TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
November 26, 2007
• Make a planet explode using the shatter effect
• Composite explosion and add motion blur
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
To add camera shake check out tutorial number 26. http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=33
Running Time: 13mins. 43 secs.


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by saman 11/13/2009
sweet dude thanks for the tut. hopfully it will help me get in my brothers shoes (=
by David Ardila 10/27/2009
Muchas gracias he aprendido muchisimas aplicaciones de after y todo se lo debo a sus tutoriales, de nuevo mil gracias
by mango 10/12/2009
Thanks Andrew.
by sathya 10/10/2009
very use in tutorials because easy the teaching way to ite
by Nicolò Caneparo 08/23/2009
Hey Andrew, it's Nick from Italy... These are my first 2 days on After Effect, and since I've found your website, and your tutorials, I grew up so much with it! You made such a good job...

However let's come to the point... I've tried to do this blowing up effect... and well I tried to ad a "shaking" just around the explosion frames... (not more than 5/6 frames)... I've taken inspiration by the earthquake tutorial... It looks like the planet before "pump" up the energy, than shakes and blows out so powerfully... (sorry for any English mistake)...

Great job man!! Keep on doin'em...

Cheers, Nick
by Dharm raj 08/04/2009
really good

what a effect
by DarkEntity 07/19/2009
WOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!total planet destruction!!!you're the best there is!!!!!KRAMER WORLD RULES!
by Tireur218 07/09/2009
Awesome but 2 problems the first : The parts of the planet can't fall because in space there no gravity
The second : When the planet explosed the part could be more little




Thx , For the tutorial , You are awesome , Love you
by lex 06/22/2009
has it occured to you that the peices of the planet are affected by gravity and fall down. Hellooo its space there is no gravity
by Dimitris (Lombax) 06/19/2009
AWESOME WORK. :o
by marko 06/15/2009
where can i download explosion video
by alex 06/04/2009
hi andrew,
first of all thank you very very much for those nice tutorials.

i would like to request you a tutorial. If its possible to show me how to do the effects of explotion in a jungle with all trees and leavbes blowing with the wind, like the end scene of TERMINATOR 2.Please i humbly request.
by coolioguy 06/01/2009
this is awesome its so clear i love it!!!!!
by tommy 06/01/2009
aaaawwwweeeessssoooommmmeeeee! u r a genius andrew. i think ur da computer version of albert einstein! and by dat i don't mean a complete nerd bdw
by Abod 05/03/2009
great
by Abod 05/03/2009
Amazing
by lirik 04/29/2009
you now??? you are the best
by Alvin 04/09/2009
Hooray I've made Earth explode!
by km 04/03/2009
I wonder where i can download the explotion file?
you said in the tutorial i can download it from the page, but can't seem to find it anywhere.

Anyhow, your tutorials is the best! keep it up
by P-S 03/26/2009
hola soy de PERU MUY BUENO EL TUTORIAL
by Laurie 03/17/2009
Just wanted to let you know tha you have a very sexy voice. It makes your tutorials that much more fun to watch.
by Sindre 03/10/2009
READ!!!! for everybody who says that the computer is ''SLOW''! Just uninstall programs on you're computer that you dont use! if u just use after effecst ( Mabye 3D Max ) so uninnstall all the cracp programs Helped me alot! like fire fox! use explorer if thats you're normal internet browser:) and stuff like adobe sentral and those programs you may install when you installing after effecst ( Just dont uninstall Adobe bridge) it's usefull to import pictures and copilot stuff to after effecst:)
by jelh88 03/01/2009
I have a trouble whit this tutorial i cant see it full, it stops at minute 3:22 and dont go beyond :/ please can u check that im realy interested in that tutorial
by minh 03/01/2009
i'm vietnamese .thanks.
by rahul emmanuel 02/11/2009
dude your tutorial are amazing well it's just a request come teach some of the touch smart HP commercial well i need for my new project if not possible can you explain the pipeline if possible!!!!!!!!!!!
by Yousef 02/10/2009
Nice! You forgot the wiggle during the explosion but I guess it's not too hard anyway. :) Keep it up! :)))
by Mark Collins 02/03/2009
Wow man, this really is a great tutorial.

I gave it a try for a simple AE assignment we had to do in my digital production class. The end result worked wonderfully.

