Research and Development!
July 11th, 2007

Here are some shots in the field as we prepare for a new product involving Guns, Explosions and lots of Blood. Real Clouds 2?

Don't expect this one for a while, there is just too much planned. Actual filming should begin early 2008.

Thanks to Sammy for the photos. Sorry about your arm ; ) JUST KIDDING!

Note: All production is supervised by local authorities and professionals. We take this production very seriously please be safe.

UPDATE: The guns are used to simulate real physics when we shoot blood packets. We are also using small explosives, and much more. Everything is supervised by professionals, one of our FX personnel has worked on some pretty big productions too.

Did I says HD 60p... Gosh, I need to shut up!

Andrew Kramer
POSTED:
18 years ago
106 Comments
Was this for Action Essentials 2?
Kreepman
17 years ago
..whatever happened to this DVD?

18 years ago
never saw the products in Malta.. Wish they are sold here cause they are great!
eddy
18 years ago
Thats cool dudes if its anything like the last one u rock. See if you cant put in dirt and rock shooting at you or somthing that would be cool too.
p1
18 years ago
hi. Really love ur tutorials. But my problem is, i would love to purchase ur dvds but over here, our credit cards are not recognized in the u.s. So how can peps 4rm nigeria get ur dvds? Its really usefull here as lots of customers now come to me "cos of ma new grafic fx!!!!!"
Rudra
18 years ago
Is that Andrew or Jack Bauer?
Alexey Pekarin
18 years ago
Andrew is the one who showing on this site , but have you actually tried it? there isn't much to show. If you have tried it - what's not working? where is the problematic moment?
Corey
18 years ago
Looking forward to the new stuff, Andrew.
Guy
18 years ago
Andrews looking very prison-breakish in this
sam
18 years ago
sounds easy .can you show us.
Alexey Pekarin
18 years ago
Gees guys. Create a bullet from solid using mask tool. Animate it travelling all the way like in 3 frames and apply motion blur. That's it.
Orhan
18 years ago
Jay, the bullet streak can easily be achieved with after effects using masks and perhaps some effects.
Helge
18 years ago
I really hope there are some good sound effects in this one! guns etc..
Jay Mayor
18 years ago
I noticed in your intro video on the site where the "indy" guy (I believe it's Tino) gets shot. There is a bullet streak that appears for a split second to simulate the bullet traveling to his arm before the blood splatters. That same effect is also present when Sam gets shot multiple times.

Will the bullet streak effect be in Action Movie Essentials 2?
Alexey Pekarin
18 years ago
Do you mind me asking which one than?
18 years ago
JVC HD200 is 60p, but we're not using this camera... or RED
Alexey Pekarin
18 years ago
Hi Andrew!
Technical question:

How on earth do you get HD 60p? If that your JVC 200? I didn't think so. Or did you get RED? Please answer and I am working on a project with a lot of slow mo, but all the prosumer HDV cams are up to 60i not p ;(
-[Cloud]-
18 years ago
research with guns is fun. i really hope this new dvd kicks F*****g Ass.
i love your DVD's ^^

see ya
Alan
18 years ago
Is this 'research' related to you getting chased from the shopping Mall at all?
Bas
18 years ago
could you make a short movie how you have make the muzzle flashes whit the gun!
just becuse i want want to know how you made it whit real wapens
M. van Drunen
18 years ago
Andrew,

Thanx for all your dvd's. I'm so happy with them...my workstation is redering 24/7 now haha.
Can't wait for your new edition. For sure I'm gonna buy them all again. Keep up the good work...and with your help online...i'm gonna be someone...someday.

Thnx,

Mike van Drunen ( Holland )
Andre
18 years ago
Nice Glock Andrew
18 years ago
Who do you have to shoot around here to expedite this product? (JK)
Cant wait!!!!
Scott
18 years ago
Hey Andrew if you want I could shoot some footage of me shooting my 20 gauge, 12 gauge, ak-45, .44 magnum, .22, 30-6, or .247, me and my dad have alot, lol. Let me know man
18 years ago
"And and for the glass we have you coveredâ???¦
COVERED IN GLASS HA! HA! HA! Sorry."

zing!

can't wait for the BTS. should be a welcome tool to the stu maschwitz-type action movie arsenal. i can't wait to stage a big CG gunfight just to play with all of this stuff.

it'll be fun to mix it with some of the stuff from detonation films. their selection is pretty solid, the quality so-so, but the price can't be beat.

still, AME rocks the casbagh & i'm down for the sequel whenever it comes out.
18 years ago
AME 2? That's too awesome! Thanks for your hard work Andrew. I really appreciate that autograph. When ever I become a famous director I'm certainly going to hire you for visual effects.
18 years ago
"AK Out", um ok Seacrest....rofl.
18 years ago
IS that a glock nine, gosh, set it in burst, and then plant the c4, then get raped by 50 ct's and then the counter terroists win gosh
Shujaat
18 years ago
Cant wait for this
Jason S
18 years ago
Hey if you need acess to a 50 caliber desert eagle or a 50bmg rifle, let me know.

