Vote for your Favorite Free Tutorial!
June 17th, 2007

What is your favorite Video Copilot Tutorial? Just leave a comment with what you think is your favorite and be honest. I'm sure you're responses will be interesting.

At the end of the week I'm going to add it up and do absolutely nothing about it.

; ) Andrew

Andrew Kramer
POSTED:
18 years ago
79 Comments
12 years ago
oh my god ! first andrew blog
They're all brilliant my, brother... Love 'em all.
12 years ago
hey i like your all tutorials
12 years ago
all rocks but plz tell the tuts with out any plugins thank you
Jack H
13 years ago
I'm from the future.
14 years ago
i couldn't vote on a tutorial, but my favorite thing is probably action essentials 2, that is awesome, and i get lots of use out of it
I'll go with the earth zoom. That's probably the tutorial I learned the most from. Or maybe the sick cell tutorial, that got me into 3D apps.
15 years ago
hey i like your all totu
Mohammed El-Gaily
15 years ago
Really Thanks Andrew.
In fact all your works is Good
and perfect. Without privacy Two one..
But I love this tutorial 87.3D City.
Thank you again...
Genc
16 years ago
Definately, SUBMERGED !
ben
18 years ago
i loved the demon warp, blood splatter on tree and making a muzzle flash

umm actully muzzle flash one might be on action movie essentials?
18 years ago
Warp Demon ^^
colin thomson
18 years ago
I like your demon face tutorial.
Riko Fx
18 years ago
I prefer when you use the gun, your suicide and the blood on the tree!!!

a+
18 years ago
the NEXT one is my favorite... [m]
18 years ago
I'd like to take away my vote. I would like to vote for the most under appreciated video but defiantly the most beatifical for those who want or do work with HD footage.

09: Speed Up After Effects with Proxies

Hope you do something with this blog.
Aroyewun Babajide
18 years ago
I must say, Andrew, all your tutorials here have one way or the otehr improved my understanding and workflow in after effects. At a point, after going through a series of After Effects tutorials, I was like maybe Autodesk Combustion was the bomb considering teh amount of hype I get to hear from guys as regards compositing and visual eefcts, but from what I see you do, i have no doubt in my mind that Affect Effects (especially CS3 afmily) is really worth the salt. Thanks Andrew. You are in my Creativity Hall of Fame
Andrei
18 years ago
Update...My persoanl favourite now is the 3d Projections Series (1,2 , Vanishing point) ...it really opened a new perspective for me..something I didnt think was possible in AFX. But like some said..all the tutorials innovate my concept about AFX and the things I can do with it ..keep the bright ideas coming Andrew.
808Marcus
18 years ago
If we could vote for all of them, I would. You do great work, and give us great ideas Andrew.

Thank you for your tutorials on this website.

My personal favorite is #30, cool 3D room.

I am saving my $$$ for the "Riot Gear" and now "Designer Sound FX"

Keep up the great work!
18 years ago
23. Moving 3D Lines

It was simple and smart. The concept was easy enough to get and was really useful that you could apply it's principles to other ideas.
Birdman
18 years ago
There is a effect on this video like a long motion blur or something that I was wondering if you could make a tutorial of . Thanks for the great tutorials that are already up and to tell anyone else reading that the designer sound fx, riot gear, and the compositing dvds are all great i have all 3.
file:///Volumes/FENIX%204/web%20videos/Belief%20Design%20&%20Live%20Action%20%7C%20Work.webarchive
18 years ago
Hey Andrew I think the coolest tutorial is actually a tie between lightstreak and 3d room but honestly all you tutorials are really cool and have really boosted my ae knowledge,
Thanks and keep those tutorials coming!
Max Marklund
18 years ago
I really like "assisted suicide"! I just love gore effects, I'm a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino!
A cool tutorial would be how to make it look like you cut of limbs, like a foot or something.
S-Editor
18 years ago
Hey Andrew, I'd have to say the best thing about all your tutorials is that even if i'm not going to be re-creating the effect to the letter, there's lots of little tricks inside each one which I might use some time. All your tutorials have really boosted my After Effects skills.

