Ideas for RIOT GEAR 2
July 5th, 2007

We are currently working on a new version of Riot Gear, our popular organic stock footage collection. The release is planned for the end of this year or early next year.

What I need from you are unique ideas for FX elements we should include. We have already added over 6 new categories and have several more in production. I'm listening...

Andrew Kramer
POSTED:
18 years ago
183 Comments
Justin
10 years ago
Any update with this new version as the 1280x720 isn't cutting it these days
14 years ago
why dont you finished the product??
Whatever happened to Riot Gear 2?
Nathan
15 years ago
Is this still in development?
ozahid
15 years ago
Footage of Buildings (Birds Eye View). The kind of footage you see in CSI
Carl Lemon
16 years ago
Lightning and/or electricity. Long and short bursts.
JOKWOLF
16 years ago
HI ANDREW YOU'V AMAZING JOB
WE REALY NEED A SLOW MOTION EFFECT FOR:
(WATTER DROP + SPLASH)
SHUTTER-ICE-FIRE (TO BURN SOMETHING)
THANKX A LOT
YOU'RE THE BEST
16 years ago
How about a swarm of bats? Have them flying toward the camera and flying from one side to the other. Someone mentioed ice, yeah, that's a "cool" idea as well!

Phil
James Reid
16 years ago
I thought i would just go through the old blog entries and found this. It would be really cool to have another riot gear product. I think you should definatly have some ice effects, maybe some fire effects aswell as stuff with a mechanical feel (not sure how to describe what i mean) still loving the first one tho and cant wait to get ae2 in september. Thanks for inspiring me Andrew.
Cheers
Darko
16 years ago
i would say Ice effects, u have very little ice tutorials on this webpage they are bu far the coolest Imao
17 years ago
PAPER BURNS
DUST IN THE WIND (NOT THE SONG FOR GOD'S SAKE)
GOO STUFF (MONSTER SALIVE KIND OF)
INK LETTERS (TNT STYLE)
WATER EXTENSIONS (THE ABYSS)

WHATEVER YOU DO, IT'S COOL, ANDREW...
Manny Campa
17 years ago
If possible. what about some tv noise preset that lets you use your own video and control the noise progressively...

like start out clean and slowly "noise out", but still being able to use your own video...

just thought that'd be cool...
Chad Foxglove
17 years ago
I would love to see any of these:

-Chemical reactions done in petri dishes, like they used for The Fountain effects.
-Dust / Flour filmed in high-speed in front of a black background, falling, spilling, drifting in the wind, etc...
-cream mixing with coffee
-spiral vortices formed by dripping ink into a bowl of cream after stirring it rapidly.
-milk / cream being dropped into water, and directionally lit to form clouds
-cornstarch mixtures dropped into water
-shear-thickening fluid put over a subwoofer speaker emitting a constant tone. (This does some very strange stuff, and its behavior changes based on the pitch of the tone)
-ferro-fluids being manipulated by magnetic fields. Might be interesting to mix this with cream or a cornstarch mixture and see what happens
-any sort of electric sparks, lightning, etc. filmed w/ a high-speed camera

I also like the idea posted above of doing a 180 and going sleek / mechanical / robotic, rather than organic.
Bob
17 years ago
Some more water, wing and fire would do
Bob
17 years ago
Just asking when do u think this new product will be up
17 years ago
Hey Andrew,

I am not sure if this would fit the "Riot Gear 2"

But would you start thinking on the name like "CYBER FX" or "Cyber Journeys"

Please, consider this footage for a new series.


http://www.artbeats.com/clips/7795/movie?from=%2Fcollections%2F631

http://www.artbeats.com/collections/631
17 years ago
water color painted with brushes
Tom
18 years ago
I think most off the FX requested have been done a million times by various others. It also seems like most of the stuff gets to us after it was a trend for some time before. Not bashing but I think it would be nice to get a collection of elements that haven't been used 100 times already to the point where people are like "Oh it's the light trails again, or the growing vines or what ever." Sorry if I sound sour. I really love every thing you guys are doing. I'm just looking for new thing to keep the scene fresh!

Some suggestions would be Smoke FX not so much misty fogs but more like streamy whispy smoke like off of a cigerette sitting still. Watching cigerette smoke swirl around I think is something incredablly hard to reproduce. Not sure how this guy did this effect. But it's been baffling me for some time. It may take some rewinding and playing back in slow motion, but the smoke that radiates of this bulb it nuts.

In the still you can see it made up from doodle of letters and trees and such. WOW.

http://www.quadroplastic.com/motion/qp_motion_011.jpg/

Sorry Drew What every you come up with I'm sure we'll all love it.
18 years ago
RAIN LOTS OF RAIN
18 years ago
Hallo Andrew,
we are ready with the Project for a armateurmoviefestival and we used the Riot Gear drops for a specialy Flamme Effect nearly from the HEROS stuff!Look on the side www.lostdreamsfusion.com!We have the 2.nd!
Greetings from Germany
Jens
18 years ago
Do you know the program called Real Flow?
You can make some cool water effects with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-5o0-UP2w
Something like that.
Is it possible to make something like this with 3rd party plugins in AE?
If it's possible I'd love a tutorial on it.
Thanks,

