TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
March 12, 2009
• Fracture layers and manipulate in 3D space with ease
• Use expressions, scripts and create a distressed title
 
 
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Running Time: 50mins.


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by pHilL1008 19 hours ago
this is so nice.
but i use adobe after effects cs4
and if i do open this project, many popups popup :D
and i hava to click okay
it says, i have to install slider and something else.
after clicking ok 100 times, the project is very very different. all the things and effects are gone
what to do?
by Liam Kenyon 03/10/2010
Excellent! thanks very much!
by Boima A 03/05/2010
This is so cool. It would be really nice if Andrew could create a preset for this, Like Sure Target. This takes a while to do but Its worth it
by Thomas 02/28/2010
Great tutorial, once again! This is my n'th vc-tutorial, and I've followed you from basics training to this and definitely into the future :) Thanks a lot for your time and effort! Please do continue with anecdotes.

~Thomas
by Dave 02/26/2010
Once upon a time there was this teacher who cracked a joke in the class room, all the student thought that was a funny joke accept for one kid, the teacher notice that he didn't laugh, so than he went and ask him why didn't laugh, the kid simply replayed i did not think you were funny, but i do think you are a great teacher.
P.s for i was a horrible English student love Bro
Hey that is just a kid am an adult I think your funny LOL Keep up the great work my man
by Thorsten 02/26/2010
Andrew,

thank you a lot for this great tutorial. It was the first time for me to work with After effects and even after one night i could learn a lot and even if it took about 10 hours . Keep going on like that and best regards from Germany!

Thorsten
by Viddy 02/23/2010
Nice job. Don’t worry about those prudes who bemoan your lumbering stories and your calamitous attempts at humor. I will be there in an instant, blind to all peril, to defend your honor to the death. Unless I’m busy, in which case, you can leave a message and I’ll get back to you.
by david 02/20/2010
STORY TIMEE :D
by Riz 02/17/2010
this is what i like,,,
by Deepu 02/14/2010
hi andrew you are simply superb.. im waiting for ur new works.. keep rocking..
by PB 02/14/2010
How to activated expression on after effect

Example:
seedRandom(thisComp.layer("Control").effect("Random")("Slider") index);
value [0,0,wiggle(0,thisComp.layer("Control").effect("Position")("Slider"))[2]-value[2]]

Slider is don't work, this gave a bug on my computer
by Dave 02/05/2010
I still can't get the spark quite right. The don;t seem to float like yours do.
by Alaa 01/31/2010
WOW! i don't know how you have time or even remember every single step to absolutely master this program. Awesome tutorial. Keep it up Andrew!
by M I N O 01/31/2010
Thanks a lot
by james 01/27/2010
it's cool and i love it. thanks
by stef 01/21/2010
wish they will create a "Oscar Best Tutorials"... you will deserve it ;) .. and tell your wife that you make a lot of happy people out there, sheers.
by just a fan 01/19/2010
have any other webs like this but with tutorials for adobe premiere pro cs4

and thanks a lot andrew you're the best you shpuld go in HOLYWOOD.hahahahha
by richN 01/18/2010
Great tutorial dude, props! Keep the jokes and stories too, makes them much better to watch than a dry 50min tutorial
by deponpon 01/17/2010
Wow 50 min. video just tells how much kramer works for us to give us some awesome stuff go kramer you hard work guy!!!
by Radioactive ZERO 01/16/2010
Andrew you're the master of AE !!!!

Your free tutorials helped me for deliver a project on college.

Thanks and keep your work on the same way.

Peace!
by Biederbeck 01/14/2010
I like your stories. I think your funny. If someone can't handle 3 minutes of stories in a FREE 50 minute tutorial, then they shouldn't watch it because they obviously don't have much time on their hands.

Thanks for all your hard work, and thanks for not being boring in your tutorials.
by Peter 01/14/2010
Good lord. You need a nuclear physics degree to understand this tutorial.
by Trevor Brown 01/14/2010
Love the tutorials. Really great. They could be about half as long if you cut out the corny stuff, and bad jokes. Really love the techniques.
by Zieg 01/11/2010
Hello Andrew. I gotta say you're awesome at what you doing man. I'm learning a lot from your knowledge :).

I've been repeating this tutorial over and over again to memorize it. My first attempts worked great. Everything worked smoothly. But now I've been trying to try the same method to fracture a PNG logo. I'm cutting the layer just as you do but when I run the script, nothing happens. The masks are there and the layer is cut but when I try to control the pieces with the adjustment layer, it moves as a whole.

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong.

Thank you so much in advance :)
by Jonas 01/10/2010
Hahaha man i just love your tut's!
When you start telling your storys and stuff like that. I mean 40 min of watching smth that really needs focusing, a few jokes just makes it totaly worth it! Sry for my english, i hope you understand what im trying to say.