By the way, I saw a television promo here in New Zealand which used your 3D Stroke (Ipod Nano look) look pretty much exactly as you'd created - so you're getting around!

I'm always trying to persuade my company to buy your effects disks - but so far to no avail!

Keep up the great work - always checking in to see what you've got up your sleeve next.
Don
18 years ago
I like the 3D room tutorial but I couldn't create the light for all the walls like in the tutorial. When I created the light layer, only the back wall was lighted. Other walls were all dark. Can anyone show me how to fix this?
Stacy Patrick
18 years ago
my favorite was the one on leg lifts. "one two three, one two three". ah, repetitions. who doesn't love them? WHO??? nobody doesn't. thats who. which can only mean, somebody DOES! so i am still right.
Jacob Aaron
18 years ago
My favorite was the cool long box hallway effect.
Ezequiel
18 years ago
i like the freeze time one, very cool
Yimbo
18 years ago
I choose the assisted suicide tutorial because.... well you can explode everyones head and not go to prison.
Great Tutorials Andrew... i've learned a lot in this site (and with "a lot" i mean "almos evething i know").
Patrick
18 years ago
well I must say I liked them all, but the suicide one was a good one and all the light Streaks as I think thats a great effect.

Cheers
Patrick
18 years ago
My favorite tutorial is the 3D Box effect. That tutorial showed me how effective After Effects 7 can be in a three dimensional environment. Actually, I liked the tutorial so much, I decided to use the effect for my website's splash page!

Great work, Andrew!
JimJam
18 years ago
They're all brilliant my, brother... Love 'em all.
18 years ago
wow what a fan base. the Assist Suicide is .....INTENSE/Crazy/Gory/ and plain old bad assprin.(for the kiddes) i would vote all day for it but thats cheating. hehe. hats off to Co-pilot team.......Andrew you make me luagh and learn at the same time. rss(blog) i need to figure out how to do that i didnt realize you posted a new on yesterday i missed out a whole 24 hours geeeezzz. also some people mentioned one i hav'nt seen i think they may be on some of the DVD collection
james
18 years ago
I'D have to say the 'Blown Away' tutorial on Serious Effects and Compositng was my favorite. For the free tutorials, I really liked the realistic gun blowback
-[Cloud]-
18 years ago
oh yeah now we have it. there are a lot tutorials that are awesome especially on your Training DVD that is awesome.
but i think the best one is the Selective color Correction. you can do soo much with these things i think that is a really big part.

i mean teh tutorial about the DVD Menu was also very very good and i want more of it.^^

allright now *greetz from Germany*
Gabberdim
18 years ago
Of course the suicide tutorial.
The only way i could do it was with a green screen.

realy enjoy it!!!
Rasmus
18 years ago
Love the rotoscoping-ones. Would also love some more on methods for animating cameras... paths and so on...
Jason
18 years ago
The suicide tutorial and the blow back tutorial are probably my favorites. They are all great though!!!!
LA
18 years ago
Hey! I like your tutorials, you publish the best of them for AE, and your english is clear and understandable. The best is the 3D reflecting, because it was a very cool effect, but I like all those tutorials, which are have some humour, like about your life, or whatever.
Horacio Diaz
18 years ago
saludos desde republica dominicana los felicito por este web-site esta muy bueno mi tutorial favorito es Moving 3D Lines jejejejej muy bueno espero dentro de poco comprar el designer sound fx
18 years ago
Anything with compositing, masking and chromakeying. You are the man.
Steve Hills
18 years ago
Hmm, i will have to say... the latest.

My buddy lives right across the street from my work. so, one lunch hour [or half hour really] i decided to call him up on my cell and pay him a visit. Well, it just so happens they were watching a tv show in which a team of wannabe/gonnabe film/video productionists compete to make the best short for a shot at the big time. I dont know the name of the show, but, its not important.

Anyway, the Time Freezing effect was used in one of the videos [which was, needless to say, the best one.] I knew of a couple of ways i could accomplish this same effect, and yours was one of them. Naturally, yours was better, covering some of the difficulties that i wouldnt have noticed or had a hard time overcoming. So i thank you for your explaination.