Patrick Verlouw
SavaÅŸ
18 years ago
Abi Riot efekt toplamas??± ger??§ekten ??§ok iyi bir koleksiyon oldu benim i??§in ben T??¼rkiye'den bu sete sahip oldum ve 2. seti merakla bekliyorum.
i can't speak english enough
Lukasz
18 years ago
First off: Riot Gear rulezzzzz.
Back to business.
How about some robotic and/or industrial looks.
To give an pointer: When I think about industrial stuff, refinery's come to mind, the long pipelines. Also robots assembling cars, with sparks flying around. Small parts unrecognizable parts being assembled into one huge recognizable piece.
Riot Gear rulezzzzzzzzz.
Alex
18 years ago
Puffs of smoke that appear from nowhere, or puffs of ink.
Kay
18 years ago
Andrew...Your work deserves to be in Hollywood. I bought all your products. I really liked your Riot Gear I. My recommendation for the second release will be to have a section for the romantic genre. I would personally like to see a section for wedding films (Including cheesy effects and textures). I promised my friend to edit her wedding film but can't find decent effects as i'd like it to stand out from the rest! You can help me out. Take your time but please release quality. Expecting this to be twice as boom as the first Riot Gear . Peace OUT!
Nicolas
18 years ago
hi, i??´d like to see some effects of Chinese ink in water, the results are great!!!. Try it!.
Brian Hunt
18 years ago
Film burn and flash, tutorials on how to make film flicker

Can't wait for the new collection

By far the best AE tutorials and effects out there
and the best bang for the buck!
Randle
18 years ago
Cool text transitions and animations for awesome text reveal
18 years ago
- How about some high tech transitions and lower thirds.
- blowing sand revealing chiseled text.
- tire tracks.
- various doors-grungy or medical style- morgue.. opening to reveal text...
- crawling insects across the screen.
- eyes and eyeballs.
- scalable photo frames that are created in after effects rather than photoshop they are built around the imported footage or picture.
- pre-built filmstrip effects for ae.
Steve Hills
18 years ago
Tribal tattoo images much like the one you use to have in your green video copilot banner. They seem to be popular nowadays.

I dont believe that was mentioned in the requests i had read. however apparently lots of people like ice.. Possibly a tutorial on how to make a nice icy effect in the future? ^^
18 years ago
It'd be great to have a section where we could see what people are doing with Riot Gear. Might be good for sparking everyone's creativity. Even if it were just like YouTube links or something, I think it'd be pretty sweet.
18 years ago
Maybe ghosts. Characteres white and transparent.
Trox
18 years ago
Andrew K. trox here maybe just maybe you guys could put some rain elements on your new riot gear 2 so that it wouldn't be so hard shouting in the rain and could you pls. do tutorial on how to creat a rain tnx trox d fox
Jadon
18 years ago
Blood drops would be cool. Some 3d blood drops that we can make the camera follow.
Analog Andy
18 years ago
How about a complete 180 from the last one. Super slick, ultra tech elements. Interface vector elements, generic animated 'console' type animations, clean/simple/useful textures. Think Chris Cunningham style work on the Bjork video 'All is full of love' mixed with the elegance of Syd Mead's (Tron, Blade Runner etc.) ultra sleek design style. Would be super useful for web & kiosk design also. Thanks.
18 years ago
Mr. Kramer - You are like King in my country. We are watchink you make, how you say? tutorial on world-wide net web.

Please you show how cure for cancer?
18 years ago
yeah what Daniel Huisman said...

film grunge ...lightleaks etc
Jaime Gómez
18 years ago
Dust!!! That??´s definitly necesary. Thanks for all Andrew. You are THE MASTER SENSEI
Jon
18 years ago
Some dust effects, growing plants, textured walls, film burns and flashes, glass breaking to make the camera lens look like its breaking and whatever else is on here. this next riot gear is going to be amazing!
18 years ago
You know what would be awesome is something like what I read someone else post earlier.

Weather mattes, like rain, snow, hail.......

I like to do the Sin City Rain look, but it doesn't always look as good, obviously comparing their equipment to my MacBook Pro.

Also, miscellaneous rays of lite would simplify things a little bit too.

Maybe some sweet generated backgrounds might top it off a bit.

Whatever you put on there, I'm sure it will rock!

-Ryan
all requested for are really important and needed for, basically if you can make all this, RIOT GEAR 2 will be the BOMB!

their request are great , try and look for the most asked for


tunslike
Daniel Huisman
18 years ago
Film Grunge & Artifacts, Especially, head burns, tail burns, light leaks etc..
Darius
18 years ago
Hola Andrew.

In reading through this entire list I think pretty much every conceivable option has been thrown down for your consideration. I'm a riot gear user in my day to day work and can tell you that beyond giving a shopping list that Artbeats or any other stock library will have, the thing I would look most forward to in a RG2 collection would be the ability to create the organic elements in the computer as opposed to pre-existing ones. For example, there must be a hundred requests for Ice above but I know of no stock ice footage pre-keyed or matted that will give the reflections/refractions of light reacting to that element that I am sure they are envisioning beyond creating it in a 3D program (PLEASE USE 3DSMAX IF YOU DO THIS) and using the post production tools to composite it over the footage being used. I know the textures for Ice are very important in getting realistic looking results so those would be the elements included with each different category in an RG 2.

So if Riot Gear one was a stock of pre-composited elements for use in different creations, Riot Gear 2 would be great as something which teaches the creation of various organic items for creation in the different circumstances needed such as Ice, Water, Flame, Vapors and Gases, liquids of varying flavors and densities, and the textures required for these.

I can tell you that what makes your products and tutorials even more valuable beyond just what they provide in terms of immediate elements for use, is the ideas they spark for composing further creations from there as a result of what you teach us.

