Tutorials for Visual Effects & Motion GraphicsFree After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
Running Time: 20mins.
63. Smoke Screen
April 09, 2008
• Composite and animate smoke elements in 3D space
• Create a custom particle map and write new expressions
• Create a custom particle map and write new expressions
Additional Tutorial Notes:
UPDATE: The Texture element is indeed from the Evolution collection and not the Riot Gear one as stated. The project file contains the Smoke Element, the project file has been excluded so that you can experiment.
UPDATE: The Texture element is indeed from the Evolution collection and not the Riot Gear one as stated. The project file contains the Smoke Element, the project file has been excluded so that you can experiment.


















I hope that you don't send me the PUNitentiary.
elfindetodo from Argentina
Goblin
from Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Keep on keeping dude THX!
Best,
Chris
There will become better and better, right? nice one like always
ITS POSSIBLE TO REGROUP ALL THE FABULOUS EXPRESSIONS ???
IN A TEXT FILE MAYBE ?
THANK'S
I'm interested in learning more about espressions. Where do you have all these "commands" from? I would love to see more expressions in your tuts like in this one! And again: it's great!
Thanks Andrew!
Tell a hello to the Brazil, here also assist their work.
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Nice Work man
keep on that
lots of expressions......lots of fun
keep using expressions
Thanks!
Greetings from Germany!
I Like this! TeamMax from China!
By the way,I am your Fans,allways.
Keep inspiring us all Andrew!!!!!!!!!!
Big luv from Portugal
Amazing... Thanks for each tutorial that you create for us (AE Lovers)
thanks again men you the best.
Thnx
Sandy
Thank you so much for all of your hard work. Between your excellent products to your great tutorials this is a complete stop for learning After Effects! I now have every product except for clouds and can honestly say that I have used the products more than I thought I would. You have saved my but on time crunches many times.
Steven
Andrew,
Thanks so much for this valuable training. As an owner of many of your products, I'd like to encourage everyone to buy them as well. They are just as useful as the high dollar plug-ins that Andrew uses. Great tutorial and I love the humorous approach. BTW, now I know who broke my window. I'm sending the cops!
ITS POSSIBLE TO REGROUP ALL THE FABULOUS EXPRESSIONS ???
IN A TEXT FILE MAYBE ?
THANK'S
My videos are on youtube and Myspace.
For youtube type in Ezerlance.
For Myspace, type in Myspace.com/ezerlance
thank you andrew...you are the best
Andrew, you are my hero :D:D
gz fron Germany
I hope ya do another NYC event! I missed the last one!
Keep up the good work.. Love all you're tuts!
I'm using them for a project for school!
Without you, my marks gonna be bad...
So thank you
thank you for all Andrew and Team
www.lautschdesigns.com
Thank you!
WOW andrew, you're getting better day by day
thx ^^
i wanna learn more about the particular plugin
please make one tutorial about particular please Andrew
Joris
Thank Yoy
but any chance of a Smoke Element.psd or png
thanks
Anyway, love everything you do! Keep it up!
Shakthi, dindigul, TN,India
cheers
Love your stuff. Use it all the time. I do music vids for professional artists (South Africa). I sent you an e-mail some time ago for a tutorial about a person walking through a wall or a door. Could you try that for us? I'm sure I'm not the only one who could benefit from it.
Thanks again and God bless
ITS POSSIBLE TO REGROUP ALL THE FABULOUS EXPRESSIONS ???
IN A TEXT FILE MAYBE ?
THANK'S
thanks vcp!
I am a huge fan, to start off. I have a question regarding your tutorial as i was watching it. You know how some people use stock footage as a luma matte, for example, an ink drop. can you create a an evolving clouds, as you did in this tutorial, as a luma matte for a "revealing mask" effect? i hope this question wasn't too confusing.
Pretty nice! You are one of the best!
