luv u guy,u make me. tks

Hey, I'm trying to do this in max, everything works except the inital shadow. It isn't appearing like yours, mine is just appearing flat behind the text not at an angle.

ur great man

Hi, for some reason my 3D Text always appears as Flat Image when i wanna import it to After Effects.

I press F9 to render it.
Then Save Image as .. TARGA.
Then i import into After Effects and make the Layer 3D .. but its still a Flat Image.

Any Help ? Thanks !

The SyFy channel used this for their brand new logo!

Dude I'm starting to see your work everywhere. I mean, at least the foundations/influence of it.

Hey Andrew!

When I group the lights it will not show "Omni Light" in the Modifier.

- UP

Thx i just started using 3ds max and this has made it easy to start learning!

I just stumbled onto this site...awesome stuff! You guys really are talented, and you make the teaching/learning fast

@Christopher J
Depending what version of max you have press 'x'

Hey Andrew, make some more 3D Max tutorials! it's awesome man! Perhaps you can do some meteor type tutorial!

Greats kramer Thank you!

I'm new to 3d Max, I've got a problem and was wondering if you could tell me how to fix it...
the y,x and z axes won't display on my object when I use the "click and move" tool.
Do you know what I should do to able to display them again?

Dude they totally used this on the History Channel's Holiday Bonus commercial!

Saw this being used as a promo on Sci-Fi channel. Everything was the same. Pretty funny.

what the name software used??..

it's awesome ! I would like more tutorials like this.

Your wealth of experience is highly appreciated.
God will continually improve you.
You are simply the best!!!

First, thanks for the great tutorials and insights. Great site.
Second, anyway to create these "SyFy" shadows in After Effects and Zaxwerks?
Thx,
BD

Thanks Andrew

Andrew,
Can something like this be done in After Effects?

Thanks!

this is very very very very nice tutorials

any chance for more 3d max tutorials?
hehe.. this is really great..

tnx ;}

Great use of 3D in a also sutle way. Very Very Smart. You Rock!!!

great

hi andrew this is nice 1 god bless u

nice tutorial but i had to stop the video like every 2 seconds to keep up :D starting to think that 3ds max just isnt for me.

u R The BesT one!

E ai, sou Jonathan Phillip por Cubo Artes Design,
parabenizando pelos tutoriais, muito bem explicados e prduzidos...


abraço

Never thought I would hear your voice on a 3DS Max tutorial :P

Great! Make more 3D's Max tuts! Basic training tutorials for 3D's Max would be great :)

Nice tutorial. After watching i made this in Blender. Ok mine is a little bit different cause i took a freaky and grungy font and made it much darker (i just used one lamp) But it comes really near to this :)

Thanks for the inspiration Mr. Kramer

I can't for the life of me, get those lights in the correct spacing/positon. Been working on this all day, and just about to abandon the project. If anyone could help me out, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

wargsm AT gmail DOT com

hi andrew!i really love all your tutorials in after effects! i'm currently learning 3dsmax now but i'm still in the basics. can you pls make a basic training as well in 3d? i think i can learn it better when you are the teacher, tnx! God bless!

andrew !!! really u r inspired me to work AE, thank u,

Greats kramer!!

awesome tutorial!!

la verda me encanta como esta realizado! pero a mi no me salio! jaja... se me complica mucho con 3Dmax

is it ok to use all Boujou, Maya, Cinema4D and 3DS Max? like do companies do that at all? or are they just reserved for one software? I'd like to know if anyone could answer me this.

Saw this effect used on a promo for a cable station (maybe SciFi network.) I was blown away to see it was a straight rip from the project files - down to the font used!

Do the guys who do these promos sit around their computers hitting refresh all day with the hopes that Andrew has posted another tutorial? It's cool to used a tut to get the creative jucies flowing but come on!

this program is the coooooooooooooooooool program...

This is great!!! I for one, really want more MAX tutorials! :D

Cool!

U are the Best

Aguante el Cinema 4D!!!

Saludos desde Argentina!

God is a fairy-tale, but Andrew Kramer is real!! Andrew, thank you for all you doing for us.

AK i dont knw what to really say about u but i knw God created to be creative to others , here in nigeria and mostly on MTVBase and other country i always see alots of ur work. AK God will bless u more and more and pls find solution to shipping to my country nigeria.
thnx

I used this tutorial for the opening title in a little 0:- project i made here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFdpV1lT4cE Thanks alot Andrew, i followed you since Creative Cow days, you are the best!

please,how do i get your tutorials to download?

