04/03/2013

So we really don't need photoshop right we can use things like paint.net?

03/05/2013

It's not expensive to film in Canada. It's cheap. That's why the CW network films everything there.

03/01/2013

great tutorial, i love the part of the paint, very funny

11/27/2012

You absolutely rock dude!!!

11/06/2012

Andrew Kramer.. I got after effects and i didnt know what to do. but then you come with your AWESOME tutorials and show me the way.. hahahahaha. Your the best! thank you so much for all your tutorials! (South africa)

09/05/2012

I think I learned more in that short photoshop segment than in any photoshop tutorial I've done before/

06/14/2012

Sam Shall someday have his revenge!

06/06/2012

Hey Andrew,

You are "VERY FUNNY" !!! It is such a blast to listen and learn from you and your always great tutorials!!! I just love you, man!!!

Greetings from Switzerland (not Sweeden... Switzerland

Vince

05/22/2012

i m a newbie here. can i know how you export/save your painting at the Photoshop part to make it (.psd) format? anybody help? it's like i m the only one who don't know bout that here. :D thanks..

08/03/2012

Just click save (press ctrl+s in windows or opt+s in mac (I'm not sure for mac because I'm and I'll always stay a windows user!))and choose psd format

04/14/2012

THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!! In Canada!!!! But the big point is that thanks for the tutorial!!! I've seen CorridorDigital and in their Behind The Scenes they always said about Matte Painting and it is awesome, but I had no idea how to do it!! Thanks Andrew Kramer for the tutorial!!! It made my life easier in AE and PS!!!

02/14/2012

I see I have the same problem as some of the other guys here....I can´t get the images to stay put on track points or null objects. Not here or in my own matte paintings....what is happening? Help?

01/11/2012

I can't believe how far he took that joke

01/01/2012

I'm Canadian and really offended I'm going to get my hockey sick and beer and get you

11/21/2011

Ahahaha! "No one wants to go to Canada."

Nice one

11/18/2011

The tutorials you buy from VCP are "high quality"? Wow... They must then be from another dimension

Awesome tutorial!

11/18/2011

I have a problem.Im working with the project files.

The image does not stick at the point where the two trackers meet. As soon as it reaches the point where the intersect the image of the castle changes. I parented the null 1 to null 2 and the image of the castle to null 1.

Can anybody help me out.?

10/21/2011

This is a really good read for me. Must admit that you are one of the coolest bloggers I ever saw. Thanks for posting this informative article.

10/16/2011

definatlly your funniest one...!
loved the microsoft painter section..

thx for another exiting tutorial ))

10/06/2011

Everytime i have done this tutorial step by step my matte is shaking and the track isn't accurate. Please help i am frustrated beyond belief!

09/21/2011

tanx for all learning

07/19/2011

Microsoft Paint hahahaha That was hilarious.

Awesome tutorial as always!

07/05/2011

they're called clydesdale

06/25/2011

Really nice tutorial.

06/10/2011

hi..
i am really interested in studying in visual effects and motion graphics. where would you recommend.
now i am doing mechanical engineering in India.
please mail me

07/20/2011

hmmm SAME HERE DUDE
'
mechanical diploma holder and doing CSE interested in 3D animation and visual Effects

06/01/2011

Great tutorial, the only thing I found disturbing was the light direction difference between the 2 shots.

05/22/2011

"It's got some pretty advanced stuff, like the paint bucket here."
Has to be the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

05/05/2011

Andrew, you are amazing. I would absolutely love to meet you, if ever possible! You are my role model! I am 14, and because of you, have vast skills in After Effects. Thank you so much for doing this. You possible changed my future career.

03/24/2011

Muy bien todos los tutoriales y video ya e echo par de efectos en mi casa me gustaria poder hacerle par de pregunta de algunas cosas que me fartan por aprender. si me pueden ayudar mi msn esta puesto. gracias,

03/22/2011

nice work andrew :DDDDD you are making me pro :)

i cant stop laugh :DD microsoft paint ftw

03/19/2011

your tutorials are so big!!! 30 minutos 45 minutos
:O

03/13/2011

You made me laugh with your personal parody of Microsoft Paint! xD
But in fact I could easily have done what you did with Photoshop with Paint.Net or GIMP and they're both free...
You don't need to have high quality programs to make high quality entertainment. It's all about creativity, knowledge and hard work.

03/06/2011

GIMP is also another alternative for Photoshop and it's free. It has almost all the features for Photoshop.

03/03/2011

thank you

03/01/2011

Do i need a plane field to do it or can i have things on the field or i mean im gonna mask it

02/28/2011

Those horses are called Clydesdales..lol

Come to St. Louis for a Anheuser-Busch tour.. Did i say free beer!! I dont really drink but who can turn down free beer..

