2 NEW TUTORIALS: AE & 3D Max

May 20th, 2009

Ancient Titles:
In this tutorial we will create 3D particles that only appear in the light and build a soft faded shadow for our golden title, all inside Adobe After Effects.

3D Max Soft Shadows:
In this tutorial we will build a simple light array for casting soft shadows in our scene. This simple method yields fast rendering times, especially when compared to other GI solutions, plus the scene can animate without flickering.

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Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

16 years ago

97 Comments

Turisma

14 years ago

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They stole it from You.

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16 years ago

Awesome! Great tutorial from great man)

Khadim Rassoul MBOW

16 years ago

It's really great what u are doing.

Khai

16 years ago

I saw this on dateline. Did you do this?

suren

16 years ago

good work sir

Chicho

16 years ago

Desde Espa??±a:
Andrew eres un autentico monstruo. Tus tutoriales son geniales.
Muchas gracias maestro.

TyLy

16 years ago

Thanks. Very cool

Briggz ng

16 years ago

Too cool. Cus u rule

Ujin

16 years ago

Thanks! Good work!

Asher

16 years ago

Hey Andrew and the video copilot gang. Fantastic tutorials! Just a request though: Could you update the Mobile Website with these tutorials? I watch a lot of your tutorials from an iPod touch to save ram, so that'd be sweet if y'all could do that. Thanks and keep up the great work!

Also, I just saw star trek. Good job on the title design, Andrew.

Karim

16 years ago

Excelente tutorial, siempre con grandes ideas.

dickie ilagan

16 years ago

just can't think some ways but to thank you on your 90th clip. all clips are remarkably great and with tremendous efforts you have put and come with this dedicated works.... Truly appreciated, dude. best power

Ashu

16 years ago

andrew you are my idle dude. awesome work

B-82

16 years ago

Hi from France !

hey, just another post to say that your tuts are awesome !
I watch the "ancient titles" two times, just because I love it !
you have great ideas with great outcomes !
YOU ARE THE (AE) MAN ! haha !

Sandy

16 years ago

As usual once again amazing tut, Andrew Rockz.

Gabriel

16 years ago

Freakin' amazing tutorial Mr. Kramer!
Just one question. How did you make the O letter more brighter?

Joseph Socorro

16 years ago

Hi from Venezuela,

Excellent tutorial.

Modisana

16 years ago

Yeah..I agree with Stefan... a lot... obviously if u start making 3D tutorials it'll mean more work for you guys and you already have enough work as it is dealing with all of us, but look inside your hearts and you will see that you really want to do this, you want to make all of us 3D tutorials because the entire Video Copilot team is fully of kind and compassionate people,... especially Lam Soya...I mean...Sam Loya

Hahahaha...just kidding dude... but seriously though... It'll be really cool if you had a 3D section on the site and I'm sure that it will get as much support as AE and if you eventually sold products for it or even some tutorials people would buy them...I know I would.

P.S. Cause you guys are kind and compassionate people...Especially Lam Soya,...Dammit...I mean Sam Loya

Prashant K

16 years ago

3D tutorial after long time. Great stuff and hats off to you to your knowledge.

Wanna to see how you made the "The Bullet" promo; especially the text explosion effect.Will you be making the tutorial for the same??

Chris

16 years ago

Outstanding stuff--thanks, Andrew! I'll be playing with this in Blender.

Mitch

16 years ago

Andrew Kramer TV!

Matt in MO.

16 years ago

Just used it for our church media production logo. Amazing work King Kramer

Adam Sklar

16 years ago

Andrew.. Jeez. You a a bloody mind reader!
I'm making a trailer for my film, And I was hoping to have titles like this, And what happens.. You release a tut on it.

I love you man. (Not in a homosexual way of course).

16 years ago

Awesome, 2 tutorials in 1 day

That'll keep me busy for a good while.

xponential

16 years ago

happy happy joy joy happy happy joy joy

gfx

16 years ago

you know one of theese days we have to give you something in return for theese awesome tutorials!!!!!!!!!!MAN THAT'S AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU ARE AWESOME!!!5 STARS FROM ME!!!!!ITS BETTER THAN RENDERING IN VRAY FOR 1000 YEARS!!!!!!

Baloo

16 years ago

Andrew You're just awesome ! For my first film (Star Trek 3) i want you on visual effects ^^

Edgar

16 years ago

Cool! I was waiting for this one(the 3ds Max one)

Edi films

16 years ago

It must be Christmas!

Dario

16 years ago

Great as usual Prof. Kramer. It is an honor to have you bestow some of your wisdom upon us. XD

Bestia!

16 years ago

Yeah!

Im gonna watch it!

Thank YOU!

Yura

16 years ago

Great! Thx from Ukrain

eduardc_4d

16 years ago

hehe....new stuff from andrew....so happy to hear that

PatrikTG

16 years ago

Nice one, I hope that people see the "Underwater Scene" effects you used here.
cocacola ftw!

Kael

16 years ago

Double tutorial day?! With 3DS Max??! *Head explodes into candy*

Knappy

16 years ago

So... @ 5:06 on the ancient titles tut... did you lave out the duplicate layer? Did you duplicate or do some adjustment?

Stefan

16 years ago

I think that opening each page in a new tab is way better instead of opening in the same page this way people will get lost very easily! Andrew great tutorials man! The tutorial about 3Ds Max is awesome! You should start make tutorials about 3D max I think that many people will watch your 3D tutorials. You can create 2 sections for tutorials 3Ds Max and AE. And maybe 3D tracking and this way you can show people how to create cool composites, for example how to take a clean plate footage 3D track it and then create in 3Ds Max some CG elements and finally composite all the passes and stuff in After Effects. I think that it will be freaking awesome and you will increase the number of people coming to your site everyday. Anyways that's just a suggestion. Keep up the good work and hopefully you will start to work on some other big film productions, maybe Transformers 3..

who knows

16 years ago

Really nice tuts but does every page have to open in a new window/tab in this site? Little bit annoying.

oras

16 years ago

lolllll am happy today and thest tuts +happyness to me ^^ thx anderew
hop to meet u one day in this live if not so in the next one

David W.