Full credit goes to you man.
by ali 01/26/2009
thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank
by momon003 01/25/2009
Hellow, i saw you'r tutorial (awesome) and i have one littel problem, where the explode from?
tank you
by Mannan Wai 01/20/2009
Awsome dude Great Tutorial. Thanks!
by yago 01/19/2009
Your tutorials are really fantastic.. Your speak is simple also for a lazy lame italian like me.. Thank you for all...
by Jesse 01/19/2009
as a child did you ever think you would blow up this big?!
by Alex 01/17/2009
Rofl

"Shatters into ... looks about lets see 1234.... 987 peaces"

Great Tutorial. Thanks!
by philip 01/17/2009
FREEKEN AWSOME DUDE!!!!!!!!1! Y0u hav3 f@ans from GREECE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by ali 01/14/2009
very good
by infarctus 01/12/2009
very nice
by KebleTar 01/10/2009
Amazing work and nice tutorial, but I must agree with Jordi, that the gravity should be 0.
by yo men 01/03/2009
Hey guy's, it keeps telling me 29,97 isnt the realtime and it doesn't play my videos right it didnt used to do that but now it does.If anyone has an anwser please send to p.papaspyrou@yahoo.com
Also the tutorial was awsome like always!!!!I hope everybody enjoyed it THANKS A LOT KRAMER...
by Nick 12/31/2008
Hey Andrew,

I admire you for your ability working with AE.

I found your website and from day one, I always check it out again and again trying to learn something from you.

You are awesome! please keep posting tutorials
as much as you can.

Thank you.
by j 12/29/2008
super cool as usual
by idilassi 12/15/2008
very nice tutorial...
thx very much for help :)
by idilassi 12/15/2008
very nice tutorial...
thx very much for help :)
by singking chow 12/08/2008
i'm chinese,and this is so cool,i like it

let me show you some chinese

?? that means awesome
by Rick 12/02/2008
I WUV U
by Jack O`Sullivan 11/26/2008
How do you create a seen when two people are fighting with toy lightsabers and you want to make them look like real lightsabers.
by Alexander Södergren 11/26/2008
Hello Kramer!
I just want to show my gratitude with my "you-are-my-friend-now-application" that I uppload to you mentally! hehe

But really dude, you are a good person and I thank you for what you are doing! :)

Best regards Alex from The Great Nation Sweden
by Amadeo 11/22/2008
I am new to video and to motion graphics, but I must say that I am already totally hooked thanks to you. Maybe addicted is a better word.

Fantastic tutorial as are all the others on this site. Congratulations and thank you.

Kind regards
by SeTh 11/16/2008
Well, thank the lord that you're making those excellent tutorials. You can probably say that I've become a fan of you Andrew Kramer. I like the way you're talking about things like squirrels and wasting time and stuff.

So keep on ...
by Ricardo 11/16/2008
Very good...In Spain we say it's "cojonudo". best regards.
by renil 11/09/2008
No words to explain... you are jus awesome--fantastic--mind blowing and historyyyy
by Eddy B 11/07/2008
This was just what I needed. I was looking for a way to create a shockwave and I could use this tutorial for just that. Actually I added some fractal noise to the wave and it looks really cool.
by marouane 10/28/2008
great works man ,well i with like to have some contact with u in future and know latel about u if u are interested to have freind

best,regards
marouane
by Gaby 10/17/2008
Fantastic tutorial, I really like every tutorial you've published. keep going like this. COngratulations.
by BEFORE EFFECTS 10/12/2008
THIS WAS YET ANOTHER AWESOME AND USEFUL TUTORIAL, TAKING THINGS SMOOTHLY TO LOW BUDGET YET GOOD LOOKING SOLUTIONS. IT ALSO OFFERS LOADS OF CONNECTIVITY WITH THE REST OF MY KNOWLEDGE SO FAR.

WELL DONE ANDREW WE NEED YOU......

PS: (TRY TO GET STONED BEFORE THE JOKE DEPARTMENT OF EACH TUTORIAL....WILL GET SOME JUICE IN YOUR JOKES DUDE.......UNLESS YOU FREEZE MY FINGERS ON PURPOSE....)

AGAIN THUMBS UP
by pantufla 10/10/2008
please, do yo can explain how can i do de planet's explosion in 3D max?
thanks!
by nashman 10/07/2008
Mr. Kramer, your Tutorial is very very good. Impossible. Thanks so lot.