HOLA COMO ESTÁN ESPERO QUE BIEN.
ME ENCANTA SU PAGINA. TODO LO REFERENTE A PRODUCCIÓN DIGITAL. HEY A.C THANK YOU FOR ALL THIS TUTORIALS.
I HAVE A PROBLEM WHIT THIS TUTORIAL I CAN'T SEE THIS VIDEO.

Thanks!
Bolshoe spasibo!!!

grande Andrew! Te mandamos un grande abrazo desde argentina! sos un grande! Gracias por todos los consejos utilisimos que nos das! te agradeceria si haces mas tutorials de 3d studio! Segui asi!

Andrew.........awesome work again...want to know that from where did u start bro?

U are the f*cking man!!! Andrew, that was amazing.

Hello Andrew, you do a great job making these awesome tutorials. I have this question, why is it that when I render my videos they're kinda laggy? they videos play part of it and then stop, the players slider bar keeps moving but the image stops.? please help

Thank you sir, this is a great tutorial...

Nice tut! But got one problem. When I press F9 i get the render of the front view, not the perspective view. And I don't kow how to change that. (How do u get the extra options where u can choose the different views when u press F9?)

Any help would be appreciated,

Thx

My friend, from Caracas - Venezuela I tell you good job, You´re the best. Thanks for give your knowledges.

i learned a lot with your tutorials.

good luck

Nicley explained, but this technique is like nearly 10 years old. There were a ton of scripts and plugs that did this, now all obsolete, you may find the right settings that will give you this, with less setup time. You just need to know how to setup in mray or vray, As said tho, Final holds the top step here, fast and no flicker.
And you could have tweaked lightracer to get it 3 times as fast as default, with no noticeable visual change.

AWESOME!!!

We would like to request also if you could give us some tips and tricks about spline how to connect and break.

I have been your avid follower to your products and its amazing what had done in my job. I am looking forward to your next launching of your new product.

Mysh

SO GOOD

WE'RE NOT WORTHY!

Andrew, make more tutorial with Blender please.

Great quality of all your work Andrew, i think you`re doing a fantastic favour to the community!
The fact that you`re an entertainer aswell makes it even better! :D

dear andrew, i'm writting from china, i've being a fan of your work and website for sometime now, but after i got back to china, i found there's no way of viewing your tutorials online, is there anyway i could download your tutorials perhaps? i really wish to keep watching your videos they give me endless ideas. thanks a lot.

u da man.

NICE !

P.S. ??????? ?????. ??? ???????.
????????? ?????

This is nice sh*t!
Thank you Andrew, luv u man!

-Pertti from Finland

Nice lightening technique for this simple letters, but in complex scenes is it unuseful. Anyway great tip andrew...

Hi...You are one of the best in giving tutorials. I have used a lot different ones and you come right at the top..

How can i do this in AE. I am not a 3D person

Thanks
HK

I haven't read all the comments so someone may have pointed this out already. To detach elements to objects automatically in Max, just convert to editable mesh use "explode" with a setting of 180.

Thanks Andrew!

Thank you very much for your tutorials. This is exactly i want.:)

Awesome :) ,with this 3d max ,AE,cool sounds,music,actors real or just models....and of course with this exelent knowledge of Andrew and VC,you can make own hi tech,hd movies.

With all respect of course we dont need Spilberg or Hudini for this ;D.

R`N`R ,its time for movies!Amen

what about the Matrix Andrew (sir)

nice one Andrew, make more tutorials for 3Ds MAX if you can. :) again great one

COOL~

Hey andrew..
I had some problems in the making of the 3DsoftShadow...
Can u gimme some correction on my vid?
Heres the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=1385GOYEgvc

Pssshhhhhhh.....I could do better. WHAT AM I SAYING!!!! *bowing down* you are the master. I just received the 10 pack bundle and WOW! Where do I start. I have been following all your tutorials since ever since and this is my first comment....but not my last.

Where do I get that plug in?

I like that ! Thx you Kramer !

hallo from geece... you are the best ..... i have the 3d max but i dont now how to use this...

nice...!!!!

so nice 3q AK

Hey andrew, great tut !

I found this one on the net : http://vimeo.com/4824948

A translation of your tut to C4D ^^

Have you looked at the free script for Max called E-Light? You should check it out, does the same thing and will save you time. Good tutorial still!

andrews plz adds mores!!!...u a innovation guy!

Awesome! i used this tutorial to help me make part of the title for my upcoming production

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZvH81y4itA

Thanks a lot!!

Good
I like what I have done

lol, ur tutorials are godly, just tried the ancient text, worked like a charm! Can't wait to try this one out!
P.S. You should be knighted. lol

You did it again. THIS WAS AWESOME MAN!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!

