TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
November 17, 2009
• Download and use our free reflection Plug-in
• Customize the look of the reflection in 3D space
 
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
FIX UPDATE: We revised the plug-in to r14 that should work with mac PPC architecture. The Plug-in is inside the project download and should be installed to your AE Plug-in folder.
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by Hitmaster 08/27/2010
there is ever a way to remove barriers surrounding a subject in a shooting on after effects or other software
by Hitmaster 08/27/2010
there is ever a way to remove barriers surrounding a subject in a shooting on after effects or other software
by Guest 08/19/2010
Hey i downloaded the presets pack but i dont get a Reflect Plugin.. i have cs4 for windows and cant find reflection plugin in this folder?? and in my folder is everywhere this .ds.store???
by Paolo 08/16/2010
it's true doesn't work with CS5 and I need it!!!
Please Andrew fix it fast!

Thx!!!
by Ramiro 08/14/2010
hi your tutorials are really magnificent! but you should upload some in Spanish and I speak for all Latin America ... we need your videos in Spanish would be like a miracle for us. you really are a master of digital animation .................. Ramiro from Argentina
by Dan S. 08/11/2010
It doesn't work in CS5 because After Effects CS5 is a 64 bit application only so previous pluggins will not work, you will need 64 bit pluggins if they are available.
by Cliff 08/08/2010
The plug-in dosn't work with cs5
by Joe 08/06/2010
If the box is 2 or 3x thicker then the one in the example the angle is way too harsh for the bottom reflection created from this plugin to look good -- even with the skew adjustments. Does anyone have any advice?
by Sumeyye 08/01/2010
Hi Andrew,

Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I loved your reflection plug-in, it works very well in designing part. I have a problem with the reflection plug-in while rendering. I'm using CS3 and macpro however my computer gives the rendering time 6 hours. ? tried with the 6 hours, but after rendered, it wasn't render..I used to try the mac 32bit version. Do you have any advice for me? Best,
by Nick 07/26/2010
Hi Andrew,

i downloaded your plugin vc reflect..

in cs4 it worked, but now i purchased cs5
and i dont know why but it wont work.

is your plugin vc reflect cs5 kompitable?

greetings Nick from Germany
by chandu 07/23/2010
hi,
this is chandu, i seen this site and i improve from the study of work
by Sphinx Graphics 07/12/2010
It' s kinda good and useful. I pretty enjoy it. Thanks a lot
by Joe 06/18/2010
Andrew,

Thanks for your precious time spent for these tuts and for these great TUTS. Honestly, Whenever I get a doubt on something in AFX, blinefoldedly, I go to a place and that is http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials

:) Keep it up. Thanks again.
by dennis 06/14/2010
Hello Andrew, Will the plug-in work in AE 6.5? Thanks again for all the great tutorials!
by Max Heidenfelder 06/12/2010
Hi, great plugin!

how does it work on objects that do not have a streight edge... like a bottle.. or something...

that be nice to know!
by SaNdeSh 06/08/2010
u and r website are both greatest gift to manknd.....thanks for makin things a lot easier to video enthu's
by shirley 05/31/2010
thank you so much!
by Justin Driedger 05/20/2010
This plugin in CS5 says that it is an unsupported filetype....why would this be?
Justin
by shabeer 05/18/2010
this tutorials is very useful to me and it is very god gift sate for me. think to videocopilot.
by Zaki 05/18/2010
Your tutorials are thorough and help so much, thank you!
by billy_pp 05/12/2010
Great plug-in - thank you!
by Mark 04/29/2010
I'm interested in the VCReflect plug-in and I'm using a Mac with Motion 3. How do I install that free plug-in with this system configuration?

Thank you from Central Oregon!
by Jishy 04/24/2010
Hey man!!! greetings from india.....now u know the whole world loves you for your tutorials lol :P ....THANKS A LOT dude, i'm really grateful....
by Dwayne 04/23/2010
I love your ability to keep it fun, fresh, all the above. You are truly an inspiration. Keep up the good work.
by yos 04/18/2010
thanks andrew, it's awesome.
really thanks, i apreciate so much your website
see you
by Abdellah 04/16/2010
thank u man
by VladiSSius 04/13/2010
Great!! This is my first time see so much useful tutorial in 1 site... And, thanks Andrew, u really help me out! God thanks you made Andrew :)
by ebrandt7 04/07/2010
Really helpful. A big thank you from Shanghai!
by rassiel 04/01/2010
#%&! you andrew you are a god
by She 03/29/2010
cool....love it. it's really does inspires designers
by tbc 03/19/2010
Thank you so much for your insight and expertise! Can't begin to tell you how much time you have saved those of us using AFX!
by ranz 03/06/2010
knock knock knockin on heavens door
by Sir_dude 03/05/2010
Andrew GOD of creation
by Janai 02/26/2010
Hail Andrew
by Nick Farmani 02/24/2010
This is the most amazing site i've ever encountered! Thank you for allowing us to be your grasshoppers! You're are a fantastic instructor!