And I want to advise you one of the best FREE(!) plugin for 3D studio Max. It calls DustDevil(http://www.maxplugins.de/r6_files/blurbeta/dustdevil.zip)
It will helps you to create come nice custom volumetric smoke and clouds footages like this:
http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x89/cyberbanshee/?action=view¤t=Cloud.flv
From Russia with best regards, Alex
It's incredibly AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
Thnx Again
You are the best!!! :)
Thanks
Soulreaver_bs from Italy
I've noticed a focus on motion graphics lately, and would love to see more tutorials that use live footage for comps, effects, and so on
cheers!
Saleh from Saudi Arabia
Why have you degraded to v7.0?
scotland loves VC
oh yea and a good tutorial too.
Nice&Easy Thanks you. Andrew
this was an nice idea and i will say thank you for this tutorial.
but it is possible to do this with an 3d earth to zoom/fly from the space into my city?
this i think is the next step/idea.
hope you can show us this.
many thanks and greetings from germany
HIStory
"You WILL go blind." *end*
sooooo goood.
from argentina!
wow good!!^^
Where can I find some expression tutorials? I did them all on Creative Cow and I really started to love those expressions!
from argentina!
I salute you!
ElliotNG, Austalia
BIG HELLO FROM SERBIA!
Thank you! SPASIBO !!!!!
In my newest video (I haven't released yet) I have a smokey foreground. And well, I gotta scratch that now because the people reviewing it will just call me a "AndrewKramer" wannabe.
Oh well, good tutorials nonetheless.
-Disgruntled AE User
Very helpfull to see how After Effects can handle such a smoke elements.
Have you seen Jonas Ussings cloud tutorial for 3dsmax?
Here is the link:
http://www.duck.dk/tutorials/jussing_cloud_tutorial.pdf
It's sort of same idea on that one.
Keep up the good work!
-Olli from Finland
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Thank you! SPASIBO !!!!!
REGARDS FROM SERBIA!!!
Andrew for your titorials. they are best!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep it up!
Go on like that Andrew, U ROCK!!!
I'm gonna download the project files right now.
Thanks, Diego from Argentina.
what's with that
LOL X 2 at the telescope gag... lmao...
Dude, thats what makes your tutorials so interesting, as compared to some of these other video tutorials with old me, who sound like their teeth are falling out as they speak...
Nice one mate. :)
I say St. Andrews School of Design. you rock
Im still waiting for a tutorial using HD Jumpbacks or HD Video Streams. Will that be next????
Keep up the great work
i have other here @ work all youtr elements and tutorials
!! Hi the From Chicago!!
good work men, great way to move. thanks for your support
i'll come to your house and break your windows
mind bending writers
do not look at the sun with a telescope
priceless
you are good friend
you are best man thank you
And also why is it hard to do previews on AE compared to video editing programs like pinnacle studio, where you can easily preview your work in realtime from beginning to end. It's hard to preview a composition with more than 1minute length in AE. Ows, maybe this question can be answered by Adobe, but I would like to hear your opinion bout that also.
We pround in you
you are the best; man
thanks.
you're simply the best
what about an "How to make Flames" tutorial? it would be grat and interesting for...let see...99% of us
thanks for your job from Italy
Thanks again!
Thanks
you know you and sam loya should think about making a feature/short film or something for video-copilot.net
it would be great, you could use it as an advert for a plug-in or a promo for the site.
I am just a beginner, but here is what I came up with after watching your tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN50hF6_S8U
I know it's not perfect(and not even close to be), but it's something.
In this video I used 3 different clouds that I created in photoshop.
Thanks for all your great tutorials,
Evyatar,
Israel.
You the best!
How about 'How to make snow tutorials?' that would be great.
Thanks anyway
Thanks.
I hope to learn the afterEffect but i think it's very deficult , so i want to learn afterEffect to learn on thing only this time because i use the flash i want to make flash very attractive , so i must use the affterEffect to do it, so I wanna form Mr.Andero Kramer to put tutorial about how to make roll page like in many of flash template . very thanks
Thanx a lot, i've been using after just for 5 days, and i know practycally everyting, thans to your tuts.
