Free Fire Project

December 2nd, 2008

Here is a little test I made using CC Particle World and some vector blur to make Fire. It's not perfect but an interesting study. One of the key things I did was used a wiggle expression on the particle birthrate to give a variable emission pattern like something was burning inconsistently. It's a little slow to render but it is very high resolution.

Sample Video

Project File

Essentially it is 3D, although I haven't tested it much for things like looking down on it... Currently it is only for AE CS3 but an After Effects tutorial may be possible in the future.

Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

17 years ago

133 Comments

kamalbajing

9 years ago

om andrew bagi action essentialnx dong yg bner j msa mni satu juta hrgany....gratis ea om andrew....

Bill

9 years ago

sign... ummm... it is a .mov file. Bad juju for me here at the work. NO QUICKTIME allowed on casino windows computers due to QT security holes.

jabirkhan

9 years ago

plese softwer da do

putra

10 years ago

Thank you, for your free project

Naod Adnew

10 years ago

Awesome
i really like your Vedios tnx!
Naod Adnew Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Ananda

10 years ago

This is so amazing, and it shows how experience and creativity can bring to life with standard effects on any software..

willian

10 years ago

thanks, it's so amazing.....

hument

10 years ago

Thank you very much.

hangxoan

12 years ago

It's so cool. Thank you very much.

Barameej

12 years ago

Awesome,thanks .. i like after effect and i like VIDEO COPILOT <3

Nishad

13 years ago

Awesome,thanks Andrew,greetings from India.

ahmed samir

13 years ago

thxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Nastya

13 years ago

Andrew, you gave us the fire! Prometheus!

Valkyrie

13 years ago

Hi, when I downloaded it, my Mac won't let me open it because it's .aep anybdy know why?

Tong

14 years ago

I like this and want to learn how to make it.

Could you give us tutorial,plz?

uday

14 years ago

Thanks lookin nice

tunde adeoye

15 years ago

i am lucky to come accros u and d tremdious thing u do, i am happy, i'd stick wit ya! i'd luv to b another andrew kramer!

gozie

15 years ago

no one like you andrew, you like a father in vfx, not like a father but a father, thanks alot, greetings from Gozie n igbo boys in vfx

kuldeep

16 years ago

THANKS

omoluku

16 years ago

you are too much...keep it up!

Pablo

16 years ago

Hi! thanks for those very exciting video tutorials and contents of this page...

I'm really happy to found you and I'm learning a lot thanks to you...

I just have one question... Can you make a tutorial just the way you made the fire?

thanks and I'll be waitin' for it thanks

HVQ

16 years ago

That cool...
I hope the tut video comes soon, we are waiting...

pavan

16 years ago

hi,nice work dude.

hey guy's.
my aft fx don't have cc vector blur, plz help me where can i get it. is it a free one

Tim

16 years ago

I found an answer for my question, its smart to read the FAqs before you ask questions, thats what ive learnt today!

David

16 years ago

Nice... Luckily, I'm upgrading to CS4 (from AE 7) at the end of the month so I'll be able to open these projects.

I've actually been downloading these projects and'll be so excited when I upgrade, this is AWESOME!
-David

Tim

16 years ago

What about this site, Doogle?

Doogle

16 years ago

I'd say that depends on the tutorial/site. Some places state that you can use the works in your own work and get paid for them, others say you can't.

Oh, the link above of mine doesn't work, damn youtube deleted the vid for some reason so I re-uploaded it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azASujLrpu4

Tim

16 years ago

I recently bumped into this site, and its amazing. Thank you Andrew, you surely deserve some donation for all your work that you are sharing.

A question that I have been thinking alot about:
Is it "legal" to follow your tutorials and then when its finished, can you sell it and make money out of it? Im only 15, so its nothing i can do, but Ive been thinking that it would be an easy way for people to just follow ur great tutorials, and then sell the high quality stuff they get from following the tutorials.

Thanks, Tim

Doogle

16 years ago

Here's my logo using these techniques...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iSbhYLiKY

Thanks again Andrew.