16 years ago

GO Kramer GO!Thanks for keeping us in suspense for so long!

terminatorvf

16 years ago

OMG 2 AT THE SAME TIME!!! YAY!!!

Alex

16 years ago

Two new tutorials? OMG Kramer, you're awesome!!!

Deadhunt(rus)

16 years ago

I want more tutorials 3d max)
Thank you, Andrew! Good word!

peter

16 years ago

thnx. great stuff, again. you are the after effects bob ross, teaching the people the basics of how to make nice looking pictures

killerz

16 years ago

Andrew rocks again...

aviv

16 years ago

I realy thank you for uploading 2 tutorials at ones ^^

Kumar Koirala

16 years ago

Awesome! You did great! Andrew!

Thanks !

SASMHS

16 years ago

Thanks Andrew !

Steve

16 years ago

these are pretty decent! thanks

nitro

16 years ago

I watched the AE tutorial and it's very nice, thanks Andrew. I think I'm gonna use it

David_97

16 years ago

I loved em both.

Can't wait for AE2 and other tuts!
-David

Andrew Kramer

16 years ago

sorry Max, no refunds

MaxStudiosÃ¢â€žÂ¢

16 years ago

Cool!!! But i prefer the ancient tutorial

Loay

16 years ago

Wonderful
Keep It Coming.

Ethan

16 years ago

Amazing !!!

Matthew

16 years ago

Two in one! Once again they both look amazing! Great job Andrew

omer tatlÃ„Â±sÃƒÂ¶z

16 years ago

thanks Andrew

Nuutti

16 years ago

Cool! Two new tutorials. You rock!

Jake The Muss

16 years ago

Great tutorials again.

Thank you

Pablo

16 years ago

you use the coca cola logo, but when you are thirsty you drink pepsi! jajajaj that was a god one!

amazyng the fx of the shadow and the ligth in after, really smart!

thanks andrew! Thanks VC!!!

Pradeep

16 years ago

gr8 stuff.In lost season finale when sayids lover get hit by the car i was like 'i know this stuff' excellent and thanks mate

Phil Lister

16 years ago

Man Andrew, you've done it again!!!! I can't pull myself away from my PC!! lol

Keep 'em coming!!

Mr. Jones

16 years ago

Alex. This is your boss. You're fired. Your last paycheck will come by monday. Bye.

Alex

16 years ago

Awesome! I know what I'll be doing tomorrow instead of working..hahaha

Thanks Andrew!

illd

16 years ago

Nice and really usefull Tutorials. I hope somebody "translates" the Max tutorial to C4D.

IJAHman

16 years ago

Great and useful tutorial...
No tuts to throw

Tulza

16 years ago

So... you r back and full of tips!!
Nice tou have you back again and working... king.
Bye.

sung

16 years ago

do you have any plan to do tutorials on Cinema 4D like you do on Max sometimes?

Steve D

16 years ago

Ive been waiting on this one for a while. Worth every second. Thanks for another great

Russ

16 years ago

Great as always. I'm not a fan of MAX though. I'd rather see the tutorial in Blender.

Diego G.

16 years ago

Tutorial #90! Congratulations man!

slize

16 years ago

awesome, i was waiting for the 2nd final result - tutorial

kr2

16 years ago

thank you baby jesus!!!

mohammed ali

16 years ago

awsome

Shavkat

16 years ago

Thanks a lot Mr.Kramer. 2 tutorials in one day that's pretty awsome.

James price

16 years ago

Cool and the gang.

RemingtonM

16 years ago

Thanks so much Andrew! I've been waiting for these! Now I know how I'm spending my evening

David_97

16 years ago

OMG!!!! I am so happy!

I am going to watch both NOW!
-David

Rafael

16 years ago

Hey guys, I just made the same tut for Cinema 4d
i will post the link when its uploaded.
Thanks for the tuts andrew

Jonathan Rosing

16 years ago

Thanks Andrew, I've been looking forward to these! Keep up the good work.

Djcapox

16 years ago

Yo cool

Charley

16 years ago

I wanna dip

Prodat TV

16 years ago

One is great, but twice is awesome.

Wake up guys Videocopilot is back today!!!

Rafael

16 years ago

AWESOME! Double awesome I mean...

suvil

16 years ago

wow!! diuble bonanza!! thnx andrew

Sascha

16 years ago

Just recorded an own new Tutorial for my Site^^ Then looking on yours an i found some new tutorials too

regards

Sascha

16 years ago

Cool!

Fabian

16 years ago

It's incredible how real those shadows look

Tim

16 years ago

Brilliant!
You've done it again!
I love the Soft lighted titles, they look brilliant.

Owen

16 years ago

2 TUTORIALS IN 1 ONE. OMG YOU ARE AWESOME.

Anthony

16 years ago

Awesome more tutorials, now i have something to learn while i wait for the Action essentials HD and the video blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jan Grohn

16 years ago

surely fun to watch!

connor

16 years ago

Thanks man, ill watch them tonight.

Ziga

16 years ago

You are unbelievable, thanks

Kyle

16 years ago

Awesome Can't wait to see them!

16 years ago

good stuff

Flim By Tim Productions

16 years ago

Another great tutorial your awesome andrew kramer

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