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 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..
by IsaĆ­ 07/14/2009
Yeah!!! excelent tut thanks Andrew you're great
by Max 07/14/2009
Adrew, thanks a lot! Greetings from Ukraine! And thanks in the name of the Roman Catholic Church. You're my teacher in AE.

Max priest.
by Kombo 07/12/2009
I like it, particularly because the fragments are custom shapes and not a square grid
by vj optikal prime 07/12/2009
I like your stories they keep the tuts from being straight forward n mundane so at the risk of offending anyone screw em'. Plus you crack me up alot and that keeps my attention. Thanks for all your hard work again. Hope to meet you one day. I'm learning so much more than I ever thought was possible experimenting on my own. Thank gawd for you Andrew Kramer.

peas
by Zabi Shahrani 07/11/2009
I Love Evolution !!!!!!!!
by Guy Francis 07/11/2009
Dude you're hilarious!!! Keep up the good work man!
by Marcos 07/10/2009
Thanks a lot from argentina
by reza 07/05/2009
thank you very very mutch
by Crakz51 07/04/2009
well done!!! youre the master Andrew ;)
i hope im so good like you soon!!
but for now its only a dream :p

(sorry when my english is not perfect, im 15 and from germany, so you know what that means ^^)
by abdelali 07/04/2009
waaaaaaaaaw very very niiiiiiiiiiiice thxxx
by atif 07/03/2009
Wow dude
by Jeremy 07/03/2009
Hey Thanks For the tutorial. It really helped me. Also if anyone wants to see the title I made its right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqzsd8zTBao
PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!!!
(ps i put it in caps as to catch your attention)
by Zack 07/02/2009
Wow dude. Your tutorials are extremely inspiring. Out of all the tutorials I have gone through on the internet, yours are probably the best. Keep it up.
by MIchelle 07/02/2009
I love u andrew, i think ur voice is hot!
by james 07/01/2009
yet another great tutorial by andrew!
by noreflection 06/30/2009
Just watched this tutorial, It is great like the rest and I have to say. I like your off topic stories and one liners, I can relate you your personality and you crack me up every time.
by Mahar Oun Muhammad 06/28/2009
hey this was awesome tutorial. i am amazed what you do with a single still image. i love adobe after effects but it is very vast.
by Ponjon 06/27/2009
Andrew your the man! nice tutorial, Funny jokes xD
by thesta 06/25/2009
Andrew,
muito bom este turorial, você é o cara.

abraço.
by i need help 06/25/2009
i can't find the scripts?!
by Killwa 06/25/2009
so cool ya man :D btw
stories you say kinda make the tutorial lil bit less than just a lesson u take in a school class
so that's kinda cool
keep it up :) thank you again
by Litz 06/23/2009
Hi Andrew,
I´m a regular visitor on your site.
love your tuts AND your humor.
But listen, my company works with AVID for the leading sports-channel in the country, but I´m a real Adobe fan. How do I get my boss to buy us AE, or better yet CS4?
Greetings from the Netherlands, Europe
by Mertcell 06/23/2009
Thanks Andrew

My from Turkey
by geardaddy1 06/19/2009
Anyone see this exact effect on the new Sports Illustrated spot advertising the Lakers as world champs? Gotta love it.
by badr 06/17/2009
Thanks andrew
by FrameRman 06/17/2009
How long does it to make this?
Please someone REPLY!!!
by jj 06/17/2009
hey whats up andrew... nice job i like you stile very very nice :)
by RAUL 06/16/2009
genial muy bueno
by Matt 06/16/2009
Hey Andrew,

I check your blog a lot, and love the tutorials you turn out. Great stuff man.

I was just watching ESPN and a commercial came on for a Sports Illustrated offer for the LA Lakers that uses this exact tutorial, minus the text. It also uses your Break Apart effect that makes the logo look like it shatters. Have you seen this? I don't know if there's a link to it out there, but it's obviously straight from your tutorial. Even uses the same images. You should get a cut of all those special offers sold!

Just a heads up. Let me know if anything comes from it.
by bird 06/14/2009
you a Angell !
by BBS PROD 06/11/2009
vous etre le metre d AE
merci mon frere andrew pour tt les efore
merci merci merci .
by zeeshan anjum 06/11/2009
amazing tutorial. great job....
nice tutorial.
by Jul Jul 06/11/2009
Hayop ka Andrew Kramer............ Ang Galing moh


ahahahahahahahahah........

Your a Brilliant Guy ............

Hayop ang Lupit ..........
by Rich 06/09/2009
Wanted to say thanks. I am using this breif shot in a short movie I am making for my stepson and neice and nephew about a toy robot attacking. The effects in the movie itself will probably look like crao but this looks sweet. Even though I couldn't create the sparks like you did...I tried but failed :)

thanks for all your help.
by j 06/09/2009
wow, thanks for investing 49mins of your freetime. Thanks for telling us how easy it can be, thanks for all the good stuff you share with us, thanks a lot dude!

Cheers from Stuttgart / Germany.
by malibu 06/08/2009
dude this tutorial was great an the rest of the others i learn alot from you keep making more man your good but i planning on getting better haaha im just kidding man thanks godspeed yo!
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