TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
February 17, 2009
• Build a silver ring in After Effects with a particle wipe
• Use valueAtTime expression to automate over time
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
Tutorial includes info for using CC Particle World as well as Trapcode's Particular.
Running Time: 38mins.


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by TGM 13 hours ago
O.M.G..this is so freaking awesome...nice tut :)
by nelson 01/31/2010
Grandioso !!!!!!!!!!!!
by Lucas 01/28/2010
THX nice tutorial =D !!
by Jonathan Stark 01/28/2010
Hi i downloaded the project and i reliced that i don´t have the presets map :(
Help please!?
by Matthew 01/27/2010
Hi Andrew,

You are just too much. I enjoy
by Evan 01/25/2010
YOU ROCK KEEP IT UP!
by tina 01/24/2010
you are the best !
by jheison mendez 01/15/2010
hey dude I love ur tuts they are awsome but I have a litle problem I have Adobe After Effects cs4 and when I chose the layer that we create as a null object and I press "U" nothing happens cuz is true it wont make the circle shape so I'm trying to make it do that but its not working for me.I will love it if you can reply to me my e mail is venezolano13_2@hotmail.com thank you soo much for your tuts and ur help
by Theunamed02 01/14/2010
Anyone who can read this. I think this is not a straight through forums. Coz' some questions are not answered. To think of it I think this is an "Andrew fans club" yay! More powers to you andrew.
by jiyeon 01/12/2010
wow~!!!!!
by ahmed selim jouhar 01/05/2010
thanks for sharing the knowlidge

thank u very much i just love u maaaan
by vicky 01/03/2010
damn..im new to after effects...and im loving it
by ariel 01/01/2010
very cool... good tutorial...
thx sob...
by Danties Xurs 12/30/2009
Hey man yo so cool,you really have the brain.Keep up the altruism.I love this effect.
by Blake Priddy 12/29/2009
Dude you are amazing!!!
by Shay Silver 12/24/2009
Thank you soooooooooo much for the awesome turorials!!! Video Copilot rocks!!!

Much love from Israel
by K.A.S 12/23/2009
THANK VERY VERY MUCH

you are best of the best

I'am a new in this domaine so i hope progess too quickly hhhh

by Lou_ 12/18/2009
Andrew, Thanks for taking the time to do this tutorial. Great stuff, very useful for many other projects, Thanks a million!
by Anish 12/16/2009
lol, "if you are scared of sock puppets proceed with caution,"lol funny dude.
by Larry 12/16/2009
mine came out backwards somehow lol
by anoop 12/14/2009
this is very usefull
by Rebekka 12/13/2009
This one was great!! Thanks a lot...and waiting for more!!
by Bence 12/13/2009
Where can I download the Newtown font type?
by Célio Monteiro 12/11/2009
Hi Andrew, I'm from Brazil, and I have to congratulation you!
Thank you man!
You're the best I know! Only not for the AE technics, but about attitudes yours.
You've the best job ever! We can see your felling when you're doing something in AE. Thanks for sharing the knoledge with all us!
You're the best professional that I knew!
Another time, thank you a lot!
by NcT 12/08/2009
Hi Andrew;
Thx For This tutorial.
u'r realy an Artist.
by julio 12/06/2009
you rock !!!!its a great tutorial
by Sasan 12/05/2009
salam jigarammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
thanks you Andrew for this beautiful Tutorials
:-*
by Dono 12/04/2009
Look like TNT from cable tv same design
by peter dorai 12/04/2009
Great stuff u make it so easy...I really love AE its a great tool but undersold.. its good in a way...I'm also a fan of Fusion is there any thing like this in fusion I mean he tutorials..thanks. keep AAAeeeeeing!!!!!!!
by xm 11/30/2009
Andrew,i have to say i really love your voice and your wonderful work
by gr3kplay1 11/28/2009
THX
by imtya 11/24/2009
damn ur amazing and effect looks epic!
by Fabian 11/22/2009
Hey Andrew!! just had a look at this most awesome tutorial.thank you for sharing .

