thank you

man your awesome i use your tutorials at school to get a's so ya, thanks for these great tutorials you actually got me to buy some of your products, looking to buy real clouds next, anyways great tutorials and great stuff. Hope you well in life and with your new baby (thatll slow these tutorials down)

God damn!
At the moment I don't even have AE on my comp so I just watching and learning and get ideas. It all looks so simple in some way .. Had a course in school and got kind of hooked... Cant wait to get started.. but still so good tutorials so I learn just from watching!
BTW from sweden so pardon the english..
keep up the good work ...

all your tutorials are extremely helpful. for me, this one is one of the coolest!
thanks

thx for all
very beautifull tuto :d

Great Tutorials, yours are the most useful ones I found so far. Great you take the effort to show inside tricks, on "current" techniques, instead of showing them years after the got out of use...

Thanx!

Thanks a Guru, I am new to AE and I am learing a lot. Thanks a lot. Keep it up Guru.

Vino

Wow that was amazing! Thanks for the tutorial Kramer!

This has completely saved my bacon so to speak. I've just been asked to recreate the ipod ad and was a bit stuck. What a great site you have. Many many thanks.

Hi Andrew! Great site!!!
Your tutorials are great!!, I´m a begginer in after effects and its pretty cool to find someone so skilled as you who Share his knowledge.
I´d like to travel to any country in witch i can study CG, Do you know obout any Public School where I can ask for an oportunity?

Good amazing

Good amazing.thank you

Very, very nice. The one thing I didn't quite catch... Why is it easier to animate the particles with a null object? A light moves in 3D space, so shouldn't it work just as well?

Can you send me the preset

you are so creative ...

very cool thanks a lot.from Mongolia

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Excellent tutorial. I went a step further and set an obstruction layer so the stroke appears to go behind it. BUT.... How in the world do you get it to go behind and in front, essentially circling around multiple objects in 3D space. You can do this with the 'stroke effect' on a 3d solid but it looks flat. Anyone have any suggestions?

you are god! andrew
thanks a lot. will buy some of
your products soon!

You are a tutorial machine! I love this one in particular...

Your tutorials are better than orther commercial tutorials around thanh you very much pal! YOU ROCK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhS7c-IhX0U
This is a particular? or something else?

Andrew -- why can't the 3d particular stroke interact with nested objects/comps (i.e., pass behind and in front of objects)??

thank you . i very like

Really cool tutorial! thanks a lot! But just a question that are quite important to what I want to do: Why is it impossible to mask the particle layer in order to make the stroke go behind an element?

many thanks from turkey

you're the best!!!

Oi cara so do brasil
adorei esses seus tutoriais

continue assim
E eu quero baixar o AE agora!
hehehe

Hi I'm from Brazil..
i just love all these turorials

keep the good job
I wanna download AE now!
lol

good

Very helpful
Thank's a lot
muchas gracias
merci beaucoup

long life to u and family

Great Stuff! Thanks from Germany!

greeeat :) thx you andrew

greeeat :) thx you andrew

Hi man really its nice

you are really amazing, the world needs more people like you, thankyou for sparing us time to impart some knowledge to us all,and you really are a funny dude keep it cool like that.

peace

Andrew , you are awesome. Thanks for sharing such vast amount of knowledge ..... Although I am not an FX artist, I am still a huge fan of your work and your sense of humor .......

Thanks a lot

Hi there,u have done some very good job ,but the video file is not working properly of this tutorial

you are the man the greatest and tnx for everything :)

Great tutorial !

Big thanks from bombed Israel !

i`m really really thank you and i still consider you my inspire teacher

I love you.

Hi Andrew,

as krycek mentioned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhS7c-IhX0U

probably it's made with particular as you showed us the method in this tutorial.

now my question is, how can we achieve that kind of smooth curves?

i don't know whether you check these comments or not. but if you check please answer this one. i'm sure maximum of us will like to know.

thanks for all of your tutorials.

I have a pretty good idea as to how to get it to go behind objects and such, however, I have the dilemma of using a moving camera shot. Could you please explain how I would get the stream to stay where it started, and move with the video, as if it were flying in the shot, and the camera was following it? I was wondering if you would need to track something to make it stay in place, but, with the moving shot that I'm trying to do, nothing can be easily tracked, since nothing stays in the entire scene. Please let me know if you come up with any ideas.

i'm a brazilian guy, and i really like your job.