Thanks for everything.
Jason B.
18 years ago
Hi Andrew,

I thought it might be useful for you to know about advanceflash.com
That's a nice inspirational site, run 'em down )
18 years ago
the matrix effects style, like numbers falling or even names, could be used for an opening sequence of a film..

much love
robb
18 years ago
It would be great to have some particles elements like sparkles, some metal textures (gold, silver etc..), some new drop inks and smoke elements maybe longer than the last one, some organics, walls, floors, wood textures, fog, prematted rain and snow, lens flares, fractal images,sand textures, solar reflexions, oil reflexions etc...
sam
18 years ago
I was watching the discovery chanel and i thought that would be cool to have a firey rocks falling from the sky blowing up my neighbor house.
Ben
18 years ago
this would be more action movie but i really like the blood effect in 300
Pierre
18 years ago
Hi Andrew,
No big ideas here, but I encountered a mist (fog) problem.
I am working on a guided nature docu I shot in very misty conditions, a very sweet white kind of floating fog, somewhat mystical.
Of course I missed some scenes and had to film them in bright sunlight with a nice blue and cloudy sky.
I saw your tut with the baseball sky, but I cann't find the right and natural mist effect to match the original misty scenes. And the fractal noise fog effect doesn't work either.
Maybe something is this direction? Greetz.
heare
18 years ago
growing flowers would be great!!

or some ice...

thanks

greetings from austria/europe
vj
18 years ago
Andew, ive a request!

Ur tutorial series is doing a great job and we all like it a lot.


Can u start another series which discusses techniques to recreate vfx shots from movies! (like 'movie corner' )

plz...
Joseph
18 years ago
hey, just wondering maybe if we can get some water colour effects?, e.g. when water colour is painted on paper
18 years ago
hey copilots,

yeah i'm the young guy again(just 12 years old).
what i like are some elctro/lightning effets.
and skome/fire? thar will be verry cool.
Trung
18 years ago
Fire, fire, and more fire!

and

Ice, ice, and more ice!
sam
18 years ago
hi every one and hi to the king of the jungle sir andrew .here are some detailed ideas .now some of them been done but we want to have them and you can make it happen.
First- breaking the camera lense you can see it in the video game called HAZE .
2- make prekeyed slashes you get hit by a knife or a sword you get slashed -deep bloody ones.
3- john woo style .flying pigeons white ones for slowmo shots .
4- we want steam .hot blowing steam.
5-you take a side footage for an AK47 been fired or any caliber you see the shell ejecting in slowmo or fast with smoke
6-now this one is difficult .in Xmen3 when rogue her face changed to dark you know that scene something like that.
steve
18 years ago
Hey Andrew

Maybe some broken or shattering glass, ice, filmFX, more running (dripping) paint instead of .jpgs as in RG1.

I'm sure it will be awesome as usual. Can't wait!!
18 years ago
Hello,

Film burn, scratchs, and flash frames etc for film simulation works and old movie effects. Count down clocks, all the cinematic elements like the 8mm SD clip on the old movie tutorial.

Maybe for Riot Gear 2, a collection of elements for big movie title designs, more bleeds into different fabrics, or even a new dvd collection of various types of Hollywood style title design sequences, horror film style, dripping elements, Big Action Packed titles like the 3d titles in the Designer sfx demo.

01.26 more titles like these, as it ssimilar to the red tutorial on the Riot Gear. "Number 23" movie trailer text effects
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kmSMMC5kmOw
18 years ago
I definitly agree with Alexey Pekarin.

- Video of separate trees,
- bushes,
- waterfalls
- grass
- other nature and mechanical prematted elements.

That stuff can really great cool stuff ! You'll probably find a good solution to create this kind of things Andrew, if you find the idea a good one.
And of course, some explosions and fire n stuff like that is not bad either.
18 years ago
Do I see a compilation of sweet Text Effects in the near future?
Minl
18 years ago
definitely more tutorials.
Johnny B Goode
18 years ago
Anything you think is cool Andrew no matter what we'll still be supporting you thanks for everything!!!
18 years ago
Film Burns
Jake14
18 years ago
Fire, like, big fire, like a wall of fire for an action scene.

Water and a tsunami. Like in the movies with a wall of water comming at you.

Mushroom cloud explosion.

Shockwave for the explosion.
18 years ago
Broken glass, 3d planet models, flames and rain drops are nice
geg france
18 years ago
thank you for your job!
please include some water fx in your next dvd.ice fx is a good idea too!
pour les francophones: ce site est un kiff intense!!!
translation: i love you andrew... my english is very basic!
naimalwan
18 years ago
hey... i brought your riot gear a while ago... its an amazing collection, i'm currently using it in a music video im doing... will send you a link when its completed. the only downside was the size of the HD footage,720p... which limmited its use. however i did work around it by auto tracing it that way i could scale it as far as i desired.
please could you shoot in true HD 1920x1480... or at least somewhere near... also how about adding multiple layered vector images that we can animate in AE, i have noticed a lot of that stuff around latley... and as far as tutorials go how about creating a Flash website using the new AE and Encore CS3 flash output...

thanks.. your a big help...

Naim Alwan
Alan
18 years ago
I just loved M20's typo. "Serious Composting 2" lol. My garden could do with it too!

Having made the joke though, it is a good idea. I also think an offline copy of the existing 40 tutorials as a DVD would be a handy product to have as well. Another worthwhile tutorial writer has recently done this with his 'back catalogue' and I find it a good addition to my library. have a think Andrew.

Also, a lot of the ideas I'm seeing here do seem to overlap the range of material in Action Movie Essentials so give thought to AME2 as well as RG2.

I liked the 'Pleasant Gear' idea too.
18 years ago
Excited for the product Andrew!
Alexey Pekarin
18 years ago
Here is the idea which might not be good for RIOT GEAR 2, but very good for a separate product or series of products:

prematted video elements for video matte painting/environment creation.
- Video of separate trees,
- bushes,
- waterfalls
- grass
- other nature and mechanical prematted elements.

IF you like it, make it and it's popular - you can send me a copy
tonnib
18 years ago
Inland body stock fotage:
Some x-ray real body footage
scan of a human brain
Jacob Aaron
18 years ago
Here is a couple:
Backgrounds that fits logos
Light saber style ink (Using the glow and feel into an ink)
Muddy watter droplets
ChaRleS x
18 years ago
hey andrew, look at this, http://www.eyeballnyc.com/work.php?CurrPage=1 ,in this link are most of the request for riot gear 2 and tutorials , i hope you put some of this in your tutorials, gracias.
18 years ago
I'd like to see some super slow mo rain drops.
Craig Woolhouse (again :)
18 years ago
"would be sweet with some organic growth/flowerâ??????ish stuff" ...i agree with this idea too.