HEY !!! YOU ARE SO GOOD ON AE !!! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!

Wow...Thank you so much for that technique...Used it in C4D perfectly.

Is that a new Mic you're using to record your voice there?

Thanks for the Tut, just starting off with Max after wasting a month learning Blender and getting NOWHERE. The user interface is very tough to learn!

If you don't read other people's comments don't expect yours to be magically noticed. Most people like yourself, only care about themselves.


@Y, depends on which you can *afford* I'd go for 3ds max, its industry standard software and there are a bevy of tutorials to help you create "reality from scratch" tm

Hi Andrew!

I wanted to thank you so much for all the great tutorials you and your team made! Before I stumbled upon your site, I acctualy didn't dare to touch AE (I wanted it so badly though :D ), because I didn't understand a thing!
But after following the basic training and now i've done almost all of your tutorials, I'm quite familiar with the program!

Also, 3Ds max is a program wich I used way longer before AE, but still are there some great tips in the tutorials! As a example this tutorials with the nice lighting.

Keep up the good work and thank you! (And the rest of the videocopilot team)

Good tutorial... Thx again man. Personaly i want some real deal tutorials whit particle sistem ( only you can do something good) ;).

Kenji
Romania

Hi Andrew,

Just want to thank you for al those great tutorials. Amazing how you explain things in a fast but clear way. You helped me a lot! With your help I was able to make the following trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9YJTVM2R2k

Thank you very much!
Ferenc

Hi Andrew,

isn't this soft shadow called "Ambient Occlusion" at least that is what I thought, but you never use this term, so now I'm confused...

Tom

hey andrew very nice tutorial
I was just wondering is there a way to send 3D models to after effects?

from Cinema 4D and 3D max I cad find

the way do you render as alpha or as matte

ok Cheers

michael..

Very very...... nice Andrew!

Wow superb man, !! i really love your tuts, and also very nice that once in a while some very goodlooking 3d tuts come up. Gonna try this with C4D because im mac user.

so great and fantastic



from bloody hell(Afghanistan)

Nice..................

Mantap kalipun...!!!

"Funtastic..!!!"

Thanks for this tutorial! I've been in the 3ds max scene for 4 years now and still searching for the best lightning techniques. I hope your tutorial could help me a bit!

awesome tutorial Sir, i've been looking for this. plz someone make Cinema 4D tutorial please...

Great Tutorial, Thank you!

With spotlights the shadowmap is calculated only once.

There are several Plugins

Hi all,

Soon i'm going to make exact the same tut.
Only than in C4D (But only with your permission Andrew :D)

I already know how to do it... Not everything is the same. But hey, if I can help... I'll be there!

Greets,
Guido(gast)

You are great uncle andrew. Superb!

i think you are famous in egypt than any graphic designer
because you are the best

your friend from egypt

wow wee wahh wow, 2 new tuts in 1 day!!! We are bless³d :) Thanks Andrew I can'tt wait....! /excited*

I have AE7 and its missing some of the CC modules anyone know where i can get them? Esp that CC Particle world one. Pls reply I'll check back here.

I had to made one too ;]

[url]http://www.vimeo.com/4803499[/url]

Made in Maya, I used only 4 soft shadow lights and ambient occlusion (beauty, amb occlusion, masks) Ae.

Thanks Andrew
Greetz from Poland

I think your idea for this project came from the new hit film, Star Trek. Am I right?

this is very very very very coooooooooool

como cosigo o tutorial projeto ?

Yet again another awesome tutorial! Even though I like your AE tutorials better, this one for 3DS Max is wonderful too. Thanks again!

You should do Blender tutorials too!

Loved it, great technique. Learned a lot.

Your wealth of experience is highly appreciated.
God will continually improve you.
You are simply the best!!!

hai andrew if u read this ...first thing i want to say i like 3ds max and i have for 2010..
can u do alot tutorial for 3ds max....who agree
say (yeah)

Yes "You are a god at AE" ya it's 100% true :)
this is my first comment but i m watching your tutorial last 2 years but never comment. sorry for this :)Andrew sir ur style of teaching is amazing realy

Loved it so mutch !

thanks !

Wicked! I us Cinema 4D. Decided to find a C4D work flow for this. Turned out kinda nice. Here is a link to a wallpaper of the final image. Thanks for the inspiration Andrew.

http://www.mahspot.com/img/mahspot-wallpaper-orig.jpg

i like it when you put 3DS MAX Tutorial... i'm addict with this s/w, thx andrew.