/// Jonas
by Gr3kplay1 01/02/2010
Thanks!Andrew
by Batchman 12/25/2009
While at the new Dallas Stadium watching a loosing Dallas game, my sone and I recognized several Video Copilot AE projects including Fracture Design pop out as calling for Defence or Offence.

So at the end my son and I ended up cheering for Andrew Kramer instead of the Cowboys.
by Minhaj 12/21/2009
woah! i found this same video on this website and that website has a channel!
go to

www.sourmaths.com
by brandon 12/14/2009
ooh my that was by far the best tutorial i have ever seen haha took a long time but i learnt heaps...and i like how u wasted my time at the end of it xD it made me laugh.
by Adie iraqi 12/13/2009
Hi andrew i'm adie from Iraq,i'm big fan of your work and i realy think u r the godfather of after effects,and the one who brig the magic from it.
keep up and injoy us with more of your miracles
and i,m waiting
my best wishes
by symonashong 12/12/2009
Hey! Andrew!

very very thahk you for your tutorials,
I've saw many tutorials. and it was really
helpful to me

Thank you!! God Bless you!
by Nycholas 12/10/2009
Andrew I really enjoy your stories. Don’t stop.
xD
by marleysnp 12/04/2009
LOL HAHAHA OMG I was watching local telivision 11:00 news to see the football highlights and they had this preset exactly the way Andrew does it with replaced text. They were even to lazy to change the font. If I find a lonk Ill post it. HAHAHA. http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/channel?section=news/sports
by IronMeadz 12/02/2009
I love your rambling Andrew.
by v.parianen 11/25/2009
Hi Bros,
I am 58 its the first time that i got this type of tutorial its Amazing and i think its the best,thanks a lot.
Galen.
by awais 11/20/2009
Respected sir i want to joint u plz sir.i want become like u plz sir one chance
by Jonathan Topliss 11/19/2009
Great tutorial big fan of all your work. was just wondering in this tutorial how would you go about doing a realistic glass smashing

thanks for all your tutorials
by sola 11/15/2009
andy, pls pls post online the expression u hsed for fracture its so cool. thanks.
by jeff 11/11/2009
I really like this tutorial but there are problems with learning and following the instruction.
1. you work with cs3 and I cs4
2.you do not tell us about how to set the preferences example do we check in general the allow script action?
3. when i go to follow your instruction with the mask and duplicate well abeam the mask where there is a box add invert does not appear on my cs4. learning is then stopped and trying to figure out where to go to perform the same action of your instruction.

I wish there was a way that you could clarify so learning is easy
by mango 11/09/2009
Thanks Andrew. Other wonderful tutorial.
by Quiet 11/04/2009
You are the best Andrew and special thanks to you
my man and all your team.I have know so many thing
in your website and one day i'll return you all you do for me
by justus(14) 11/02/2009
thank u so much for that great tutorials
GERMANY!!
by Dirk 11/01/2009
just what i need "love the jokies in the middle" keeps me interested <3
by M 10/30/2009
great tut!
by Salvador 10/29/2009
damn man... you are great doing animations.
NICE JOB

by Zhou 10/28/2009
I'm a chinese, I love your work ,you are great ,I think the music in your tutorials is wonderful,but how can I get it?
by GOD 10/28/2009
you know andrew... ignore those who say that you waste our time telling those storys.. they're fun and enertaining

btw this probably still is the best and longest tutorial ever made by you :D
by mustafa 10/28/2009
this site is amazing , the best ever
by Daniel 10/27/2009
Amazing stuff Kramer (:

by Ahmed 10/27/2009
is there any way to download your tutorials just to watch them again and again to learn ? for free ;)
by Shehzad 10/25/2009
Dear Andrew!
That is awsome great work ........
i follow your tutorials....
i m grate fan of ur work .. and the way u teach is realy nice.
wish u good luck in ur life with ur wife ;)

regards
by Sam Rodgers 10/25/2009
Hey Andrew and company at Video Copilot!

I just thought I'd give you all the heads up that apparently the folks who make the Pop-Tarts commercials are really enjoying your tutorials, because they used this exact tutorial in one of their commercials

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=736299383092
by dara kurdi 10/22/2009
woooow,,,, so nice and so great ,, i need sport project pleassssssssssssssss
by Matthew Swensen 10/20/2009
just saw Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Show . use this exact graphic fot their ultimate mustache fighting skit on the show tonight as the open... legal issues?
by Vincent 10/13/2009
Hey at about 13:18 in the video, whenever I move the slider for the position, rotation, and randomness, my pieces don't rotate, but instead, the picture just gets bigger and so forth. Help please.
by Jacob 10/13/2009
any one tell me when i try to add the wiggle at 10:00 its a error and wont let me put the wiggle on it
by Vladimir 10/13/2009
Andew i want to ask you why when i add wiggle it gives me error?
by Mason 10/07/2009
your tuts are so helpful thank you
by sathish 10/04/2009
greatly elated>>>>>>>>. thank you very much..................................................................
by NoSponsoredGuy 09/23/2009
You are so awesome!
I'm learning english and after effects at the same time with your tutorials!!!
You talk so well that I can understand everything you say!
I live in the italian Alps, if you ever come here (Trentino) I'll give you all the free snowboard lessons that you'll want! yep i'm a snowboard teacher, and my name is Andrew XD
The Andrews are the greatest teachers :v
by Kristian Nielsen 09/22/2009
hehe.. AAA.. Always Awesome Andrew. :)
by Dutta 09/21/2009
jeessuus chrissttt!!!!

