sweet dude thanks for the tut. hopfully it will help me get in my brothers shoes (=

Muchas gracias he aprendido muchisimas aplicaciones de after y todo se lo debo a sus tutoriales, de nuevo mil gracias

Thanks Andrew.

very use in tutorials because easy the teaching way to ite

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

really good

what a effect

WOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!total planet destruction!!!you're the best there is!!!!!KRAMER WORLD RULES!

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

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

AWESOME WORK. :o

where can i download explosion video

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.

this is awesome its so clear i love it!!!!!

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

great

Amazing

you now??? you are the best

Hooray I've made Earth explode!

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

hola soy de PERU MUY BUENO EL TUTORIAL

Just wanted to let you know tha you have a very sexy voice. It makes your tutorials that much more fun to watch.

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:)

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

i'm vietnamese .thanks.

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!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice! You forgot the wiggle during the explosion but I guess it's not too hard anyway. :) Keep it up! :)))

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.

thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank thank

Hellow, i saw you'r tutorial (awesome) and i have one littel problem, where the explode from?
tank you

Awsome dude Great Tutorial. Thanks!

Your tutorials are really fantastic.. Your speak is simple also for a lazy lame italian like me.. Thank you for all...

as a child did you ever think you would blow up this big?!

Rofl

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

Great Tutorial. Thanks!

FREEKEN AWSOME DUDE!!!!!!!!1! Y0u hav3 f@ans from GREECE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very good

very nice

Amazing work and nice tutorial, but I must agree with Jordi, that the gravity should be 0.

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...

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.

super cool as usual

very nice tutorial...
thx very much for help :)

very nice tutorial...
thx very much for help :)

i'm chinese,and this is so cool,i like it

let me show you some chinese

?? that means awesome

I WUV U

How do you create a seen when two people are fighting with toy lightsabers and you want to make them look like real lightsabers.

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

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

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 ...

Very good...In Spain we say it's "cojonudo". best regards.

No words to explain... you are jus awesome--fantastic--mind blowing and historyyyy

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.

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

Fantastic tutorial, I really like every tutorial you've published. keep going like this. COngratulations.

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

please, do yo can explain how can i do de planet's explosion in 3D max?
thanks!

Mr. Kramer, your Tutorial is very very good. Impossible. Thanks so lot.

Your the Number One.

great works

great job

i thought you blew up the squirrels on your story ahahaha!

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)

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.

can anyone help me out during the project i had these thin blue lines crossing over my project what are they?

Hi Great job you have done for the beginners in After Effects.

Hey i just got adobe after effects so im not the best yet but how do you render just the planet

VERY NICE EFFECT

to taly awsome!!!can t wait to do that too!! you are using v. 7.00right?

i didn't find (moution track) in After Effect 7

and a need the plugin to make some Effect.

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.

really cool

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.

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!

Great!

Awesome!!! Thanks

like you work's!!!

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!!!

sir can u give me 3d footage of earth pls...

Just Super!!!

i know im late but who!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey haw can i have freee thes program

Thank you

NEWS FLASH(pretend it's flashing)

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY OF THE CC TOOLS GO TO
http://cycorefx.com/downloads.php

and download them there
my email is payton2007@dishmail.net
email me if it does or if it doesn't work... show some love!

Andrew..
My idol...
thanks for sharing.
with your sharing, people like me who are not really into production level can gain many knowledge... thanks

Thanks Andrew, picking up alot from watching your tutorials. Will soon be buying the DVDs...

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

Amazing Work

WOW!! That's amazing!

really really nice!

Bad work

hi andrew im from indonesia .... n im just want to say ......... you are the great one animator .... keep working man ....... GREAT JOB !!!

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!!!!!

very cool ,i like it

awesome dude , keep up d good work

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..................

very cOOl

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

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

By the way: I suck at after effects and you taught me!

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 :)

Where can i find shatter

I cannot see the video above? I can see everything else ok & I can play other videos ok. Camtasia, windows media etc....

I cannot see any of the videos, all I see is a blank box?

Hey people, I could use a little help on a different project where I'm using shatter.
I keyframe the force1 strength but it doesn't shatter...it only shatters when their's no keyframes but i want to delay it a little while....what am i doing wrong?

Great tutorial, but I've got a question. How do you get the falling debris of the exploded planet outside the planet-object? I am doing a similair tutorial from someone else, but the debris of the exploded window (in my case) is falling into nowhere, it disappears outside when falling outside the window.

