'Payment Plan' Short Online Now

May 17th, 2010

Turn up your speakers and get ready for the 'Payment Plan'. Sam Loya is back again with an epic performance in super wide-screen.

Some people try to qualify their work by saying things like, "we only had $500 to make this" or "The cops came and we only had half the time to shoot".

Well this film had a budget of 80 MILLION dollars and 6 years of filming. It was shot in 3D and we converted it to 2D so it could be watched on a normal monitor.

The goal however, was to make it look like it was shot in one evening...

Watch Short Film Now

Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

15 years ago

510 Comments

Alex

13 years ago

Lol, lame story, but it was hilarious, and the effect was epic.

Keep 'em comming

John Capomolla

13 years ago

Realx People, what Andrew has done,was to demonstrate a type of effect (glass shatter,Matrix style) He wasn't creating a blockbuster movie!!.....All you wanna be's, get off your fat lazy arses and come up with something that is of the same standard as his......Andrew's tutorials have been awesome, and im sure there will be one for this very soon. So dont leave any stupid comments about the acting or the lines or the text....see it for what it is!!
Keep up the awesome work Andrew, Althought,i know youre laughing at the ignorant comments....well done mate!

Cava

13 years ago

-Tomorrow...
-Tomorrow?
-Today

Epic

Arnita Lastra

14 years ago

My brother suggested I may like this web site. He used to be entirely right. This submit actually made my day. You can not consider just how much time I had spent for this information! Thank you!

Jerry

14 years ago

OMG, Chase is just like CitiBank! This happened to me, but the bank wasn't so nice.
Nice work. Very entertaining. Thanks VideoCopilot!

Dobur Vecher

14 years ago

Hi Andrew,

I've been following your work for over 2 years now and these new blog shows that you started making are simply AWESOME! I seriously didn't see that coming.

Keep up the good work and congrats on getting married btw.

Ben

14 years ago

As much as we all love Sam, he looks a little out of his element and a bit uncomfortable in that role, but John was pretty believable as an enforcer. How difficult would it be to create the window breaking straight at the camera then freezing like that as if in real-time?

kathleen sevilla

14 years ago

andrew, your tutorials are great. they helped me alot in school. im married, but i have a huge crush on you haha

Kevin

14 years ago

That was so awesome! LOL.

Movie

14 years ago

If only you had time enough to make a whole featured cinema movie...

You dont have to spend much money, because you can do special effects yourself...

Can you please make a movie?
Even if it lasts 10 minutes or something...

Rich

15 years ago

Looked great and pretty funny for only 35 seconds of actual film.

What camera and what not did you use? I am looking to get something in the next year and your film has a great look to it. Loved the glass effect...would rather seen it happening instead of just the freeze frame...but it was still cool nonetheless.

Eshita

15 years ago

"I can see your face right here......." BAM!!!!
oh sammy you poor thing......!!!
lol....

Rangetogethe

15 years ago

i can see your light ;D

Tyler

15 years ago

Haha I just saw John Jenkinson in a DURALAST commercial!

This video is awesome and I'm stoked for a tutorial.

lucky

15 years ago

small boo boo in t movie...
the expression of t gunmen is different in still matrix scene & the scene b4 it....
btw Luvd t bkgrd score...

Yury

15 years ago

where is the guy from 1:11 at 1:04???

Vincenzo

15 years ago

I loved the time freeze and the humor!

RSA Productions

15 years ago

Nicely done and very funny lol

AslanAmirov

15 years ago

poor Sam...... ;(

Aung Ko Ko

15 years ago

Hello! Andrew.. Everyday I check ur site for this Tutorial.

seshu

15 years ago

hey "AK" I want some clarification... Actually I had seen some pics in this site that hero is running wid some gal holding a bag.. I think u got whoz hero here

...what about that shots???? Are you still working on dat????

Dario Muzykmakyne

15 years ago

HOLA MR. KRAMER!!!!

ES UN FANTÁSTICO CORTO, MUY BIEN REALIZADO Y CON TAN POCO PRESUPUESTO!!!!

SOLO UN DETALLE: LOS CRISTALES DE LOS VEHÍCULOS NO SE QUIEBRAN ASÍ, SE QUIEBRAN EN CUADRITOS!!!! JEJEJE.

SALUDOS DESDE EL DISTRITO FEDERAL, M??XICO!!!!

JOJOJO, WELL... I WANT TO SAY THAT IT´S A GREAT SHORT, GREAT PRODUCTION WITH A SHORT MONEY!!!

ONLY A LITTLE DETAIL: CAR´S GLASSES DOESN´T BREAK LIKE THIS, IT BREAKS LIKE LITTLE SQUARES!!!

ANYWAY U R DA BEST!!!! GRETTINGS FROM MEXICO CITY!!!!!

Jonny

15 years ago

Andrew,

When shall we be blessed with the tutorial for this? We are all in desperation for this as I am sure you are aware.

Keep up the amazing work.

Jonny

RockeoparaEl

15 years ago

Hey man tha was just greaaat!! i was just trying to figure out how to make these time freez scenes. but i only have the theory, now i know you have the practice, and i know you will teach me!! you are the best!!!

From Venezuela

Misael Marcano

My name is khan

15 years ago

till now i had made 72 tut from this site.Now i want that tut ??????Payment Plan??? pls

My name is khan

15 years ago

coooooooooooooool amazing i lilke it.
interesting.
But i want this tutorial AK please i'm waiting 4 it please,please

Rich

15 years ago

Keep up the good work My Kramer - VC is amazing!

chris

15 years ago

Very cool. And I agree that John Jenkinson (Back seat guy) was awesome. Great timing and acting all-around. Hope he shows up more often...

Again, great job.

Tyler Walters

15 years ago

I had a feeling it was going to be something like this after he posted that time freeze thing.

daniel

15 years ago

ooo IT looks nice,and like it beause its different and funny not like the same & the music is godd, i remenber the METAL GEAR SOLID SONG was cool, goood job sam loya i hope you have a double..

Jammin' JJ

15 years ago

The people that thought this was "not that great" are the same people that loved Transformers 2. I, for one, actually have good taste and Payment Plan was well done and FUNNY.

King David

15 years ago

I definitely liked the look and effects but the acting was just horrendous, oh and the sound minus the music was really thin. I guess you really can't have it all when there is no budget involved.

Yann

15 years ago

I'm ok to buy the lexus for $50 if it can help him

David Ellis

15 years ago

It looks green just as if it was shot under flourescent
lights! Amazing! Wait...

Needs a hollow "BONG" sound effect whenever gun hits head.

Other than that it's my favorite film of 2010.

cariaga

15 years ago

whaaaa
that person is so strong lolz

Jumbleofletters

15 years ago

The faces of the actors in the final shot look like 2 dimensional pictures that used camera projection to establish the 3d effect. Kind of overkill since you could've just had them freeze xD But the glass was pretty cool

thefxguy

15 years ago

@JDR22
Video copilot's been to hollywood and back. Have you ever heard of Star Trek '09?