Maybe some high quality illustrator vectors of plants and a tutorial on how to use paths to reveal the design using a linaer wipe in AE, similar to your graffiti tutorial.
asher
18 years ago
condensation textures. oil dripping onto water that would be cool. my fiance wants me to say leafs floating in the wind or dandelion seeds in the wind, as well as blood cells or microscopic photography...
3d objects, different types of film grains ie, 35, 16, super 16, super 8mm, 8mm.
what about bullets? they're cool...think a slow motion shot of a 9mm bullet spinning towards the camera...
Misma
18 years ago
Please include little hearts and stars
also those pink sparks, they're so cool
ok i have to go cause somebody has to cook
James
18 years ago
knowing how Andrew treats you in his videos Sam, Andrew will probably make you contribute ur real blood

lol jk
18 years ago
Hey Morten Enoksen,
No abuse here, Only pride!
For authenticity I may have to contribute my REAL blood for some of the Ink elements in Riot Gear 2. Hopefully we will do a behind the scenes reel.
-Sam
Alexander
18 years ago
First of all - Thank you Andrew for your great work you're an inspiration to us all.

Disclaimer (don't know if anyone already mentioned it)

I would like to see some effects similar to Darren Aronofsky's movie "the fountain".

Wich in this case, the special effects was shot using micro-photography of chemical reactions on tiny petri dishes. And it looks fantastic.

For you who havn't seen it! Do it now, if you don't have anything better to do like maybe listening to Andrew's sweet voice in his tutorials!
18 years ago
Seeing great Ideas here. I really want to add to whats being suggested just so you know it's not wanted by only X amount of people.

Glass Textures (clean, iced, muddy, and broken)
Ice Textures (clear and Frosted)
Water Textures and Fluid Water. (pool reelections)
Dirt Particle Effects
How to make Static tutorials
Fire Making Tutorials using no plug ins
Water making Tutorials
Smoke Tutorials
Sand Textures
How to create windy sand tutorials
Cloud stock footage
EMS Lights (I don't know what but cant hurt)
making Fluid backgrounds
Green Screen footage (footage to work with stuff on tutorials, when trying new effects, etc..)
Andrew Kramer Green screen shots would be profitable as well I assume
Fire works

More war time sound effects
fire work sounds
tutorials for effecting audio

Presets for
Text
Expressions

Tutorials on using
Text
Expressions
Particle tools in AE not plug ins.
Hairline Tutorials

requesting a
After Effects Forums, I don't really enjoy Creative Cows or even Adobes. I like the Andrew Kramer look for a forums. I'll donate for a forums.

other forums such as a good Combustion and Max community.

Monthly contest to win Andrew Kramer DVD's like the http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/ has every month for 3d and 2d contest.

thats a lot. Hope you can use some of it.
Dustin James
18 years ago
PS.

and some of these posts would be more of an Action Movie Essential rather than Riot Gear products.. IMO.

can't wait for AME2!
Dustin James
18 years ago
I like what Andre said about fight club...

but I'm think along the lines of the opener for FOX's: House M.D.

Just floaters.
b scholz
18 years ago
definetly some sweat drops flying towards the camera like when someone has just been punched
Jacob
18 years ago
Water effects. Water drops and so on.
Mxthe
18 years ago
Hey Andrew, love the website and blog !

Some cool ideas, first, it is NEEDED, the 4 elements :

Air
Water
Earth
And Fire

For the air, it would be cool to have more fog, smoke and clouds.

For the water, I found after effects plugins but, they don't work very well, it would be really great to have like, water splashes, water leaking effects, droping.

For the earth, dirt would be cool, like dirt droping, dirt explosions, dirt clouds, dirt fog, and dirt debris falling.

And for the fire, well, many possibilities, various fires, different sizes, different forms.

Then, some other things that would be great, would be like, the painting drops from the RIOT GEAR 1, but this time, they would splash on the wall, and like, drip slowly down...That would be good for blood or other stuff.

BTW, loved the Designer sound fx, it is your best product !
18 years ago
How about some volumetric dust?
J
18 years ago
in action movie essentials you had digital blood
um, how bout digital guts... or or or, how bout digital barf

also, a slo-mo zoom in on a falling water or blood droplet to use as a transition. err maybe thats too much

anyways, good luck on Riot Gear 2
Jon Walker
18 years ago
More of the same would be great. Water is always good, molecular level stuff, energy fields, freezing effects, dust and dirt particles that are able to slow down and speed up...veins would be good too for transformation type effects like changing into creatures or being poisoned. No matter what I'm getting it but any of those would be nice.
Andrew
18 years ago
nice, clean, effects for weddings and such would be great.
Tashke
18 years ago
See this
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Moca MX Says:
July 5th, 2007 at 8:41 am

YEA That great idea. 3D Bullet you can rotate it scale it and put it on your video. THAT GREAT!!!!
}


I think this could be the best thing in RG2.
Andrew think about this.
Moca MX
18 years ago
Wow i just remembred.METEOR!!!!
Something like Particle effect!
18 years ago
Something organic, textures: rocks, veins, muscle would be very useful for stupendous reasons

i also like the particle idea from Pat.

good luck!
18 years ago
a pint of Guinness.

i agree with Jeff. if you build it, i'll buy it.

maybe something with pre-made particle effects? flowing generic backgrounds that might be used in corporate (gag) videos.