You're the Man!

i have quick time, windows media player, and also real player, but i can't import any videos in.

Please can anyone help me

thanks
Akhil

If I wanted to Mask the effect in some way how would I do it. As it does not seem to work the usual way.
Excellent tutorial BTW.

Hey dude your awesome man after watching ur this tutorial i am ready to buy some of your products....
Thanx man

Really great effect but has anyone found a way yet to get the stroke to go in front and behind 3d object as just cant crack it

appreciate any help
Tommy

thank you my teach you are fabilouse with yours tuturial magic thanks a lot all arabs love your tuturials please dont stop thanks again

hey don't mean to bother you if u check this,anyway this just looks exactly like this tutorial and its a great video http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1518072&vid=194495 check it out

Amazing!, this tutorial is flawless and the way you explain is just too familiar and easy-to-get which makes it all much easier!. Thanks for this marvelous tutorial!

Tommy,

Been working on this myself, I have found that having your 3d layers above or below the particular layer determines if the stroke is in front or behind. It gets difficult when you have numerous layers as I found out whilst doing a 3d montage. I'm sure there must be an easier way?

This is my first post Andrew, only found your site by chance and I must say what you do is fantastic and very generous. I have already purchased one of your products.

Thanks.

Hey Andrew! I've watched all your tutorials, and yet, somehow, you manage to come up with a new and different tutorial that amazes me and everyone else every time!

Thanks!

Keep up the extremly good work! :)

Wonderful website ! Inspires me every day...

For interacting with other 3D layers, try to add an "obscuration layer" in Particular. This seems to work only for one layer

this is a great tutorial ,i followed it to make similar effect in my composition ,but wat happens is that i can see the motion preview but when i switch to full render i cant see any particles ,just the under lying layers.but with same settings in different composition i can see the particles plzz help

hey andrew
i love the site and how you've set up this great community!
i recently bought riot and gear and AME and they are both great as well!
i was wondering if you could look into creating a smokey-particle trail effect, sort of like the nightcrawler effect in x-men 2.
thanks again!

man, you're amazing!
Great stuff!
an idea for you,
you could host a tutorial about lightning,
the same used in the X-men movie,
when the lightning is passing over the Storm's skin
Please do that!!!

oi,

mad stuff andrew !!!
please keep this site and your work up...best on the net !!!

merci

man, you rock!!!
i visited this site yesterday for te first time,
cuz i downloaded a trial of after effects cs3
and started with the basics, and some other tutorials, and ive learned so much in so liitle time!!!!
thx a lot!! you rock, keep it up!

thx a lot, your tutorials are great. this helps a lot

How come I can't make straight lines? hmm

you are the beast thank u

so....! fantastic.....i created a video with your tutorial! it's awsome!

l love you

Hey Andrew. your my new best friend! many nights we've spent together side by side, hahaha!!!

Cool stuff, cool site cool guy.

ok thats the niceties outta the way, im trying to create a heart shaped light by following the pattern of my fingers........ any tips???

thanx

Andrew, You are awesome man!!! I have sped up my Graphics light years ahead because of your awesomeness! You rock! Thanks!

very good

Hey Andrew !

Again some asslicking here, but now from Holland.
Got 1 problem...some tutorials get stuck half way.
They just stop playing, so I can't finish them.

You got any idea ?

Mr. Kramer, I found this video, and I thought you might find it interesting. It's an official music video for Simple Plan featuring a few familiar elements. When I watched it I noticed that the light streaks looked very similar to the ones in this and in the previous tutorial. You'll also notice paint splatters from your Riot Gear product. I'm fairly familiar with them as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_dUR7IX-A check it out and let me know what you think.

Hey Andrew! You're hands down the number one on the net!!

I have a question for all of you posting here: I'm trying to work with multiple streaks...I thought I could duplicate my "particular" layer, keeping the relationship with the null, and offset it in the timeline to use it as a second streak, but it doesn't seem to work...any suggestions?
Thanks a lot :)

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Hey Andrew.Thanks For This Nice Tutorial.If You Would Please Kind Enough To Tell Us About The Effect Used In "THE MATRIX" (Time freeze & 360 degree Camera Rotation).I Think Everybody Will Be Happy of This Tutorial.

