and so the particle begins outside and has a negative velocity... going inwards.

In short increase the size of the emitter AND set the velocity to a negative value!

hope that helps someone, had me scratching my head for a bit!
by kang adek 04/17/2009
how to download this video?
by Ricky Rivas 04/14/2009
I love the tutorial. I was trying to apply this effect to one of my projects, but I got stuck when you got to the part with the smoke element jpeg. Where can I find one of those? I can't download the project file.
by Salman Shah 04/13/2009
i realy like urs tutorials
by HorribleDeathPlague 04/11/2009
It seems I cant get my particles to suck inward >.<
Great tutorial though!
by Nolan 04/11/2009
It would be cool if you took this effect and transformed it into the Energy one in Watchmen... When hes in the city and its pulls all the energy into him and then releases it.
by Hczasy 04/10/2009
TY andrew watched many of your videos all very imformative and interesting and have helped me create some cool FX from England ur da best!!1
by cool 04/09/2009
yep you got me on that one coz your ma best man this is a hala form africa the pearl of africa uganda
by josqi 04/09/2009
love u @NDREW!!
by maggieng 04/08/2009
this is awesome!! very nice effects!!! thank you for the sharing!!
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