Philip Carrera

15 years ago

Do I hear "oscar nomination?" Hmmmmm??

Dave

15 years ago

Not being funny but it seemed like a lot of work and setting up for a mere 2 mins of film. I mean you have done some work for jj abrams have done tons of great tutorials but i am yet to see any productive film making. I mean even a 20 minute short film using some of the stuff u use in tuts would be interesting. It just seems like soo much equipment and talent that isn't really shown. I may be wrong and you are the special fx artist for star wars etc... but i really want to see an independant film made by yourself.

BAK1TJAN

15 years ago

Maan this is crazy BUT there is something missing which is Sam heats the window of the car and you stopped the shot until here everything is perfect but only thing Sams' head isn't bleeding or cut by glass?!
Anyway again everything is perfect and we will be looking forward tuts of this 3d stuff right?!
From Mongolia
Your team is the best but you more than them lol

Exmachina

15 years ago

I cant wait to see more funny as hell

Alvin

15 years ago

YO! nice short, You need to make new color presets and sounds FX DVD, Hint: maybe the color can work in Premiere.....

Onni Johansson

15 years ago

I like to footage in itself, but this short was a pretty big disappointment for me.
The thing that bothered me most was the predictability of the effect. True, getting the camera to revolve around the actors is tricky, but I'm guessing you could have done better.
The faces just don't look good. Not sold.
Don't take this as a total hatespambashing, I like VC stuff and I've been frequenting the site for half a year, but this one just isn't where it's at in my opinion

Oh, now that I remember to mention it, there was somebody way up who commented something like "Porr glass, wasn't even tempered" which is aactually true!

Never mind, small detail.
(Obviously you don't need tempered glass on a Lexus, since they don't crash.)

Anyway, keep working at the plugins, Optical Flares is becoming a bit like Particular in terms of what you buy with After Effects.
Good job, man!

L.A.V. COMPANY

15 years ago

ANDREW THANK YOU FOR ALL FROM DAGESTAN CITY MAXACHKALA!!!!!

CATBOXFILMS

15 years ago

Wow, John Jenkinson was on fear factor.

Chris

15 years ago

SAM GETTING HIT IN THE HEAD FTW!

Barhom

15 years ago

woooooooooooooow
Frankly I can not write an appropriate comment
Say you are crazy and I want to be just like you Mr.Andrew Kramer
Im sorry to say (crazy)

Waiting for the Tutorial >>>>>

Gidz

15 years ago

Wicked!! Damn it! I wish im good as you Sir Andrew..

Bob_O

15 years ago

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Good on you guys!

Dave

15 years ago

If it wasn't for my dedication to video copilot, i would have stopped watching after the first 15 seconds of text. I did laugh tho.

Honestly, I was expecting something a bit more serious. It's okay to make "dumb" videos because we all can't be Kubrick 100% of the time.

I really want to see you do a serious piece without the "in your face" special effects. The thing that upsets me the most is that fact that everyone (except for a few) is going to want to recreate the SAME EFFECT without shedding an ounce of originality. They will mimic the SAME color temperature, shot scale, camera move, etc... instead of taking the technique and applying it differently to their own scenario.

I apologize for being critical. I've seen sooooooooo many visual FX / cinematography reels that have "Andrew Kramer" tutorial shots flooded throughout. You have been an inspiration to the no budget filmmaking community. I applaud you. However, you have also prevented a lot of filmmakers from being creative on their own.

FINALLY

The glass looked great btw.

*im sure that a few people in the VC community will be a bit upset with me about my criticism. Be unique. http://vimeo.com/7211153

Jason

15 years ago

Now I know what all the VideoCopilot.net income is spent on. BUY AMERICAN!!!

Phantasm

15 years ago

Hah, nice comedy :q

I liked it a lot, it made me laugh. Also I liked this glass effect. Awesome!

Aleksander

15 years ago

Glass breaking ! Literally!

Enitalp

15 years ago

That was great ! It's fun because i've made some similar shot with a canon 7D. and you can see on the pole or on the floor those damn flashing light, Tried to film at different speed and aperture. now way, always strobe. And i saw you have the same problem.

Jack Backet

15 years ago

Just so you don't make the mistake on the tutorial. Your window glass should be tempered.

syaf

15 years ago

its nice to make our own movie huh?? free from comments...free from opinions of others..free from OTHER PEOPLE TASTE...like the comment upper...FREE FROM IT...

tony van cotthem

15 years ago

Uge! I'm wainting for the tutorial, but i will specialy like to learn about the coloring of this scene. Will you make that kind of tuto? or more about the splendid "time remap with glasses"?

I like the scenario and his realisation.

- thanks to answers, a realisator fan from belgium - and yeah belgium is behind you too

dotcom

15 years ago

the good things :
pretty cool mood and actual subject.
nice track invisible
good players pretty good sound.

the not so good to me things :
not fan of the wiggle : use a steadycam, wiggle in post.
not like the greenish colors. more natural should be better.
The bad is bad, but not so stupid and i like bad stupid guys.
Effect far more realistic to me if the bullet time was used with a stop motion blur on his head. the very precise image looks like a pause more than a freeze in time.
How to have a motion blur applied to his head during 3D moves ? nice tut ...
Not fan of the parking why not making it wet like in those funny movies with bad boyz...
Use a GM car, be patriot !

The best movie i've seen from U, hope this is just the beginning, huh well... it has ajready just begun.
cheers and chips,
Aooo !

Justin H

15 years ago

Popcorn was overpriced.. but movie was thrilling. I think I might have wet myself.

HanseCopter

15 years ago

Where is the blood?

Nice work, Mr. Kramer

Darthguy3

15 years ago

This was just the most ridiculous plot I've ever seen, and it freaking rocked! The comedy was great and the effect was epic. The lighting was a tad off in the start though with some too dark shots but all-in-all I had a pretty good laugh of this

Pavel Peterka

15 years ago

Well ive been expecting something like that, after your posts with links at time-freeze

I know how to do this, however i always like your way and the little details that make you so special. Nice one, i was laughing like hell when sam gets punished

And for the junkies messing with the beggining - thats a introduction baby

Joshua JT

15 years ago

Hey! I just saw the guy with the gun in a "Progressive Auto Insurance" commercial lol

roondocks

15 years ago

Nice. Can't wait for the Director's cut.

JhAvIeEr

15 years ago

What an awesome way to break a car's window!

When I saw "Directed by Andrew Kramer" just felt excited because that's what you should do Andrew, movies, I bet you'd do the best movies in history. I just wanna see "Directed by Andrew Kramer" on the big screen some day. Would be amazing. Waiting fr the tutorial, will be so epic!
Forever your fan Andrew, you're the king!