i'd like to request a tutorial on something basic that i've just never picked up: exporting movie files as prematted and pre-keyed. i've got several elements of my own, and would like to know how to re-export them so that i can use them as easily as i do clips from action movie essentials. guaranteed this is some basic channel setting, but could make for a useful and fast tutorial or something,
Morten Enoksen
18 years ago
*Pre-keyed fire
*Anything with shattering glass
*Force field(You know.. the classic one^^)
*Interview with Sam Loyah describing how he feel being used
*Blood coming down on the lens.(Like in the James Bon intro)
*"Neo-like" bending down while the bullets fly over him(without the bullets, just the "streching")

Thanks!
18 years ago
That really cool looking "exposure light flash" of yellowish and reddish colors that is produced by 16 mm film cameras would be awesome to be able to just drop over video footage... And maybe some actual keyed footage of ink being thrown through the air so we could composite it in for some 300 like blood...
Jeff (NoodleMaps)
18 years ago
I'm all for the Ice and Fire effects. Honestly though, if you make it, I'll buy it. Simple as that. So... Kind of like that Field of Dreams film. If Andrew builds it...
18 years ago
Riot Gear the first was sort of an all purpose pieces of the puzzle thing. So I think you should just give us different pieces of a puzzle. Explosions and shatter effects would be a good way to go. Like in the first riot gear you give us a whole bunch of grungy textures that we can mess with until we have something completely original to ourselves. I think that is a good way to go with the 2nd. Maybe some ripple type explosion effects where each one varies just like the ink drops did.

Otherwise if you do too many things like someone else already pointed out, some of the things might be better suited for Action Movie Essentials or a different DVD in general.
Daniel Reynolds
18 years ago
Fire and water. That would be cool.
edd
18 years ago
Have maybe like 3d objects like a detailed chair or a detailed gun/s that u have made in 3ds max or c4d or maya or something like that would be really cool and then u could also maybe further that to your tutorial idea of having like 3d tutorials that would be really cool.
Rick Q.
18 years ago
Super 8mm and 16mm damaged film effects would be great. Also, how to roll your own background visual liquids? And maybe some DIY transition wipes?

Best!


Rick
Hedley
18 years ago
I agree with the suggestion for other genres of textures, perhaps in addition to grungy textures you could have, shiny and/or smooth, metallic, plastic, porcelain etc etc, perhaps splitting them into "organic" and "man-made" textures or something like that. These added types of textures would compliment the elements people seem to be suggesting, such as the ice and glass effects many have suggested would go well with metallic or shiny and smooth textures. Also more grungy textures too, they are dead useful, perhaps some corrugated iron or something? Perhaps you could also get ideas for extra elements by looking through your other products like Designer Sound FX and creating elements that match those abstract sounds.

Cheers,

Hedley
Jonny
18 years ago
Track Mattes...reveals, reveals, reveals!!!!
18 years ago
Oh and I know you've covered the 3d room before, but make a tutorial based upon more of a tunnel effect rather than just a 3d room, that would be really cool.
18 years ago
Hey how about, as an add to the Riot Gear, you add some more plugins for AE and such. Actual more particle type plugins, or shakes and cracks, stuff that is more downloadable and just applied, like the "Film Magic Pro" stuff, but more for applied animations and schemes.

Later
Sam Stacey
18 years ago
We need :

EXPLOSION ; SHATTER ; GLASS (broken/clean) ; DIRT ;

NEON (sombre effects) ; CARTOON (vector-like) ; WATER (and natural composed elements always work a treat)
18 years ago
how about some old film reel looks. like "cigarette burns", film grain, pops, skipped reels, countdown reels, etc. I love all that stuff. it comes in handy when your working on something in horror or like "Grinhouse." thanks AK.

PS- anybody see Transformers over the holiday? WOW. talk about summer blockbuster. Check out my blog for my small review. Thanks guys.

Bones
18 years ago
Wow, thanks for that Jacob, that's great. I think he's going to stick with AE, just a hunch.

How about including some .psd files that have pre matted and styled layers creating more of a blueprint and template style file. That's all I got.

Love the site.
Jacob Wall
18 years ago
Like water effects. Not just the flows, more reveals. Thats all I can think of, but more TUTORIALS with FINAL CUT STUDIO, and for those thinking of stealing it DON'T! Buy legit! Don't steal people, yes it is $1299 but just buy w/ educational discount if possible! I got mine educational for $770 w/ overnight shipping, I also live only 15 miles from the shipping depot for Apple.
Andy
18 years ago
Water Splashes and Dust/Dirt Effects.
Joseph Guiness
18 years ago
Most of the people here are going for elemental effects, or textures, a broken lens effect, and some slow mo' different calibur bullets to be shot out of guns. (though maybe that'd be best for action essentials 2) and also a kind of acid burn tape screw up effect, like in fight club or Grindhouse: planet terror. Though for the broken glass you could probably just buy a bunch of thin glass pieces & a high quality camera with a white background, break the glass, tape the sides back into position. Put them up to the camera so you can't see the tape and take a picture on the white background.

Personally i'd like to see some kind of sparks effects & flying elemental bits, like flying acid into the skin, and some kind of overlay to put under the "film" layer + a reveal that could get an organic flesh look with the burning skin. I'd also like to get some sort of digital snow or rain effect, or possible a heat wave look.

I also thought that the "soundwave" effect posted up earlier could be cool, maybe we could some similar things from it, like when theres an explosion and theres a cheesy sort of shockwave transparent which we can see, or maybe the death star blowing up look.