Great tutorials Andrew!

02/14/2011

Thanks! This is great.

02/10/2011

really super super after effects hero andrew

01/29/2011

I just like the jokes you pull. bahaha classic

01/23/2011

goooooooooooooooooooooood

01/18/2011

Your null object linking is GENIUS!!

12/29/2010

Everytime i have done this tutorial step by step my matte is shaking and the track isn't accurate. Please help i am frustrated beyond belief!

05/09/2012

Make sure you have good tracking points. They need to have high contrast.

12/11/2010

Another cool tutorial.
Learn and laugh and the same time, what more do ya want!

cheers,

PJ

12/10/2010

keep it up your works are amazing

12/10/2010

the motion trackers for me wont stay on the 3 rocks it keeps flying everywhere
plz help

12/09/2010

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12/07/2010

very nice sir!

12/04/2010

great! works fine with the free program GIMP for those who havent got photoshop!

02/05/2011

paint does not have a magic wand selector or transparency. you cant eve have more that one layer

12/12/2010

or paint.net (slightly less features but has transparency and a decent magic wand selector)

12/03/2010

What a neat tutorial. Still working on the Advanced Car Hit tut, then I'll try this one. It's given me ideas on some set extentions that I want to try. Andrew, you da man!

11/16/2010

hei,you are awesome man thank u v much for this fantastic tutorial
mohamed kayd
somaliland

10/30/2010

much like Motoko San, i am having the issue of keeping the motion trackers still! Please watch this video i made! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Sit1PO4qM it shows the problem thanks

10/11/2010

I try like crazy to track those exact points in the same spots you use in the tutorial, but it wont follow the tracking what am I doing wrong???? I'm mocha now, but I just want to know why my track wont follow the points

10/01/2010

Along with being the best tutor in the world, you're also the funniest...
Thank you a lot man.. I always have a great time watching your videos.. you're simply amazing
I know you dont know me, but I wish you the very best in life in every way. People like you make me feel there's still hope for human kind. If you go to Brazil someday you can count on me to provide anything you may need like being your translator, show you around, cook for you... anything! I owe it to you man!
Im not done with kissing your a$$ yet...
ANDREW K. FOR PRESIDENT! Thanks again

*PS: check me out on youtube if you have some time @acauanstudio

09/12/2010

bahahah i lol'd at the paint thing... love you man keep up the great work greetings from netherlands

09/03/2010

Please answer, why does my timeline is in seconds and Andrew's time line says 0046 and myne 00:07:23

08/31/2010

hello u r video is so meaning full ilike it but mid term it will stop why

08/30/2010

As everyone knows u are doing a great job...but..rather than the video tutorial...also provide a html image version of ur tutorials...

That really helps many.!

Thank u..

08/17/2010

Absolutely awesome.

08/10/2010

Hi Andrew, i love your tutorials. GREAT GREAT JOB!!!
They are so helpful. Thank you very much. You are cute, your voice is sexy, and the tutorials are very constructive and inspiring... Thank you again.

08/04/2010

what camera did you use for this?

07/27/2010

One of the best! Haven't any words for it!!!

06/25/2010

Andrew great job I enjoy just watching you tuturial. My reason to watch and other you have about replacing the sky is because I wanted to do some sun rise animation and sun set. and I suppose that is done by replacing the sky because in my footage the sun is already there. Could you create a kind of tutorial on how to do that?
"Animate the sunset and sunrise"

Thankyou
Luis

06/21/2010

I use After Effects everyday at work, but I still use your tutorials as a reference. I watched this earlier today to brush up before I did some motion tracking, and I didn't want to look like a dummy in front of other video professionals that were counting on me. Thanks for your time and effort. It helps so many people like me.

06/21/2010

Well, it's a good tut, but I am having problems getting the backgrounds to sync up, even with following the tutorial word for word, you can still see subtle movements of the backdrop that is placed in. It has that o-so-fake look to it, like it isn't syncing up with the original shot... And I do mean, followed WORD for WORD, picture for picture etc, and I can't seem to get it to line up perfectly like in your tutorial. I mean yours is FLAWLESS. If you have any kind advice, feel free to shoot me an e-mail. ultimate.defcon@gmail.com

06/20/2010

haha loved the end when he explained you didnt need photo shop for the bubildings!! ahaha great building ahhahahhahahahahahahah

06/16/2010

Hi guys,

Hey Andrew Kramer always a fantastic job.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you for the plugin Optical Flares, it is realy amazing.