Eric Dietrich

15 years ago

You and your crew are gifted! Truly gifted! Don't know where you find the time to do all this....but it Kick's! Always a fan!

Polar

15 years ago

30$ fee? Ok, I can afford that. What's Sam account? Or maybe I should give it to you, Andrew?

poison

15 years ago

Amazing.. the tutorial must soon be done !!!

Next time, the producers shall allow small fee to get the NAIL extension/replacement for the main actor, for the close up shots on the ignition button.

Jonatas

15 years ago

hoooo MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD , it's amazing
Perfect.
Congratulation VCP

Aftab

15 years ago

I knew it!.... Camera mapping and time freezing effect is living inside you and you are craving to do something like this. Congrats for such an amazing execution.

Cheers,

Aftab
NYC

Sam Mundon

15 years ago

Hi Andrew, love the new short film and can't wait for the tutorial. I was wondering what font is used for the title payment plan. Could you email me the name please. Thanks.

Stephen

15 years ago

This short pretty much describes what it would feel like if a bill collector was to physically come after you. lol. Good one.

rowan

15 years ago

that was genius!!

Peter

15 years ago

I'M surprised! i thought it's going to be some real thiller like movie... but it's better if its funny!
Great Job! And what's the effect you spoke about?

MrScorpion

15 years ago

Wow, i couldn't believe what i have seen

wonderful work and thanx a lot andrew

Arnaldo

15 years ago

muito bom parabens..espetacular o tratamento de cor e o efeito

JackieNP

15 years ago

"80 MILLION dollars and 6 years of filming". Oh my god!
Please add some budget and make the 2nd story.
Awesome! Very cool glass effect.

Alex Wedlake

15 years ago

Im hoping this can be done entirely inside of AE. I very much doubt it though. It would be good to have some Blender 3D tutorials rather than MAX.

Wouter

15 years ago

Wow that's what I call video editing. That looks amazing :O
I hope you guys didn't hurt him too much

bob

15 years ago

awesome stuff. nice grading and fx.
with what camera did you shoot the vid?

+10

MarÃ§al SolÃ©

15 years ago

I love the fade in at the end to the vfx shot. And great sound mix! Too good and too short! If I give you another 80 million would you please make the sequel?

Ishtara

15 years ago

OMG Andrew! That was just too funny - I laughed so much I actually fell of my chair!

Your sense of humour is fabulous! LOL! Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to brighten my day! I really appreciate all the effort you make and how much you give of yourself, your time and your immense talent.

Sam you are too cool! And the new guy - he was brilliant!

Thanks guys!

Luv Ish

michael ghuniem

15 years ago

the noise is horrible , please Andrew make a tutorial on how to remove noise from shots in low light specially DSLR cameras , thought the film was breath taking, amazing work guru , or why don't you make a plug-in....that would be awesome

15 years ago

That was freaking awesome!

Edris Mohammadi

15 years ago

Can???t Wait for the Tutorial and Behind the Scenes !
I love You !

I am Edris Mohammadi from Iran, Sanandaj.

Brain Blasat

15 years ago

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A really really big WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!
i need the tutorial right now...this is making me sick
how did you do that, from that moment i saw sam hit the car window, i knew what would i saw, i knew it, i knew it.
really fantastic Andrew,

MIND Blowinggg!!

make the tutorial now...^^D

joshua

15 years ago

I've found this video this morning, full glass break inside :
http://vimeo.com/9076775

TheSizilian

15 years ago

Maybe one day "The Loya" will rise up and beat the living hell out of Kramer, for always getting tortured in any possible way

Awesome movie !!!!

James T

15 years ago

cheered up my start to the day.

the dialogue is incredible.. so funny

ken

15 years ago

The short was OK, but not sold on the glass break...just a rolled down window with a head through it and a vfx over it. Breaking a car window shatters and spiders and all that stuff. The slowmo pieces I felt were too big even if Sam has a big head.

James T

15 years ago

loooooooooooooooooool.. that killed me!
hhaha

too funny.
from start to finish

"i'll ask the questions"

so funny.. perfect bad acting.

stating the obvious but love the fact that a special effect can be a punchline..
such an over the top effect for such a ridiculous premise

Isaac

15 years ago

Great Job Andrew
Love your tutorials
What was it like working with the red one?
Did you buy it or rent it?

Road

15 years ago

HAHAHA~
good job~!!!!

Serghei

15 years ago

COOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ben

15 years ago

I'm gonna be honest, it wasn't as exciting as it was put out to be. Kind of expected a bit more. Nevertheless, the glass shatter effect at the end looked pretty cool.

Brenton Tuohey

15 years ago

Ha ha you guys have too much time on your hands... MAD

Jim P Meister

15 years ago

All the lights and mood, but NO OPTICAL FLARES ??? You made the damn thing, use it! Oh, sorry- Probably waiting for the 64 bit version. My bad.

JDR22

15 years ago

First of all, good job guys.

May I offer some constructive criticism? Okay, here goes:

- Try to tell your story visually and with dialogue, as opposed to a bunch of title cards.
- The effect at the end, while cool, has been overused and looks very CG. I know it is, but the point should be to make it realistic in the world of your film.

I'm sure you designed this short to demonstrate what you can do with After Effects (and not because you're trying to break into Hollywood), so don't take what I'm saying the wrong way. You succeeded on that level. You have a good visual eye. Also, good performances, especially by the guy in the back seat.

The main thing I want to say to all of you soon-to-be-filmmakers: effects should be there to service the story. Not just because you can. *Lecture Over*

Keep up the good work, Mr. Kramer!

Vaguener

15 years ago

canon 7D, wow

i can't decide 7D or 5D, i'm not rich but i wanna a canon so much. 7D can make nice slow motion because shots in 60fps i'm right? i'm not sure this tutorial is about slow motion or 2d/3d projection.

Marvin

15 years ago

Awesome! Love it! Great work!

Ari Lieb ben Avraham

15 years ago

That was sooooo COOL!!!!!!!!!!! CAN'T WAIT FOR THE TUTORIAL!!!!!!!!!!!! And behind the scenes entertainment

Abner7g

15 years ago

Boy I can wait to see it all. That short was amazing man. I'm working on your tutorials to have that quality in my proyects.

peter

15 years ago

poor sam ! but i dont know why... ilove it

15 years ago

POOR SAM!!

I hope he'll be able to pay them???

The short was really funny. Nice effects and colour correction.

Fun stuff!

israeliDude

15 years ago

I wonder if the glass effect was done with only AE...that would be great to pull off such a thing wih no 3D know-how.
that said, I think the short left much to be desired.

thefxguy

15 years ago

lol he couldn't afford $30?

