TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
January 27, 2007
• Extend a live action set with custom matte painting
• Link several motion trackers into one null object
 
 
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by karol 10/12/2009
Hi,thanks for this tutorial .I am working on my first movie so that will be helpfull very much.
by mango 10/08/2009
After the third times watching this, I got it. I got it right. Thanks Andrew.
by Tara 09/18/2009
Thank you so much for all of ur tutorials especially this one! it really help me coz I just asked my self how can I track a moving scene like this.. very great! Thanks a lot!!! :D
by Matt 09/15/2009
Amazing! great work with the linked null objects, saved me many an hour of head scratching! Oh and Did you plan on doing a Mocha AE tutorial?? hint hint!
by miladhatam 09/11/2009
learning and laughing ...
you are so cool , thanks andrew
milad from iran
by Devon 09/10/2009
Haha, definately the funniest tutorial yet. Doubling up the nulls is definately very useful, thanks!
by Prashanth 09/09/2009
It was just superb i really enjoyed it

Thanks for the tut
by jaimexr 09/05/2009
hajajajaajajaj the paint part was amazing man, you are the best andrew kramer!!!! cheers
by Arnas 08/24/2009
when you used the MS Paint - you made me laugh and smile a lot. thanks =)
by Iuliu 08/17/2009
Oh man,this is madness=))
Andrew's crazy!!:))
I love you're jokes,my friend:D

You're good!
You're telling them like we're you're best friends.
well,we are actually:D

great tutorial
by cortcoal 08/06/2009
hey great tutorial buying my new camera tomorow cant wait to test this effect out. Im glad u showed how to do it on ms paint that saved my butt will people commenting please search cortcoal on youtube and look at my short film its my first
by akash 08/05/2009
hi...Andrew i m from INDIA
this tutorial is really good
by mADNESSGRAVITY 07/31/2009
hi all

this is my test video, a bit short but hope you will like it. The original video was made in Dublin Ireland on city quay, later i'll upload the original as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXB-VIuoLaQ
by MoE Al hAmEd 07/26/2009
Hi this tutorial is really good

UAE
by pietro donnini 07/20/2009
this effetc work only with slow shot, or if you ahave a camera with 60 frame per second?!?!?
by DarkEntity 07/16/2009
Ha,ha,ha,i like the castles done in microsoft paint really funny and about Sam's audition for the hunchback in 300.you are so cool and brilliant,an excellent teacher you made me hooked with the tuts.i'm doing some progress with my AE trial version.thank you so much!!!!
by bsone 07/13/2009
wow x3 Thanks!!!!!!!!!!! -^
by pipesfranco 07/12/2009
Awesome tutorial if only Photoshop had the power of Paint...oh well :)

Cheers Andrew
by ranjan 07/11/2009
hiiiiiii i'm from INDIA ,i love your tutorials...it's awesome to learn AE.....
by Kieran (Sheepnote on Youtube) 07/05/2009
I love the bit when you take the piss out of Paint
by im_your_destiny 06/27/2009
PAINT.... LOL
jajajaj

i love your tutorials ^^
by João Marco 06/16/2009
Boas...

Gosto bastante do trabalho da CoPilot...

Gostaria que me indicassem bons tutoriais ao nível da integração 3D e para Premiere avançado...

Obrigado e continuem...

---

Hello...

I´m fond of CoPilot´s work...

I would like that you tell me where can I found good lerning material about Blender and advanced Premiere...

Thanks and keep the good job...

João Marco
by roydolfje 05/30/2009
hello i am roy from holland
you rules i see all tuts
and i hope they wil be more
by Aurangzeb 05/29/2009
Still can't believe you do all this great stuff for free, inspiration to us all :)



i realy want to meet you the KING of AFTER EFFECTS
............ i am pakistani.........
i want to learn more about after effects please tell me sir how can posibale...

and i want to send you a GIFT please give me your personal cell no ...
by Vijay 05/11/2009
Amazing tutorial,
rEALLY gREATE :
U R rEALLY dIFFERENT...
this great stuff for free...
VIJAY FROM INDIA..
by Ryan 04/25/2009
AWESOME!!!
by Nido 03/30/2009
Awesome tutorial...thanks Andrew...
by Rob 03/29/2009
First, great tutorial as all of yours are. I find myself learning all sorts of random tricks each time I watch.