Very nice tutorial Andrew, very useful!,
i wish i watched this before i made this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V6uJzLEkTsivé

Followed you from when you began at Creative cow, to here. Im amazed by your work and tutorials.
I will hire you someday. :)

hey bro thanks for all your tutorials!! from maracaibo venezuela this is very good for all thenks again... pd: i touch after effect for the first time 1 month ago and im a expert already...

Very nice!

And yes, this is really easy to recreate in C4D as well.
Instead of copying your lights, you can use the ARRAY object.
Just create an omni light, set it to soft shadows, and drop in into an Array object. Then you only have to duplicate that array and tweak its diameter and distance.

An alternative is the fantastic LUMEN plugin from biomekk.com. This will automatically create a lightdome from 1 omni light and a sphere object.
There used to be a free Lumen LITE version, not sure it's still available tho.

I haven't watched the whole tutorial yet but when I saw it was a 3ds max tutorial I had to leave a comment first. I love your max tuts so I'm glad you've done another one and hope to see more of your 3ds max tutorials like those "organic mesh in 3d max", "growing 3D wines" or that beautiful combination of AE and max in "meteor crash" or even more advanced stuff. So keep up the good work and greetings from Croatia!

very very great Tut 3d max is great!! people should realize that to make great art comes from all different aspects and programs. 3dmax is Great!!!!
love every thing you do man. cant wait for more.

Don´t if anybody wrote it but it will be cool is you show the same stuff in c4d as you do in 3dmax :)

fluid and soft! exactly what I needed
Kramer thanks!

hey there. i really like the tutorial, and would really like to do what you did in 3dmax. but i don't have windows. and after what i've seen it's not actually available on a mac. so is there any other program i can use to do this?

Thanks a lot Andrew, i've been following your tutorials for a long time now. And they keep getting better and better !

Your 3ds max tutorials are also more then welcome !

WOW! Absolutely unbelievable. Thank you, Andrew.

so cool..

Thanks Andrew Kramer. Did you see the new Black berry storm ads ("Life on Black Berry" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH1Jg-pu3bU

i can't say any thing so it so good

I love your voice, you the best Andrew ))

yeah !!! 3dsmx......

i love this stuff..
like always..u r great andrew!!! ;)

Awesome!
I liked the speed also, your witty banter is always funny but this made a change as to how fast you worked. Just shows how impressive and knowledgable you are in this industry!
You must charge alot! Woooo! Good times!
Keep the tutorials up mate, i love checking the site for updates!
Thank youuuuu!

good work!... =)

just powerful technique

As always, great work! You make AE look so simple, and because of you, it now is!

you are the best of the best
please Kramer
"translate" it to cinema4d...

This is the onely website i check every day, and this is one of the reasons!

I like this same as all your tutorials.

Thanks for another great tutorial. And thank you for using particle world, I know trap-code is a great product, but not all of us can afford $300 bucks.

you are the best AK :D

love it ;)

THX andrew you are the best ;)

wondering if anyone knows how difficult the tutorial is to translate into other 3D programs, my pref is cinema?

you are insanely good . Its a pleasure to watch all your tutorials .

Finally ! I was asking myself for almost a year on how to get that glow look on 3d objects .... never noticed that specular switch :D haha thanks Andrew, You are a life saver!

Thanks AK...!

Love your work!!! Thank you for sharing :)

Super!:)

With all due respect to 3DS fans, we're all here because of After Effects - which, as we all know, costs a packet. 3DS can't be cheap either, so those of us still catching our financial breath from buying AE might have to resort to something like Blender. Concept tutorials are great if you can use them with other packages, but please, Andrew, don't go all Max specific on us. Some of us aren't rich pros yet. XD

Nice tutorial Andrew, can you post the 3d max project please?

pretty nice but, what does it have to do with AE ?

WAWOOOOO! great job bro

you are greate man .you are best..no no no no. you are the best

Fringe intro graphic!!! How did you do that stuff? :)

I will watch it because you usually give me inspirado and make my tummy jiggle.
However, I would also love a BLENDER TUT on this.

FYI. the tipping point for my purchase of your BULLET dvd was that it had a Blender tut! Not alot of quality AE/blender tuts out there.

Thanks in advance I am sure this is brilliant.

Andrew! You are the best! I love what you are doing!

Looks like the new SyFy-Logo. And I really like it!

Always the best!

Thanks AK...!

GREAT that you're starting to do more 3d Max tutorials, it's the logical next step in the AE learning curve...

Is it too much to hope for, that you'll do a breakdown of the amzing "Fringe"-title graphics that you created...? That shattered letter E coming toghether at the end, how the heck is that accomplished...?

Thank You for the greatest motion graphics site I know of!