Diggin the glass shatter, though. Didn't look too hard to pull off (something like the matrix bullet time for the camera motion matchmoved with either the shatter effect or a 3D shatter that was normal mapped, right?), but still looked beast.

I'm guessing the tutorial will be for the shatter and not the color correction, right?

Haplopelma-Lividum

15 years ago

you could extend the joke by increasing the rate of interested due the economic crisis to 1000.000%

Karl

15 years ago

Ok Sam , its not the door , its not a start engine explosion ...already died for it r'member ...
Oooooooook u get it , glass and slowmovZ !
Ak needs a list of how sam didn't die !

WubWub RedOne!

Keep up the good work VCrewZ!

Andre

15 years ago

For all that I know, I would bet there is a childishly simple way to do this without 3d programs and complicated matchmoving... Andrew, you're my hero.

Ed from DC

15 years ago

Wow, really turned up the coolness on your videos, they are only going to get better from here on. great work video copilot team!!!

jdesoto

15 years ago

Some people are so unappreciative! Since when did this become VIDEOFILMCRITIC.NET?

Good job guys! I thought it was hilarious!

QUATRO

15 years ago

LOL!
"But I can see your face right here" *gunslap*
Omg, that part was hilarious xD
And the intro commentary... Priceless xD

Samer2010

15 years ago

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw
NIce Andrew
ا?????? ??????ر بجد شغ?? رائع جدا جدا
ا??ا عارف إ???? ??ش حتف???? ????ا???? ??ا???? عرب?? بس ترج???? ??ش حتخسر حاج??
??????????????????????????????????????????????????

Alex

15 years ago

I've had the actor in the back seat come in and audition for one of my films before. He goes by the name Johnny 3 Nutz (not kidding you), google him and you will find other stuff. The guy was definitely "out there" if you know what I mean...

Greg

15 years ago

a bit dissapointing. it could have been longer, like 5 or 6 minutes, showing what happens next. but great effects

Omar Romero

15 years ago

hahahahaaha!!!!!

"blablabla, punch!, blablablabla, PUNCH!, blablabla RE-PUNCH!!!!"

hahahaha the glass effect rules!!!!

Davide Nuzzi

15 years ago

I've tried to create the effect without the tutorial and this is the result :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmq_FtH0PHw
But I can't wait to see your tutorial, you are awesome, the king of VFX

Roxy

15 years ago

Like it, I Can't wait for the tutorial...
This scattering glass might be a Trapcode Form/Particular effect?

Thanks for the great tutorials mr Kramer as always!

Benimation

15 years ago

enjoyable.

I'm feeling this is going to be very popular; you'll definitely earn back that 80 million dollars, and those 6 years were really worth it.

Well, it really looked like it was shot in one night; mission accomplished.

Karthik

15 years ago

WOO Woooooo its AMAZING AC!

tommyC

15 years ago

I can't wait to see this tutorial about how to make it look like you are hitting someone in the head with a pistol.

paul

15 years ago

Andrew could you explain wich seting you use on the 7D and how you did the color correction.

Kobi67

15 years ago

kool...cant wait to see the tutorial on the flying glasses...

Carrie Copa

15 years ago

Nothing good ever happens in an underground parking lot.

Bobby

15 years ago

I am not sure why people are downing the short film. The hottest thing going right now is camera projection technigues. There are very few tutorials out that how to do it. The short film was a promo for the tutorial that is all. I am sure it was shot in one day. It was not intended to be summitted to Cannes. Having said that if you work for Weta or ILM or you just finished the intro scene to Sherlock Holmes (Great camera projection shot) then maybe you can offer some crticism. Otherwise, the tutorial is FREE and it looks pretty stinkin' cool. Take the training make it better show us a link.

what blows me away is we are filming a promo piece for conference that has a shot with a guy jumping from a 2nd story window and this tutorial is coming along right as we go into post. Amazing!

I dare anyone to point me to a site that is better than this one for AE training. PXPHD.com comes to mind but it costs money. Andrew keep it up the great work. The short film rocks! Can't wait for the tutorial.

AndrÃ©

15 years ago

Awesome! You are the master, Andrew! Teach me!!

Stephen Cordes

15 years ago

It was OK, nice to see Sam getting hit!! Shame the text lasted 40 seconds in.

Naveen

15 years ago

Ha! That was hilarious in so many ways!

w00w00

15 years ago

Dear Dime,

If you care to read my post again you'll see that i'm not saying anyone else made a tutorial about this effect. I'm simply comparing them and telling you what i know about the onesize demo and how i THINK this video is made.

I never said anything bad about this video or even the upcoming tutorial. On the contrary. If you read my last sentence you would've also noticed that i think what Andrew is about to show us will be very exciting and helpful. So again to put it in simple words, NO, i do not need a 20 hour tutorial, this will be more than enough.

Next time, please think before you post such meaningless rants.

Stylz

15 years ago

Damn, what a cool short!!!! i can´t await for a tut which shows the shattered glass effect.
Keep going bro, there´s no better site on the web.

Levar Cooper

15 years ago

LOL!!! I will NEVER overdraw my account again!

Rick

15 years ago

Awesome effect!

Do I sense an image projection tutorial coming up?

JoeyToThaV

15 years ago

Any excuse to beat up Sam, AWESOME!!!!! Props to all you guys, good work!!!

Lucas

15 years ago

WOW ANDREW WOOOW IT WAS hoh it WA OH i KNOW It was like ... like IT WAS.... bad. The effect is not convincing at all and it looks like you've done that in 2 hours. This was really not expected from you, you told us a moth ago that it is gonna be an awesome effect and blah blah blah and finnaly...Nothing really impressive avoiding Sam talking... I'm upset

Max

15 years ago

That was great, really! Hope you will show us soon how to do this effect with AE

Greatings from Germany!

Lukas

15 years ago

I must correct me, it isn't 3d motion tracking is a very advanced 3d camera protection.

Wow!

Dime

15 years ago

Dear, w00w00 did onesize made a tutorial? What Andrew is about to do is show every one how thay do such effect! Did anybody done it before? so what is it you wanna say 'bout his movie is simpler? You need a 20hours tut on how to make it perfect?

vfxworld

15 years ago

well, learn some cinematography. Also I was able to see the streching of the camprojection..
I give this a so-so cause you could have been spending a little more work in planning this film.

Otherwise it's lowbudget standard, thumbs up!

Dave

15 years ago

Andrew...

Awesome effect of Sam getting clocked in the skull with a pistol! Can't wait for the tutorial to learn how to do that! Oh and the broken glass was nice too.

LOL

wasif

15 years ago

he creates such standerds

simply hats off for AK..

u the man...

Ali

15 years ago

Cool effect, it gives me some ideas for some of my projects!!
Keep up the good work!

w00w00

15 years ago

I'm guessing Andrew is trying to show how the following effect was sdone, made by OneSize:

http://www.onesize.nl/projects/FX-JUSTIFIED-promo

Although this video seems to be simpler than the one from onesize.