I'd also like a sort of "MIB" dust wave look, or kind of one of those "walls of sand" that we hear about from the desert, just some kind of way to get people to be engulfed in dust. A way to do a nuculear explosion could be cool too, just having the screen going white seems a bit lazy. Title effects are allways welcome, with things like electricity or electric mist going round a title, sort of like in the trailer for the game of "starcraft 2". I know you can allways do some electricity in premier, but it's not the same. Silly rotating metal Title effects are cool too, like in southpark or celebrity deathmatch, or any low budget metallic title looks.

some sort of dripping blood effects could be nice too. Also some tutorial ideas (i know i'm not supposed to submit them here, but you've got 380 in that section anyway) some matrix bullet time effects, some cheesy energy ball fractals for street fighter kind of stuff. But what i'd also love is a kind of predator style cloak look, as well as how to get some really GOOD looking thermal vision or night vision looks (since night shot on camera's isn't the best effect or way to do it).
18 years ago
I would suggest some track mattes and some tutorials on how to effectively integrate them into motion graphics/film projects.
18 years ago
As for microscopic stuff...
http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/vlab/index.html
This program lets you soom in and look at stills of a whole bunch of things that have been looked at with an Electron Microscope.
Chris Cruise
18 years ago
You can have some of those ipod characters dancing around like in the James Bond movies! ...and then maybe they can morph into flames, ink, animals, solid objects, transitions or whatever.

I suck bad at texture creation, so you can definitely include some nice sci-fi textures; I'll buy those as an individual collection!

What textures would I'd like to see:

alien skins & eyes, ceiling & wall textures, corridors, ducts, leather seat materials, boot materials, armor, weapons, vents, grates, rust, metals, numbers, control panels, circuitry, hoses, floors, cloth, damage, satellite textures, pipe textures, hatches, doors, flares, girders, handles, containers, hulls (lots of these), logos, human faces & skins, basic materials, symbols, dirt maps, and tiles.

You can create different varieties of these textures by making clean and dirtied up vrs. Also, include alpha, bump and spec maps.
ChaRleS x
18 years ago
i agree with all....but include more tutorials.

Florian comment is good...
M20
18 years ago
When will the Serious Composting 2 training DVD be available?
Kevin Campbell
18 years ago
You could do something with visual soundwaves, you know, like from a speaker. Or something to show more motion or force (wind tunnel??)
Helge
18 years ago
Slowmotion explotions would probably bee awesome! And a gun shooting, and the camera rotates around the bullets and such
18 years ago
Conderblock wall that explodes outwards to reveal 3D stone text logo behind it.
Jody
18 years ago
Hi Andrew: Your products and tutorials are wonderful! Can't wait for Riot Gear 2...

How about adding some grungy film effects? Like film frame burns, leaders, countdowns, flares, scratches, etc. A section or collection like that would be great!
New England Zack
18 years ago
I just hope that it comes out in a few months. Your stuff is so good it's hard to wait.

AND PEOPLE, you can't ask a magician on how he does his tricks. Some things are Andrew's secrets, as long as he shares the final product at a great price is all that matters.

How about lots of timelapse footage. Like generic day to night interstate footage, or people in a generic downtown shot.
Joey
18 years ago
Definately fire effects! And maybe...all of the elements!
Nate
18 years ago
Dust effects like the title for the movie Blow.
Dust that could be added to a road or made to look like a ghost.
Glass cracks, breaks and shatters.
And various weather effects would be great (eg: to add to windows to make it look like it is really raining or snowing out).
Orc Master
18 years ago
Y'know, it's hard stuff to get your products from Venezuela, so I think I just can't get them

Although, for you people who WILL buy it, what about some 300-style blood? Maybe some lava lamp effects? Lava explosions, lava pouring? Some sweat drops flying? Cool TV noise, and hologram noise? Man, even that microscope amoeba idea is cool.

Hopefully I'll be able to get this products in the future, though... And I know anything Master Kramer comes up with will be awesome. Won't it?
Moca MX
18 years ago
YEA That great idea. 3D Bullet you can rotate it scale it and put it on your video. THAT GREAT!!!!
ragecg
18 years ago
Like Lucky said, FIRE

.....or water drops, ice, GLASS BREAKING, debris of any kind, etc.....
Jasper Wiese
18 years ago
would be sweet with some organic growth/flower'ish stuff
Kris S
18 years ago
NICE BULLETS VIDEOS THAT ROTATES IN 60 FPS VIDEO AND CAN BE DROPPED INTO SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT ZOOM THING, GUESS YOU CAN TAKE A FEW PICS YOURSELF AND THEN ADD WHATEVER YOU WANT TO MAKE FLY THROUGH THAT SPACE.
Craig Woolhouse UK
18 years ago
1) The broken the camera lens idea sounds good.

2) 3d elements would be a nice addition (not sure how this could be done though).

3) Cloud replacements shots, where the camera is moving along using a dolly rather than just hand held.

4) Acid buring into or through text would be nice.

5) Sand, snow and rain tutorials... with the camera looking down through at the ground. (i think you do a rain effect in one of your promos).

6) a realistic film burn effect. that would be ace!

Can't wait till this comes out!
Craig.
18 years ago
stock footage of waterfalls, electricity, wind, for the still pictures of some really futuristic looking stuff. Have some lighting effects kinda like a ball of light or something.
18 years ago
yea all the elements are really cool. You know sortta like pokemon. Fire, Ice, snow, rock, pyskick, electric, grass, water.

and just a personal opinion. You should have like a tornado of dust but make it look really cool and futurisctic.
18 years ago
How about timelapse footage of water freezing?
Moca MX
18 years ago
Hi Andrew!
It would be really cool to add some energy fields like in Dragon Ball Z or Sonic booms or power booms ( like in Smallville when Clark hit someone with a lot of power around his arm appears power boom).
Thx!
18 years ago
i second (or third or fourth) what's been said so far:

-cracked glass
-water (why not?)
-fire (cause you've already got water)
-acid/film burn type stuff
-sparkle-type stuff could be useful. maybe a new product: pleasant gear?

i'm waiting on my designer bundle. just ordered it & am excited to break it in. i'll probably have something more insightful after i've given RG1 a full once-over.

great stuff. keep it coming.

~P@

ps- are you taking suggestions for serious compositing & fx2?
Sandy
18 years ago
aaah I think, Transition element would be awesome.

