TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
January 17, 2008
• Use 3D Max to create growing 3D vines
• Composite Z depth pass in After Effects for DOF
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
This tutorial uses 3D Studio Max and After Effects. No project files are available. Similar effect in Cinema4D: http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/?p=158 Tutorial for Maya: http://www.jessetoulafilms.com/TutorialPages/AnimatedExtrude.html
Running Time: 27mins.


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by Sinaya 02/28/2010
WOW!!! Amazing tutorial!
Andrew you are the best!!!
Thank you very much!
by raj 02/16/2010
hai andrew u r d master of AE.. this is best tutorial website which i ever seen.hey i was stuckedup in d middle of the tutorials.. while watching tutorial it was playing only for 2minutes.. later it stops playing..wn i play again it continues d same...
wts d prblm ??? plz help me ..

thnxs : Raj
by Tyler 02/10/2010
Hey Andrew. I was wondering where you got the grate image for your cieling in your promo vid for the twitch tutorial. I tried looking for one over the internet but i can't find one better than yours. If you could just email me back either telling me where you got it or attatch the image to the email. Thanks a lot!

Tyler
by Lordeh 02/06/2010
You are the best Andrew keep the good work.
by ahmedselimjouhar 01/26/2010
tanks 4 sharing ur art

from egypt and lebanon
by R1 01/21/2010
there's only one word.....WOW.....many thnx from Indonesia
by Akshay Kumar Migalni 01/20/2010
Very Interesting Tutorial,I got many interesting ideas in VFX,I will definitely Watch another Tutorial to get something more about Vfx.
by mihaimcm 01/10/2010
u are the best thx from Romania
by Andrew Levitchi 01/06/2010
Thnx from Moldavia
by anasani 12/27/2009
Hi man u r the best my greeting 2 u >>>
Go on we r always watching your great works>>>
thanx again
by elfenliedtopfan3 12/22/2009
omg man you are the best really but can you help me with this or anyone i make amvs and want to make a 3d room like he did in there but want to make a really big one and need to know the camera can you put it in a whole square with all 4 sides like a cube basically inside the cube and move the camera to wall to wall slowly if any one can help me that would be grate my youtube is http://www.youtube.com/user/elfenliedtopfan3
by CrOuCh 12/18/2009
Twitch is the best plug-in ever !!!!
Thank you Andrew,your tutorials are great !!!!

I love this site
Videocopilot is the best !
by Utku 11/14/2009
perfect
by StevenNoni 10/31/2009
i done it! but in maya!!! check it please Andrew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVVWeQrU0Y
by Junior 10/27/2009
Mr. Kramer you are the greatest man in the world..Thanks from Croatia...
by Somnath Sutradhar 10/26/2009
Really you are big boss.Sir, Andrew Kramer you are my teacher of Adobe After Effect. I Learn many option from you.Thank You Sir. i have no teacher but when i shaw your site then i learn and worked a media channel. i really happy sir. please sir help me in future.
by Juliaaaan 10/22/2009
This is the best Tutorial, ive ever seen.
But i need the Project File :D

Thx from germany
by Bradley 09/24/2009
Mr, Cramer.

Australia thanks you.
by Marconi Neves 08/20/2009
Andrew,
I'm brazilian and YOU ARE THE BEST....
Wow...
Great tutorials and excelent ideias..
Amazing man
by silas 08/03/2009
where is the download project??
by Mushromking 07/28/2009
AMAZING TUTORIAL but found a quicker way to make the room instead of making 4 different walls
by Pepe Jiménez 07/25/2009

Hey Andrew, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge, You're great. This tutorial is amazing.
by madhu_sanjel2000 07/22/2009
its wonder full pakage after effect
by DarkEntity 07/20/2009
Pretty cool...greetings from the Philippines.Kramer World rules!
by gitarakista 07/05/2009
great>>great>><<gReat>>

Jason,.. From : Philippines..
Thnks for every tutorials..
by Jeremiah 06/29/2009
I've done a video tutorial on how to do this in Blender 3D...for those of you who use Blender.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=51C7668997168278
by Mehmet 06/29/2009
I love all tutorial.. :D
by uday 06/28/2009
Very nice Tutorial
by MC-1OO 06/27/2009
COOOOOOLL
by Babafemi Akinbobola 06/16/2009
Thanks Andrew for your hard work, when are you going to work permanently on Cinema 4D?
by Dj Eddy Guate. 06/13/2009
Simply excellent!
by Vadim 06/03/2009
thats cool!=) thnx for you tutorials!
by hamza 05/30/2009
thank youuuuu !!
by Justin Breen 05/18/2009
Thank you for posting this tutorial. This is my first attempt at modeling in 3D Max and I must say, your tutorial was spot on. I am having one problem though. I have the room created and I was putting in the extra lights but when I tried to render out the scene, they wouldn't show up. I tried deleting all of my lights and starting over but when I did, now I can't get ANY lights to show up. Dont know whether its a setting issue or what but I desperately need lights in my room before I can move on. Thank you once again.
by Bret Lautzenheiser 05/14/2009
Hey Andrew, awesome tutorial.