In After Effects, after I set every layer 3D and Create a New camera ,, 50 mm preset uaually) when i click on that image that is suppose to give me the ,,Orbit Camera Tool'' and,, Track Z'' etc...it doesn't pop up anything..i just click on it and nothing happens
I also have another problem with the camera when parenting to a Null Object, when I click on the Null and move it along, it doesn't give me immmediate results ...like how i'm draging it....it just tells me that i'm draging it..when i'm finished draging it..it puts it in the place where I drag it...so i can't really see where i drag it. I hope you understand...I think i'll make a youtube video with my problem since no one seems to help me on it.
My computer is high-end...Q6600 Processor...good motherboard.GPu..etc...but some things just won't work right
I have A3 7 Professional
Thanks
GOod Tutorial btw
been using After effects for 3 months and after seeing this tutorial i finally QUIT QUIT QUIT
i just don't see my self coming up with gr8 ideas
like this DAMN YOU ANDREW,and one more thing i think my wife is getting tierd of hearing your name in the house every time you come up with great stuff like this i sit her down and make her watch it with me
may sound sad but why miss out on goodness like this..
as always.
THANKS
Greatings from
Republic of Kosovo
I have learned so much for these tutorials Andrew
Any chance one day of doing some Water tutorials one day?
Allister from Scotland!
your dry sense of humor makes my day. :)
gr8 work
thanks ( we are not worthy )
:D
Thank you andrew ... man , you changed my after fx life !
(sorry if i made mistake ... i speak french)
Jé :D
what an interesting tuts!
Thank you very very much for your work arggg i love it!!!!!!
Btw the german tv reality show Big Brother uses alot of andrew kramers sounds from DEsigner Sound FX or they used the Earth Zoom project i saw it yesterday and i knew immediatly its from Andrew.
but.... It would have been nice to know that I would have to have the Trapcode Particular effect
Is there an easy way to get this because I'm a poor college student unfortunately I don't have the bucks to lay down on this awesome effect. I did a quick Google search and just the particular effect is over $280 - any suggestions for free or cheaper replacements
very tankssssssss...
Sure i saw the Dying Cell effect on here used a UK Coke Zero advert, looked pretty cool
http://stopvirgin.movielol.org/
Side note. Is anybody having issues going to creativecow and looking at podcasts? Quicktime seems to be crashing my firefox browser.
GRRRRRRRRREAT
MASSSSTEEER...........
...I am from india...i am very much proud to be your student....ur tutes is the best ever.with ease to me...love you ..pls continue to teach us more....u r helping more to build our career....try to give more tutes on 3ds max...we love....u r the man of the Milliniuem...wish u a great succes ....you are the one who revealed to the world the hidden mystrey of motion graphics...y cant u create seprate lesson keyboard shortcuts ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEgKIKeFSos
cheers!
Thanks Andrew great one. If someone know how to turn text in to smoke or maybe our master can help.
Thanks in advance
thanks for this tutorial Andrew.
i've been looking around for something like this.
keep up the good work.
Andrew
i used what you have taught me and created my first work andrew.
Everybody plz check it out the trailer i put up using some of andrew's awesome effects.
plz rate and comment if u like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDmEmP3pS4w
maybe try using a blocky font in white and track/luma matte it to see through to the smoke Andrew demonstrated creating in this tutorial.
Could slightly rotate a copy of the smoke in 3D and bring it up through the text layer ( forward on z axis) to smother the letters, increasing opacity of rising smoke and increasing blur on text. Have not tried it though ;-]
ILOVE YOU TUTORIALS KEEP IT UP MAN
FORM SUDAN
Really fantastic tutorials, truly and utterly.
I'm impressed with your work, and all products (& tutorials..) are nice.. I would like to know how did you create that smoke element... I tried it in AE with particular and turbulent displace plugins and I got similar result, can you tell me how did you do your?
Adam from Hungary
Akiro from Perú
Thx from Rissia!
Thanks for your great tutorials. we learn lots of thing and techniques just because of you.
Really thank for the guide :)
Hey adrian, to download the video, just get the real player 11
video copilot. but i just wanna ask to you how can i download this video
Keep on your great work
Tunisia
"ill come to your house"
(*thinks hes gunna get a free 1 on 1 lesson*)
"and break your windows"
hahaha
or you will go blind HA
one your tutorial smok screen, and at the last u were showing cloud that u made can u please show how to make or creat a cloud
thanks
you are the best , ke