Thanks Again
Faisal Amin

Im amazed by your light streaks tuts ( Both of them). But I currentlyonly have Photoshop CS2. And being that After Effects is $999 and a bit out of my budget, is there any way to achieve similar results in CS2? Do you have a video tut for CS2?

I am trying to achieve the flowing light beams like from the Mary J. Blige vide "Just Fine". Currently, I only have Photoshop CS2. And being that After Effects costs do dern much ($999), I was hoping that you could help me achieve similar results as your light streaks 1 & 2, but with CS2. Is that possible?

You ROCK Mr. Kramer. So much I haven't hardly slept this weekend. I was so moved that I bought everything you have on your site. You and your tutorials(training) are the seller. Great personality to learn from and an incredible delivery. I GET IT Finally. Thanks man! You are BANG ON and you keep me laughing. I have been looking for the way to this level and your it!
I have learned more in the past two days than I have in the past two years. Thanks for everything.

Chuck Seay

Hey man i m using after effects for 3 years but ,the momment i turned to ur web site,it changed the whole thing,u r crazy,u thing out of this world!!!!!!!,kiss u!

Hey man i m using after effects for 3 years but ,the momment i turned to ur web site,it changed the whole thing,u r crazy,u thing out of this world!!!!!!!,kiss u!

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Gut, gut zer gut! Mr.Kramer

yo man!!! i´m from portugal and i started to learn with your tutorials. i just realised that i can make the same effects in so many diferent ways. i just wanna thank you like an aprentice to his master. lolololol
dont ever stop doing those great tutorials.
your the man.

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Hi, your tutorials are really good, but can you please do one on obscuration layers, maybe a light streaks 3? :) it would help a lot if you showed us how to make the light go behind certain things and people in the shot. Thanks

Hi Andrew, another brilliant tutorial cheers.

I second Ste's request though and would love to know how to make th light streak fly around sombody.

Wow~~the website is really really great!What i learn in tutorials is more helpful than what i have learned in my institute ~!you are awesome~~Carry on!Video Copilot!you are the best~

Hi Andrew,
Can you make a tutorial for something like "dragon ball Z" ball?!..

it's not easy ; but i try and thank u

Hey man, you are the best!, amazing effects and a lot of great stuff. Cheers from Ecuador!

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awesome stuff, you seem to know every friggin detail of AE!
greetings from australia

Im wondering if there is some kind of script or preset/plugin which you could add to this kind of animation (with the live footage) WHICH has the light streaks as like a audio equalizer, so they would move around to the beat of a song or have the lines as an actual equalizer which moves around....any ideas???....you have an excellent 'tutorial voice' as well

I've just got After Effects and was looking for tutorials on rotoscoping and ended up here. You take a 2D wiggle and turn it into a 3D light stream - :O wtf! I can see I'm going to be spending quite sometime here.

Everytime I see one Andrew´s project I think to myself " I don´t know nothing!!!!!!!!!" simple perfect.. I always search for a explained project just like this..thank U man.

Thanks guy,
I don't Know how to thank you for this amazing Video Technique.

Thanks guy,
I don't Know how to thank you for this amazing Video Technique.

Really great site with alot of good information!! Keep up the good work!!!!

This is one of the best tutorials!
Eryck from Brazil.

ok tahnks gracias por compartir conociemientos que sirven para el motor creativo.....bendiciones para ti ...desde Chile.....see ya

"The lightstream having a good time coming down the street" hilarious!

Your the AE Master... thanks for all your tutes!!!

Man I love these tutorials! Im going to see what happens if you use this and the tracker mentioned all the way back in the first tutorial.

It's the very Cool I am happy my name is Cadr I am Mongolia

thank you very much .... :)

Nice Work!

cara so tuto demais gostei pra caramba

excelente tutorial

Really great..nice work

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hey dude, U pimpin' my mograph! keep being creative & i'm wait for your new fresh artwork. I always keep my attention on You in the web. You're the trendsetter one in Indonesia. Great job!

Great work really helps, not only the organized speech helps but also the good vibration you have making us feel the true sense of learning witch is patiente, fun and creation.

Eric from Argentina

Hi there,

I'm having a little problem: I'm trying to use these streaks around a rotating can but the streaks always appear behind the can, something's not right in z-depth. I'm sure this is a simple setting I'm not seeing but I can't find it... Btw love all the tutorials m8!

