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 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...
by juaz jaz 06/27/2009
wow is beautifull... but I can't see all the tutorial.... help me!!!!
by Jesse 06/24/2009
To good to be true. I'm only 17 and I know more then my teacher at UNI LMFAO!!

Thanks a trillion
by ponjon 06/24/2009
Andrew! Your da man! srsly this Rocks.
by waqar Qureshi 06/23/2009
Great tutorials
by GeO 06/21/2009
coooool....!!! thanx
by Fabiano 06/19/2009
Again, great tutorial.... but, adrew, leave the jokes... haha, kidding...
your utorials are awesome!
by suraj 06/19/2009
well i just wanna thank u andrew.....
u r my guru n a very good teacher
all this stuff u r providing here helps a lot
cuz i had never thought that i would have got such tutorials for free
i am learning a lot from ur tutorials
u r amazing... keep the good work up
thanks a lot
by jamatru 06/17/2009
Only one word WAOOOO...
Thanks,
by Mani 06/13/2009
hi

its very nice , it is easy to understand compare other net tutorials.Thanks...
by Vigo 06/11/2009
Very nice designt, i've created intro to my seft with this and other cool tips of videocopilot.net!
Many thanks :)
by Gustavo 06/09/2009
Hey andrew, great job man i love you. here is a clip of wat i was able to do by watching ur tutorial!

http://www.youtube.com/user/ExedyProductions
by Don 06/09/2009
Thanks for this great tutorial. Used to basics of it to create this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmHBJ-tfDX0 for fun.
by HELLO 06/09/2009
can somoeone tell me where to find this 3d orbit??
i m searching about 3 hours and nothing..
by tanbeen_sobhaan 06/08/2009
It's cooooooooooooooooooool.
by Andrew 06/07/2009
thx Darshil for inspiring me
by Fernando Quispe 06/06/2009
Excellent tutorial Andrew, you're really a great help to the producer of the post world, we expect new products created for you, master teachers, may God bless you and once again thank you for this input, you'll learn much to excel in post-production In my country, Thanks and see you soon
Atte: Fernando Quispe
by Joraph 06/03/2009
Have gotten it....it's cool project setting wasn't square pixel
by Joraph 06/01/2009
Nice toturial dude........
but have been working on this one for more than 2 days.........there is overlap outside and inside the ring after animating the rotation property...
am using CS3...
any advice
by Ali 05/31/2009
I must say thank you to you. Cu around.
by Ali 05/30/2009
Nice, I stunned. Awsome! Can you put up the .aep file for this one. Thanks.
by Carbine 05/29/2009
Guys, i need some help with this, when i open the Project up. im missing rings.jpg.jpg file, and i cant locate it. Where can i find it guys, im searching for it for an hour now :(

Plz HELP!!
Tutorials are great AK - 47 !!!
by Alex M 05/28/2009
Hello,

I just finished this tutorial , i like much , thanks you Andrew for this beautiful Tutorials

See you :)
by yotas 05/26/2009
You are better than 5 years in the university.... thanks...... a lot...

god pay and bless your generosity
by seany 05/26/2009
at the partical orld bit i copy your expressions but this keeps appearing

after effects warning: class 'global' has no property or methos names 'x' expression diabled
by moto from China 05/21/2009
hey andrew do you know this? The broadcasting design of TNT on January 15 2009 called 'Elevating the Drama' .this work is similar with your work 'the ring' .
wow i am interesting in the company you work for .
does it called 'Troika' for the 'Elevating the Drama'is the Troika's work
by fendy 05/19/2009
hei andrew...
when i watch this tut..i a little bit confuse about expression...

hope you will give a tutorial that explain about expression..
by Ant 05/19/2009
Great tutorial, has helped alot with my college project, I'm sure to get a high grade for this =D

thanks!
by eddrock 05/18/2009
this guy is really great! tnx again for the new thingies!
by Mukesh Nandal 05/16/2009
amazing tutorial.
Me fan of AE
by KarleoMax 05/15/2009
Hai andrew...I am karthik from India.
I come to know abt this Video copilot a week ago.. it was awesome....

how to increase our creative design effects... tell me some 2 achieve more designs..

Once again you r the fan of billion people and u r the best for me...

thanks for reading mine... have a nice day...
by SAURABH SRIVASTAVA 05/14/2009
THANX...............FOR THIS TUTORIAL
by Abdul Shafiq 05/14/2009
You r so genious Personality...I'm Imprase Brother.
by Bret Lautzenheiser 05/13/2009
I gotta say, you're quite biased against After-Effect's built in particle system, but it can produce almost the same effect (of course not as good) but close.

using the liquify filter, I was able to produce a similar effect for the wavy lines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8ZzvJk8y4
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