Jason
Dustin James
18 years ago
I am posting from my new iPhone!!!

to bad there isn't flash on my iPhone.. Speaking of which...

ANDREW....

could you maybe make a VideoCopilot Video Podcast... since the Serious FX one didn't quite work out...

that way I can have your tutorials on my iPhone? (just cause its cool)
18 years ago
Oh my god Can't wait.

I love the 'Action' Type FX, eg. AME!

Great work Andrew! I'll have to post some work I have done with AME to show you
nathan
18 years ago
Dude you kick so much freaking arse!! Keep up the good work!
18 years ago
I think another good idea that would go along with this theme is long streams of blood that could be composited as if flying off a body. Similar kind of to the sweat you see coming off a boxer in a Rocky movie after they get punched and their head swings to the side. That's about the best way I can describe it, but with blood.
18 years ago
Almost everything will be live action!
Gary
18 years ago
Hope you post some more about this product during the summer. Are there going to be real explosions, cause that seems pretty hard. If not, please get a grenade explosion.

Digital bullets slow-motion like in the matrix would also be great!

Please do an access behind the scenes thing on your site to customers, like the 300 presets. I actually kept the order number from DSFX this time just in case.
18 years ago
Yes of course. Well I have as long as I've been on VideoCopilot always got the feeling that you guys are very serious and professional which I know you are. That's why I'm here, and of course because I just love your humor
Great products and tutorials man!

MM.
18 years ago
Well, the Glock 23 in my hand is registered to me. We have both had professional training from the SWAT team and we take it very seriously.

I will probably include some behind the scenes footage for the purpose of staging the reactions. This way you can see and compare how much 'kick' is involved and how to react when using AirSoft weapons to simulate real firing.

Remember, even AirSoft guns need to be treated as real firearms and all the necessary precautions should be undertaken by professionals.

Safety, always.
18 years ago
The police academy, sweet! So he's the one firing the gun in real life and you're the one doing it behind the computer Hehe.

MM.
18 years ago
Will be quite a treat seeing the AE master firing a gun rather than digitally editing it.
18 years ago
The second shot is my younger brother. He's going into the police academy pretty soon.

And and for the glass we have you covered...
COVERED IN GLASS HA! HA! HA! Sorry.

Behind the scenes footage is a definite.
18 years ago
Tino looks cool too, raw! Because it is Tino, right? I'm not 100% sure.

MM.
18 years ago
Andrew, you almost look like MacGyver when you stand there with your gun God I just love your face expression, and don't get this wrong. MacGyver is awsome (just so you know I'm straight)

Great work AK!

Best regards, Max Marklund!
Some Guy
18 years ago
The guns are used to simulate real physics when we shoot blood packets. We are also using small explosives, and much more. Everything is supervised by professionals, one of our FX personnel has worked on some pretty big productions too.


Sounds interesting. Can we get some Behind the Scene Footage?
18 years ago
looking forward to it. Am i guessing there will be a sequal for all the original dvds
sam
18 years ago
andrew i told you i want to join your team man iam in orange county man i have all the crazy ideas you want .iam your gurillawar fare man you name it i'll do it.
Kris S
18 years ago
should be able to do some cool tricks w/ that 60p footage -
nice! - i will just practise w/ AME for now.
Id like to see how to cut someones arm off and have the left over stumps squirt juicy n` deliciously tasty red velvet blood like in Kill Bill and not like in Monthy Pythons holy grail.

