New York Trip Overview

March 30th, 2009

Well, I'm not back in California just yet but I managed to throw together an overview of my presentation at AENY. It's nothing special but at least you will see a small bit of the action and at least one bad joke. I didn't have access to many sound effects but I did have a copy of Pro Scores so it's not completely boring in the sound department, although I only had about 30 minutes to do everything so I mixed it in AE.

I'm sure some of this will make it into a tutorial somehow but first I need to get back on my computer and my chair and my precious mouse pad. Laptops are a bit of a pain. The video might be a little washed out but I'll re-encode when I get home.

I want to thank Jim Geduldick and Aharon Rabinowitz for all there help with the meeting as well as Dennis Radeke, although I know he had to be somewhere.

Most of all, I should thank everyone who came out and everyone who wished they could have. Doing public speaking is never easy but the group was great.

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Andrew Kramer

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16 years ago

133 Comments

OlÃ¡h MÃ¡rk

15 years ago

Helo i don't speak english (from hungary :/

) andrew 4 tutorial /mounth pls

Daniel

16 years ago

Man I didnt realise someone was watching me swing through the city, I gotta be more careful next time

Martin

16 years ago

Hey andrew, can you please share the video from the empire state building? I'm sitting here, with nothing more than a mobile camera, and would really love the footage. Thanks!

sandro

16 years ago

wow nice!!!
Waiting tutorial

Tulaga

16 years ago

Hey Andrew

Could you please do a quick tutorial on how you got those pics to look like a 3D environment?

Quentin

16 years ago

You realy seen spidey Whaou ! Great effects, nice work Andrew, continue like this, and thank you for all this AMAZING tutos

JAILTON

16 years ago

OLA BOA TARDE
EU QUERO COMPRAR SO O VIDEOCOPILOT DESINGNER SOUND FX
QUANTO FICA?
E SE POSSIVEL VC TEM EM PORTUGUES AMIGO?
TO NO AGURDO UMA ABRA?????O
POR FAVOR MANDE UMA RESPOSTA NA MINHA CAIXA DE E-MAIL

Andrew Kramer

16 years ago

Thanks Jim!

jim

16 years ago

In case anyone wants to see the pics i set up the AENY flickr acct and posted them you can check them out

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aeny_nyc/

Later,

Jim

AENY.ORG

KGSFX

16 years ago

AWWW! that spiderman got away again! D:

16 years ago

Haha that was AWESOME. Brilliant, funny and beautiful looking stuff. Yeah I'm gonna try to make it out next year too. I have family there anyway

Dale Ficken

16 years ago

Cool stuff! I am definitley going to have to make a trip out there next year. Although the midwest does have some good golf courses and steak houses

Mike

16 years ago

I learned that the rectangle tool in MS paint is very versatile.

Thanks Andrew!

Michael

16 years ago

Thank you - looks rather interesting. I wished I could have been there too.

Greg

16 years ago

I would also like to know how you did the pan of the city using a photograph. It looked very video-like.

Chris

16 years ago

"really liked the focus adjustment at the end where we could see â?????schmutzâ??? on the lens. nice work, AK."

I have to ask, this was put together with stills and you manually did the autofocus and pullout by hand?? It's that attention to detail that's sells a shot - Brilliant Andrew.

Burningchariot TV

16 years ago

GREAT VID, HOPE YOU DO A WORLD TOUR ONE DAY, MAYBE DROP BY THE UK, SELL OUT A FULL STADIUM....

JUST AN IDEA.

ANYWAY, I WOULDN'T BOTHER WITH A WACOM UNLESS YOU ILLUSTRATE ALOT. I HAVE A TOP END WACOM - I COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT FOR ILLUSTRATOR BUT AS FOR AFTER EFFECTS - I'D STICK TO THE OLD SCHOOL MOUSE.

Jammin' JJ

16 years ago

Back to your mousepad! You're not still using a mouse are you??!! As much fun as carpal tunnel surgery sounds, do yourself a favor and get a Wacom tablet. You'll never go back!

Ryan Smith

16 years ago

dude, you crack me up! I'm lovin' all your stuff.

Panayiotis

16 years ago

hey Andrew nice hearing that AENY went ok! i wish i could be there but Cyprus is a little too far...

great vid man i envy you! especially the work you did on FRINGE Titles awesome. i know this isn't the right place but could you make at some point a tutorial based on fringe opening titles??? Always fan of yours,
Panayiotis

P.S
That guy really needs to chill out a bit (Spidey)

Jorge

16 years ago

Man I wish I was There... Such an Inspiration

swornim

16 years ago

i watch it with out , now i will watch again with my audio on. more over i get the information it about to flow. text guide was quit informative . am taking with out sound sine you have address about the sound

Azzy

16 years ago

Thos is o so cool !!! BIG UPS TO AK d(O_o)b

Sultal

16 years ago

spiderman wasn't shoot on LA?

omgvideo

16 years ago

Yeah i had the same problem as Asri on that Hot Chick poster it paused for a while there....oh no wait that was me on the pause button..ehem sorry.
The demo does look AWESOME..!

