TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
September 19, 2008
• Composite 3D Debris and create meteor smoke trail
• Add dust atmosphere and street cracking
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
Be sure to check out Tutorial #26 to add Camera Shake!
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by Emerson Paul 10/21/2009
Andre Kramer, thanks for all this tutorials! it really help the people like me who wants to do a great film! i will try to buy all your products! THANKS! :))
by sdfsdf 09/02/2009
OOOH MY GODNESS, that was insane and also so easy to create such cool Meteor effect. Great Work as usual Andrew :D
by ode 08/26/2009
YOU'RE MY GOOOOOD
by javier c 08/06/2009
thanks dude !!! thanks a lot guys , here from Costa Rica
by Brad Barrett 08/06/2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxXMAElBSOU

First attempt (made it a missile instead of meteor).
Problems with motion tracking. I don't know how to do it properly. The layers were doing all kinds of weird things when I parented them to the null object. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to motion track to multiple nulls. I've only been using AE for a week. Need help. Also, the null was not giving me a Z coordinate to parent to like in this tutorial. Don't know how to fix that. Can anyone help?

blazer.jeff@yahoo.com
by bhanu 07/13/2009
absolutly amazing tutorial.......u r really good...thanks for this ....
by josh 07/10/2009
i didnt get the firestarter present thing with trapcode? where do you get it?
by Parthipan 07/06/2009
Hi Very Very Thanks ..... super tutorials......
by varnam 06/29/2009
thanks......thanks.......thanks
u ar great
by Jonas 06/26/2009
hi andrew nice tutorial thanx i´m from argentina sorry my bad english you are save me a lots of times in the movie THE METEOR when the actor look at the meteor the reflex in their glasses i see the a guy in front lol
by amirul 06/22/2009
haha..u really good! just like a robot.. :D thx for everything..
by SomeoneElse 06/21/2009
AMAZING! Dude, how famous you are! <3

I't doesnt work when i try to download particular, it says "page not found"

PLEASE REPLY :D

Thanks
by Jason Watson 06/20/2009
can someone please inform me of somewhere i can get those ground crack images? Thanks. Jason Watson
by densle12 06/16/2009
great tut man
loved the part at the end " im actually living in my car, beside a dumpster"
by mr.Duong 06/09/2009
wow very cool
by Brodey 05/28/2009
Yeah your really good at this buddy
by DeanVer 05/28/2009
thank you
but my trapcode particular is not licensed
pls help
by Espen 05/25/2009
Hello Andrew Kramer!

It would be really fun to meet you one time, and hear the: Hello! My name is Andrew Kramer! hahaha.

Thanks for the tutorial. This would be great to use with the 3D crater! Imagine a meteor is crashing down, and the camera is falling to the ground, then taken up and pointed to the crash which now is a crater

-Espen
by nIKO 05/21/2009
What version AF he using for making this tutorial.
by n.darken 05/07/2009
it's realy a good job man.
you are the best, thanks for all this tutorials.
<@;)
by Annon 05/05/2009
omg thank you
soo much dude
by fraine7 04/28/2009
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Incredible, and you're random comedy spinoffs are brilliant!
by kamehameha2004 04/25/2009
tracker controls me puedies ayudar xq l tengo
by Mohammed 04/17/2009
i loved your job my name is mohammed in iran i old 22 years i love your job
by magmega 03/30/2009
thanksss very match
u are perfect
by frazz 03/30/2009
i was wondering if you could put the 3d files into a zip folder and send it to my e-mail as i dont have 3DS max and i need it for my course work (im 15 and im doing media at high school) please help andrew im a massive fan and i love your work!
by Zahid Rehman Pakistan 03/29/2009
I Love these tutorials,you are doing a great job realy i love and thanks.
by vijay 03/27/2009
very very nice,cool,exlent
by ooaps 03/22/2009
awesome that all!!!!!!!!!
but i have a problem with the remove color mating
i didn t find it in the channel effect there is only cc composite?!! how can i do ?
by Aurangzaib 03/21/2009
Hey.............!
wsts Uppppppppppp
u r the the the BEST.........:)
i want to meet u !
by putte166 03/11/2009
Great tutorial but i don´t have that preset in trapcode particular of some dumb reason :(
by Arno Boioz 03/08/2009
Andrew Kramer you are crazy !
by Mark 02/25/2009
Hey Andrew,love your tutorials,I just have a question... The part where you composite the 3d objects... I always get a black background.. like when I batch render... and when I try to get rid of it in AE by keying it out... you can tell that the edges are rough,even after feathering it.. please if you could explain detailed how to render from 3ds max for compositing in AE without black background? Or even better Maya Thanks in advance and keep up the great work.
by David 02/19/2009
Whoa... I've watched this at least 4 times now, and that explosion never gets old. Thanks for all the great tutorials!
by esleider soto 02/07/2009
Saludo no hablo ingles pero e aprendido mucho de todo estos tutoriales tan sorpredentes grasias a dios por ponerme una pagina como esta alfrente de mis ojos.tengo un proyect de una pelicula me gustaria una ayudadita pero no creo que eso sea posible por tu valioso tiempo.soy de colombia donde vivo esto es escaso y con videocopilot he aprendido mucho solo trato y visualizo un futuro de grandes proyectos como lo que has logrado andrew. te felisito toda esta inteligencia que tienes se la debes a jesucristo el te ama como a mi.....chao
by ben 02/07/2009
you are the best man!!
can you make a tutorial about how to make a realy amazing energy blast
by tyrael 02/04/2009
hi adrew you rocks, well this is my question where i found the preset that you used at the end of this tuto greeneasy i think,