(cant think of anything clever to finish this off with)
18 years ago
I nominate Andrew as hottest visual effects artist. In both ways.
Pierre
18 years ago
Don't forget the bullet passing through water...
Great.
18 years ago
Are you gonna use squibs? Send me the video! I wanna see how a squib works. I'm going to a firing range in 2 weeks or somethin' I'm going to record it.
18 years ago
R.E. Dustin James-

The 300 blood was made custom using a particle system I believe. Children of men however used a very similar method of overlaying pre-matted bullet holes, blood, and explosions.
Jammin' JJ
18 years ago
Is this shoot just as professional as the one at the mall?
18 years ago
This is exactly why Starbucks just won't cut it. Much cooler than pre-matted mocha coffee drips and such. Did Sam get out of line again? I can forsee a folder on the DVD called Sam Loya's Blood Splatter. "It looks real 'cause it is." could be the slogan. I can't wait for this one. Do you have an estimated cost yet? Glad they are in HD. This gives us a lot more flexibility, even if you aren't editing in HD.
18 years ago
TEASE!

cool. can't wait to see action movie essentials 2.0 (or whatever project X is called). looks like fun.

blow some glass up, while you're at it. i need some bulletholes in glass & don't want to shell out the $ for artbeats.
Dustin James
18 years ago
sounds great...

blood from 300? or will that be with RG2?
Zack
18 years ago
I hope it has more blood and explosions. Action movie essentials didn't have enough variations. But still a 5 star product
18 years ago
Lol, not sure how much blood and explosions I really need but... who am I kidding i'll find places to use them i'm sure
18 years ago
# Helge Says:
What happened to Sammy? I bet you missed the targetâ???¦

I didn't Miss ; )
-Andrew

Just Kidding! Nobody got shot! Just a big Joke!

For some of the the blood we are using small explosives, for some we are you blood packs that will be shot by actual guns. We will have blood in more ways than you can imagine. We will be firing over 20 firearms to give you the most realistic muzzle flashes ever!

I love the first AME, but part 2 has a budget!

AK out.
18 years ago
Andrew,
If this is how you do R&D for your projects ...then answer me this.
What R&D could you have possibly done for Tutorial 13: Assisted Suicide?

lol
Drobins
18 years ago
Stan: Oh my god you shot Sam!
Kyle: You Ba***rd!

hmmm, possibly Horror Movie Essentials???

Can't wait for Porn Movie Essentials.....well maybe I can.......second thought I might make that collection myself.....well not "BY MYSELF" but with some help.......oh nevermind......
S. Gilbert
18 years ago
Hey Andrew,

Well being that your in the making of a new disc can you somehow simulate squirting blood? like for example if someone where to have his arm blow off and blood squirting out... Maybe w/ diffrent angles too. Last time I cut my actors arm off we only got one angle and had find another actor who looked axactly like him and cut his arm off but the camera malfunctioned and we had to find another one it wasn't pretty, anyhow, looking foward to it I'm sure it'll be real cool.

S. Gilbert
Ben
18 years ago
how ever I do not have any of your products, my cusion dose, I have used many of them and enjoyed them alot, but with the blood bursts i really only use # 7 and 8 so you should make more in that type of style.
18 years ago
OMG!!! NEW AME. OMG IM GAONNA BUY IT I SWEAR!!!!
18 years ago
Andrew you rock man, I can't wait for a new action DVD!!!
Flim by Tim Productions.
18 years ago
hey Mr. Kramer I have an idea of how to get good gunshots I am not sure if u have done this previously but record at a high fps and then shoot a gun but make sure there is a green screen behind the gun and then u could just take out green and there u would have a good gunshot
Kyle Shields
18 years ago
Shooting guns is always fun, lol that rymes.
18 years ago
How about a Horror Movie Essentials???? I'll pre-order right now!!
18 years ago
Same with what Bas said, how did you do the action movie essentials? did you shoot behind a green screen with some amazing chroma key programs that can even trace particles? please tell me! its my 8th wonder of the world.
Ezequiel
18 years ago
sorry for your friend, but i guess it's worth it if you sacrifice your arm in order to get a cool stream of blood!
Jay Mayor
18 years ago
Wow, looks like another sweet product is in the works. Sam, just apply a little pressure....it's only a flesh wound. ; )
Marc.B
18 years ago
Poor Sam... sounds like he will have some hard time soon...

Sam, tell me you have a good insurance :p
Bas
18 years ago
are you tacking shots whit a real gun and than you make a muzzle of it...?
i don't understand... please tel me how you make it and why you are walking with a gun.
ow and anser in not to complicated english please. that's becuse i'm dutch
Ben
18 years ago
Real Clouds 2 - "Clouds have never been this hardcore."
Jacob Aaron
18 years ago
Wow! Awsome! Good luck and cant wait.
Alan
18 years ago
Two thumbs way way up there for more of this stuff. AME2? Can't wait.