Warm Regards
Sandy
18 years ago
What would we do without the jokes!?
Keep up the great work!
18 years ago
Bubbling and boiling effects. Oil, different viscosities of liquids.
Scott
18 years ago
More blood than AME and fire effects
Hampus
18 years ago
I don't really have any ideas, but I'm sure it's gonna be great. Just like everything else here Just purchased for "Designer SFX". Top Notch!
18 years ago
What about one tiger, robot, or something else, pull out a computer screen. Or flowers growing to out a screen. Maybe broken the computer screen glass.
Like this: http://otvali.ru/photos/fotoshopnye_kreativy_foto:20881.html

Rainbow effects in a motion.

Water effects (metioned) will be great.
Or water drops in a surface, or glass window. Tear in faces.

Acid (metioned) corrosion is very interesting also.

I love streaks ( not problem if is a organical "streak"?) too, maybe back and front a character, like as spiral.

And thanks, Andrew, you teach me very much with yours tuts.


Edwin
Alan
18 years ago
Pete, I believe your question is answered within the tutorials on the 'Designer Sound FX' disk, where Andrew actually talks you through making a score using just the sound bites on the disk and included some premade scores he's already done.
Mark
18 years ago
Hmm..

Fire effects,
Water effects,
Ice,
maybe animated starfield effects?
maybe even some animated characters walking on green screen for keying?
Definatley some glass effects,
broken camera lens? Like the lens braking, the lens broken, and different variations?
ready to key effects? like comets, falling stars, buildings, explosions.
maybe some particles?

That's all I gots.
18 years ago
Hey Andrew,

I wouldn't mind seeing "people in action" for keying. Sports, etc...

Also, You might want to do a compilation of those wonderful music scores you use in your promos (WHICH YOU HAVEN'T ANSWERED MY TWO INQUIRIES AS TWO WHERE YOU GET THEM!!!!)



Pete
GeeNee
18 years ago
You need fire, burning fire, fire balls, fire sticks, atom explotion. not something you make in a porogram, no no no, you need REAL FIRE!
Gary
18 years ago
I really like the idea of Alan of MICROSCOPE effects, like a virus organic looking spreading. I think this can be seen in resident evil but am not sure.

3d stuff integrated in AE would be aweome.

PS:I was wondering, the effects seen in matrix, are they all 3d or can some be done in AE. I was thinking of the fast spining camera around the actor or when he lands on the ground and all those pieces shatter around him.
Alan
18 years ago
how about some broken film effects? I'm thinking the crazy film shake used in Fight Club here.
Jeffrey
18 years ago
Some electrical and liquid effects would be awesome.
Using them together could make some very interesting tittles.

And like most people already said, ICE.
And that could also be used with water to make a good combo.

Later Dude!
Mitch(UK)
18 years ago
I find myself looking at this website more and more in anticipation of a new tutorial. Fantastic site guys and credit to Andrew: Dogs bits mate.

I wouldnt mind a few water effects myself. Now if we are also talking tutorials: How about pouring water into an invisible glass!

I have only just bought RG1 and thats only because i have only just seen this website, I WILL be buying the 2nd one and the rest when you make them. To be honest Andrew, anything you do will be great. But seeing as your asking:

Weather efects, lens effects, music effects (Keyed audio bars to music), Ice cubes (Mentioned) and yes i agree with someone above about less dirty full on effects more for the wedding people as we could use that too.

Sign me up Andrew, You the man...

Mitch
18 years ago
btw i was watching youre fine shatter effects from bought Sound Design i get lost in a tracking Problem with the "Coming Soon" Title... it looks like that, andy ideas? :S

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18 years ago
Definently fire, mayby some mocroscopic effects, water, oil, ink again, mayby smoke?

anything with a nice motion, so you could have like,
lightning with slomo?


you wil lget a billion ideas im sure of it, but i wouldnt mind any particle effects that are hard to set up, so rain, mayby explosions?

riot gear, it sounds mean, throw some explosions in man
18 years ago
How about Grass and Earth. Some groundy stuff which is really Grunge.

Greetings from Berlin
Bwe
18 years ago
Perhaps some wormhole type stuff?. electrical wires, tech lights... There are a few tutorials around.. a throbbing throat type of wormhole? (ah the mrs loved that comment :p)

Also some high-speed impacts onto a surface. Bricks shattering, glass panes..bowling balls? something with lots of shrapnel or rubble would look awesome

Gotta make it fun to do as well as helpful!
Roberto
18 years ago
Some tutorial like Dragon Ball Z MOVES!!! Flying men!, Super Punchs!, KAME HAME HA!(FireBall, you know) Electricity trought body!! Thats will be cool!
Alan
18 years ago
how about microscope type effects? Ameoba multiplying and the like.
Alan
18 years ago
here's my list.

* Water/liquid effects.
* Glass cracking (spiderweb types as well as straight) along with tutorials on how to make the crack appear realistically (I'm thinking of Jurassic Park 2 here. the scene with the T-Rexes pushing the trailer over the cliff and the windscreen slowly cracking wih the pressure on it.
* Suitable sound FX for the above.
* plate glass shatter (in slo-mo)
* Lightning (with thunder bursts)
* Acids and burns
* Animated spatters i.e. blood/paint dripping down walls
* pre-keyed 'real' fire.
* rain, hail and snow

more later if I think of anything..
TeeSav
18 years ago
can you please consider Action Movie Essentials 2 that would be mad.
But yeah for Riot Gear 2 could you do water drops and maybe create something awesome in FumeFX (3ds Max) and put that in there if you need a copy Email Me
LA
18 years ago
Wow, somebody mentiond acid effects! That will be really cool!
MNI
18 years ago
-alpha channel BULLET slowmotions

- alpha channel fire, water,smoke ....all nature elements
Elhora
18 years ago
oki, i go :
- water/rain effects (like heavy rain on a windows or falling on the ground)
- dust/sand effects (like some wind in the desert or on a dusty road)
- glass impact (like a shot on a bulletproof windows, or exploding windows)
- some interesting fracal noise like the one on Riot Gear 1.
- realistic blood effect like blood dripping on a wall, splattering on the camera or pouring from a head cut !
- Some fire effects like how to burn a logo or explosions
Gary
18 years ago
-liquid effects

-storm effects

-text effects (like text getting forged by lightning)

Even if you dont consider those ideas, i think it would be great if the stuff you made in RG2 could be used in random footage and not just title openings and promos (which by the way is great)

I always thought trailers were better then movies and stuff, but if we could have discreet effects that would also be great.