Excuse me for my bad english, I'm not a native English speaker.

sweet where can i get the planet footage?

awesome man!! really awesome ..
u make ae very easy to me...
thanks .......

Es realmente fantastico

Thank you

thank u...

Awesome! Just awesome ...

wow, very nice !!!

Excellent tutorial. So are the rest of them. Hope to see some new ones soon

Thanks for the awesome tutorial =)

I found that if you apply Fractal Noise onto the Shockwave, results will be better. Tinker with the Fractal Noise.

What an awesome service you offer Andrew. When I first happened upon your site, I thought, "cool, I'll look at some of these tutorials but I don't need any of the products". But then I proceded to watch nearly every one of your tutorials (haven't gotten much sleep!). Now, having experienced the exceptional quality of your work (on the tutorials), I will purchase/try some of your products - because if they measure up to the quality level of your tutorials, it will indeed be money well spent!

ONE REQUEST: The visual/run quality of your tuts is also superb. Could you please share with us (or, hey, make a tutorial) the basics of how you make these; what you use to capture screen, edit, output format and settings, how you host, etc.).

Thanks again,
Danno

P.S. Please keep these tutorials coming! Your brand of 'extra-day' humor is priceless, and makes great tutorials ever so much more fun to experience!

Hi all,
tnx Andrew for another great tutorial
this is what I made of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1fIsjAeS8
I used the earth thing which is explained in a previous tutorial (The Blue Planet)to be blown up. it istn very good, so please tell me how i can make it better ;p

bye all, greetz from belgium

I dont find this shatter effects can someone help me?

How to you make the Stars twinkle?

Hi I have a question

I have got a background and a tranparent object on top that i want to blow up, but when it blows up the flying pieses dissapear after they go past the object, they dont show up on the background, Please explain ^_^ sorry i have bad english :P

your tutorials are definitely beneficial especially for the beginners and professionals.

thanks for this tutorial. i learned a lot from you.

this is great. ive used it for my show reel at college. i had to use maya for the sphere as the cc sphere tool wouldn't work.
ive learnt so much from this website
andrew your are god!!

Andrew,

What happened to the project files for Exploding Planet?

Also, how about a quick Indiana Jones "plane leaving a trail on a map" effect tutorial?

Thanks a BILLION for sharing your knowledge!!!

love it, it's amazing, but i didnt know how to create a moving planet, thatz kind of sad - -|

but i love it so much

Great job Andrew! I am actually working on my own film where I need a planetary explosion, and this tutorial was great!

I was wondering, would you ever consider doing this same tutorial using 3DS MAX? It would be great to see how similar or different the final results would be.

thanks again!

First of all, I LOVE your tutorials. They are the best on the web. I just started using AE and your tutorials were VERY helpful.

Just wanted to add something to this effect (requires Trapcode Shine though).
Apply this effect to the prerendered planet and set Transfer Mode to overlay (in effect settings), colorize to Fire and Base on Alpha. This really gives the explosion more strength. Also, you have to play around with the Shine Opacity and Boost Light settings (so the Shining will fade in and out (when explosion finishes)).

I hope I can come up with new ideas in the future, but for now I'll use your tutorials to get around in AE :).

very nice tutorial as always.
thank you

Do you know what! Same always.. cool

Hi there!
I just wanted to let you know that I used this tutorial (and some of the expressions and workarounds from your other stuff) for a little band-introduction video. I'm not going to post the link here, but if you're interested in seeing it (for whatever reason you would be interested in seeing own your work re-done by lesser beings ) feel free to e-mail me.
Happy new year!
Jules

wow andrew...
people Love You...
I dont...
i look up to your greater knoledge...
yh thats it...

ha ha

@ Person

That probably means you have an unregistered verison of trapcode particular. What you do is go onto their site and buy a new key.

That's amazing!
Good work Kramer You're website is great!and congradulation for you're baby.

Great tutorial !!
All these tutorials are awesomes !

thank you.

i have a huge x on the screen that covers everything and when i render it it still shows up. what do i do????

cool!

very nice tutorial as always.
like your humor too

btw mr.kramer if you read this is there a box set available with all the dvd's you have released so far? or is there going to be one? might be something to think about.

also to the people who are having trouble with a slow pre-render and want to buy a new pc.
videocard and ram are the most important things.

anyway looking forward to upcomming tutorials,
happy hollidays.

Erik.

rofl, "I used to blow tings up at home, I used to catch small animals and then bring them into the kitchen where there was a microwave" >-(
"I then made small meals for them and one day they just left"
ROFL that was priceless, great tutorials, really helping me understand AE keep it up

you have a great tutorials simple & usefull.
thank you

i have a in problem multipasses compositing can you help me

Hey Andrew Kramer!