just wanted to let you know I managed to do this in C4D, it wasn't all too hard to complete. If you'd like, I'd be willing to create a video tutorial for your site.
by Nasir 05/14/2009
Andrew is A W E S O M E. Thank you so much buddy.
by RemingtonM 05/05/2009
Thanks for another awesome tutorial! The more 3ds tutorials the better. I can't wait for the text one you've been teasing us with, I was just about to try 3d text in 3ds but I think I'll wait.
by Christian 05/04/2009
Hey guys!

I used this tutorial to make this prison intro!
Take a look and tell me what you think.

http://www.ubetoo.com/TopVideos.taf?_VideoId=9492
by 124512Jeremy 04/28/2009
Voor ongeveer de zelfde effect kan ook in After Effects:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/light_streaks/
(Form videoCopilot)
by p 04/26/2009
Im new with 3ds max and ive got the 2010 version .I have to find out how to desighn a face or something.Great tutorial!:)
by ph 04/24/2009
can u make more 3Ds Tutz ..with freakin text effects ;p
by kazwo 04/23/2009
suwun dab in english is Thank you bro.....
by Julian 04/07/2009
Hey Andrew...awesome tutorial..
Saludos desde Colombia
Bye
by manuel (portugal) 04/02/2009
can you tell me how to do an effect.
by pablo 03/21/2009
alguien de habla hispana que me ayude con los plugins de twitch ;D
que postee su e-mail y lo agrego
by SuperSteve 03/11/2009
Will you C4D guys quit whining about the 3D app. Andy uses?
Unless you live in some third world country, 3DSMax and Maya are 'the' 3D apps of choice - deal with it.

by Feroz 02/26/2009
Thank you Kramer.

Here is a link which I made following your tutorial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsPuLxe3k8

Hope its ok.


Feroz (Fiji Islands)
by Parkey 01/20/2009
Desde Uruguay te felicito! muy buen trabajo, ahora mismo lo voy a poner en practica,un gran saludo... eres un genio!
by sab 01/19/2009
Hey bro this is super cool.. i hope we can see more amazing tutorials from you..

thanks a lot for sharing this with us..
by Jihad 01/18/2009
Mr.Kramer

Thank you very much
by simon 01/15/2009
WoW! very nice tutorial


thanks from Quèbec
by Revelation 01/08/2009
In 3ds Max you can select on object on make it transparent by holding "ALT" and "X".
by David 01/02/2009
Andrew, I think I love you.

the best video copilot in the world by far. Better than my damn 3D artist teacher at school xD

Cheers for the tutorial. I hope to make some kind of title like this when I have the time, and purchase your products!

Thanks again!
by Travis 12/28/2008
WONDERFUL TUTORIAL!!!

WONDERFULLY EXPLAINED!!!

WONDERFUL OUTCOME!!!!
by Nicolas 12/27/2008
I use drafting software and this will really help me bridge between design and presentation. Thank you!
by joao 12/17/2008
i love this tutorial, i only have a problem :S, when i render the footage in .psg but in the end there is a image for each frame, how do i put they together? please help me
carefully joao lourenco
by Mathewa 12/12/2008
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by AgatoNN 12/03/2008
nice my movie its perfect
by michael 12/02/2008
hey andrew very cool tutorial that looks very cool
the vines looks very cool
saw wen you take it to after effects do you import as footage or composition?

do you know in Cinema 4d wath kind of settings or wath
format?
ok cheers keep up the good work
michael....
by Young Junior 12/01/2008
Salam
It's fantastic tutorial 'n very cool.
Luar Biasa from Indonesia
by Satish Devasani 11/29/2008
HI andrew,your tutorials are very much helpful to me.Thank you very much

from INDIA
by SUPERMASSIVE 11/26/2008
Oops, wrong link...

http://vimeo.com/2351280
by SUPERMASSIVE 11/25/2008
Good stuff! Here's my take translated to Cinema 4D. I even threw in some green screen for fun :)

http://vimeo.com/2340787
by kevin 11/24/2008
I am really stressing out right now. I am in the middle of this tutorial and I just rendered from 3d max as png. I made 100 files and i dont know how to get them down to the way you did for after effects. Please help me very soon I as so stressed out about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by moonoo 11/23/2008
Hey Kramer you roooock. You're the Chinggis in AE. Hello from Mongolia.
by Gurru1989 11/21/2008
Andrew!!! You are the MAN!!! Great work as always!! you helping many of us !!! have got two of your products and will carry on !! but u the man!!!!
by whabh 11/12/2008
Very nice. Thank you . Ilove videocopilot . Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you
by ebenezer 11/09/2008
il love this it"s really encouraging great work by uuu andrew
by Goran 10/27/2008
Very VERY nice!
I learned a lot about 3D Max aswell!
Tnx!
by multifrag 10/27/2008
Hi,thanks Amdrew but i have a problem with rending the projekt when im starting to render my camera starting to go mad its renders not the thing i wonna.when i putted it in activeshade its works perfect but i cant save it so please help
by Giul Viera 10/26/2008
More test:)

http://www.vimeo.com/2057731


Thank you so much Andrew!
by GiantSimon 10/24/2008
Hey Andrew
I love twitch and looked around to see if it would work in CS4.