There are ways to render GI without flicker, certainly with VRay.
Of course, render times would be a multitude of 3 seconds.
Thanks for the tutorial. Always good to learn lighting techniques and the result looks great.

GI Can be heavy on resources, and as Andrew said, a lot of them like VRay and Mental Ray flicker.
There is a special GI mode in Cebas Final Render which I think is THE render engine for composition/effects work. It is fast and flicker free, and it doesn't cost a fortune. Well worth checking out.

Very, very nice tutorial. Thanks a lot. We, as 3d visualisers, always think that we always need GI to get that nice look. And even more important, you've just showed the importance of knowing standart lights and materials.
You're great, man!

Woot i'm lookig forward to this tutorial for so long

Spectacular, great tips to reduce the render time!!

Thanks Andrew!




Greetings. CC³.

NICE!!!

Beautiful tut, i was so blessed. i hav been lookn for a way to achieve dis kinda lighting effect witout havin 2 use raytrace reflection. thanx Andrew u r d man

no doubt, to telling u maste of AE, Thanks andrew again

Great tut, but i think that ambient occlusion is more efficient way, at least in maya (mental ray) ;)

gr8 again..
andrew why you dont make it with cinema 4D?

wow very very very nice eviltion share him ?? pls
andrew ??? you are my hero forever :)
seeya my hero

I noticed some sort of toolbar on the left side of the screen, how do you turn that on?

ilove u man Great tutorial...

Great tut
thnx Andrew

@Y

I use MAYA. It's very cool and has Mental Ray - as does 3DS Max. Pretty much all 3D software does the same job but just in a different way - so the choice of which one to learn isn't a hard one.

That's great very easy and smart
I never thought of lighting this way before

AWESOME TUTORIAL!!! and on the comments box, why did you take off websites????

Dude, Andrew, AWSOME! KEEP THOSE TUTUORIALS COMING DUDE! THANKS!

Great tip! I stumbled upon this script years ago for MAX 5.0. Called E-Light. VERY handy, and similar to your technique.

http://home.wanadoo.nl/r.j.o/skyraider/e-light.htm

always nice
thanks andrew

Nice! Pretty cool!

Droga..meu 3d max ta com problema...eu queria testar esse tutorial!

Very good Andrew!!!!

THX!!

????AE???

Excellent 3D Max tut. I simply love that softae and lightinig and materials are topics that really bring everythig up to life. Looking foraward to that promised video blog

Is this the same technique you used for the new Star Trek Titles that appear throughout the movie? It reminded me of them. :P

I really need to buy 3ds Max!!!

Nice to see more 3D tuts on here. This is a bit weird - earlier on today, I tried to make a title plate for my new flash site in 3D max (i usually use Maya, but wanted to try out another program) and i really wanted to split the text up. it took me ages to figure it out as i havnt used Max in years, but got there in the end.

Anyway, how weird that you release a tutorial only 2hours after I finished the damn project. Ah well, still some great lighting info packed in here.

Glad to see some action on the site again. I know you've been busy behind the scenes, but i was getting inpatient, it slowed down roun here alot recently. anyway, glad to see a couple of tuts up, and for those doosh bags who always comment "first" - what the heck are you on here for...

I like the fast paced tutorials! Also, I am glad you are getting into 3D and AE integration.

Do you think more tutorials of this nature can be available soon?

No jokes? :)

Still a great tutorial :)

nice..
so who's gonna "translate" it to blender?
It is a very good 3D-software for -free-.
So why should you not use it?

you are the best of the best
thanks.

Thanks a lot Andrew! Here's a link to a 3ds max title effect I was able to create because of your last 3d title tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yt31y58wZY

usefull tutorial...Great
thnx

Hey, Y. I'd simply recommend 3ds Max for a couple of reasons. I like the work flow a lot better than Blender, It seems like theres more tutorials for it, and last but not least Andrew Kramer uses it! I'm new to 3d and have found it easy enough.

thanks

sir andrew kramer

wow, you're awesome Andrew

always ur fantastic mr. andrew kramed,great tut..

thank you kramermannnn

nice one keep them coming

meaby some tutorials for blender? Not only max and max :(

Never thought I would hear your voice on a 3DS Max tutorial :P

EGG SELL LENT! =)

Great! Thanks!

I love you :D
You are an AE saint.

Zach
(http://snipr.com/ig5so)

Hey guys, to start learning 3D programs, which one do you recommend, 3D studio max or Cinema 4D? Or any other?

Thanks!
Y

Great Tutorial :]

This is great! I've been waiting for this.

n1

Once again a lovely tutorial

FIRST! You are a god at AE!