Hope you read this, I'm about to watch the tutorial now. I watched the previous one and it was pretty cool.

As of yesterday I now own every single one of your products.

Good luck with your child and your wife, I look forward to many more products and tutorials soon.

Bye!

Thanks Andrew, this tutorial looks great. Just wondering where can i get the shatter plugin for after effects 7 and how much does it cost

Wow! That was sure awesome! It's easy (or you make it easy) but you can still impress your friends with that effect! Thanks Adrew! You rock!

i realy wonder how you find out this amazing technics?

u r god

Hi

I'd like to know about your hardware to
work without flickers and a good real time
preview. my system is very slow.

Thanks for all

Ronaldo

Nice tutorial! I've find a tutorial at some other site about a pepole who' "transformed" to an animal but i can't find that site again. Can you make tutorial about that please?

anderu i need more they all tutorials are great can u make some land slide tutorials or can u help me where can i find those kind of tricks to make land slide in 3dmax or in ae

KRAMER!!!! KRAMER!!!! ANDREWWW!!!!

At the min 7:50 you select de Adjustment Layer and hit "Alt" + Begin Braket. Wich key is the "begin braket"???

You could make a tutorial of keybord shortcuts. Or make subtitles everytime you hit the keyboard.

Love your tutorials. Thanks and keep going!

I WANNA HAVE DEANNER WITH YOU!! =P

Thank you

Nice tutorial Andrew.

The only sad thing about the Shatter Plug in, is that it doesn't have very much realsism...

do you speeak portuguese? você é completamente xarope, muito bom. xarope

Muito bom amigo

Parabens !!!

I cant't say anything but ......... GREAT

what a tutorial Andrew...i'm so amaze and it help me a lot on my projects...

Dat was awesome

great!

i love this tutorials very much i am realy mad about this site i have wached all ur tutorials
thank u

rohit

Were is die download button ? newbs can not look online

Could someone tell me how to make the tiles shatter away from the camera instead of towards it?

Hi Andrew great tutorials as usual, but I wanted your to know I sent you guys an email since i had some technical problems
with the dvd's I bought but you haven't answered me, please check for my mail...it's really a simple problem...anyways, keep up the excellent work Andrew your tutorials are the best hopefully I'll buy more of your dvd's this xmas. thanx

Wow!

is there a way to be able to download these? you see i am not able to have internet access all the time.

Man, this is one of the greatest tutorials here! i've alwasy wanted to learn this, and it turns out it's not THAT hard to do! thnx man!!

ANDREW! You have just gotten yourself a new customer. Man, what a delight watching these tutorials! I could do this all day!!
I've never learned so much in so short time. I want to buy every DVD and plugins you've got, but I don't have the money for everything...damn!

Cheers from Norway

andrew you rock!!!!
amazing tutorial.
regards from argentina

beautiful

Not as good as others you did . Keep on.

Awesome tutorial! Pitty i don't have he Action Movie Essentials! Do you know where i can find a similar effect, but for free?

thank you for helping me

Dude, your tutorials are pretty cool! I`m just started with after effect and your tutorials do help me a lot! Keep up the good work Andrew!

Awesome!

Its a really cool tutorial but what would make it even better is using the same trapcode particular effect you used on the blood tutorial but with a rock created in a 3D program then you could animate some of the debris heading towards the camera with a wiggle effect for impact. I can't do this as I can't afford any of the 3D programs. But if some one out there could provide a 1 sec rock video like the blood cell then maybe we could all have a go at it with trapcode free trial download.

hi Andrew,i have request,i need to learn how make
slow emotion in after effect ,and one more thing
ineed to learn more about cinema tricks.
thank you Andrew
see you soon
bey

Loved the tutorial, but I'm probably missing something. I took a green screen person and applied the shatter filter and the person simply disappears from the screen and nothing short of turning the shatter filter off will make them reappear. It looks pretty simple in the tute. What am I doing wrong??? I figured I could explode a person just like the planet.

thank you for helping me

Andrew amazing thanks so much!
Have a great holiday season!

Mierda, esta jenial! Me he cagaao!
Keep being cool!

Good stuff...I really appreciate you After Effects tutorials a lot. Giving those AE tutorials away for free is even better. Hope I'll be able to buy some of your Movie stock footage stuff one day...i really do! Greetings from Switzerland. Tric

you are my GOD !!!

this reminds me of something....