Doogle

16 years ago

Wow, this is brilliant Andrew thanks. I've been trying to make realistic looking fire for my brother's band's logo, now I've finally made it thanks to your amazing skills. I also used the 'free pizza' method you used too to add extra coolness to my logo.

I'll post a link to it once it's online for you to see

)

evesebben

16 years ago

you are going to become a legend.

ray

16 years ago

hey andrew...great job with the tutorials...i've really learnt alot,, i was wandering if you cud make a music video tutorial with any of the cool effects available

David

16 years ago

Nice.... I've always wanted to make AE fire. Thanks!
-David

shimoda

17 years ago

it's perfect
Thank you Andrew

Pyro

17 years ago

Let it burn mate.

Nico

17 years ago

Very Nice effect !!
Thank you Andrew
I like the vortex too !

Qii Xii

17 years ago

Awesome effect. ^_^

Peter Holmes

17 years ago

...and they said it couldn't be done without trapcode

Wael Ali Hassan

17 years ago

It is a very cool effect, but there are some programs that can produce such an effect with less effort like Wondertouch particle illusion, or what do you think?

ralph

17 years ago

Hey Andrew, I like what you and your crew do very much,this is my first reply but i've been watching your tutorials from the beginning i've seen you mature and your work with it.Let me give you one lesson.
Alway's put your family first.
With their support you will never fail.

gr Ralph from the Netherlands

Ace

17 years ago

Hey Andrew, i would be really happy if you could make a tutorial how to make such a fire with trapcode particular!

still nice stuff as always

Filip

17 years ago

This is impossible. A few days earlier some team asked me to do a video and they wanted fire in it!!

Thanks so much. I tried the Particular Fire preset but this seems to look better!

Filip from belgium.

Viet

17 years ago

Andrew you are the man! You know whats funny? This is a study of fire effects, but it already looks better than all fire after effects tutorials out there. Great Work!

Brenton

17 years ago

WOW! that's a damn good attempt! thank you!!

Amy

17 years ago

like real fire...so nice

Wyatt

17 years ago

Thank you!

Adam

17 years ago

It won't open for CS4 for me.

Adam

17 years ago

Thanks so much for sharing this.

G Man

17 years ago

i like the vortex by the way...
very nice Mr. Kramer!

sahul

17 years ago

hi this is sahul

in my after effects missing some effects( cc particles,cc bend it...)

please help me...........soon

please..................

Allen Ellis

17 years ago

By the way guys, in case you missed it this effect is *fully 3D*!

http://allenellis.com/public/FIRE-3D.mov

I added a jump-back in the background for reference. Pretty sweet

Allen Ellis

17 years ago

Man! Usually I'm pretty good at picking apart your projects to see what you did, but this one blows me away.

It looks really really nice. Thanks so much so inspiring us yet again

Haim

17 years ago

Thatâ??????s pretty cool

17 years ago

Absolutely beautiful

Ben L

17 years ago

As i am a stingy person, i haven't bought most of your packs of stock footage, but to put an editable fire effect like this on the web...for free? most sites would charge some ludicrous amount, but this is great. Thanks for all you have done for the online compositing community.

Justin Von Konsky

17 years ago

Looks great Andrew! I've been looking for a fire effect for a while. Please make a tutorial compatible with cs2. Thank you so much!

Christopher Oliver

17 years ago

Wait, how the, you are the man. I have CS3 and I've been experimenting myself on how to create fire. Here you are mastering it like nothing. Dude you are the man and you deserve every penny of your work.

Christopher Oliver
.COMcomics

Chris

17 years ago

Epic as all ways. Keep up the good work.

Mcloen

17 years ago

This is awesome man i already done 6 or so test videos using this effects in it

G Man

17 years ago

you know what Andrew...
when I saw you use the Vector Blur on the previous thing, I was thinking it would be a great look for water...

but I would have never thought to try it for fire....

how did you get so smart?????

thomas

17 years ago

wow awesome !!!

I wait for the tutorial, I have AE 7 Pro, not CS3

Congratulations
Thomas A.