Good lord, I was caught off guard with the ms-paint segment. Laughed like a fool.

Keep up the great work.
by corey 03/25/2009
Thank you Mr. Brilliant. I've been wanting to know how to do this for a long time.
by billy 03/25/2009
iam starting a music documentary and a video because of this tutorial..andrew your the best

smackl/megateck
by MOL 03/22/2009
Haha. I love this tutorial.

"Nobody really wants to go to canada." :P
by 32D 03/13/2009
GRACIAAAAAAS!!! MUY BUENOS TUTORIAES HAY MAAAAS KIERO MAAAAS... JAJAJAJA
by Boabramah 03/05/2009
hi Andrew i'm from Ghana and i have been watching your tutorials for some time now. the tutorials have help me a lot. thanx man.
by Amol Mali 02/28/2009
Hi ,
iam animation student .isow your other tutorial ,
it's very nice
by NetinMaster 02/26/2009
ROFLMAO!!! Who said learning isn't funny?! - The mspaint part cracked me!!! - awesome stuff mate!!! CHEERS!! ^_^
by bernd 02/17/2009
thank you. your tutorials are inspiring.
by Dom 02/17/2009
Really cool stuff cheers mate

by Dwight Sutherland 02/10/2009
Great tutorial! How does a person export a photoshop file as a composition that will import into AE? Whenever I save it the picture is just an image.
by ssjaaron 02/05/2009
I love all of your tutorials! and I am saving up to buy all of your products. so keep em coming!
by Kiriyama 02/04/2009
Genius tutorial, has given me so many ideas for creating surreal fantasy landscapes:) Many Thanks!
by Aleks 02/03/2009
GOD DANMIT!! THIS WAS NICE!!!

but... i don't get it.. why did you do all that unuseful things at the beginning? The photo made in ms paint was like 4000 % better! :D haha nah just kidding!

man your awesome
by Sugraf 01/31/2009
Loved the MS Paint part
by looney 01/29/2009
oh man i laughed so much when u got into paint to draw those stuff that dont look like anything...actually im still laughing...
Thanks for all your great work...
by tali 01/29/2009
hi! im tali from israel
thank you for this amazing toturial!
im so prowd of my self that i did it
its like im a genios (but not in english probably...)thank you and keep on
doing great toturials!!!
by DIEGO 01/27/2009
Hey this was the funniest tutorial I've watched from you so far...I think you do some of the best tutorials out there..It's just amazing..Nice job Andrew!!!
by Surreal Pictures and Video 01/24/2009
X-CELENT tutorial!!! You guys really do a great job. Looking forward to our next VCP purchase.

DFR.
by DOMBOM 01/18/2009
ur the best ... go a head ^^,

and a great thx to u ....


by sonicballer8888 01/17/2009
i just learned alot today from you andrew! i just watched the basic sky replacement tutorial, then the advanced one, and i just finished this one! thanks man! your tutorials are awesome!
by Rick 01/17/2009
Thank you so much.... wow I've learnt so much just by observing.

Live in South Africa, and currently studying Audiovisual...my passion is editing and this is gonna help me raise my projects to the next level.

Thanks again Andrew

A fan in S.A
by Juan 01/06/2009
Gracias desde Perú. Andrew eres un genio he aprendido mucho de ti..
by Prelich 01/04/2009
lmao... love the canadian joke represent
by Kostas Zizopoulos 12/29/2008
Respect... Just respect, my self-confidence goes all the way down, i'm so jealous man.