Your the Number One.
by jacobvon 10/04/2008
great works
by jacobvon 10/03/2008
great job
by ceejay 09/27/2008
i thought you blew up the squirrels on your story ahahaha!
by Arundhati Jaiswal 09/17/2008
Hey i really liked your tutorial i m a recent beginner but can do much with the help of ur tutorial Thanks . Arundhati (India Delhi)
by Someone 09/17/2008
Genius.Andrew I Like you very much/And good luck to you.But i can't watch this tutorial at the time..Who can help me??I come from chinese.
by jesse rafter 09/14/2008
can anyone help me out during the project i had these thin blue lines crossing over my project what are they?
by rizwan 09/12/2008
Hi Great job you have done for the beginners in After Effects.
by Cody 09/05/2008
Hey i just got adobe after effects so im not the best yet but how do you render just the planet
by aryan 09/05/2008
VERY NICE EFFECT
by Alpha0112 09/02/2008
to taly awsome!!!can t wait to do that too!! you are using v. 7.00right?
by zakaria 08/26/2008
i didn't find (moution track) in After Effect 7

and a need the plugin to make some Effect.
by ToribioRaedenVideoEditor 08/26/2008
Hey I really appreciate your tutorials. I was working with Avid (w/o tutorials) and your tutorials helped me understand that app.I just bought CS3(been saving) and I have a great grasp from your knowledgeable tutorials. Thanks a whole lot.When i start making big money I will been giving back cause W/O your tutorials it would have been much more difficult to learn.
by ram 08/23/2008
really cool
by Alexander 08/23/2008
Hey I really appreciate your tutorials. I was working with Avid (w/o tutorials) and your tutorials helped me understand that app.I just bought CS3(been saving) and I have a great grasp from your knowledgeable tutorials. Thanks a whole lot.When i start making big money I will been giving back cause W/O your tutorials it would have been much more difficult to learn.
by dantex 08/19/2008
Nice!!! whit this i can make sun explode and tell grandma that world came to end!!
And while I was listening your story a thought that you will put squirrel in microwave!
by Satori 08/16/2008
Great!
by Wunan 08/15/2008
Awesome!!! Thanks
by WORLD VISION rick 08/12/2008
like you work's!!!
by jordi (netherlands) 08/11/2008
Very nice!! Just one thing...there is no gravity in outer space....so the parts of the planet cant go down...but it is very good!!!
by nitin (INDIA) 08/06/2008
sir can u give me 3d footage of earth pls...
by Konstanta 08/02/2008
Just Super!!!
by amiut 07/29/2008
i know im late but who!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by ramet 07/28/2008
hey haw can i have freee thes program
by karwan 07/23/2008
Thank you
by Payton 07/23/2008
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email me if it does or if it doesn't work... show some love!
by Omar 07/23/2008
Andrew..
My idol...
thanks for sharing.
with your sharing, people like me who are not really into production level can gain many knowledge... thanks
by Kevin Gardam 07/17/2008
Thanks Andrew, picking up alot from watching your tutorials. Will soon be buying the DVDs...
by doel 07/16/2008
dude can you make squirells explode too??
anyways,i did a little extra on the planet explosion and it was preeetty good what i did was except for the explosion video which was ready made i put an orange solid and took down the opacity a little feathered it out and animated it so it went with the explosion and it makes the explosion really powerfull looking check it out
oh and sth else there is a tutorial quy at
maltaanon.com that has made a tutorial for the vines effect you have done but he only used after effects and no other 3d programms its really cool so you might wanna check it out talk t u dude
by Ayaz Khattak 07/14/2008
Amazing Work
by Julian 07/06/2008
WOW!! That's amazing!
by steven 07/05/2008
really really nice!
by John 07/04/2008
Bad work
by faizal 07/02/2008
hi andrew im from indonesia .... n im just want to say ......... you are the great one animator .... keep working man ....... GREAT JOB !!!
by Shaun 06/23/2008
I LOVE IT!! i was hoping to learn how u did the camera shake to the match it so well!! HOPEFULLY A PART 3????

KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC JOB!!!!! MIND BLOWING!!!!!
by ramin 06/20/2008
very cool ,i like it
by Rohan 06/19/2008
awesome dude , keep up d good work
by anil 06/16/2008
hey,
this one is the awesome tutorial.
it will be better if you guys submit downloadable vertion of all tutorial now don't be so greedy..................
by alone 06/15/2008
very cOOl
by Marcus 06/04/2008
Hi Andrew,

I love you, you're the greatest man ever... Well that's already been said.

This is the video I made with your tutorial. I don't have the "action movie essentials" so there is no explosion in the center, but I added some glow to produce this effect !

http://www.dailymotion.com/Bonohm/video/x5nszi_caldaran_creation
by Zanekills 05/31/2008


Keep it up, perfectly explained, you deserve grammies and oscars!

By the way: I suck at after effects and you taught me!
by Jordan Sutton 05/26/2008
Dude, this is sooo cool! LOL, that joke at the end there was awesome! You Gotta Keep these jokes going man, you cheer me up :)
by baasse 05/23/2008
Where can i find shatter
by kevin 05/21/2008
I cannot see the video above? I can see everything else ok & I can play other videos ok. Camtasia, windows media etc....
by kevin 05/21/2008
I cannot see any of the videos, all I see is a blank box?
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