I'm guessing that in this case the cam just rotate around an empty car, later he added the actors in and masked them out. Also motion tracked the whole thing so 3D glass could be added.

In the demo of onesize they modelled alot the characters / environment, that's why you can see the effect in that movie more.

But nontheless it will be a tutorial with enough, exciting details. I think there's more to it than alot of you guys think.

John

15 years ago

Before the glass breaking, i thought the effect was Sam getting hit by the guy with the gun. LOL

The hits seemed quite strong.Is Sam's brain OK, after that ?

Paul

15 years ago

Sorry just read the 'Thoughtful commenting' statement.

I would love to see the glass ramp from a still scene to possibly a speed of 5% or slower as the film fades out.

Now there's a challenge.

Kai

15 years ago

Nice. Loved the dialog, "I'll ask the questions here", LOL!

Paul

15 years ago

Wow that was really cool - I was anticipating the car exploding. Looked amazing

Dolfke

15 years ago

Pfeewwwww, man.
All things together in this small nice movie.
Dark color preset, 3D bullit effect with that car glass!
The punches on Sam's face with the gun.
The sound is great and timing is perfect.
And a small optical flare on the steer.

Greetz from Antwerp Belgium

Speedbreaker

15 years ago

Nice. I bet both actors are just holding still. I mean it's the easiest way and something like camera mapping would be way too much work for a scene like that.

kamron

15 years ago

Hey Andrew, Good one. the really funny part was sam can afford this expensive car but cant pay 33$. too much. the effect was really cool. only Andrew can make this kind of short film. completely unexpected.

Noha

15 years ago

... I don't get it. why is everyone just freaking out?

The Clip wasn't bad. And I'm really looking forward to the new epic tutorial.

But guys, seriously: why are you freaking out like that? It's just a midly-entertaining shortfilm with a great visual effect. That's all!

Leon Wang

15 years ago

I love the film, but it's too short!! good job, Andrew!

Marcin (POLAND)

15 years ago

great job Andrew. That's was briliant

Well done

Anthony

15 years ago

Simple as: the Best thing going!! haha

I3ear17

15 years ago

I watched it with sound off (at work)so maybe I missed something. It seems odd you would cut to black and slo fade up on an action like the head going through the glass. Didn't hold up without sound. Will have to check again when I get home with sound.

ilBeVi

15 years ago

I'm so curious to see how you did the camera move!
the grading kills it, but I don't mind until you keep beating sam up <3

extrabyte

15 years ago

An absolute riot!

Your too much man.

Nice work.

Thanks as always for your contributions to the creative universe.

Cheers

Tri-State

15 years ago

Guys, if you like it so MUCH, THEN WHY DON'T YOU SEE AN OBVIOUS BUG IN THAT SCENE? LOOK AT SAMS FINGERS DURING THE BREAKING/FREEZE GLASS EFFECT SHOT. iT LOOKS LIKE A MASK OR SMTHG IS CUTTING OFF PARTS OF GLASS FOR A MOMENT.

But otherwise great short, pretty funny and had jokes in a the spirit of Mr Kramer

Can't wait for the tutorial

Fraze

15 years ago

Very nice!!!
I´m hopefull to see the tuturial...

AP Oinonen

15 years ago

Awesome. As always.

Alexander

15 years ago

The story is just epic

Lazy Monkey

15 years ago

Well, it wall effing funny! Also, good camera movement. There was a good deal of suspense in the beginning!

15 years ago

Outstanding...this is EXACTLY what I was looking for, and I eagerly await the tutorial.

frankyframe

15 years ago

the colorgrade is reeeeeealy baaad
always green midtones blueshadow tones and a too much contrast
make it so noisy
thats why it looks like the matrix, but in matrix, they do not use it so extremly

Remix

15 years ago

That was the most idiotic and random short film I have seen in quite a while. Still, I enjoyed it

t20

15 years ago

Can't wait for the tutorial

Chris

15 years ago

that's nice

and what was the camcorder you've filmed? thats look great

Alex

15 years ago

why does everything look like its part of the matrix?

flodaho

15 years ago

cool effect! i love it when the head of the other actor pops up behind sam loya! that was indeed difficult to pull off!

Liam

15 years ago

The only word to describe this is,chuck norris

FloVC

15 years ago

simply amazing! i think that will be probably the coolest tutorial until now!

Jose

15 years ago

Wooow!!!! Very nice. The end was totally unpredictable.

Greetings from San Francisco del Rincon, Guanajuato.

Oleg

15 years ago

Mr. Kramer, Stop beat and hurt Sam! He was hungry! I'll pay for his sandwich! Where to send 2.38 USD

Arnar

15 years ago

THAT was awsome can you do a tutorial PLEASE!!

Sam

15 years ago

Yaaay! Been waiting for this! Cannot wait for the tut!

MFX

15 years ago

Great coloring and mood. And of course great shatter effect.

Mishig

15 years ago

Can't wait for the tutorial!

RicharD83

15 years ago

my God, i gonna wait it, that's awesome!!!

great history LOLz

naani

15 years ago

but how

waitin for tutorial

OlympiaLogger

15 years ago

The glass thingie was real nice and everything, but Jenkinson smacking Sam put me on the floor.

P.S.: If you think you car's IED'd, never close the door (or fasten your seat belt) before you start it. You want to be blown OUT of the vehicle, not blown up IN it.

Oliver

15 years ago

lol, I can see you in the mirror... SMACK!

The last shot looks awesome btw, can't wait to see the tutorial.

Aleksander

15 years ago

Wow Andrew, i love your sacarsm

Earlack

15 years ago

Well, not the worst short at least... Effect is okay, just my 2 cents :
I worked in a garage before and I can tell you, a car glass doesn't break like that, most of the time it's "Sekurit" so it breaks in tiny little pieces that look almost like cubes...
But well, that was a test, eh ?

KorruptKat

15 years ago

The final shot with the glass is very nice, but overall i was rather dissapointed, was kinda looking forward to see something new, but... oh well, still learned a a whole lot from VC, so keep up the great work!

Ruben

15 years ago

hilariousxD im guessing the tut will be about the glass?

lets see if i can figure it out.. so the glass is probably made in 3DSM or C4D after using a 3D layer of the footage, but how did you let the camera turn around Sam with them being in still time, the matrix does it with a lot of cameras making an image sequence, but i dont think you did that here.. ahh we'll see

Phil

15 years ago

Great production value! You can almost see where that 80 million was spent! lol A lot of it must have been spent on string to hold up all of those glass fragments. lol

Phil

john

15 years ago

wooow awesome
waiting for the tutorial

hope to make it soon and show us the fx,the editing,color correction everything in the making

u have a brilliant mind
and its honor to me that i am one of your students

Chad

15 years ago

DAMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!! I LOVED IT!! Dude way to build up the tension, I was like.... oh yeah, we all know its gonna be a car bomb or something!!! GUESS NOT!!! That effect was fantastic, I have been hoping you'd do a tutorial on this effect since I saw your carousal blog. THANKS ANDREW!!!!