Had a small request though,could you give us a tutorial about using expressions in AE ...when to use 'em , how to use 'em..etc.

Would help my AE skills a great deal.

Thank you again.

Fabian. (sock puppets are taking over!!)
by luke jones 11/16/2009
This is AWESOME, how do u cut out part of the 3D ring my church logo is an arrow with a circle around it, and i gotta flow that around the arrow, thanks
by sock guy 11/15/2009
yay sock friends!
by Fabio 11/14/2009
Nice tut :D

P.S. you are allways sick !! ??
by Chris 11/11/2009
I don't know if anyone else found this but after the 3D rotate is applied and the radius set. My null object is going clockwise while Andrews is going counter clockwise...an I missing a step somewhere?? Very frustrating as I re started this tutorial like 3 times now. Anyone please!
Great work btw Andrew, as always.
by noble 11/10/2009
M.r.Andrew
you are the coolest man in the world.
thank you buddy
by mango 11/06/2009
Thanks Andrew.
by caoimhin 11/05/2009
Hi Andrew! ur such a god for me!!!! I really enjoy ur tutorials (the bests on the net), almost learning so much thanks to u.

Just wanna ask for a trouble... This toturial gets cut just at the end, something like minute 28. I don't know if it's my browser or something else but I'm not able to see it.

Sombody else have the same problem?

Thanks!
by Edo Kng 11/02/2009
Dude! it was great!! I followed the tutorial and I could done the project :D thanks for everything!
by rainbow 10/30/2009
congratulations.. its so wonderful!
by carlos gomez 10/29/2009
Hello Andrew

I am a new fan of your creactivity skills, and I was trying to work on the TNT ring. I hit a wall when you got me to the 3D orbit pre set,
where or how can i buy it? I have AE cs4 and I work on a mac osx.

can you please let me know?
by Kjaj 10/29/2009
This reminds me of the loading pictogram that comes with windows Vista, or is that silly to think?
by fernando 10/27/2009
What a nice tutorials!!! but how can I make it to follow a shape instead of a circle, because I need it for the church logo.

Thanks
by Mustapha 10/27/2009
you are really great Andrew ...!!!!!!!!!

that's a cooooool tuto thx so much .
by zhaoyue 10/21/2009
thanks
by ASDF 10/16/2009
woooooooooooooooooow this coool
this is my vidoe
thx men for evry thing to using the ae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onknOAL6TXY
by Casttro 10/15/2009
AmaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
by Peter 10/15/2009
Dream about meeting with your group!
by Peter 10/15/2009
Fantastic. Video CoPilot is great
by b12yante 10/13/2009
Whoah! this is so cool... I'll try this.. Thanks
by ali bhai 10/13/2009
as salam o alikum.u rocking man. brillient tutorial .thanx 4 sharing keep sharing n smile .
by Ralph 10/11/2009
All your tutorials are amazing and this one is awesome! I use Ae now even to create still backgrounds for web sites!
by scrieimpreuna 10/08/2009
Hi. What is the best format to export this video?
by Expression 10/08/2009
How do you write in the timeline expression like : time*80
I can´t type anything
Thanks
by berong 10/08/2009
great, great, great tutorial!!!
this is the first time i landed on this site, already bookmarked it.
thanks for a seemingly simple effort, to make a great tutorial.
by Rafael D Alessandro 09/23/2009
Just Fantastic, I never saw a Tut Like this...

CONGRATULATIONS
by Maysara Gamal 09/17/2009
Andrew Kramer their You Are Super !
by indran mahendran 09/15/2009
hey thanks man ..its very helpfull...