I do have a feeling however, that the show inspired this tutorial >.>, not that it matters

Well, with all that being said!

im going to type more!

Your tuts have taught me how to use after effects. I actually know how to use the program now! and i didnt start with your easiest videos, nor did i start with, or even discover at first, the video where you walked through a AE 101. Your teaching is just that good. No matter how many times youve covered something in past tutorials, you still teach it as you go [with very few exceptions].

Anyway, enough praise for the time being

Maybe just one more.

Good stuff!
CAHEL
18 years ago
For me the best tutorial is 3d the room, although and others are cool. Just forward, have made the teacher.
18 years ago
I love the assisted suicide, but I think that the grunge tutorials for riot gear are awesome. I learned a whole lot about track mattes and blending modes, while using them. Will you please do some more advanced tutorials with particles, or maybe some 3d-modeling integration? Then you could make a new package with stock 3d bullet casings, and planes and tanks and etc. then have tutorials on how to composite them. Call me crazy, but some matchmoving tutorials would be amazing, and there aren't really any others out there.
18 years ago
I vote for the Assisted Suicide great tutorial
18 years ago
i think number 36 Time freeze is amazing. I could never imagine that it was possible to create something that effect in after effect, it is really great. And the room of darkness is fantastic to.
I VOTE FOR ROOM OF DARKNESS!!!!!!

I'm Addicted to this tutorial!!

hahaha... and don't forget the USB cables next time
Alex
18 years ago
The first one I watched was the graffiti one, because it looked super cool, but the first one I've ever managed to create (my very first AE project!) was the 3D room one. It's amazing.
Afx
18 years ago
Light streaks 1... AND....2
very clear intro to trapcode particular, and very realistic effect
snarling
18 years ago
3d room is my favorite!
18 years ago
BEST FROM THE BEST "Assisted Suicide" tracking ,fractals myst and moast of all author comments literally blows my head off

Best wishes from Poland
18 years ago
The #25 is my favorite, I have learned lots of things watching this one, like use a camera, place a light... I think i will use this effect in my next Diabolo video...
Haydn González
18 years ago
I like all the tutorials as well, but I think that the ones that really impressed me were the #32 Create a 3D Ocean, and the #31 3D Reflections with Refraction. I didn't even know that it is possible to create water with reflection and refraction in Adobe After Effects.

One more thing, could you please make a tutorial in which you explain how to create that cool effect that comes after a bullet in the movie The Matrix. Here is a video clip of that scene of the movie http://youtube.com/watch?v=9wHi4xTnLk4&mode=related&search=

Thank you all for sharing your knowledges with us. Keep up the good work!
AnTeK
18 years ago
I prefer the box one.it gave me some ideas to get a job done. thanks andrew.
keep doing great stuff, you rule.
Georgi Zhekov
18 years ago
All of the tutorials are great,but for the most exciting is the suicide one.Really interesting idea to recreate how you're blowing up you head with m4
Charles
18 years ago
when comence in this first which I did was to look for in the Internet and there is nothing like your turorials, great work, I believe that the best one is number #23....and #25....and #27....and....damn! all!...

greetings.
Zack
18 years ago
I think I like the 3D stroke tutorial the best, but more people enjoy assisted suicide. But my vote is for 3D stroke
18 years ago
All of your tutorials are really great, the best ones after my opinion is:
- 15. Simulating Depth of Field
- 28. Animate Realistic Gun Blow Back
- 21. Simulated Light Effects

those are all really great. But if I had to chose, I'd go with the simulated light effects. I would never have thought of that, and it's a genius way to make it a lot more realistic.

~fredrik
Some Guy
18 years ago
I like the Light Saber Tutorial. And that 300-like Speed Ramps Tutorial, too. And your Time Freeze. I like all tutorials, showing how to achieve effects used in Hollywood. I also like the 3D Reflection Tutorial. Well, I like all tutorials you've done.
Michel Lemay
18 years ago
Hi Andrew,

My favorite tutorial is the web site "videocopilot.net". Every single tutorial on this website has brought me knowledge that I did not have about the product. I don't see the tutorials as individual items but as a training library that contributes to my After Effects learning progression.