Mr. Spy

15 years ago

And you did it again!!!
Great FX, good acting, nice filming, exiting soundtrack!
Keep it up!

VickyTronz

15 years ago

NICE VID !!

I LIKE THE COLOR..

CAN U EXPLAIN WHY CANT WE
???* PAN THE CAM TOWARDS THE GLASS BREAK WITHOUT CUTTING FROM SAM???S FACE ?*???

CAN U EXPLAIN
VID = 9.9/10
NICE

Erwin

15 years ago

Wow that lookes great the red one is a great camera!

Jerry

15 years ago

Awesome short Andrew. man, this time Sam took a beating. I LOVED the shattered glass shot. Awesome! ---Man, those banks can get pretty fierce when you are overdrawn....for me, they took my computer until I paid the bills....but I stopped the paper bills, so I had to pay the bill online....so I didn't get it paid....and they took my first child.....I think he is still being held hostage because I haven't paid the bill yet...I don't know if my child is OK, or even alive....but at least I got a replacement computer so I can watch your tutorials...WOO HOO.......

Eric Hartmann

15 years ago

EPIC is CLEARLY the word!!!!! Awesome short!!!! Definitely need that tutorial about the 3D spin arounds...especially since TNT has been doing that for their commercials lately...SICK!!!!!

Pat

15 years ago

Andrew you forgot to add blood on Sam face Lol
But cool waiting for the tutorial

Mr.Nobody

15 years ago

6 years for a two minute movie?
It was awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Sakamoto

15 years ago

This video provided me with adequate entertainment.

Lucasberg

15 years ago

Red one Epic sensor ?

Steve Bjorck

15 years ago

Is this going to be a tutorial on believing your own hype?

dima popov

15 years ago

cool from Ukraine

Lucas

15 years ago

Way better than Avatar, you guys must have been planing this for years!

Sandor Zoegar

15 years ago

Great. I love the glass effect and the freeze frame dolly pan. You're a great actor Sam.

Rutger

15 years ago

I don't know why some people didn't found this amazing, I sure did! Really nice to hear Sam speaking

And really looking forward to the tutorial and the behind-the-scene's

paul

15 years ago

Imagine what you could do if you applied yourself to something a bit longer ;D

Aalalex

15 years ago

wow!

that is so awesome!

can't wait for a tutorial

greetings from holland!

Brandon

15 years ago

Very funny! Could you introduce more tutorials like this? Thanks Andrew!

P.S. Video Copilot is my ONLY After Effects Website to goto.

Joerg Hoffmeister

15 years ago

You know that a head of a person cannot break a car window!
But a shot through the person for example through his mouth or through his ear would do that work. And Sam would never forget to pay back his money...belief me! With your Effects: Optical Flares and Action Essentials and Bullet Time it would be possible to see a bullet coming out of the face of Sam, breaking the glass of the car and with particular you can see some blood drops flying around Sams face in 3D space to! The only thing the "Repo man" on the backseat of the car has to do is to bang the sound suppressor of his gun into the mouth of Sam and shooting trough the sidewall of the frontlip.
Your upcoming tutorial will be very interesting. I hope the broken glass effect is created with after effects and no 3D stuff like cinema4D or maya.
Nice work Andrew, you do a great job,
Joe Coffee from the APIX-Team germany.

PS: If Sam cannot payback his money you can call the Apix Repo Man... it would be funny looking into Sams face, seeing his reactions when he is thinking about fact or fancy. By the way, we have also real "Repo Dogs!"

Brandon

15 years ago

GREAT!!!!!

Tutorial please!?!?!?!?

Netloader

15 years ago

Congratulations Andrew!! It's wonderful....But I say I can Do a Movie like that with a lower budget.....only 55.35 Million Dollars ....Including TAXES!!

Real_Illusions

15 years ago

Andrew very great short movie, nice effects and camera work. The best scene, "why i cant turn around, caus i dont want to see my face, i cant see your face right here xD

great!

ben

15 years ago

Didnt like it at all

Evan Cloyd

15 years ago

It's so great that you've essentially teased this kind of tutorial for the past month or so with the example videos prior to your own creation, it just creates that much more hype and excitement to learn how to go about doing that kind of illusion and effect. Thank you Andrew Kramer and the VideoCopilot staff for adding to everyone's arsenal of techniques in After Effects. I haven't been this excited for a tutorial since the 3D Building Tutorial, so thank you all very much.

Chris Slowik

15 years ago

@ Ramzan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Gothic

The font is bank gothic

Rogier Colijn

15 years ago

WOW, THAT WAS SHORT! DAAMN

BUT SOO EPIC xD How about a tutorial on the 3d glass effect?

Dee

15 years ago

U are hot this short movie was great Andrew why are you NOT making Movies. Peace D

eBo17

15 years ago

AWESOME! Now where's that tutorial.......!

Mike

15 years ago

Love the plot; ESPECIALLY loved the character development. I feel that we really get to see Sam's character shine and come of age in this piece. Really superbly casted.

And the best part is that the story speaks for itself -- no need to rely on cheesy effects to get the deeper meaning across.

Really well done!

Ubaid

15 years ago

Waoooooooooooooooo..... That was awesome..........

Now........... when exactly are you going to show this...
I mean a new tutorial.....
I am waiting, We all are.

zin_onos

15 years ago

That was awesome! Can't wait for the tutorial!

tony d

15 years ago

lol, i can't believe someone complained about jello cam... please! funny stuff, can't wait for the tut.

VOATfilms

15 years ago

That was amazing! I am waiting for a "longer" short next time!

One question though:
I just saw the trailer of the upcoming J J Abrams movie - Super 8. Did you Andrew have to do anything with it? I saw some pretty cool lens flares in the titles thats why Im asking...

tbp

15 years ago

I am greatle impresst but i think that it's neccessary to add blood!

Oleg Ukrainski

15 years ago

I wanna see this "Glass Breaks" on tutorial!!!Andrew & Team - Thank you so much! Today I studing a Animation, post production & maya stuff in college, but i have a realy good starts from here many years before..

commentator

15 years ago

Spartan is totally right!
I was expecting something great but that was like a text animation. Come on! What was that huh? Also that effect at the end wasnt effective so much. I hope upcoming tutorial would be good.

Daniele

15 years ago

very nice! I want more funny scenes like this one!

Mau

15 years ago

poor Loya

great

Timothy Cross

15 years ago

Hahahaha... Andrew loved it. good stuff.

ps. I have a question, would you take me as an intern if I showed up at your house with a burger and some fries and a mountain dew, with the promise of a burger a week? I have this debate going on with some of my friends saying that you would consider me if I did that.