-malaysia


by douf 09/15/2009
pretty awesome mate, glad youre ok.
by Richer zhao 09/14/2009
Hi,Thank you for you tutorials.
It's so cool.
I live in china.wellcom you come to china,sometime
I have a problem ,it is I can't downlode 3D obbit.
by RebelDesigner 09/09/2009
You are ANGEL... Thanks for being within us... God bless you
by bob jm 09/04/2009
thnx Andrew , u really help me up , thnx again
by justin 09/03/2009
cool!! dude keep it up.
by JohnPavl 08/30/2009
Thank autor for this lesson
by eXo_^ 08/30/2009
Freaking nice u rock !
by sdfsdf 08/30/2009
omg! just in time for my new project!
by joandel fernandez 08/30/2009
this tutorial is very cool andrew... your the best!! too bad i dont have particulr, so i just used cc particle world.

tnx a lot i hope to see many more of your tutorials.
by Mendes 08/28/2009
I LOVE IT! Fresh design you did! So clean!
by khaled 08/28/2009
think's Andrew this tutorial is fantastic, Bravo!
by Minhaj 08/27/2009
haha thats how you found you're wife!!!!!
by ashish 08/26/2009
again gud one
thanks a lot
by Dmitriy 08/26/2009
Excellent tut bro, very helpful! Thank you.
by Taico Hunser 08/13/2009
very goood
by Hitlar John 08/11/2009
ya it is very Good
But my probem i cont animte with Code!
by Spardaa 08/11/2009
good lesson, i'm create avatar =)
Thx
by Satran 08/10/2009
Great, man! Its like love at first sight :)

by younas 08/07/2009
Salam
it was a great one
i like it
wth best wishes
thanks
by Naeem 08/02/2009
Im learning alot from you and i pray God gives u very good health and respect and joy in life i alos pray for ur doughters and ur family for that tutorial
by nadji 07/29/2009
very GOOD tutorial!

Thanks androw :)
by Shwaum 07/26/2009
Heh, been seeing this A LOT on the TNT channel, seeing that they're now using this as their logo. Great tutorial Andrew. Wink! ;D
by Xcy 07/25/2009
Very cool, I've been following your tutorials for over a year, this is one of my favorites
by shirley 07/23/2009
thank you!
by mr. jumbolo 07/23/2009
awesome tutorial....a little complicated but awesome!!!
by humma 07/22/2009
great tutorial!

one question though: is it possible to let the orbit-null follow another shape but a circle? so for example a square or egg-like form? -> i want to apply this tutorial to another project..

i am new to after effects, so please excuse me if thats a dumb question..
by Mahesh Punjala 07/21/2009
you are awesome. i am not able to download the project file.
by amfk 07/19/2009
how he change the ring color to blue??? s**t idk
by Aboubakar 07/11/2009
you the best Mr.A.K thanksssssssssss
by CasteLobGR 07/11/2009
The BEST. Thank you Andrew.
by zabi 07/11/2009
Iam Loving it!
by Paulo 07/08/2009
Very good!
This tutorial is very crazy!
by Rean 07/06/2009
i'm rean from macedonia.
Cool is video tutorial
by Maximos 07/05/2009
Very good work. It reminds me of the TNT ring.
by Sc0pe 07/04/2009
Fantastic Work Dude I Love It Great For My Montages
by Jason 07/03/2009
I don't recall making/duplicating that layer in the tutorial, which is easy to figure out anyway, but just wanted to know which mask you duplicated, if you did, or did you create a new mask?

Sorry I didn't finish my last post...
by Jason 07/03/2009
Your tuts are awesome as always!! And very easy to follow.

I have a question, i was following the tutorial, and when you go shrink down the duplicated thin spec layer, you end up with a 3rd mask in that layer, when you move the specular ring in to create the highlight on the top of the ring.
by VIctoria23 07/02/2009
Andrew you are amazing!
by Djarloul Miloud 06/30/2009
THANK'S ANDRAW IT'S A GREAT WORK
by YamilSoft 06/29/2009
La verdad, que me encanta!... la tenes re clara amigo!... gracias por estos tutoriales y espero seguir aprendindo con vos! saludos y sigue asi...
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