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Beam/DeathStar.html

We have returned...
We must have your recipe for nuts
Lets do lunch

hi i am kurdish in iraq

very good very good

thinks for tutorials
bat i need download tutorials
pleas help me

A Chinese boy Salutes to you

Andrew, your work is espectacular!that you for sharing your knowledge.Your work has inspared many people.

Azores Islands, São Miguel

That was great

Please Andrew !!! STTOOOPPP !! I have a family life too !
My wife will soon kill me if you put another tuto like those !

(chhhhuuut : make some more, i'll not telling her )

ver tus tutoriales es super motivante para alguien que esta aprendiendo after effects son un gran aporte
saludos desde chile

SOO NICE !
You are THE best !
This one is my favorite ! I like the concept : blowing a planet...
WHERE DO YOU TAKE THOSE EXCELLENTS IDEAS ?

I hope you will continue to do tutorials for a long time !

Thanks Andrew

press the tilda key on keyboard (it's abouve the tab key)
Tyler Says:
11/25/2007 - 22:30
P.S. How do you make the comp window fill the screen for preview?

Hello Mr. Andrew.. I have some question for you. what have you been started withComputer Graphics? (Uh.. my english isn't good :/) I mean, How Do You Get Started With Computer Graphics?? I beg you for answering me. I would feel honored.

The only things better than the tutorials are; Sam's really rather good acting and your ongoing Woody Allen impersonation.

Always great stuff coming out of the site i recommend it and all of your products all of the time.

Also love the hidden humor throughout the tutorials
got me in trouble at work today... i was learning and laughing WAY too MUCH!

Saludo desde Republica Dominicana

muy Bueno.....

http://www.youtube.com/elbombidbr

god bless you ~~

Dude...

I know you're married and stuff...just had a daughter and all...but I love you, man. I really do.

Hahahaha!

Just kidding, keep them good tutorials coming!!!

p.s: (deep inside, I really love you)

You are the best of the best. Giving free tutorials.. you got all my respect man.

P.S. i have a question if someone can help me. Any way to make an effect (like radial blur) appear only at specific time, and at specific place with selectable oppacity?? i need to know this!!! :D

Saludo.... Esta muy Bien me e combensido mucho mas de tu capasidad.. Les dejo una direccion de un vidio que e hecho con AE y Cinema 4D...

http://www.youtube.com/elbombidbr

hola a todos!!!!

Ese ESTUVO DE MARAVILLA sigue asi!!!!!
saludos desde mexico df!!!!

thanks andrew

the last part with the squirrels xD
thank you for one more of this great tutorials
keep it up ^^

Being a living God myself, I find it more fun to blow things up in AE rather than doing it for real. This was the coolest tutorial yet! Love them all!Thanks so much and please keep 'em coming!

I'm Turkish.I say it because I can't write very well sorry:D this tutorial is wonderful,awesome,fantastic... thanks Andrew

This is soo cool, but i think the shattering parts should be smaller, but hey i can change that if i want :D thank you so much for all the tutorials. Does anyone know were I can get plug-ins and effects to after effects?

I love your tutorials man, you've taught me so much. I've made several videos in the last month. I check everyday to see if you made anything new. anyways, here is my latest video in which i used your guides.

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

keep up the awesome tutorials!

Yeah this is awesome, I've worked alot with apps like Photoshop and Dreamweaver but never even knew what After Effects was. I actually have it cause I bought Adobe apps and packs at extremely good student discounts here in Sweden so after watching all the tutorials here and the basic training ones I definately gotta try it out for myself.

Hey Everyone, great Tutorial, one question, for some reason when I ram preview it only lets me preview 5 seconds, I'm posative it use to let me preview more than that, I tried checking the enable chache folder but still nothing, any help, anyone. :( please

thanks

shaun

Hi andrew. I would first of all like to thank you for all your tutorials! They have helped me a lot.
I would just like to hear from you what make and model camera you use for your tutorials.
Is it possible for you to let me know because I am on a mission to find a new camera.

THNX Adrew ~

Dman man. As usual you always impress me and whoever watches your stuff.
God bless and keep up the good work (so that I can learn more...lol).

Excellent tutorial, just like all your others. Thankyou!

thank you Andrew

Andrew, I just made this effect a couple of days ago, I did some things different but it is basically the same effect, I see.
This is my frist comment ever, I just really got excited to see this effect being here after I just had done it a couple of days ago.

here is my vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SanGNWn_R8

thanks, and yes, those are your sound effects, I could not be happier, I love them, looking forward to buy evolution.