Kindest Regards!!!!!
by William Halsey 02/21/2010
Congratulations on an excellent tutorial. Your explanations are very clear.
Thanks William
by mango 02/17/2010
Thank you, Andrew. This is another one of yours useful plug-in. Compare to tutorial #17, this is so easy and simple.

Thank you, Andrew.

http://mangoprojects.blogspot.com
by Mohamad 02/17/2010
really its very amazing site

i like it very much and i learned more and more from it :)

in the end special thanks for Andrew Kramer
by hai 02/11/2010
it"s good subjets
by kurt murphy 02/05/2010
Thanks for the great timesaver... I often wondered why AE's Mirror plugin didn't contain many of these parameters... One thing I'd love to see - Transfer Mode choice.

Also, thank you for being so benevolent about your incredible skill. You've raised the level of my work through your great tutorials.

kurt murphy
by rashmi 01/30/2010
wishes from India............. u r awesome Andrew........ :)
by ADlin from China 01/29/2010
Dear Andrew:
The plug-in couldn't to be use on the pre-compose layer.I don't know how to use the expression to tie togeter to keep the floor position lock on!
us you said in the tutorial video.
by fajoui 01/22/2010
This is a wonderful
by MAMA 01/21/2010
WoW! Kramer, u're the best.

by frank 01/17/2010
very nice....
by Rob 01/16/2010
Great stuff as always, Andrew. Much appreciated.
by Francky 01/16/2010
It's just great
U're the best
Go on
DRC
by Louis Twelve 01/14/2010
thanks GOD BLESS YOU!!!
by Joe 01/14/2010
Well Kramer, now you've gone and done it. Why do I bother rolling my own effects if you are going to make everything one plug-in away?

Seriously though. Thanks for giving it to the community. I hope it comes back to you in kind.
by shekar 01/10/2010
marvellous...wonderful your tuts as like as your helping nature... thanks alot......
by wangwendi 01/08/2010
nice
by lily 01/06/2010
Good!!!
by Mario 01/01/2010
JUST WANNA SAY THAT YOUR TUTORIALS ARE SO FUK*IN AWEOSOMEEEEEEEEEEEEE MAN. KEEP IT UP!
by Adam 12/30/2009
Thanks!
by chima 12/29/2009
all hands are up for u, in nigeria , u are the best
by bob 12/25/2009
hi, you are really great , but where do you get your images from ? like the floor layer cuz mine look like crap
by Adam 12/25/2009
shit man! this is GOOD... perfect! andrew is the GOD of effect design!
by John 12/25/2009
Andrew is the god of motion graphics!! his the best of the best!! xD i'm john from malaysia
by vera Novais 12/23/2009
THE BEST!!
by Manikandan 12/23/2009
this is great!!.
i have opened a new tutorial account in youtube..
http://www.youtube.com/user/AdobeBlackBelt
by andrew posada 12/22/2009
thank you from CUBA kramer
by AGBOR OBED 12/21/2009
WOW U ARE GREAT. I WILL BECOME THE BEST MOTION GRAPHIST IN MY COUNTRY CAMEROON. UR TUTS ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP ON HELPING US. THANKS
by GiantSimon 12/20/2009
Just a quick note/fix that I ran into rendering a comp with the reflection plugin "Mirror 1.0.13" on the Mac.

After some A/B testing to identify the culprit, I found setting anything above 0 on the Blur in the Reflect plugin - caused a render failure.

The Easy fix - don't do that.

The Better fix. Render Reflection only. Add a fast blur-type effect processed after the reflection geometry stuff is done. Then CC-Composite as shown in Andrew's tut above.

Not a big deal - but figur'd I should share the trial/error results.

I'm on Mac OX 10.6.2 with 8 GB RAM - and during this testing I tried with and without enabling the disk cache.

Tested using a few decent sized RGB, PNG and PSD, files with alpha. Renders failed with 1500 x 1500 and 3K x 3K sizes...didn't test smaller sizes.

Tested with the native AE renderer and Nucleo Pro...same.
by W 12/20/2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdi0x_O7Tc
I used the plugin in this. Worked out well I think.
Feel free to comment
by McGuffin 12/18/2009
Unstoppable!
by Jesper Krogh 12/16/2009
Your work can't be appriciated enough with words - These tutorials/plugins as well as all of your products are godlike.