you so good
by Paul 02/04/2009
Go Go Andrew!
Thanks to you I made something simillar ^^
Not a meteor but... ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkXBjd09U7g
by NetinMaster 01/30/2009
YOU ROCK MATE!! AWESOME JOB!!! CHEERS ^_^
by niko 01/24/2009
grande maestro
by prachi 01/22/2009
g8 work sir,thanks
by Ma 01/10/2009
HEEEYY!!!! i am doing a movie ad this help me ALOTTTT jajajaj THNKSSS
by NAK 01/06/2009
hmmm..nice tutorials.This is my favorite website.I'm gonna make an action movie so im learning from this site.But i do hav a problem is that i only hav an old dv cam.Its picture quality is not like those i see in this turtorials.Any tutorials related how to improve looks like videos in this site?Cos buying a quality cam is too expensive for me and we are already spending too much on rest of the movie.
by David 01/04/2009
Could share AE file please!
thanks in advance and happy new year! :P
by BARDIA ELMI 01/02/2009
Hello Dear Anrwe.
This is so nice but my after effect doesn't have Trapcode also Particular effect.
I don't know what should I do.
Please Help me also if is there any guyes for help me please, I am waiting.
Thank you so much.
by SpeshalED 12/23/2008
Andrew thanks for this tutorial. Please post more.
by marius 12/11/2008
Torero!, Torero!
by pixelcombiner 12/07/2008
Great Great
by jonnyPain 12/06/2008
hey first of all thanks for the tutorials!!! but when i download the project files, they download fine but they crash my After Effects, i re sized them cuz they were huge but they still crash it? it also "skips" kinda..like the files are corrupted or something.
by Claude NJ Producer 12/03/2008
YOUR OFF THE HOOK, MAN KEEP THEM COMMING
by Rami 11/30/2008
Andrew.
You are the best, not because you know too much !
it is because you learn others and give them almost everything you know!

You Rock man.
by Ilyas 11/26/2008
Sensei Kramer you are the best. Wait til you see what I do with all you've taught me. I'm an up incoming hip hop artist and I'm working on a vid for my next release. Thanks a million!
by noname1 11/25/2008
Thanks you MR.Andrew Kramer very cool tutorial! Check out my shot done using this tutorial. http://rapidshare.com/files/163490386/CrashLanding.mov
by Shaani Ali 11/24/2008
hi andrew
by jah 11/23/2008
great tutorial...i'm a film major and u guys have helped me a whole lot. keep up the great work...
by Ga1nboy 11/10/2008
You Are Best In Moviemaking, that i'm sure you can do evrething with AE :))) Thanck You
by Najeem 11/02/2008
waw wawwwwwwwwwwww
u have a great mind so u share all tutorials great great.........what i say?
by Will Cavanagh 10/30/2008
I'm sure someone else has said this, but the fringe is a result of AE expecting unpremultiplied RGB in the PNG sequence, and you should interpret the footage as premultiplied (since this is how it comes out of 3DS.)
by howejay 10/28/2008
thanks
by AB 10/28/2008
Great tutorial, taking this tutorial a step further, how can we show the meteor coming from space and following it just like in the bullet tutorial? Once again thanks
by Adam Sklar 10/24/2008
This is fantastic, I am making a movie at home and I thought it would be rubbish, until i saw this! Thanks so much Andrew!
by Sergey 10/23/2008
From Russia with love...
Very good tutoria, like the rest of them...
You are a STAR...
Take care
by Nurasyl Nigmetov 10/21/2008
Hello Author,

Could I use AFE 7 version?
And All this plugins like explosions and road explosions is in itself the programe, itn't it?
I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks and Regards.
by Cyrus 10/20/2008
u r gr8 dude
by aibass 10/18/2008
thank you for all that you doing for us. you are great man.
by Pp 10/17/2008
Gracias! excelente. thx from BsAs Argentina
by ayielord 10/16/2008
you are the man!
by Rich 10/15/2008
Very cool tutorial and I love the talent you have.