That was awsome... could you make a tutorial on how to make realistic explosions on earth. such as on buildings and such.

Gracias por enseñarnos tus conocimientos
y compartirlos
you are fantastic Thanks

Well Andrew, I've seen you made better!! Maybe get in to trapcode more or useful things...

wow~~~대단~

Amazing Andrew. I never thought such a 3-d looking affect could be so easily pulled off in AE. Thanks, and check out my Exploding Planet logo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rza_-sR5RW0#GU5U2spHI_4

thank yau

Notice I did that you referenced the 2 FORCES in the properties of the shatter plug in. No coincidence this is, hmmm? Only one force there is but for some who choose the dark side of the force a separate force there is . Perplexed am I. Oh well, sorry I'm a SW geek. Happy Holidays and "May The 2 Forces Be With You. Oh yeah, great tutorial. You rock.

I don't have words for these stuffs you do... You're sure breaking the jinx and the ol' cult thing. Crazy stuffs. Great gestures. U generous.

Keep it up!

What can i say ! wonderful stuff
great work again !

Nice work!!! I use 3d for many years untill I find this great learning stuff bougth some dvds and it´s real good.Thanks for your work.
For this tutorial I want to share this link maybe is an easy way to change for a different background.
http://www.ap3d.com/betterspace/betterspace-tut-04.htm

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Very cool stuff man.

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Dear ANDREW KRAMER,
I AM A BEGINNER...
I WATCHED EVERYTHING AND STUDIED THEM IN 3 DAYS!!!
I ONLY SLEPT 3HOURS PER DAY!!!
I WORKED ON AFTER EFFECTS 10HOURS NON-STOP!!!
I AM DYING TO HEAR NEW THINGS FROM YOU!!!

Now...just tell to stop Andrew..please i beg you.
Since...You Andrew, Your Crew, Your Website, Your Products are the...

-BEST LEGAL DRUGS ON THE ENTIRE EARTH!!!-

I AM SO F*CKING ADDICTED!!!

Have a nice day. :)
Greetings from Germany

Fantastic!!!

My bro just turned me on to this site today. I've learned more in a few hours than in a qhole quarter at skule. You rock AK!

hi andrew
u did a gr8 Job another gr8 tutorial. Man its awsome .

This was another great tutorial. The thing I enjoy most about your tutorials is the potential to create completely different things using some of the basic techniques that you outline. I probably am going to make the shatter particles less blocky; maybe that way it would look a little more realistic. This is still a great effect though, keep it up!

That was awesome! I was questioning how it would look until you did the final force blur effect on it and I was pretty sold. It looks like a Sci-Fi Channel Original movie effect, but hey, on no budget and just about half an hour, give or take, that's good enough for me. Sweet job!

Thank you Andrew, without your help it would be so more difficult to start make my dream come true...make the earth explode..well not really...make me start to study in the world of special fx...anyway hope one day i can thank you in person so you can say thank you to me for buying your products well as soon as i can i'll purchase the Evolution one..See ya and good work

Nice work!!! I use 3d for many years untill I find this great learning stuff bougth some dvds and it´s real good.Thanks for your work.
For this tutorial I want to share this link maybe is an easy way to change for a different background.
http://www.ap3d.com/betterspace/betterspace-tut-04.htm

That was so cool! (again)
You should make more tutorials where you show how to use the explosions of Action Movie Essentials. Like the explosion in AME trailer where the guy gets blown to the ground near some box. I've never learned to use the explosions right...

Hey andrew Relly Cool tutorial =]

but i relly give u credit if you crate abullet tutorial plese:P

Sorry On the splles im from israel and i just 13 years old

so thank you very nutch=]

Ariel

>-(This Is So Damn GreatGood Work

Not bad, not bad ...

I've done something similar.

PS: Andrew, think about some tutorial with STAMP TOOL INCLUDED! I think that will be interesting, and I like to see your creativity again in the act soon...

Sorry for my english whritening.

EVERITHING BEST FOR YOU AND YOUR CREW!
JUST CONTINUE!
BIG HELLO FROM SERBIA!

Andrew--been using your tutorials for several months now, just wanted to say thanks for sharing your expertise!

Also, I caught the season premiere of the History Channel's "The Universe" last night, and it was titled "Alien Planets." One of the planets looked suspiciously like the scene you create in this tutorial...am I wrong in thinking that you did some work for them? If so, cheers!