All the best, Sam.

Ok. didnt work. i have after effects for mac. said i needed to use the project for windows?

Thank you for your excellent tutorial^o^
A Chinese fans here

hey man thet effect thet u show in the begin id ont get thet if i download your project cane some one tell me why not :P cuse i want to learn alote of after effects i just bought it :D

Men,you so great.Thanks a lot, waiting for new tutors

Men,you so great.Thanks a lot, waiting for new tutors

Awesome tutorial Andrew! Thanks for the edits for the original light streaks tutorial!

Here's my test using Andrew's techniques: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP7dsqaGXU

your stuffs are just too good.i wish u cud come over to Nigeria.

nice give me more

I have AE 7 standard and there is no keylight!!!! And it' wont support keylight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many thanks to you Andrew. The tutorials are SMOKING!!!!

G E N I O de la lampara.......felicitaciones desde argentina!!

Excelente efecto! impresionante para aplicarlo en muchas cosas!

You're DA MAN!!

yèèèèèèèèr is good

DUDE! u have the best tutorials man!!

love the tutorial, but im using the lightstreaks to wrap around footage of a keyed out person and dont seem to be able to get the person to obscure the light as it travels behind him then become visible again as it flows in front of him. the image is on a 3d layer with a camera but moving the null object behind and infront doesnt seem to work. how can i do it?

kereeen banget..., nice work..

kereeen banget..., nice work..

Thanks friends Thank you very much...

You rock! Thanks for the tutorials. I can't wait to play with this!

@Edd:
If I'm reading your description right (and I like to think that I am), this is one of those occasions when the not-quite-3D of After Effects catches you out.
While it appears to move in 3D space, the particle layer is essentially a flat object, so it will either go behind or in front of your keyed-out person - not both.
One solution might be to rotoscope a mask so that it obscures the particle layer at the times when you want it to appear as though it's behind the subject. Could be a lot of work, though.
Good luck!
:l

nice

Hi Andrew Kramer

Thanks for the tutorials...
I like your work...
It is too good work man!!!...
In my country no one, no one and no one can do good work like you!!!!.

Do you know I don't have job, i don't have money to study After Effect CS3 at school. every day I hope that I can find one job after i study by your tutorial (I like kind of this job), I can do some 3ds max. with After Effect CS3 it's my fist time for this program.

My problem is I don't have some plugin like you have.

EX.
_ Trapcode Particular for AE cs3
_ Channel Invert for AE cs3 and some more...
Can you sand me 2 of this plugin

If you can your next tutorial can you come out with Plugin?.

Thank you very much
Good to hear from you...

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man..where i can find the yellow line?? i want to get this tutorial b7ut i can`t because i don`t have the yellow line

Great tutorial. thanks 4 showings us all the hidden video technicals. Keep up doing the good Job.
En tout cas courage ,votre travail est d'une qualite irreprochable .Shabain .From South Africa

thank bro .....

This tutorial led to this video...

http://snowboarding.transworld.net/2008/08/01/magic-flashlights/

Thanks Andrew!

Gracias por las tutorias en esta ocacion esto es lo que exactamente necesitaba gracias

Im using the lightstreaks to streak across streets of my city. They do it nicely but to make it more realistic it would be nice to have them glow on at what they come across. So while they go, they light up the ground and cars and such. Is this possible and how?

Thanks!

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Thanks, though my AE crashed when I had a nice begin>.<

Great tutorials..would be totally lost with out them...even beter that there all within one link..just bought some products from you..well worth the money i payed for them...any way keep up the good work and keep them tutorials coming...what matt lewenski is to photoshop you are to after effects

Hello Andrew.

I was exercising trough this tutorial, and i was wondering if there's a better way to make the light streaks path more advanced. The null object is a little restrictive in doing some more fluid movements. Maybe a light streaks 3 tutotial. :D

Thanks anyway for this great tutorial.

All the best

Great job man, i really apreciate that you make this tutorials, thanks a lot, i'm gonna try to get your products soon.