The "Sorry about the arm" comments reminds me of a scene from "The Jackal"

be warned though. The PAL versions of these gunshots will be difficult to shoot as we (in the UK) have different firearm laws over here!
هـــــــاشم
18 years ago
Rot Gear 2 ............... coOl, fast please
Novastorm
18 years ago
I could donate some blood for your movie andrew ;D
Ryan
18 years ago
Do you use a mask to get the muzzle flashes out?
Dnine
18 years ago
WoW its fantastic
are you crazy? man keep it
EMCEJ
18 years ago
hi, i love your web and your tutorials, i need your help with one effect.
I'm trying to make a shortfilm, but i have one effect that i can't make. i need to make the effect of open eyes when someones wake up from sleep.
i hope you can help me, thanks
Orc Master
18 years ago
Man! Is it that you never run out of cool ideas for useful stuff?

Don't worry, Andrew, we know you're professional and we'll be safe... Hey, I don't have enough money for this! I guess I'll have to actually KILL somebody! Well, the show must go on

You rock, man, you really do. I hope I could buy your products...
18 years ago
WOW, can't wait....for real clouds 2. Were halfway through 2007 bring on 2008.
Gary
18 years ago
AME2 !!!! but it looks like your going to put stuff that was already in ame1 but enhanced. I'm I right? Please tease us some more for this product.

PS: I cant believe you shot sam! well i guess it had to happen sometime eventually.

Looking forward to this one. Guess for a good product, you have to wait a long time.
LA
18 years ago
Riot Gear 2 FIRST, please!
Some Guy
18 years ago
People, of course it is Action Movie Essentials 2. Why else would the name of the picture be ame2.jpg?

First Riot Gear 2, now AME 2... Great news, Andrew.
Magnusfaz
18 years ago
My God!!! 2008?? I have been saving money to buy some of the DVD's, but they are so many now!!! Well, I should save more. Don't you think?


By the way, you are able to send the DVD's to Mexico? to be honest, I prefer to have the disk that the downlodable version.
b scholz
18 years ago
i wish i could time remap the next year
18 years ago
Coool i am REALLY looking forward, too. It really sounds like something like AME 2 i hope so

greetz to my vfx hero
from germany

florian
Mark
18 years ago
AWESOME. Looks like action movie essentials two maybe??

I think for this one, I would like to see a sustained little fireball or somethin'. Maybe an energy ball too.
Yva
18 years ago
usefull stuff! I only hope you won't kill anyone for "lots of blood".
can't wait though!
Predator
18 years ago
Typical America with your guns handly at all times. Heheh, anyway, cannot wait 'till yhis comes out, thought the title would be "Action Movie Essencials 2"? Ah well, keep it up and I wish I was the one out on the field shootin' up stuff!
Helge
18 years ago
Awesome! Just what i need
What happened to Sammy? I bet you missed the target...
18 years ago
interesting...I would have thought this would all be done in a studio or something. Cool...looking foreward to it AK
Alexander Jansen
18 years ago
looks awesome!
18 years ago
hey evrybody,

this is verry cool!!
but explosions, blood and then you name it film magic pro 2.
think that voor things like that you can better name it Action movie essensials 2.
the first 0ne was great!!!
Scott bishop
18 years ago
This sounds like its gonna be alot of fun to play around with!!!
18 years ago
oh damn Andrew! Can't wait! thanks a lot
18 years ago
We want more Blood Yeah!
tryx78
18 years ago
Andrew, i want a idea for u, u make a tutorial whit the object enter on the water whit bubble fx, example (the stroke )
Bye ( sorry my english)
Gonads
18 years ago
... if there was only a way to speed time up.
18 years ago
I can't wait! Really looking forward to it! Great job!

Best regards Max Marklund.
Blair
18 years ago
Cruel, just plain cruel! A few weeks I can handle... but teasing us a whole year in advance...!?! Enough! I can't take any more!!!
AAAAA, can't wait for this DVD, will buy it soon as it gets out! hehe, nice Andrew
Neeraj
18 years ago
Is this another DVD for action movie essentials?
You rock Andrew.

Neeraj
ucantstop
18 years ago
Just like above , i can't wait!
"Lots of Blood" .. mhmh
Piotr Piotrowicz
18 years ago
FIRST POST

Excellent man!! looking forward to it