Merci beaucoup Andrew, I learn so many things with all you tutorials and in some ways you helped me found a job...
Thank you so much

WOW! Almost as many tutorials as ayatoweb! You just need 2 more!

Anyway, yours are much much more useful since you also provide the source file...

Thanks Andrew! Please keep up the great work!

(PS - If you take requests... I would like to know how to do a 3D map fly over - like in the Indiana Jones movies BUT with depth of field)

Speaking of squirrels, have you seen these vicious, man-eating "twirls?" Ravenous tigers have been mating with common squirrels to create small, but deadly carnivores that strike from the treetops. Be careful out there. By the way...awesome tutorial. And "Evolution?" To quote Jello Biafra, "If evolution is banned, only outlaws will evolve." Well, I bought my copy and...well, just call me an outlaw. Thanks Sir Andrew!

Now I can definitely say it...
you're a god andrew!!!

You know what would be cool Andrew if you made a
death star trench run tutorial and then a tutorial of the explosion.

That would be cool if you could do that for us thank you!

Amazing Andrew! Tanks for all your work it's very helpful

Nice Tutorial!
Could you do a tutorial on the channel effect
like Fog3d.
What does it do?

Thanks again for putting out the best AE stuff out there.

FOR : MICHAEL M.

The reason that the cc sphere plugin renders a green X is because you have the trial version of Cycore Effects (cc). Cycore (cc) comes on the After Effects 7.0 DVD. Cycore can be bought for $299.00 (two hundred ninety-nine U.S. dollars)

das is der Hammer ! Wirklich super gemacht
jetzt kann ich unsere Erde zerstören^^

André

That was amazing.

thank you..

i guess that you are neo not him
really, i learned a lot from you
thank you

акуенно=)) мне нравито�-) учите ру��кий го�пода учите ру��кий))) а уроки ..вещь кла��на� ..ждем � нетерпением новых ...

MR.ILM over here lol

my dear~Andrew !!!

Finally me an Pinky, can now take over the World.
HA haaaaaaaa

BIG FAN OF YOUR TUTORIALS,
I WATCHED MOST OF YOUR TUTORIALS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND THEY JUST HELP ME SO MUCH AS A BEGINNER. THANKS SOOOOO MUCH ANDREW.
YOUR THE MAN!

Can someone please help me?
I have a problem wiht the CC Sphere Plug in . Everytime I use it, it creates a green "X". At first I thought it was just there to guide, but when I render it is still in the rendered footage. I use after effect 6.5 pro. Can soemoen please tell me how to get rid of the "X"!?>-(

Adrew! You are wery tired!!!

There was a little shake added when the plant exploded I was wonderin how you added that!! I hope to get a little tip.

eres el mejor Kramer, saludos desde ESPAÑA.

Amazing!
Love it!

ANDRREW KRAMER FOR PRESIDENT!!!! haha keep it up master

Andrew, Andrew ... you are awsome ... ma man.

hey andrew, love the tut and ur website - but u need some gnu smileys!

i just saw the planet blowing up on comedy central channel. no doubt that it was this same tutorial.. way cool.

Hi my name is Cleverson. Andrew ,congratulations from Brazil...Actually from Brasilia, capital of Brazil.
These tutorials are the perfection...

Hi my name is Cleverson. Andrew ,congratulations from Brazil...Actually from Brasilia, capital of Brazil.
These tutorials are the perfection...

Hey Andrew, I was thinking it would be cool if you sold all of your free tutorials on a DVD so that we could have a hard copy, but still keep them free on the web site. Just a thought.

Anybody with me?

This is an amazing tutorial...
thank you Andrew...

Ridiculously bad ass!, dudes that share knowledge like you for free are my heroes. keeping coming brother!

respect!

This is an amazing tutorial...
thank you Andrew...

Out of this world tutorials. Mr.Andrew I am your fan since long.Thanks a million for all the great tutorials.Kashaf from Pakistan

Fantastic one.

Very nice one Andrew.. probably one of my favorites :)

wtf omg >-(

Wowwwww!!!! Man you are coool Whit this kind of Tutorials. Keep it up

Hey Andrew ! Ive been following your tutorials from the beginning and they just get better and better ! Thanks mate !

Colin Blake, England UK

Hi Man really its very nice i like it thank you

"It'll hold and then shatter into ... hold on ... 1,2,3,4 ... 987 pieces..."

LMAO! That was funny...

Hey Andrew

Bloody awsome tutorial mate, i was wondering would it be possible to get the actual project copy of the tutorial because Im studying animation at the moment and I would like to play with it.