Hey Andrew that was great...awesome tutorial
really liked it

I was wondering if you could create another tutorial where those light~streaks move with the camera to the next scene (not through 3D live action)

Thank you once again

Hi, awesome tutorial as always, maybe my comment is a little old, but as some other people I was wondering how to have more control over the movement, and in my case, the SIZE of the light, cause I used some motion tracking to follow a path for the light, and linking it with a Null object is perfect, but now the problem is I'm getting this tiny light, in which you had the same problem until you zoom into the Z axis...which..if I do that, or scale up the "particle" layer I loose the perfect trace in my BG footage, and that's no good..I've try linking back with an emitter, but seems I have same problems...so....any help here? thx! and keep on that nice creativity =)

ookk..forget my comment above, I just played with the "particular" options and found "Size", lol, sorry is just that I changed that one before, but didn't notice the render was still applying, this effect really takes a little render time and having some other effects in the comp, well now I understand the usefulness of "motion preview" ..except not so much for the size you don't notice that without "full render" :p, again Andrew, thx a lot for the teaching, you get that a lot, but really thank you.

How can i link the null object to a path? Like if i want to "write" with the light.

Thanks

It is amazing how you teach, pretty exciting and makes wanna be an FX man.

axesome

Great...awesome...tutorials.....really im ur big fan sir...and ur tutorials help me out a lot....and u r my ideal person...thnx sir

PUTTING THE "LIGHT STROKE BEHIND YOU"

It took me some time but I figured it out. The object that you want the particles to go around must contain a some alpha around the object. Take that object and pre-compse it. Then place the comp. under the particles layer. Under the particles effects controller and go under the Visibility tab and change the "Also Obscure with" to all.

P.S. There is NO the 3d mask

Hi!!! I love your tutorials, I like learning myself everything I can, but I was stuck with AE for a long time, and very few people studying in Mexico have good notions of it. Probably because of you I will get a good job, haha, thanks

I also would like to know how to use this with footage that shakes a bit. It does not look good when the streak is static and the background has a slight shake. Tracking does not work because it sets the keyframes where you place your light streak keyframes.

O Tee and Edward:

I to was struggling with this - then I realised even if you adjusted the path of the particle emitter then you would still have a problem in that once the particles were drawn they would stay where there we drawn. We need to be able to move them after they already exist.

The solution - Simple

Just parent the Particle layer (the solid with particular applied to it) to a null layer which contains your tracking data. You may need the solid to be bigger than your comp now so nothing gets get of and the layer is moved with the motion track.

Great tutorial....amazing.

But i want creat simultanious many streaks... how can i do it?
i tried it but the first streak disappeared...why?

PLEASE HELP

Hey,

Thanks Guru for such a great tutorials!

From: Afghanistan!

Hey,

Thanks Guru for such a great tutorials!

From: Afghanistan!

i do really like ol of your tutorials.....,im using AE 7.0 but i dont know how to use it basically,so i just watch ur videos and i enjoy watching it...it give me ideas on how to create those effects...but as of now i think i should practice more....please send me a mail im really interested to be your student...hehehehe
by the way im LEO from Philippines,

wonderful tutorial....you have eased the hardwork of thousand of people...great work...God bless you...

how can i download this tutorial

WOW your tutorials are amazing! I love everyone! Thanks sooo much!

Hey, could you make a tutorial showing how to attach the light stroke to your finger using the tracking tool? That would be really cool.

Great tutorials by the way, I've had the software for a couple of days and already feel like a pro.

Andrew you are amazing and your tutorials really are gr8

Great ... peace love and understanding :)

Thats really Great!!!..... you are handy Sir......I don't have any words to say now.....the perfectionist one. All the best wishes from India.
:)

Dude aswome tutorials just love your tutorials.

thanks,
MAKDESIGN

Dear Andrew,
Gr8 tutorial with useful tips.

Hey what's up!!!!
I am from Azerbaijan. I love your lessons .... You are really super people. Thank you!!

I've watch almost all your tutorials... man it's "dementors" not "dicepticons"

hey these tutorials are great, but I was wondering if you knew anyway to guide the streaks so they create letters? possibly? ok yeah thanks and PeacE

awsome.....one day i hope to be a person who creates affter effects

thank you just love your tutorial

Hi Andrew K just wanna say that you are truly the best web tutor in this whole galaxy:) true man:) cause i do find your explanation very comprehensive:) and easy to follow. "Man why couldn't we have more Gods like you:)" Well gotta go but i truely see the importance of AE it has unlimited zones:) I wish to thank my friend Jash for showing me you site:) cause your tutorials just keep on making me adore AE more