Rockin' AE

May 22nd, 2009

Sometimes it takes an idea to push the limits of After Effects. The title above is created entirely inside of After Effects using the same technique from the recent Ancient Titles tutorial.

I used multiple copies of the radial blur at different lengths to get a realistic shadow falloff. And although the title is not actually true 3D, it really holds up visually.

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Andrew Kramer

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16 years ago

94 Comments

G N K

11 years ago

Please guy, i am a new person here and i want to be getting ae & motion project templates. What do i do to get it? Thanks.

Hot Girl

14 years ago

Andrew I would be cool if you make a tutorial on how to render different passes of an object on 3d max like occlusion, shadosws, highlights and then compose it in after effects, like for eample in your last 3d max tutorial, so we can be able to control color and so on in after effects.

Thanks

Amateur Porn

14 years ago

now??? i love ur work ??? i love all of it.. there is no competition left for you, now you are the best!!

we can see that you work very hard and share a lot with us! thanks for that. i think most very professionals wont share so much like u do for FREE!

keep on doing, i am a fan of all u do!

Adj

14 years ago

Please guy, i am a new person here and i want to be getting ae & motion project templates. What do i do to get it? Thanks.

asser

14 years ago

u r the maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
realy am dreaming for ur show

Jorge

15 years ago

Sense I start with my special effects at after effects I found you are the master for me.
My old 16 years old daughter is doing part time working to advertising-company like a professional, thanks in big part to this tutorial and projects, Thank you very much.
From Portugal.

david

15 years ago

This title reminds me of the Syfy logo.

fred

16 years ago

You r always fresh

dell

16 years ago

cool..thanks 4 the tutorial..

V.C

16 years ago

woow...Awesome...

Murf

16 years ago

wow that is amazing is there a tut for this

andrew Kramer is the closest thing to God since Jesus

Dev

16 years ago

Elite man in earth..well done Andrew

Shane

16 years ago

Amazing

Say hello to my new wallpaper

Harry

16 years ago

Thanks Andrew! You're amazing! Without your tutorials i couldn't make the movie i am planning now! Thanks!

jorge

16 years ago

GRACIAS

lucas

16 years ago

Look what i did with little modifications => http://vfx-proffesional.skyrock.com/photo.html?id_article=2476240477&rev=1

Darrious

16 years ago

I wonder how often Andrew looks at these comments? Will you reply to this one?... I know random, but I couldn't put a comment on every blog post.. or could I?

Ehh, don't wanna be a spammer.

Arshad

16 years ago

Nice Lo0ok

Florian

16 years ago

@ Jussi: You did that 3D in AE only?! Looking good man, how did you do it?

Lord Reinhart

16 years ago

I just want to say after coming here for over a year now, I still laugh my ass off to your video tutorials, so funny, and so awesome, keep it up... *currently laughing at the beginning of the disintegration tutorial*

dle_75

16 years ago

I'm crying with incredible happiness. Thanks my man.

GuruRob

16 years ago

Nice image - liking it.
I took it one step further. By creating a NULL and parenting the centre point of each CC Radial Blur on each Shadow layer to that NULL, you can then animate it and create moving shadows....just like a light is passing overhead.
Looks really realistic too!
I then animated the Ramp start/end point on each of the TITLE layers to match the light movement - the same for the background. Then it looks even more realistic.
Go on, try it!

dilli

16 years ago

thanks

drobins

16 years ago

He wants us to "stay thirsty my friend!"

Andrew, I love the Dos Equis commercials, even the radio commercials make me laugh.

Long live the most interesting man in the world!

Andrew

16 years ago

Andrew, what are the full specs of your PC. Where did you get it, and what was the round about price you paid. I have a budget that should cover something equivalent to yours or more. I need a new computer for school. I am starting my Bachelors Degree in Computer Animation and was wanting a good machine here at home to work with. I sent you guys an email to your info@videocopilot.net and still have not recieved an email back. Please reply to my email.

terminatorvf

16 years ago

lol why did you took off the the 20% off post you posted after this one?

Russ Fairley

16 years ago

Wow! Nice work AK, and nice work Jussi! That clip is pretty awesome!

16 years ago

Andrew Kramer is the most interesting man in the world. After all, he lives vicariously through himself.

Phil

16 years ago

It is really time than adobe create a REAL extrude object in AE. I guess they could trick it, even if this feature have to be very heavy to render.
Great render Andrew.

PhantomLord

16 years ago

Andrew,u are After Effect GOD

josue

16 years ago

Jussi

16 years ago

Here is a little test I built from scratch using the principle of the tutorial:

http://www.jkemppainen.com/index.php?anim=3DTextTesting1

This is again one of Mr. Kramer's ingenious techniques! Thanks!

clancy30

16 years ago

cool tips i can use for photoshop projects thanks.

aidan-paul

16 years ago

very nice. i was wondering if the 3d projection technique would bring it to life a little? but it's text so may not hold up as well?

peterpiper

16 years ago

Thanks, bro!

Shehabart

16 years ago

cool- but the font is amazing

Hiphopjoe

16 years ago

kOoL-e-O!!!!! lol!

u rok man!

Nice work there, not-so-short, very-sweet, and to the point

MELLE

16 years ago

So great that you offer so much free stuff to keep the community beeing happy

personman

16 years ago

I long for the day when we won't need to do ANYTHING in 3DS Max and it'll just be available in AE. That's pretty cool, though.

amer

16 years ago

Awesome*10.... great technique Andrew

Chris

16 years ago

Andrew, you're the AE God.

But really, you're the best of the best. "Thank you"s aren't enough.

Loay

16 years ago

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Wonderful

Tyler

16 years ago

But where's Spider-man?