Cheers mate

great tutorial yet very simple. I guess it shows you can do cool stuff just as easily with AE

although your promotions and other thing like so are great, its theses amazing tutorials that drive me to put the bundles from your site at the top of my christmas list... haha, thanks for another great one, i can always count on a good one from you. thanks again, and excellent work

hey brother - sick tutorial...I'm gonna guess that Twitch was used to create the camera shake...am I right?

Any updates on the plugin info yet?? Can't wait to get my hands on it...

Keep it up...lovin' Evo.

@ Kramer _wanna_be

Stay away from laptop's unless you are getting a Mac, with that budget you could create your own PC that would trump the HP.

Search TigerDirect for PC parts...

ANDREW
I counted a few more exploded planet pieces than you did...

how do you import the planet so that you have the transparency behind it to show the sky.. when i import it shows the full render and not just the 3d planet object

andrew... you are amazing!

since 14ª tutorial =_).

tk you!

valeu andrew... Cada tutorial seu serve como inspiração para mim.
Valeu mesmo.

Abração.
Renan.


brazil.

FOR "KRAMER _WANNA_BE:

Any laptop will work as long as it has sufficient system recourses. Here is a spec list that of components that After Effects needs to run efficiently:

2GB RAM

128 (256 recommended) video card

2.2 Ghz (or higher(or higher, I recommend 2.6+)

Intel or AMD processor

120 GB Hard drive

DVD burner

These are all recommendations for running After Effects smoothly.

HAIL ANDREW!!! U ARE AMAZING!!!

PLEASE READ!!!!!! PLEASE READ!!!!!!!! THANK YOU
Hi....thanks for the TUTORIAL....I have a questions to anybody willing to help me.

Can you please tell me what kinda of laptop/desktop you use because mine is not playing the videos fast or normal speed .....It is SO SO SO SLOW I'm thinking about upgrading it to HP Pavilion DV9000 can anybody tell me if thats good for this? I love after effect and I just found a new hubby so please..tell me what laptop to get and my budget is $900. Thank you.

you are my guru
www.cube-edit.co.il

Andrew i thought you forgot your old friend the squirrel which is me, but the reason i left you is because Sam makes better microwave meals so, i couldn't
stay by your side anymore, i had no other choice other than eat sam's food
but i visit you later

i hope you had a great thanksgiving

Fantastic stuff again andrew! I can really use this one thanks! Ive already played with the settings and so forth and pretty happy with how realistic it looks. watched it on the big TV a few times and im missing something. Is it possible to have control over the shatter preset so one piece of debris flies towards the camera and blacks out the whole screen, sort of thing seen in independence day? Would be a great help if you could advise, thanks again!

How do you make the camera shake or make it appear like so like you did in the beginning.

Thanks

yo man once again u tha best thanks a lot for all the free tut..i have a question.i have this plug-in panopticus water i want water flowing in mine project but i got no idee plz what should i do? greetings from belgium

Andrew,
Another awesome tutorial, I can't wait to get home and give it a try. One question though; there was a wiggle in there and I am assuming you pre-composed the entire comp, parented the comp to the null and then applied the wiggle to the null layer? Either I am super smart or just showing how clueless I really am. Thanks again :)

Hey Andrew, once again nice tutorial... :)
just an idea I got to make the video more realistic ( i think)...

you could make also the Magma blow away... :)

i was thinking of something in the lines of TrapCode Particular, but I leave my idea with you :)

regards and a Merry Christmas from Portugal :)

Andrew you're my master !!

woahh!! your tutorial is soo awesome!!
m surely gonna ask my father to buy me all the plugins so that it can't hold me back from learnin your creativity. Thanks to you..

Cheers!!

Great tutorial. But what do the squirrels have to do with blowing stuff up? At first I thought you were going to say that you put the squirrels and critters in a microwave . Andrew, I feel your pain.

incredible tyy

Hey Andrew,

Without these great free examples, I probably would not have been as tempted to buy your products. But I have, I enjoy, I learn, I thank u!

Merry Christmas to u and your squirrels!

Stunning, totally stunning!!
You are a legend dude.

@ Tyler
Roll your mouse over the monitor panel, then hit the Tilda key (~, next to #1).

Great stuff Andrew!!

Excelent! Amazing! Cool!

Wellington J. Franke Jr. From Brazil!
Tanx Andrew I learn AF by yourself, you're a good teacher.

i am speechless... That was so good, and i thought the the dead planet was cool. But when i saw this tutorial i almost fel out of my chair!
"Whoaaaaa! I'm gonna make that with after effects!?"