Nikolay Kolev

16 years ago

This is really awesome man

Stas

16 years ago

Andrew, you can create a tutorial on working with the combined video? Thanks in advance!

Stas

16 years ago

Nise job!

Prodat TV

16 years ago

I watch him, but he's free yet, when you gonna catch him Andrew??

Nice job with trapcode, can you give us more of that??

Thanx

Andy

16 years ago

That was a pretty big Spider-Man.

Asri

16 years ago

something wrong when i pause at hot chicks poster..
pause at 24 second..

Jeff

16 years ago

That was great. Someday Andrew you will catch that guy. Punch him in the mouth for me when you do.

syaf

16 years ago

hahaha...that was funney..is that photo stitching in Photoshop? or you know.. real spiderman...

Matthew Helms

16 years ago

That was pretty damn entertaining, I must say. I give you kudos for makin tha on a laptop as well

Glad to hear of your great experience and relations. BTW your photo pans were very realistic

Bones

16 years ago

Wow, you can't even tell those were photographs at all.

I'd love a tutorial on that, more so than even the fireball...

Cheers!

Hiphopjoe

16 years ago

ITS ANDREW!! SPIDY IS ANDREW!!! DU!!!

Haha!

cool work man!

Tony

16 years ago

There he goes again! one day... one day i will find out who spidey is....

Perry Blunt

16 years ago

Mr. Kramer that was great can't wait. is there somewhere we can get the video of the aeny?so we could watch it?

Tanya

16 years ago

i saw spidey! anyway Mr. Andrwew welcome back!

16 years ago

too funny, good work andrew, keep up the awesome work

Timinator

16 years ago

Gawd... I hate you! JK... But, seriously, you are one of the most talented and imaginative people I know. Although, don't be too flattered cuz I don't know too many people. hahaha

Great video Andrew, all sarcasm aside.

Paul

16 years ago

great stuff, it would be so cool to meet you Kramer. I met Cosmo Kramer from seinfeld, but your funnier.

LifeType

16 years ago

i do my story boards in windows paint . i cant draw nothing but perspectives and stick figures . but its so quick and easy . glad im not the only one using it

Fabian

16 years ago

To me, you are my superhero Mr. Kramer

Bladinier

16 years ago

hahahaha, amazing.... spider!

Ben

16 years ago

All the NYC footage was still photographs?? Was that a series of stills photoshoped together or just one still?? If Photoshoped, did you use vanishing point or just masks in AE??

That was pretty amazing!

Wayne Cutajar

16 years ago

Great video and good filming by the way... ;P

Wayne Cutajar

16 years ago

Waiting for your return... so we can see more work...

David_97

16 years ago

@ andi:

It looks like Trapcode Form, and maybe Trapcode Particular. I may be wrong, since I don't own those plugins (though I so wish I did).

Nice vid, I was hoping for some videos/pictures of it.
-David

Junior

16 years ago

VERY COOL, KRAMER!
I apply the blur in yellow effect, since the image is blur.

seeyaaaaaaa

ashley

16 years ago

that video was awesome- perhaps a tutorial on the spiderman? brilliant as always

Dylan02

16 years ago

When are you back in California, Andrew?

Diego G.

16 years ago

It's great, but I have a question:
What did you do after you saw Spiderman? Didn't you call the police? Hi, It's AK, from Videocopilot.net and today we're gonna take a special look at spiderman, yes I got him tied to the bed. xD Just Kidding, man, you're AWESOME!!!

Sorry for my english...

Rafael

16 years ago

thanks. This is cool stuff. But was the city pan where spider man appears actually a picture and you used Horizon or you filmed it?

VCP's Biggest Fan

16 years ago

Ha ha ha that was great. I hope you are having fun in NY. You finally got video of spidey this year now.

drobins

16 years ago

I kept waiting for Cloverfield to pop up and snag spidey.

Josh

16 years ago

Thanks for the autograph, Andrew Kramer! Your presentation was great and it was really inspiring to go out there a create some cool effects.

Kelly Griffin

16 years ago

Hey Andrew,

Just wanted to tell you how happy I am with Evolution, The Bullet and Pro Scores. I already own Action Essentials so I only have a few more to go before I have the whole colletion! Thanks for the great products!

Kelly

bwoogie

16 years ago

If you were a girl I'd probably marry you...
Amazing stuff right there.