I just got the Master Collection and run AE on a Mac.

I'm not quite ready to install CS4 just yet. Can't let my money maker go down.

Thanks for all the great stuff you do. I've purchased everything you got - keep it up the pixel-smashing heroin.

Jamie
by Paton MacD 10/19/2008
I was fully expecting to receive a tutorial with Twitch that would allow me to replicate what AK did in the preview. The tutorial that is on the free site is simplistic and shows the basics. But there is some more advanced stuff in there that I sure wish I could learn how to do! like the side lights and the grating on the ceiling at the end.
by Ahmed 10/18/2008
great man thanks a lot for it i will try to make somthimg like this soon, cheers
by peeks 10/12/2008
You can use Trapcode Particular to make the vines like in light streaks.
by linhtike 10/10/2008
very good tutorial
by BacaBro!! 10/04/2008
goago ka
by Serhan 10/01/2008
Thank you very much again for this tutorial! I love all your tutorials! Your my idol man ;-D
I hope i can be just as good as you one day :D
by Physically Present 09/28/2008
Hey,
I removed the main tool bar from the 3ds max ..how do i make it come back?

by the em 09/22/2008
thank you andrew - these are all very nice tutorials :)

im learning alot - its my new motivation^^

keep it up :)
by Espen Buer 09/20/2008
hey,

I got a problem when i render the 3D max project and imort it to AE, i can't get the clip to play:S i did exacly what the tutorial said but it won't work:S i need help!
by kang babay 09/16/2008
Howdy, ask a problem, why the TWITCH exaggerates in the AE not to come out,
by kanakan 09/08/2008
Great.Greetings From Turkiye.AMAZING TUTORIAL
Thanks...We wanna more :)
by omer 09/08/2008
hey Andrew,
i have found this tutorial cut in this tutorial it can be made just in after effects and TrapCode Particular..

http://maltaannon.com/tutorials/AfterEffects/GrowingVines/
by daniel elma 09/05/2008
hey, this is one of the best tutorials of all time primarily,, andrew is so cool,, video copilot rocks... greetings from the philippines..
by KIFO 09/02/2008
This Tutorial aep version:

http://www.donanimx.com/growing_3d_vines.aep
by Jhontalan 08/25/2008
Excellent!!!----- Excelente!!!---- Gracias Maestro!!------- Thanks Master!
by kapanpun 08/22/2008
thanks for your informations
by pomelo 08/22/2008
thanks for your tutorials , excellent!!!
greeting from china
by Will 08/21/2008
I really like the twitch and the growing vines. I was wishing that you would make this aep for us to see and play with. This is awesome effects. Thanks you are great..
by Ayros pictures 08/20/2008
Your tutorial are perfects but please, WHY DON'T YOU MAKE SOME ON BLENDER INSTEAD OF 3DS MAX ?
thanks a lot.
by nitro 08/17/2008
This is awesome!
by basem mesbah 08/11/2008
thanks andrew you r gr8
by nadav 08/09/2008
Andrew is the man!
by Guy 08/06/2008
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=9jTuJEicMQg

snowboard movie i made (something went wrong with music rendering on youtube, but still ok :) )

switch is gooooodd!! :D
by blimp 08/05/2008
how do u add the words?

great vid though love all of them
by bman 08/04/2008
Hi Andrew, every one here is right your are the best teacher, not just for AE but with the rest of your apps. I've learned twice as much in 20-30 mins with your tutorials than I did in my classes which are 3 months long. 3d Studio Max tutorials are great. If you can make more I would greatly appreciate it. Your graphics design knowledge is valuable to all digital artists. Motion Graphics Artists, Modelers, Level Designers, FX Artists etc..

P.S. All of your tutorials are excellent, it's funny hearing you go off topic too, keep it up.
by Prolitiker 08/02/2008
Hey, you´re great!

Love youre works!
by ringbearer 08/02/2008
Shit men!! you are the #%&!ing king!!!
the god of the after effectsand 3d design...!!!!

im trying the tutorial, for nw, no problem, for now... xD jaja

So man, greetings from Argentina!! keep goign!
by redfoxhound 07/30/2008
what about blender???? plsss



what about blender???? plsss
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