But sometimes it's frustrating when I am going through this tutorial only to find I don't have Trapcode Particular installed. Even more frustrating to see it cost $299.99.

So nice tut, but I, myself can't use it since I don't have the right tools. I like the ones you do that only feature the things that can be done with a stock version of AE CS3.

But you can't control what we have :)

by david 10/15/2008
hey man great tutorial bye bye
by nazar79 10/14/2008
with love from Russia!Thanks!!!
by AJPROART 10/14/2008
speechless (once again lol)
by romtinerfani 10/10/2008
awesome-o
by Tianaina 10/10/2008
Andrew, you are awesome! Thanks a lot for everything!! Best wishes for you and your family!
by kakashi02said 10/09/2008
Great tutorial Kramer "."
by cumacumi 10/09/2008
tell me, how could u making all of these great tut, and none of them were -simply wasting my time and got really2 bored on the next couple minutes.

love your way bringing these tuts, making it seem far away easier to do, i owe u so damn much.


great job, cool tuts!

*ps; are u really a human? from earth i mean..
by French 10/07/2008
In my Adobe After Effects it didn't have the Effect trapcode and then particular to get the particles, do I need additional software to be able to do this?
by crash 10/07/2008
cooooolll Thanks for this great tutorial!!!
by Andres 10/06/2008
You Are a Master! xD......

And My Idol.....
by reda zaabi 10/06/2008
thanks
by Scholarx11 10/05/2008
te?ekk,r ederim çok i?ime yar?yacak thank you!!!!


muhte?em bi ders!!!


Thanks for this great tutorial:D
by Adam 10/04/2008
You are Godlike insane ultimate etc.:D
GReetz
by hrm 10/02/2008
weeeery interesting...Andryu"s the best of AE)))
Want to see a tutorial about a cracked ice-field after some shaking or the same action (sorry for english, I'm from Russia) =)
by The Bulet 10/01/2008
dam man i love the way you show things.
If i was there i would suck your duck like it was gold and then let you jizz on my face
by NA 09/30/2008
Your one solid guy Andrew! Thanks for the tut
by Samael Daemon 09/30/2008
Hey Andrew!

Russel Peter the stand up was here in sweden on tour with his sidekick Angelo Tsarouchas And I'm sorry.. but I had to...

I said: "Hey whats up guys Samael D. here" to them. But by their facial expressions, you'd guess that they never heard of you. but I did it for you my man! your tutorials always cheer me up.

Cheers
by hemanathan 09/29/2008
hi andrew ur training is awesome....could u able to show me some of the technique involved in removing ropes out of a stunt scenes
by Thomas A. 09/29/2008
Will be a tutorial for the smoking crater ?
Many thanks

Thomas A.
by Alex 09/28/2008
dude your a saint!!!

will i be able to do this kind of thing with Ps cs4 and cs4 AE?
by pro 09/28/2008
you make Smoking Crater please!!!
by Trent 09/28/2008
Why are you so, Awesome!

Thanks so much for this, I am into alot of Action in my Films, Just what i needed! =D
by timothy 09/27/2008
dude whoever you are..that's just awesome what you do
by max 09/27/2008
Another great tutorial by Mr Kramer. Great job guys, you are really the best source for after effects tutorials..
by JayElsmere 09/27/2008
Andrew, my brotha...Awesome tutorial!

I'm presently in pre-production on a superheroine video and fer shure I'm gonna use this effect!

You and the Video Co Pilot crew have made my purchase of After Effects worth the money.

Looking forward to the next one!
by MrScorpion 09/27/2008
This is Best tutorial I loved it

I Want To Say (Thanks AnDro KrAimer)

We Waiting for more.
by Ernesto 09/26/2008
Where is the original video that I saw when the guy is playing cards outside and then the meteor falls?
by LesGauthy 09/26/2008
Hey Mr Kramer, what is your inspiration for that ? you know this is not so common to find, share your knowledge and your time ... Very good job
by Polish power 09/26/2008
awesome!!! lol lol lol lol
by KAWA 3D 09/26/2008
thank u for vidoe copilo
by ANDY 09/26/2008
andrew ivove u
by yasique 09/26/2008
Fantastico andrew, we expect to win the other part of the tutorial ...
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