Sincerely,

Jesper Krogh
by Matty 12/15/2009
Where did you get the messy.png from please?
by rafiq 12/15/2009
hello sir,
you are the wonderful teacher in Vfx.....really !!!

i learn a lot from you, what can i do for u...,
thanks a lot.................rafiq
by Clement 12/14/2009
You are like a God(Special effects God). I admire ur work a gr8 deal especially the way u handle ur tutorials, I av learnt somuch 4rm u...pls keep up this honourable job---clem from Nigeria.
by smiju 12/12/2009
wow super andrew!
by Andreas Hohl 12/11/2009
Man- I keep forgetting to come every once in a while. But when I do, you always have some trick new stuff on here. Really nice!
by VeeTheOne 12/11/2009
Andrew,

I just want to thank you for the time you spent helping people like myself. Try to nav thur this stuff was driving me insane. Looking forward to viewing the rest of your tutorials

Your the Best of the Best!

VeeTheOne
by Jumperjack 12/09/2009
Could you do a tutorial similar to "VC Reflect" except with the reflection on a lake (so you can see the title "VC Reflect", the reflection of "VC Reflect", the ripples in the water affecting the reflection, and the shimmer from the water affecting the title)?

Thanks,
BTW, I love your stuff and your tutorials.
by mouissat amine 12/09/2009
excellent plug , thank you very much
by mouissat amine 12/09/2009
thank you so much
by Joe 12/09/2009
where did you get the messy.png from? thanks.
by Aaron 12/09/2009
Ha! Ron Popeil! I used to love his stuff, then he did that spray on hair craziness...I think he was going through a mid-life crisis or something.

Thanks for the killer plug-in
by salil 12/08/2009
i just amazed with ur works in ae.thanks for ur tutorials . im also one of your fan
by kjh 12/08/2009
nice!
by Rob 12/08/2009
Andrew... I've been in the production business for 30 years as a production tech, producer, editor and production manager. I can say with good authority that you are a graphics prodigy. You really raise the bar for all of us. Many thanks for your generous efforts.
by latour 12/08/2009
Wow wow !!!!
it's very very beautifull, Kramer U are the top one
of the tops. I'm Ibrahima from Ivory Coast.

How can we Download and use our free reflection Plug-in ?

by Somek 12/07/2009
Because of you m becoming a star, Thanks so much, your Tutorials are of great help, plz Keep up the spirit in helping others
by Swaroop 12/05/2009
Thanks Andrew this is awesome ... i make so cool things with this ...i always think you are my competitor ... i just came in this industry just 1 year ago
by RoGa 12/05/2009
Man!!
you're so effy cool
you're some kind of god in my school
who we pray and go when we are in trouble
in AE
we love you man (not in the gay way)
thanks for those great tutorials
take care
we are your fans from mexico
ciao
by Shifa 12/05/2009
Andrew you're amazing!
i loved your tutorials..!! thanks a lot for the plug ins
It did help me a lot!!
by Gino 12/04/2009
Hi, thanks for this amazing tutorial, pls, make one about compressiona and codecs an hoy merge AE with Premiere.

Best Regards from Lima
by henrie1963 12/04/2009
I'm a newbie in after effects and your tuturial helps me a lot... Million Thanks to YOU..
More Power
by Gregory Tipton 12/04/2009
Nice effect. Nice plugin.
by Justin 12/04/2009
Andrew, you are a ninja master of After Effects. Thanks for sharing your art, it has helped me so much with my own work. :)
by Vlado 12/04/2009
Thanks you for this great plugin.

However, I have a small problem. When I apply vc reflect effect to a 3D text layer, when I rotate a camera, reflection behaves strangely, and transforms I guess the opposite it should.

I only created camera, 3D text layer and applied VC reflect to it.

Thanks :) Any tips?
by Mikros 12/03/2009
Dam, you teach nice.
by Franco 12/03/2009
Hey Andrew, great tutorial! However i have a few problems, well one actually, when I double click the plug-in, the after effect tells me: "After Effect Errors: Can't support file"VCRefelct.penguin", unsupported filetype or extension. ( 0 :: 1 ) " so.... yeah.
by George G 12/03/2009
Hey there! really great work Andrew! all of your tutorials are freakin' awesome!! could you please make a tutorial for how to create a portal?
by patrick 12/03/2009
hello am rickie like all your podcasts have got me doin gret stuff thanx
by bojig (bali) 12/02/2009
thanks Andrew......
by ivan 12/02/2009
nice one sir andrew
by Dan Potter 12/02/2009
Great stuff Andrew. Looking forward to your Lens Flare Plugins too! The Action Essentials and Pro Scores are going down a treat. Excellent...
by Fernando Paris 12/01/2009
Man, this is sooooo good, it should be prohibited.

Thanks a lot.
by Matthew Grunau 11/30/2009
Hey Andrew, and all you wacky cats at VCP:

I watched about 5 mins of the tutorial when it struck me how useful this will be in creating accurate shadows. With the blur and falloff options especially, better and more realistic shadowing should be available in 3D space, even better if you can link the rotational values to your light source.

Is there any way to associate a custom layer for distortion of the reflected layer, ie, displacement mapping and bump mapping?

Great work fellas.
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