now i got it...ur planning to go to heaven and ur booking ur tickets this way!!!
by Who Me? 09/20/2009
I wish i knew you in real life. because then i'd just get you to all my projects :L lol
by Danny 09/17/2009
Not only your tutorials are fantastic, but even your humor as well.
Keep 'm going:P
by CEDX 09/12/2009
Always Awesome!!!! thx Andrew keep going!
by stevo 09/11/2009
man your awsome. i wish i was as good as you. i would really like it if you could give me some tips.
by Mao 09/09/2009
excellent tutorials, thanks..
by Abdullah Salem 09/09/2009
it is sooooooo nice

I hope to learn it and do it soon

thank you very very much
by Elad 09/05/2009
Wow, Andrew!
I love your videos, they're so awesome.
I guess your 2 seconds videos worth the whole hours of your work. ^-^
Keep up the good job Andrew.
by Vaish 09/03/2009
Love ur tuts, pls make a tutorial for transformers text animation. TY :)
by Jorge Suarez 09/01/2009
Hey muy buen tutorial como todos los que hay en esta pagina, muchas gracias!!!
by CHabc 08/31/2009
awesome,thanks
by fghdfgdf 08/30/2009
excelent tut thanks Andrew you're great
by Hesam 08/25/2009
Very good. Where u get these ideas?
by Mishig Davaadorj 08/23/2009
Yah, Thanks Andrew now I can do TRANSFORMERS TEXT EFFECT>
by Jorge 08/22/2009
I saw this integrated in the promo for UFC 102!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDK3os5m_A
by juanX 08/22/2009
muy bueno tu tutorial....gracias
by sachith 08/20/2009
hay man u r the greatest AE pro inthe world.....
by Eslam 08/19/2009
thx andrew . . you're the best
by DexeN 08/19/2009
Kramer Rulez!!!
by salah eddine 08/17/2009
hello andrew you are amazing man your tuts is so cool thks a lot man ya go to heaven thks from algéria
by Airman 08/17/2009
I really enjoy your tutorials AND your stories!:)
by ADVANCEDMedia 08/16/2009
Nice job Andrew I could really use this in my Counter-Strike movie! Thanks a lot!
by William 08/13/2009
I have action essentials 2 I love the System Requirements
QuickTime Compatible video Application
After Effects 6.5 or greater to follow tutorials
Lots of Hard Drive Space
A working Time Machine
2 Eggs
by Deep 08/13/2009
Hi Andrew :)

As usual hats off to your creativity, this tut is a genuine masterpiece

Regards;
by Deep 08/13/2009
Hi Andrew :)

Hats off to your creativity, this tut is a genuine masterpiece,

Regards

by Fenny 08/08/2009
Hi Andrew, :]
a realllyyy nice tutorial. it's awesome
can't wait to try it, but i've got problem with the script. i don't have it/

i need help. pleaseeee :(
How to get the script? Is there any way so i can get it???
thanx before, please tell me how . :]
by Milka 08/08/2009
AH, omg... i have CS3 and CS4 but nothing of them includes the particles effect :( i googled it already but i couldn't find anything!!! Can anyone help me!?^^ That would be nice... Coz i think that effect is very important and you have to use it very often in the tutorials :/ So if anyone have got the answer for my question, then reply pls :)
Ty
by Austin 08/04/2009
great tutorial and by the way your stories are funny
by A-M 08/03/2009
u r z AE Wizard !
Ty
by piriyan 07/31/2009
excelent tut thanks Andrew you're great
by hakimovesky 07/31/2009
it's very nice and cool
by Michael Jackson 07/30/2009
Nice! im going to tell the director of my next videoclip about this.
by David Vanderveer 07/26/2009
Sweet!
by Jonatan 07/25/2009
Love this tut!
and it's funny though
by DarkEntity 07/24/2009
Amazing,pretty exciting tut but looks really hard.Lots of works.Thanks a lot!
by Zariya 07/22/2009
Hay Andrew! Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was both informative and exciting. I will most certainly be putting these techniques to practice. You just given me an idea for a new project!
Thanks again,
xx
by rajesh 07/20/2009
amzing, mindblowing
by roswel47 07/19/2009
Hi Andrew, this is a great tutorial, i'm happy see all your tuts, and i'm learning a lot by myself, hit my head and try to work this stuff, and is so fun do this... thx from Venezuela
by p-chan 07/18/2009
where can i get the masktolayers.jsx and the riot gear fx?

i hope someone can help me..
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