You are the hero of my history, that makes me think, come on, keep on working.

btw what camera do you use?
you bought it for you?
video copilot owns it?
you rent it?

thank you very very much
by brian 12/19/2008
dude i only 12 and i ve seen a few of your tutorials but i'm not ready for this one beacuse i dont have matte painters or know how to paint one but thanks anyway o and if you do make a tut on how to make a matte painting that would rock
by siyamak 12/12/2008
hi andrew
such every time you make us blush with your unique knowlege,thank you man
i use this lesson to my project but mine is a picture that is bigger than main comp cause my scene has a little pan to left but(i used a hill pic to my scene)it has so many jiiter and movement that doesnot match to main movement
does it work only for little pics or not?
by jean michel 12/11/2008
je suis français et je vous dis merci c'est fantasticccc.

bravo et merci
by sumit 12/10/2008
Great tutorial
by Nate 12/06/2008
Amazing - this is the big leagues... is this a scene from Lord of the Rings?
by Chris 12/04/2008
Omg It even looked good with the paint one!!! Andrew you are the greatest guy in the world
by luke soanes 11/26/2008
amazing
i'm a film maker from aust.
just getting started with after effects
i make music videos and with this style of tutorial i will be able to produce amazing videos
thanx for your help please keep making them
email me when you have updates
by julian 11/24/2008
To the guys at Video copilot. I am from Australia. I'd like to say thanks for everything you have taught me on your site. I am now geared up to make some bucks, which means I will be spending bucks on more of your stuff. Love your work and thanks again!
by Ben 11/21/2008
Thanks a lot, I learned a surprising amount about photoshop and motion tracking. I kept giving up when my trackers went of the footage, but now I understand completely.
by praful_2006123 11/17/2008
red castles were great punch-line . this new art of set extensions was really great. new thing I learn today. thanks andrew BOSS. Praful
by Lon 11/13/2008
Andrew... After Effects was this huge scary monster for me until I found this website. Thank you SO much for all your hard work! This tutorial is just amazing as are all of them..

MS paint.. omg that was great. And poor Sam!! Hunchback?? Hmmm maybe, if he was at the top of one of the castles in the shot yelling SANCTUARY!!! ; )
by zcreem 11/13/2008
I loved this one, finally someone takes the time to do a MS Paint tutorial. I have looked everywhere for tips on this under rated graphics package.
Seriously thanks for the learn'n and the laugh'n.
by wes 11/09/2008
BEAST
by Kevin 10/29/2008
Andrew, you are an AE god!!
I heard about you on youtube, and I've been watching your tutorials ever since. I've been working on a sfx video that encompasses a lot of what I've learned on here. Now I will have to add a scene with set extensions because this tutorial was amazing!

Thanks so much for all the great tips, and for making them free!
by JRL 10/09/2008
So it was late at night when I was watching this - and you should know my day had been quite long and monotonous - but you brought me to tears. Thankfully they were tears of joy as I practically "rofl"-ed out of my chair. Paint is indeed, one hell of a tool. So yeah, thanks for brightening up my day.
by Turtles 10/03/2008
I LIKE TURTLES!
by Alex V 10/02/2008
wow amazing u r like the new bob ross of the
digital effects!!!
by Mathew Hamilton Green 10/01/2008
Ah yes... Horses with hairy feet..
That would be shire horses..
by mohamed 09/30/2008
your are really the best thanks
by Jash Jhaveri 09/23/2008
Andrew, you totally rock!! I've learned so much from this website, and i recently bought Action Movie Essentials and Film Magic Pro.