Great work Andrew Thank you yet again

Fantástico,is very good !

Love it!

I love the story with the squirrel :)))))

Great work as usual Andrew! I thought u were going to offer all tutorials on a DVD once you reached 50.

cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool please make more fantastic tutorials like when ´the earth had been building please

I think the squirell joke changed direction a little bit :) thanks andrew..you rock.

whooo nice tutorials.
I feel so lonely when the planet explode

Cool... now i can make uranus rotate.. ehm... and blow up? Anyway, keep em great tuts comin!

Quick question.....

Where do you find all your maps and bumps?

Very cool!

tale about squirrel made my day
great tut as always

@Tyler,
To get a full screen preview, hold your mouse over the window you want to enlarge (in your case, the preview window) and press the tilde key. You just press it again to go back to normal.
And in case you're not sure what key that is, it's the one that's next to the "1" on your keyboard. It looks like a squiggly line.

you are fantastic.

man, thanks so much for ALL the tutorials. they helped me a lot.

Thats a great tutorial, nothing new; a planet. but it looks really cool. i like the glow, i cant get enough of it.

boooooooooomm!

awesome man ...
hay i think u wached Transformers "movie"
how about to do somethink like ..

What a great deal of usefull operations in this one! Great stuff! TNX

awesome man ...
hay i think u wached Transformers "movie"
how about to do somethink like ..

Of course, this is another great tutorial and as always...it's much appreciated.

I encourage the viewing public to SUPPORT Andrew and his free tutorials by getting one of his products. After you get one, you'll probably buy another one. The products are great!!

--A happy 1st time customer.

When will the fun stop......!!!!

i counted the pieces in the shatter and there was 931 pieces andrew kramer is a great guesser

waaa andrew soo cool in so little time

i dont think youre Mister Kramer anymore.

youre Lord Kramer


(now go buy a black cloak and a black helmet :D )

andrew kramer!!!number one !!!!

GREAT ! AFTER DOING THIS TUT MY GIRL FRIEND TOLD ME THAT I'M HER VENUS, I'M HER FIRE AND i'm HER DESIRE !!! WHOOOOOuuuuu
It was a hot one Tut for me !!! Thanx Andrew , thanx a lot !!

Very cool tutorial
thank you Andrew for this tutorial

Fantastic tutorial yet again - I never realised you could do such amazing effects with the shatter plugin!

Cheesas!

Andrew! You deserve an Design Award.
This is crazy how musch time you spend on these Tutorials.
Thank you endelessly!

O.

This is fantastic, i use AE all the time, its so interesting to see how others use it and how they organise their workflow. The shockwave technique is great such a speedy way to do it too. ACE STUFF.

Did you create some of the smoke effects on the Action Essentials CD with AfterBurn?

Best

David

Great, just great.

I really like the "explosion wave" (white circle).


Thanks man,
SXForce

Thanks again for this great one. An exploding planet was the thing I was searching for to edit my little “Don´t fool around with our nature� video. Again it was a great pleasure.

Ps: The squirrel invited me.

WOW!
it is so hot! excellent.
i learn very good with your tutorials.
Thanks!

wohooooooo.... nice.

907 pieces, lol!
Your the best!

Man your website has become my 'starting site' :D im looking forward to future tutorials! Thanks so much for sharing this to the world we all very appreciate this time u take to make this believe me!
And im gonna buy your Evolution package as soon as possible! That is a masterpiece!

im always want to do this... thanks andrew ur the best
from philippines

Andrew this is sweet i was going to do a tutorial sumthing similar to this but now i guess i dont have too lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwtfP1zx3rA

I used to have squirrel friends too. I think mine left because you had better microwavable meals.

i need cc-sphere plug .i have cs3 and ae 7 but cc- sphere dos not work correctly .it is missing

super bien continu comme sa ! j'adore !

P.S. How do you make the comp window fill the screen for preview?

This is really nice,,frankly speaking i try this out before and i was very much close to it..
this is really supreb..

Whoa! That is amazing... and I haven't even watched it yet.

this effect looks awesome. So many possibilities.

P.S. I bought Evolution and it was so worth it.

keep up the fine work Andrew.

hey bro your tutorial was realy nice its very cool i learn it ,but i have a problem in my computer it is to slow, bro cant i ask you something about your computer you please give me the good a nice hardware for my computer because i plan to buy a new computer system for my editing, tnks

Dude that is wicked

Tremendus

This is so sick, Ive been dying to make fake planets and then make them explode!

Awesome!