Excelsior

17 years ago

Wow, its a pretty though to render it kinda heavy with particles :p

Thorsten Miess

17 years ago

"Itâ??????s a little slow to render but it is very high resolution."

but? -- because!

BTW

, it looks so cool even though you may want to use stock footage to create realistic fire, its awesome if you haven??´t stock footage available or just with the use of Titles and stuff like that!

I 1 2 c more tests of yours!

Chris Rena

17 years ago

Yeah andrew!

Fume FX is one of the best way to make realistic fire, good job in AE!

Chris
www.chrisrena.com

Luke

17 years ago

cheers Andrew. think i've seen that plugin around, i'm studying animation at university so hopefully i'll be able to get my hands on it in max

Andrew Kramer

17 years ago

There are different ways, you might want to check out Fume FX.

Luke

17 years ago

How do they create realistic fire in movies? Maya?

Andrew Kramer

17 years ago

Glad you guys like it, I'll have to start uploading more tests. I do so many...

Fede Gomez

17 years ago

Great Andrew.... Thanks!

Farhad Shafaq

17 years ago

very nice , cool & so hot

Shouryu

17 years ago

Awesome!

Loay

17 years ago

It seems to be great

Michael

17 years ago

I think you read all of our minds with this one!

martin troy

17 years ago

Holy Cow Andrew!! i was just going to ask for a Fire tutorial!! you read my freaking mind!!! fire tutorials please!!!

gor

17 years ago

why is it not working on CS4?

Peter Wong

17 years ago

I think these are sometimes more valuable than tutorials

Kyran

17 years ago

HELL YES !!

I ONLY JUST UPGRADED TO CS4 YESTERDAY !!

THANKS XD

eric hinson

17 years ago

Andrew, have you been doing any more modeling? I swear this is you on my Golden Grahams cereal box. Or your evil twin!

http://www.filedump.net/dumped/andrew1228287862.jpg

Please send me a copy of Pro Scores for unearthing this revelation! JK

gerri

17 years ago

dudeee you got me into after effects!!
ur so cool if you want you can check some of my videos

www.youtube.com/pirosendarti

thanks a lot!! and keep up the good work!
ps. can wait for pro scores!

I'm JOE!

17 years ago

Hey Andrew,

Keep up the good work, I just saw a bunch of your products and tutorials put to interesting use. keep up the good work.

Yo go boy.

guillermo

17 years ago

Good Andrew, greetings from Chile!
your works is best

Infaas

17 years ago

That is HOT

Flubber

17 years ago

Looks OK

Thank you!

Sandy

17 years ago

thank u Andrew!!!!!! keep up the good work!!!!!

Travis

17 years ago

Hello Andrew, I'm not sure if it was on this site or not, But I recall seeing a video you posted about good compositing in after effects. The movie was about a team that I guess was Ireland and they were moving across a area when they heard sniper shots and saw a mirror up in a sniper tower. At one point I guess the sargeant in charge got his legs blown off by a grenade or land mine. It might have been on Machinima.com im not sure but if you posted it will you please try to find it and re port it. I thought that video was amazing. Thanks ahead of time.

illd

17 years ago

Hi Ziran,

one way you could do it:
Film it against a black screen and use the Add or Screen Blendingmode for your smoke layer than in AE - That will subtract the dark wall.

Also theere is a plugin called "unmult" (which is freeware),it was made especially for removing blacks, its a no brainer to use!

Ask the Question again in the Forum, I am shure you will get a lot of help there!

illd

17 years ago

Just reviewed the fire Project file - it cant be that good!

Even in quarter resolution it looks better then any AE fire I ever tried - and only with 4 layers! Some frames even look to me like a painting style.
I feel so numb right now - I think I??´ll stop Motiongraphics, sell my PCs and try me tomorrow in Basketball or so...

Ziran (Joe)

17 years ago

Hey how do you take video for custom smoke effects. I don't know how to film it.

illd

17 years ago

Looks realy great! The best fire made in AE i have seen so far, and i`ve seen em all

Thanks VCP!

Aegis Kleais

17 years ago

Too bad it doesn't look that realistic.