Osvaldo_Tampico

16 years ago

It's me or that spider man is like 50 pounds fatter??? don't tell me you send SAM LOYA dressed in panties to hang out in a spiderweb? nice design anyway!!!

Sean Daigle

16 years ago

i think most people underestimate what can be done in 30 minutes...this proves you can do a lot. great job. love the rack focus before spidey. haha

patocinemetal

16 years ago

jaja que gracioso que sos loco!
jaja what funny man!

Anthony Miller

16 years ago

Very cool, Andrew. Great video. Lots of fun and a cliff hanger ending! What more could we ask for while you're still in NY?!

Have a safe trip home. Looking forward to more cool stuff.

everythingfx

16 years ago

Hey Andrew i dont know if you saw my comment. but how did u make the spiderman?

Grim

16 years ago

AK,
Back when you were doing the 3d helicopter shots
http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/08/3d-helicopter/
you mentioned that the background was not 3d but created using images and a "interesting technique". Did you employ the same technique to create these videos from your still shots?

Mike Patterson

16 years ago

Hahaha Briget's Sexiest Beaches

Amazing video

Anderson

16 years ago

That's funny and creative :}

Amit

16 years ago

Nice!!! McKramer (not McLovin!)

Steve

16 years ago

Thanks for sharing this video for those of us who couldn't be there. I'm all the way in Alaska, so I didn't have a chance to make it. Even if I did, the volcano erupting right now would've stopped me... well, at least the plane.
Andrew, I love the humor you add to everything. Whenever there's a new blog post or tutorial on VCP, I know I'm in for a good laugh.
Thanks for all you do here, and I'm loving ProScores!!

Ryan

16 years ago

Awesome!

Jerry

16 years ago

I love your sense of humor Andrew. That, mixed with your excellent video skills, makes for a treat every single time. I laughed out loud when I got to the part showing if you were the one shooting the video...very funny.

Looks like you even added a bulge of some sort on the photo when you were panning over NYC "looking for Spidey". This clip just goes to show that even if you don't have a video camera with you, it doesn't mean you can't create a "simulated video". Excellent shots Andrew!!!

Ante

16 years ago

awsome stuff.This energy is awsome.

Carlo

16 years ago

was the footage of the city, video or stitched panos?? i image you had your camera beyond the "dont jump of the building" bars, which means no pan head, right?

Shark

16 years ago

Hi from Poland

Hossein

16 years ago

hahahah awesome man i love the MS painnt bit and the "if i was filming" AND the spiderman at the end!

well, basically i just loved it all HAHAHA....not funny

Gothell

16 years ago

you are a killer Andrew this video is amazing simply amazing nice work

I hope I'll do that in the future ^^

Cole

16 years ago

That was awesome! Please when you get back to LA do a tut on that fire ball thing and the color grading. I loved the pan it looked so real, how did you do it?

Scott

16 years ago

Spiderman! SNAG HIM NOW!

Fish

16 years ago

AK what a great trip, to come to NYC and take in the sites etc. Some of us spend our entire life trying to find that web slinger and you visit for a week and catch him on the camera !!!! lol

Nice...nice...maybe he will follow you back to Cali to fight Octomom ?!?! Isn't that Doc Oc's mom? oh wait...I'm confused..one has eight arms the other one has eight + kids...sorry wrong movie! hee-hee

You ROCK! Kramer

Andrew Kramer

16 years ago

The MS paint demo wasn't a joke... that's what happened at the meeting. I saved the images from the meeting so people who were there could be reminded.

Shans

16 years ago

NY is very beautifully city,but joke about paint,again?that was stupid,sorry...

James Price

16 years ago

Ha Ha...Spidey WAS there...(knew it)

Roger

16 years ago

The demo video was great. And I think I saw spiderman!?!

LifeType

16 years ago

very cool effect and video

Sandy

16 years ago

thank u Andrew!

jon

16 years ago

really liked the focus adjustment at the end where we could see "schmutz" on the lens. nice work, AK.

Al'

16 years ago

Hey Andrew, awesome stuff, like everytime. Las, couldn't make it, because living in France, but seems it's been a lot of fun.

The color-correction you are doing are really great, in which tutorial could I learn to do the same ?

Al'

graphicmas

16 years ago

You Are so great!!!

WaterRocketDude

16 years ago

Andrew Kramer: an artist, even in paint!

David

16 years ago

was that really spiderman?
I didn't know he was real!

X101

16 years ago

That stuff is wicked! i recolor-corrected a simple prj i was working on... keep it up Andrew (Bruce Lee of VFX) he he he

Kai

16 years ago

wow!
wish i was there...
If there's one in LA or SF, then I'll definately come to that one, though.
Kai

Lawrence

16 years ago

Very cool, nice vid... Thanks!