PS: florian, he is now shooting with the JVC HD 200 --> dont mess with that

Cant wait

Gary
Ultimate Bart
18 years ago
heey

-bloodstreams, organic, in tubes or covering the whole pictures is nice. you need to dig deep in biochemistry if you wanne make it real

-some shatter effects, also the one that breaks camera lenses as mentioned before (for example, that a person can smash/kick agains it and the lens cracks and shatters away. or that a glas plate slowey cracks/burst)

-lightstreams (like in your tutorial), lightingburst.

-shockwaves!! in air, in water.

Good luck

Bart
18 years ago
Can't wait .

Here's what I think would be nice in a package like riot gear:
- Water effects(drops, maybe waves or someting)
- growing stuff(like plants, flowers, the kind of things that you see growing on walls in videoclips)
- Maybe some insects(like flies, butterflies, spiders, or ladybugs)
- I don't know if it's the right sort for this kind of package, but some film shots from just some buildings(taken from a car, or if possible from above or something. When I try to bring cgi stuff in my footage it will never work because my DV camera isn't really trackable 'cause of the bad quality image. Since you're shooting with a XL2(right?), I thought that might help some people out.

Well, good luck with it, and I can't wait 'till it comes out .
Oh and by the way, how do you get the footage? the textures and inkdrops and stuff, do you film an photograph that yourself?

Florian
Hi Andrew, I think like some reel good explosions. That you can use if you are exploding a wall, you can aply the shatter effect and stuff, if you know what i mean!?

Thanks

Theodor T Skippervold

By the way, looking forward to the release, gonna save up some money
18 years ago
i think a bunch of mostly transparant glassy texture panes would be helpful, and some plant, mud, and shiny metal textures would be awesome as well.

P.S. When are we going to see the guy getting hit by car tutorial???
CoCaiNo
18 years ago
I agree that there should be water drops and real fire...and also things to create storms and tornados...You gave us explosions in your "Action Movie Essentials", but if you could add more it would be nice .
Claude
18 years ago
Hi Andrew

well make some "tornado" effects ... windy effects and stuff like are nice . I'm very happy a second Riot Gear is in progress . Keep up the good work and good luck !

Claude from Germany
yannis
18 years ago
Liquids

Acids + burns

Organic materials

Blood workshop , splatters, drops, lines drips.

Smoke workshop.

etc
JP
18 years ago
hi andrew,

I like very much your work, it's very usefull for AE users.

For the RiotGear, i propose you present us with something like a sand storm, the underwater living effect with bubbles and distorcion, ice cubes...

And of courses the tutorials about doing those things.

Thanks.

JP
Hans Marius
18 years ago
Shockwave effect! Like in the new movie, Transformers, when a robot use a huge amount of force so everything is getting pushed away.. that would be a really great effect. I think you can see the effect in the trailer :S

Thanks,
Hans Marius
simondo
18 years ago
hi andrew

if you could include a section for less "dirty grimy" footage. i.e for wedding videos, like disney style sparkles etc

ill be buying it, infact take my pre-order now, i hope you have more products before then though


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Lucky
18 years ago
Yeah! things to create superstorms! real lightnings, big storm clouds etc..
18 years ago
As previously mentioned, Cracked lens effects, as if something has broken the camera lens,
Water droplets on the camera lens, to achive the effect of fake rain,

Looking forward to the beggining of next year!

Will,
- water drops sound good, but they should be recorded with a high-speed camera...

- have you heard about the methacel effects they did on Star Wars Episode III ?

- fire at high speed...

- maybe debris & ashes flowing around... very slow - or dust particles in water, backlit...
LA
18 years ago
Real explosions and real fire should be nice with black background. Some viewable electricity. More ink bleed. More grungy textures. Bubbles in water. Some Rorshach-test.
Bas
18 years ago
maybe some cool looking (moving) BG's for a green-screen
PhilLab
18 years ago
Do you know the effect from HarryPotter 1, when Quirell died and Voldemord rushed out of his body as a sandstorm and overran Harry? Something like this would be great, perhaps a skull which rushes through the screen and which consists of a sandy material and has a sandy tail

Greetings from Germany
18 years ago
How about some lightning/thunderstorm effects, including some tutorials on making customized lightning and rolling thunderclouds? Maybe some tornadoes as well.

Like mentioned above, explosions and water effects are always good.
Diego G.F
18 years ago
Maybe some "dust effects" (steps and fallens.....). Thanks Andrew.
Andre
18 years ago
Bloodstream, like plasma with the blooddots, something like in fightclub beginning
John Paite
18 years ago
Wow wow wow~!! cant wait!!
Patryk Duk
18 years ago
Add some broken glass for a broken camera objective effect
Lucky
18 years ago
Ice effects, or Fire! Great fire explosion!
maybe some "magic flowers" who grow up.
18 years ago
first to comment

18 years ago
some like water drop effects.
some fire effects.
that would be cool.
like to have some text,
and then it be like burned by fire,
and then move on to other text.
and just some water and fire effects,
OOH and maybe some ice effects possibly?

thanks Andrew,
you are the man.