Anna

15 years ago

Very fun film! I have two questions though. Did he get the sandwich toasted and do you plan to give about $10,000 of the money back? Loved the special effects and believe that you accomplished the goal of making it look like it was done in one night.

ali

15 years ago

was the end done by one camera or did u used several dslr's

Konstantine

15 years ago

Fantastic!I like the picture.I love the sound!Everything is great!

Mygind

15 years ago

Did anyone else notice the lens flares? -Never leave your home without it, it seems like a great tool.

zin_onos

15 years ago

Where did you guys get 80 million dollars???

michael

15 years ago

Really cool. But as much work as Sam does for you Andrew, could you not just loan Sam the money and save his hide?

RadstaR

15 years ago

Sorry, but nothing special :/

Gdesign

15 years ago

Very great last scene with glass pieces. I don't like movements of camera during the scenes outside of car (inside that's very cool) , but it's ONLY my opinion. Great Sam! LOL for the line "I can see your face right here!" LOL!!! Great job guys!

Lukas

15 years ago

Wow, There is much stuff in the movie.
3d motion tracking, optical flares and so on.

Your movies are so humorously. (I cite from the last one: "Directed by Andrew's cat")

^^ Good work

Nameless

15 years ago

We Want MORE!!! WE WANT MORE!!!!

Aung Ko Ko (from Myanmar)

15 years ago

Hi AK! I'm so excited for this tutorial. I so crazy that VFX long long ago.if it effect wasn't make by 'multi cameras'and did it by AE, I'm so thanks to u. Anyway.. u r my god. c u at this tutorial.

Raja.N

15 years ago

hai Andrew,
Iam from india (Andrapradesh), Iam watching u r tuts , it???s very nice & powerfull.plz send some 3dsmax title animation tuts links, and material libarary. plz sir.....iam waiting for u r rply.

thanking u sir.

nameless

15 years ago

its just ok. not impressive. thank you a lot anyway.

1.- i think you filmed the car scene, after that you added the hand and sam's face and the other guy's face.

2.- this stuff tracked in 3D to the window or another point.

3.- masked to the window.

4.- tracking for the glass previously created in 3Ds MAX.

5.- done.

Probably im wrong but i cant see the 3d reflection of the glass to the car's side.

it will be nice if you can make a tutorial of a complete sequence scene like the videos that you uploaded few days ago. for a crime scene for example.

cheers.

Alptonay

15 years ago

Is turkey sandwich really your favorite fast food?

How would be the world without turkey sandwich for you?

Anyway I liked the angles, ligths and the last vfx.. It was cool but head voice might be used instead of texts to explain the before happenings... while getting down the stairs or in elevator with short flashbacks.. bless your hands

Lothian

15 years ago

Sam... you are a such a great actor. Amazing job. the video is, at same time, so simple in the script and so complex in the concept. Congratulations again, Kramer. You have a big fan in Brazil. I hope to see more videos like this, with a funny story and so good tecniques. §

Shavkat

15 years ago

hahahahah LOL Pretty nice ! Sam "I can see you face right here" ))) nice video!

csfs

15 years ago

Great, Andrew! Waiting for tutorial!

Ayb from the philippines

15 years ago

damn, can't watch it...
when i'm playing the video,
it will just play for a few seconds and then...
stop...

Gosh.. I'm so excited...
I've trying to watch the film for so
many times but I can't...

S3B

15 years ago

Hi Andrew

as usual, a lot of humour and very good actors.
every thing is good in your short film except the duration (it's too short

greetings from France and thanks for everything you show us

ps : poor Sam's head

Tom

15 years ago

Hey, that was pretty good, but I honestly think it'd be better with the first minute cut out.

Adnan

15 years ago

Great stuff. Especially the guy with the gun acted outtstandingly. He reminds me of William Daffoe.

zuza

15 years ago

Nice, I am very interested how did you do it,
I know how I would done it but am curious to see how did you do it.

cheers Andrew

Jose

15 years ago

Yes, Yes, Yes, i can´t wait. It´s amaizing.

â“â“¢â“¢â“â“¢â“¢â“˜â“

15 years ago

really awesome waiting for the tut..

Andi

15 years ago

You used a RED...i hate you ; )

Pretty nice short!

Wesley

15 years ago

Very cool man, but the color grading looks a bit too much, dont u think?

Zak

15 years ago

hahahahahahahaha perfect i love it so much

Marcelo

15 years ago

Completely Hilarious!
You rock mate, it's awesome and I can't wait to watching the tutorial!

Now, you shot with RED & 7D cameras and in the first watch I couldn't tell the difference until the final credits.
The difference money wise in between is huge... that means that the 7D is a great piece of equipment for what it cost or I'm such a blind that I couldn't tell the difference?

Once again, you rock !!!

jonnyb.

15 years ago

You're banter is epic... Someone should do a film about your epic banter... Perhaps Peter Jackson would do it justice with a trilogy... A tale of one man's struggle to bring an unusual brand of comedy to the people of Tutorial-Earth... There would be evil henchmen, hideous ghouls and Lisa Kudrow could play the role of your faithful sidekick, Sam Loya!

As for the vid... Well... in REALITY, it is not possible for camera operators to step outside of time and space to continue shooting a suspended animation scene... come on Kramer, what were you thinking?

Tosha

15 years ago

Wow! This short film is really short

Mister T.

15 years ago

Epic, no more to say then that though I would have expected Andrew to sit behind Sam saying: Whassup, Andrew Kramer here and then demanding is turkey sandwich.

Marc M.

15 years ago

hey, in the blog you 've said that it's a shot fort an upcoming tutorial. and you've said that you don't say for what. i think it can be a tutorial for the glass

maybe

Greets from germany

Marten

15 years ago

HAHA thats really cool man. Keep up this kind of stuff

ten

15 years ago

i can't wait...

Becky

15 years ago

Love it, pure comedy especially Sam being hit with the gun, poor Sam

I presume the glass effect is some kind of 'Shatter' effect paused and camera rotated around it. I tried to emulate this with Shatter and it was quite sucessful using the custom camera.

Marco

15 years ago

Ok. Now i know it. You got to much money. A complete Red One System got a price over 20.000 bugs.

But the little short-movie was realy great. Thanks guys

roro

15 years ago

so you did it ! you are a super production's killer. Looks very very nice !

selman ozdemir

15 years ago

awasome

we want tutorial

Joel

15 years ago

Hey, wasup? Andrew Kramer here for VIDEOCOPILOT.NET, and welcome to yet another very exciting, very in-depth, tutorial, and here is what we are gonna be creating! TIME FREEZE! Cant wait for this. And don't change the intro Andrew!