EVERYTHINGFX

16 years ago

Awesome Stuff

Just a quick question was that spider-man made in a 3D program? or is it an image you've animated in After Effects??

Bread

16 years ago

Really cool video...
like it

Thorsten M(tommie12P)

16 years ago

Cool,

I??´m sure there will be another tutorial on how to create this light lines thing. Although there are a lot particle tutorials here, but they look great.

16 years ago

A tutorial on that spider man would be awesome xD

Bas

16 years ago

haha nice spidey effect

cant wait for action essentials 2 preview

Kael

16 years ago

"I want tutorials! Tutorials of Spiderman!"
-J. Jonah Jameson voice

POEP

16 years ago

HAHAHAHA If I was filming, it might look like this:

Aleks

16 years ago

that looks very nice!!!

haha yes working on a laptop does really sucks!!! that's how i make my videoes, and thats not nice, but it's an alternativ...

But anyway.. Do you got a release date for the AE2 or just for the preview?

That would be nice

Eric Hartmann

16 years ago

cool stuff - i'd love to know how you did that with pictures.....

Fredrik

16 years ago

Can't wait until you find Spiderman!

PostMagic

16 years ago

King Tut: Be careful in the Big Apple. Looks like someone was watching over you!

Ron

16 years ago

Great video to get me through the first day of a new quarter at school. Thanks!

Stijn Jasper

16 years ago

Thanks for the heads up, And the vid looks great

I will be going to NY myself in Mai, you must know that I live it The Netherlands so its kindoff a big deal.

Btw, I hope to see spiderman there to xD hahaha

Matt Coughlin

16 years ago

Andrew, thanks for sharing. PLEASE make a tutorial out of this.

martijn

16 years ago

you made that stuff out of photo's? nice!

like a 3d world in ae! very cool!

everettoptions

16 years ago

That was awesome! gotta love the ending!

Josh M

16 years ago

Great stuff AK! Thanks for sharing and can't wait for the tutorials! Keep up the AMAZING work!

andi

16 years ago

hey andrew have you seen the Call of Duty 6 trailer? i think the effect would make a cool tutorial
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/14281101/call-of-duty-6/videos/modern2_gdc09_trl_siberia_032509.html;jsessionid=aut0seni0pd55

David W.

16 years ago

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks! We are all so glad to here the trip went well and we appreciate the video.

Peter Somers (TC-Productions)

16 years ago

Great stuff as always!

Question: the city pictures used in the animation, did you stitch them to a panoramic in Photoshop, or is it video footage?

Steeth

16 years ago

Really good video Andrew!! Would be awesome to get a tutorial from you of how to create those pans in still images the way you did to make it look like it was filmed.. I can never get it to look that good by simply panning an image from left to right, always looks really fake.. So a tutorial on doing that, or a point in the right direction to an existing tutorial would be great!

Keep up the awesome work!!

Umid

16 years ago

Thanks for all, Andrew. You're my teacher! GREA!t!

Michel Greco

16 years ago

Wow fantastic! would have paid lots of money to assist to that conference!!
Don't quit you'll catch'em... haha!

r'u going to NAB this year?? r'u having a stand there or something?? hope to see you there!!

Greetings from Montr??©al!!

Paul

16 years ago

i never knew 2 simple photos could be made so entertaining! lol

and i agree - late panning to mimic a real person adds that extra touch of "realness" to the video...

Infaas

16 years ago

You are crazy Andrew,
CrazyCool!

Eugene Opperman

16 years ago

Thanks Andrew..
Busy downloading the demo now, can't wait..
South Africa must get their ducks in a row and start hooking up AE User Groups and functions...

crossy

16 years ago

wow man that was trippyyy so nice of u that u share that with u i loved it .... and i hope ull come back soon and give us the product u are working on.... GREETS FOR THE NETHERLANDS

Simon Loche

16 years ago

Great video !

Mannu

16 years ago

Thanks Andrew! and great to hear that your presentastion went well!!

Please do film more

that poster was hot!!!!!!

Modisana

16 years ago

Yeah Andrew you are probably sick of hearing people telling you that youre the best....That'll tech you to be the BEST! HA!...I love what you did with the video, very kick ass...

Oh the last part made me laugh.....Im talking about Spidey!
Youre Crazy!.....

Im still rolling in isles...I dig your obsession with catching our friendly neighborhood Spiderman!

sebastian

16 years ago

Consider this: If you were wearing tights and you would be spinning your web in NY city, wouldn't you wear a mask?

Miki

16 years ago

Wow! Great Video.
You are the best ( though I know you are sick from this line..

)

Infaas

16 years ago

I can give you a tip on web head.
pm me

Cody