...

..

.

Yeah right!

It looks freakin' fantastic! I even put an ending apostrophe on my 'freakin', and I NEVER do that! (That's just how impressed I am!)

Andrew Kramer

17 years ago

Angel, It should work with CS4...

Jim Stone

17 years ago

Nice work! Thanks again

Angel

17 years ago

AWW I have CS4

wiseninja1

17 years ago

That's pretty cool

17 years ago

if the flames could cause a light effect inside a room - that would be cool. You know how a flame looks inside a dark room where it flickers here and there....

nate

17 years ago

Combine this with the escaping soul tutorial and you can breathe fire!

Jeddel

17 years ago

/$& THIS IS GREAT ANDREW YOU DONT KNOW HOW MUCH I NEED SOME FIRE FOR A PROJECT!!!!

THANKS ALOT

yOUR fAN #1

jEDDEL

Dustin James

17 years ago

That looks spectacular... I will be playing with this for a while.

Kramer's Evil Twin

17 years ago

Please be careful when playing with fire, you remember what happened to Prometheus!!!!

Alex

17 years ago

For some reason I can't seem to find CC particle world to buy it. Did they change the name? Suggestions? Went to the developers website. Couldn't find it there for some reason.

Mohamad

17 years ago

Thanks you rock

17 years ago

I just watched your fire clip..and yeah man that's damn sexy

jorberg

17 years ago

Nice Freebie AK!! We appreciate it! I'm looking forward to spending some $$$ on those scores though! Thanks for all your hard work --

17 years ago

I agree with Bones up there about the hand on fire thing. That's something I've been tinkering with but it's obviously not an exact science. If you could try something with engulfing someone's hand, like on Heroes, I can guarantee you will make a LOT of people happy

Peace bro

Nick

17 years ago

Andrew is on Fire! Thanks man

Victor

17 years ago

An amazing comp Kramer, very fluid and natural and wow, you are the man when it comes to taking AE to its max

Some Guy

17 years ago

Wow, this looks cool. You are a genius. Thank you.

Roger

17 years ago

Very cool. I opened in AE CS4 on the Mac with no problem. I'm amazed at how simple it is given how cool it is!

bahaa

17 years ago

thanks it look really nice ..i have after effects cs3 but it says that its edited with after effects version 8.0 and couldnt be opened with this version of after effects (my after effects cs3 version 7.0)

bahaa

17 years ago

thanks it look really nice ..i have after effects cs3 but it says that its edited with after effects version and couldnt be opened with this version of after effects (my after effects cs3 version 7.0)

Ben Wotton

17 years ago

Hey Andrew...Did you use the method mentioned on the forums a few weeks ago?

Fire looks nice BTW

Rafael

17 years ago

thanks for the constant updates...and for the fire.

bwoogie

17 years ago

Lovely. I think I shall download this a play with it a bit.

bassofia

17 years ago

Andrew, the link to video is broken, check please, thanks.

Matt

17 years ago

WOOOW! can't wait for tutorial!!!

Browser:)

17 years ago

wow...looks so real bro!!!!

Cole

17 years ago

Hmm very interesting.

Living Jacket

17 years ago

That's hot.

Thanks, Andrew!

ÃƒÂ¶mer tatlisoz

17 years ago

thanks Andrew

PhAtl

17 years ago

Now I know why I bought all those products

Tommy

17 years ago

thanks

Darrol

17 years ago

Thanks for the fire project. I am still working on a fire design that started with the energy tutorial using CC Particle world with faded lens particles and a smoke like background.

aidan

17 years ago

any more news on Pro Scores???

bobthenob

17 years ago

fire ill teach you to burn

Bones

17 years ago

What timing. I was actually starting to work on a shot for my reel that involved flames igniting from a person's hands. I think I know how to approach it but it'd be cool to see another perspective on it.

Ãƒâ€°tienne

17 years ago

Very nice!

aidan

17 years ago

awesome, I've wanted something like this for a while!

diilman

17 years ago

Cool! Thank you!

fabio

17 years ago

sweet andrew.. grettings from netherlands