Greetings from Bombay,

Dubble2TheJ

http://in.youtube.com/user/dubble2thej
by moe 09/19/2008
hi there .. i just wanted to thank you for this teturial it was aazin ad you helped me alot bcuz i use to do all that frame by frame and you know what dose that mean when you do it for a big army in 6 second shot .. all my work depends on moving camera .. if you please can make us another one and show us how you put people or building behind standing people or something like that .. thanks again ...


amman-jordan
by sweetangel, 09/16/2008
i love all your tutorials, awesome. i can't run cs3 it says support for cpu extention sse2. any idea? your avid fan from asia.
by vishnu 09/13/2008
i want to say thanks to videocopilot or Mr.andrew for these useful and amezing tutorials.its really very helpful for me to learn various type of effects.
by leonard 09/09/2008
wow that was a very nice tutorial thx a lot u help me out a lot...im a big fan of your work keep up the good work
by Tim 09/08/2008
Thank you for all these great tutorials
by HombreJoe 09/04/2008
ha real hunchback thats pretty great, and the red castles haha. ne but this was really good thanks alot!
by Cameron 08/31/2008
I'm gonna use that footage to re-create the hill scene in war of the worlds (tom cruise version)!
by Nils Streutker 08/28/2008
I was wondering how to use more than two null objects. I have a pretty wide shot and I want to place an tower in it at the end. I can't complete the shot with 2 null objects but when I add more than 2 null objects my tower does not stay at one place.

I hope anyone can help me.

Greetings
by Veritas 08/26/2008
I agree, every single tutorial you produce I watch and still am blown away with what is available in after effects! You rock, never stop...
by Payton 08/21/2008
hey, i saw your blog with sam walking and ground coming up then falling back... so i'm about to watch it now, if it's as good as ANY of your other tutorials, it's gonna be great
by Praveen 08/18/2008
nice One

Thanks a.k
by DARE 07/30/2008
ooooooooooooooo my goooooooood this is on of the best tutorials I ever seen.Thanks you sooooo much you are the god of these software. Keep it up.
by Bardia 07/29/2008
Really I don't know waht can I do with you Andrew????
You are a good teacher and you are a good frieand for me, even I don't and I didn't see you.

I like your work and I love your site and your mined.

Thank you so much.
by hiren soni 07/27/2008
Tutorial was super. Fell out of my chair laughing at the "red" castles...
by Carlos 07/26/2008
Thanks Andrew, you are Great ;)
by Lord Gordon 07/16/2008
Another great tutorial.
I have tested and experimented it with my footage:

http://www.vimeo.com/1351677
http://www.vimeo.com/1351732
by xz1000m 07/15/2008
Greetings from Chinaï¼
Thanks a lot! I also encounter the same question as nikodex. Each time I track the project video with two trackers like you, but they can't act prefectly and the trakers are shaky. My work is easy to leak fake castles to audience. And in tutorial 43- Demon Face Warp , I cant not track correctly points between Sam's lovely and shining eyes. I have tried more than 10 times. Pity. Maybe something is wrong?
If you have time, Would you like to give me a guide by email(xz1000m@sina.com), please? Thank you very much!
Anyway, We are all your fans! Take care! Good health is key.
by Stratau 07/13/2008
I'm buying your products just as a thanks for making these tute's available, gratis...

Great work..
by luis m. 07/13/2008
Gracias por todos estos grandiosos tutoriales que nos ofreces, un saludo desde Mexico!!!
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Thank you for all these great tutorials that we offer!
by luis m. 07/13/2008
Gracias por todos estos grandiosos tutoriales que nos ofreces, un saludo desde Mexico!!!
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Thank you for all these great tutorials that we offer!
by shahab nadeem 07/13/2008
wow andrew u r amazing.in my sight u r at the top of sucess
by chuck 07/11/2008
You rock
by Steven 07/07/2008
So now we've created this sort of GEL....
uhmm....
and i don't mean like hairgel


Great tutorial Andrew!
by jigsaw_puzzle 07/06/2008
that was great, thank you very much
by 3dsspace 07/03/2008
good tuto
thx
by Praveen Kumar 07/02/2008
Pls send me matte painting video tutorial
by sasho 06/28/2008
Amazing!
by Andrew Leighton 06/25/2008
Another great tutorial from Andrew Kramer. I can't wait to try this out. Thanks again!
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