Another thing that adds quite a reality is the motion blur.
The raw footage has naturally motion blur, in this case largely because camera movement.
Then add the motion blur in CG elements (CC motion blur in shuter angle greater than 360).

Best greetings from Brazil.

06/08/2010

Finally, my tracking stayed stuck to the points I assigned them to. Perseverence. Andrew yer the tops, and I am neither from Kajikistan nor in love with you.

05/24/2010

stunning tutorial, has given me so many ideas for creating surreal fantasy environments, Thanks a lot!

05/17/2010

Ha, "Nobody really wants to go to Canada." Ask my friends...I call Canada "North United States" :)

05/15/2010

Whaou ! Thank's !

05/13/2010

I speak for all Canadians who use Video Copilot... Andrew, you are absolutely correct, Canadians love a good joke and also free on-line tutorials. Actually, I now live in Miami Beach because I couldn't take the winters anymore. Great site

05/12/2010

You know what Andrew, that's just offensive. There ain't nothing wrong with Canada. Everybody wants to come to Canada.

Just kidding also. You're welcome to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Anytime.

05/06/2010

Hi thank you for your great tutorials, I am a university student in the UK and your tutorials have helped me greatly, Are you able to do a tutorial on how to get like two videos one screen so like one person filmed twice to make it look like twins, i need to know how to do it for my final project, it would be a great help,
yet agian thanks for the great tutorials, and great animations is ms paint haha

05/01/2010

This helped so much. I havent put set extensions in my own footage yet, but i will be soon. I did add an entire city to the same shot you had, which is what i have to do for my next project. I also am using a lot of pro scores, and action essentials. Those are great keep up the good work you are a big help.

04/28/2010

I am trying to figure out what frame rate the footage is. It says 24fps in quicktime, and 23.98 in AE. Also going frame to frame, I noticed there were duplicate frames sporadically throughout the whole clip. Anybody else notice this? I motion tracked using Mocha instead, and it didn't do a good job cuz of duplicate frames

04/10/2010

Amazing. here's what I was looking for.
when I astonished with hollywood movies.
very cool .... continue the tutorial ....

04/08/2010

MS PAINT is the best ;)

04/07/2010

Andrew, you're good man. more to such people.

04/03/2010

thnk you guys i love you 2

03/17/2010

ms paint rocks .. /m/

03/05/2010

all a have to ask is
"DID U INVENT THIS PROGRAM"
dude u r awesome
great tutorial(s)
keep 'em coming

02/26/2010

congratulations on very good job for me is amazing how easy it is to learn with you

02/15/2010

I've not been excited by anything for a long time and you guys just keep on making the use of afterfx so much more fun. I am just enjoying using it from a personal capacity and not even thinking about being able to use it in a professional capacity. I just love what I can do with it and I never thought I would find another love affair like this. So thank you for being great trachers

02/11/2010

Really awesome!Thanks a lot!

02/07/2010

MS PAINT is rule ;)

01/25/2010

Really Wicked =] Truly

01/14/2010

Hello Sir Andrew, great tutorial and great effect as ever, an Italian boy and use a translator so I apologize if I write badly, when I'm going to run the tutorial, the castle or whatever with any other video I move continuously never stays still and follow the video as it should, it would be kind enough to explain it because obviously something wrong with the tracer .... I would be very grateful, she is an idol for me, good work and thanks in anticipation.

01/01/2010

another andrew kramer explosive tutorial.. ^^ you really are a very talented guy andrew.. ^.^ can i marry ur brain? hahaha... ur my idol.. ^^ great work.. ^^

12/15/2009

Awesome! great job man

but one matte paiting tutorial when?

12/14/2009

Thanx and great tutorials.... by the way im 12 and im allready getting into the program. dont worry i didn't use hacks to get the program my dad got it from his job. any ways thanks

12/07/2009

..Clydesdales :)

11/29/2009

Amazing as always!

11/20/2009

Andrew, this was a great tutorial...and I love the humor.

Can't wait to see more from you.

11/01/2009

Nice tutorial!

The Windows Paint scene was so funny. "Advanced Stuff"

10/27/2009

What a great tutorial.

And what GREAT sarcasm !!!

LOL

10/25/2009

Thx again man! Very good!
Regards from Brasil!

10/19/2009

great tut by great tranner again. its interstings watching these type of tuts, love u andrew....

10/14/2009

That's amazing...
thanks for yours tutorials.
I'm from Brazil. Thank U so much

10/12/2009

Hi,thanks for this tutorial .I am working on my first movie so that will be helpfull very much.

10/08/2009

After the third times watching this, I got it. I got it right. Thanks Andrew.

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