Tim

16 years ago

Yep, that image looks really good.

It almost looks like a 3d model rendered with Global Illumination. Very realistic and very impressive! Good job.

Fabian

16 years ago

top of the heep !!

Phil

16 years ago

now... i love ur work ... i love all of it.. there is no competition left for you, now you are the best!!

we can see that you work very hard and share a lot with us! thanks for that. i think most very professionals wont share so much like u do for FREE!

keep on doing, i am a fan of all u do!

Voyager

16 years ago

I think with simple expression and few copies we can make it 3D .... Anyway it looks so nice

Lyndon

16 years ago

@ bwoogie. you can animate it to an extent but i think the better question is can ur computer handle it. it takes a long time to render w/ a decent computer even. but yes you can. where there is a will, there is a way.

Thank you andrew, nice job as always!

bwoogie

16 years ago

But can you animate it?

Martin

16 years ago

Nice

DUGG

16 years ago

Nice job with this!

jan.klaas

16 years ago

andew kramer,

i wanna play a game.
if u follow my rules and tips,
u will be able to save ur wife.
go to AE directory and delete it.
then make a egg omlet and trow it on ur face and say cheese

saw IV ''andrew's choice''

David

16 years ago

That is pretty darn cooool.

Conor

16 years ago

hey andrew,
looks class! what text do you use? and where do you get it? well done again!
conor, ireland

Giul Viera

16 years ago

My sample here http://www.vimeo.com/4784368

Thank you so much Andrew

Russ Fairley

16 years ago

I was impressed with how 3D-looking the text was in the ancient titles tutorial, but I'm impressed by how far you took it here. Nice work!

Fanto

16 years ago

Works with vector logos too !

Awesome !

Matthew

16 years ago

WOW! I can't believe you did all that in After Effects

pablo

16 years ago

You always surprise us, good way to do it in after effects, your next step y to put your video blog online. It is always nice to see 3d max tutorials and then figure out how to recreate it in after effects.
Keep with your nice work.

Your friends fron South America

oras

16 years ago

unleash the string of ae

Thorsten M. (tommie12P)

16 years ago

really good work!

The radial blur causes the title to look really 3D

Nick Jernigan

16 years ago

Now lets see some dynamics like the 3dsMax one!

Looks great as always!

Jason

16 years ago

wow nice gonna do the tutorial

Joseph Socorro

16 years ago

Thanks Andrew, you are the best.

Regards from Venezuela

Rafael

16 years ago

Wow---Awesome
and for those interested, I made a quick tutorial on Shadow Renders (Kinda like soft shadows) in Cinema 4d. Check out noisejunkies.net

David W.

16 years ago

Very, very cool! You never stop do you!?

matt

16 years ago

Your wife must hate AE...lol. You never cease to amaze me Andrew

pev

16 years ago

Andrew, BIG THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!

Kroepoe

16 years ago

@ Pablo: He said in the blog that this was created with the same technique as the ancient titles tutorial, so go watch that again (see link in blog post or at the homepage)

IJAHman

16 years ago

yeah! really ROCKS!!!
How about a very short tutorial for this one?
I'm sure there's a little difference from the Ancient Title tutorial. Maybe a new technique or some.. and the way it was set up.
I'm glad to here some response to you...

Pablo

16 years ago

it will be a tutorial for that? PLEASEEEE

Gert Buist

16 years ago

AWESOME!

YOU ROCK

KK kid

16 years ago

can you make a blog of what you think about terminator salvation?

Kevin

16 years ago

Andrew, thanks for this. What if I want to fly-in some titles, as in tut 34. Will I need to change the position of all the Shadow's & titles? How can I make this look great? thanks

ÃƒÂ¶mer tatlÃ„Â±sÃƒÂ¶z

16 years ago

Andrew, thanks again...

Thom

16 years ago

Hum ... I think that you are crazy...
Btw your website rock ...

Thom from France

leith G

16 years ago

looks awesome

Andrew

16 years ago

Very nice Andrew!!!

Tim

16 years ago

Looks good, as usual!

Prodat TV

16 years ago

Hi Mr. Kramer. Looks very impresive
The technique is the base for the creative, thanks for sharing.

Congrats From M??©xico

WaterRocketDude

16 years ago

That's amazing!

Would you even be able to warm up a pizza within AE?

WIll

16 years ago

Kramer, you dog you

brawk

16 years ago

stunning.

Andy Castro

16 years ago

Gangsta..

![0_o]!

Salvador

16 years ago

really nice

Salvador

16 years ago

nice

Allen

16 years ago

Wow that takes forever to render. Looks fantastic, though - I can't wait to see it animated. Gonna setup my machine to render out a camera move overnight and see how it looks in full speed!

Thanks!

Josh M

16 years ago

nice, i didnt think it could be done in AE, but you proved me wrong! i guess anything is possible in AE after all

cro0w

16 years ago

Kramer!!
It is nice tho looks almost the same, its missing a little bit of reflections on bevel or something, but its perfect!
Thank You for Tutorial and the time you spend on them!!
i like you Jokes on the tutorials tho hahahaha

-Sean M.

Jeff

16 years ago

this certainly looks clean. I liked the Ancient Titles tutorial a lot and I think it is one of the most interesting uses of text that I've seen in a long time. Nice job on Star Trek by the way, I waited around to see your credit. Congrats.

Lumbajac

16 years ago

Rock on!

David_97

16 years ago

Awesome! Cool image.
-David

Apple head guy

16 years ago

One day i'll be like you Andrew! all full of rockin! nice work pal

Bjomesphat

16 years ago

Awesome! Looks nearly as good as the 3D max one!