Thank you to Andrew and the Video Copilot team.

Michel
Andreas
18 years ago
Have to say the 3d stroke or the serious fx podcast tutorial (what happened to the podcast? :C )
18 years ago
Very hard choice as most people have said, but my vote goes for the 3D room tut. Everything about it is great. In fact, I started editing my visual effects demo reel and used that tutorial for my opening title sequence. So awesome. Thanks Andrew. Hey are we ever going to see any of your full blown movies or what?

Bones
Craig Woolhouse
18 years ago
3D Reflections! This tutorial really made me think about the way in which AE works. Also this one has given me a lot of inspiration for many of my own projects.

Sky Replacement & Assisted Suicide! These tutorials have given me a good understanding of how to motion track a background.

They all have something that inspires me!

Craig T,
England
P.G.
18 years ago
24. "Blood Splattering on a Tree" is my favorite
Spence
18 years ago
Totally a hard choice, but I really loved the "300 - like Speed Ramps & More" tutorial. It was very cool. The Displacement maps are a very close second. I could have used them about a year ago, though!
But all in all, it's hard to pick a favorite tutorial, THEY ALL SPEAK VOLUMES TO ME! Doing this stuff for a living I get a lot of help from them all and I usually rewatch them every month!
18 years ago
300 Speed Ramps. i just really love the scene here. and also the speed ramps. but the most the fact that it has the 300 epic style over it. b-e-a-utiful.


gr. tesssam
Blair
18 years ago
The 3D room tut is kickass! (#27).

Nice work on the blog, Andrew, with RSS feeds. Now I don't have to refresh the tutorial page every hour to check if there's a new one...
18 years ago
hmm thats a hard choise, as some of the others have mentioned. But if I have to choose, i think i will go with the Suicide Tutorial! I really wanted to learn the tracking tool in AE, and in that tutorial i learned it! I'd say u have to create more tutorials on Compositing stuff, and not so much motion graphics hihi. Would be cooler to see more stuff that PRO compositers use world wide! How to create magic energy fields. Alot of those effects they use in for example, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter etc. Magic light effects, and more about particles! that would rock totally!

Yeah make a new DVD on particles! How to create stunning VFX with particles in AE Did I give i a new great idea?
Dan
18 years ago
This is a hard choice but ill go with the new one the Time freeze tutorial its very easy and has a great result
Timothy Qiu
18 years ago
I really like the Light Saber Tutorials, they're of great help.
18 years ago
The suicide is a very good tutorial....
I like the tutos with guns....

go on!!!!

A very good site = here!!!!!!!

a+
18 years ago
I'll have to cast my vote for the 300 style motion. Been wanting to learn time remapping and that was the best and easiest way to do so.
Jason
18 years ago
I do a ton of wedding videos with preexisting photos that I have scanned in so my vote is for Fast and Elegant Slide Shows.
Andrei
18 years ago
wow...very hard choice since ur tutorials are the most innovative and creative on the whole net. I think i liked the most the 3d Stroke Effect with no plug-in...and the 300 Speed Ramps. But the most enthusiastic I think I was about the Nano Swirlies one. Anyway, great great great stuff Andrew, favorite site, what else can I say, keep up the good work
18 years ago
oooooh. Hard pick, I use the "Blemish Removal" a lot, but I didn't even stumble upon videocopilot.net until I was searching for a good way to explode heads with the "Assisted Suicide" tutorial, which I love to use. Then again, if we are voting on the overall entertainment value of the tutorials, I'd have to go with the "Graffiti Writing" tutorial for the anniversary gift comment.
18 years ago
I have to say I really like #35 Jumpy Text.
Christopher Carlsson
18 years ago
Iv'e absolutly gotta say the cool 3d room tutorial, really awsome!
Luke
18 years ago
I vote for the blowback tutorial, I could never come up with a way of doing that. I also agree with Jacob, these products are well worth the money.
18 years ago
Hey i vote for the box one. Great products. Hey for all those people debating whether or not to buy them, there worth it.