Morty

15 years ago

You are so making a tutorial on the glass pieces

Mr.PeTeR

15 years ago

Just one word.
AWESOME!!!
Breathtaking!!!

Brendon

15 years ago

so you're gonna show us how you did the glass effect, right?

N. Muralidharan

15 years ago

Sam Sam Sam I dont know what the next idea(s) of Andrew.

Good Job. Waiting for the tutorial.

JTP

15 years ago

Who's the dutch guy doing the sound.

Richard (Singapore)

15 years ago

May I ask how do you record the voices? with ur cannon 7D? and the sounds of the car door closes as well as the car engine starting. Pls tell me, I'd like to know! Great epicness always Andrew!
Greetings
Singapore

hmk

15 years ago

its like a need for speed introduction video . very nice

jose

15 years ago

lol.. in reality the glass would not of broken so easily. asides from that... loved the fact that the storyline was so cheese...

shrek 2

15 years ago

It was so stupid! You are so genius!!!
I laughed a lot

Ryan

15 years ago

Haha I knew it was going to be time freeze

cool

neelz

15 years ago

cant wait to see the tutorial on how you model the car around the actors!how many cams and car windows did you need to get this nice final shot?

Teksetta

15 years ago

LOL, loved it. Can't wait for the tutorial that comes with this gem.

Charl

15 years ago

Just Awesome...if der is no still cam used then how on earth did her achive dis...Where is d Tutorial?
Nice one bro.

Olivier-Mauritius

15 years ago

COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL.... That's nice...

Karin

15 years ago

Beautiful to see! Footage, colorcorrection, directing, script, music, soundfx and of course visualfx. You're a very talented man, Mr Kramer! Not the least for the effort put in the whole of making all things come together. You really show your knowledge in the moviemaking business here (and surround yourself with talented people, I guess.) and not only that your task often is working on 750 frames of a movie or commercial?

It's a challenge to get the guy in the backseat to keep "being in charge" of the scene, I think, acting evil and fearsome and still Sam gets away with humorous responses.
Feels, by now, like I know Sam, he is good, pulls off his speaking part in the car! And the backseat-guy, really well casted! Nice appearance, good timing. The fact that there isn't any blood from the window or the gun adds to the homour and enhances the surprise, the shatter effect seems huge. Wasn't expected.
Your intro about the millions and 3d converted to 2d is hilarious!!!
You have such a personal humble style here, sharing everything on videocopilot. This short film (and tutorial to go with it) really adds to the value you created with Videocopilot as a trademark.

Lot's of Love,
Karin, Stockholm.

...and of course, Thonbo, Sam with a side-kick ppt-tutorial? Add a new dimension, wouldn't you say, Andrew?

David

15 years ago

really funny, gorgeous look, ridiculously cool effect.

you're the man.

Timinator

15 years ago

Where's the money? I had to buy Optical Flares from Andrew Kramer.. he has it! lol

Bahaa

15 years ago

Very cool...hoped it was longer than that ..btw the glass is too thick i think .. EPIC

Adam_54

15 years ago

Very cool effect!!

Would have been nice for the camera to continue to pan round it and then see the frame un-freeze and the glass fall to the floor though.

Razarti

15 years ago

Andrew! Please, write a story about how you and your crew made this short. I think it will be extremly interesting article (especially if you would write down about shooting with real camera, how you lighted the scene). Kind of postmortem

Please, please, please!

Guus

15 years ago

Hi Andrew,
It's looking good!
But I think the color correction is a little over the top. In my opinion it would be better if the colors were a bit more natural.
The ending is amazing!

eBo

15 years ago

AWESOME! Who would have guessed you were going to give us what was in the Time Freeze short clips you uploaded earlier... I just kept on wishing I knew how to work on stuff like that... CANT WAIT... VideoCopilot... you're the best!
Best wishes from GHANA

Fotis

15 years ago

YES! This is going to be awesome!!!

Peter

15 years ago

Thank You Andrew & Sam. Fantabulous! Sam was hilarious. But I know he can pull off a serious role too. Hmmm, this is link to The Ledge? Sam considering suicide on top of a tall building? WOW Red One camera.

Greetings from tropical Singapore.

Phil

15 years ago

The thing who does the difference here, is the sense of humor. The synopsis was great, as the scene into the car. Nice sounddesign too.

Anyway, if I could emit one remark, one little thing hurted me : when Sam is going on his car, the food steps sounds are only on the left channel (at least in my headphones). And well, Sam is kind of on the CENTER left of the screen. Nothing serious but that was a bit disturbing.

Otherwise, great movie

Even if we can feel the regression to 2D

karthik

15 years ago

this is awesome!...

Phill

15 years ago

Haha pretty cool and funny stuff!

But car windows don't break like that at all. They shatter into tiny pieces, would have been better slamming his head into a glass door

ChunkyMonkey

15 years ago

Really cool !
Loads of references, no ?
Like the pyramid scheme coming from Topher Welsh's "Maybe I can have a free Ipad" ? Ooops, maybe not...
And the bank charging 30$ for an overdrawn of 2$, sounds like one of Louis CK's.
Really really cool again.
Maybe missing a small ending sentence from Sam !?

Arjan

15 years ago

This was funny! Hollywood should give an Oscar for the best ' Short Film'. I hope you will make sometime a longer film, like 2.20 minutes or more.

Throck

15 years ago

Dear Andrew,

Don't you wish you could go back to before VCP was so popular, and clueless people didn't write ridiculous comments on the message board.

1. He made the movie to demonstrate a technique.

2. YES, there will be a tutorial.

3. Save your cinematic criticism for your community college film festival and stop trying to critique the plot line, you're missing the point.

15 years ago

Aww poor sam

)

nivek

15 years ago

nice little short but i want to see more of sam getting hit in the head by the guy in the back seat - maybe the sequel - sam gets hit on the head on a train and then sam gets hit on the head on a plane

Andru

15 years ago

Epic movie mayn!
The sound effects, movie effects are amazing as always!

''Because i dont want you to see me!''
''But.. i can see you right there!''
EPIC

Michael

15 years ago

Bullet time..... So can it be done in AE?

Cause that was a nice subtle effect

Cleric

15 years ago

Nice glass effect at the end. And it was cool seeing Sam get hit with the gun a few times LOL.

Tom

15 years ago

I had a meeting with my bank manager that went pretty much the same.....

James Twyman

15 years ago

It wasn't bad. Those easily impressed obviously think its the best thing since sliced cheese on sliced bread made into a sliced sandwich, but to be fair i expected more. The effect was incredibly disappointing and was completely out of place within a story like this. The color grading was fantastic though, that green easy look you use is really epic looking. Looking forward to the tutorial anyway as it'l have some amazing techniques as always on video copilot.

Jhon

15 years ago

Awesome... but I want more!

Kshark

15 years ago

Wow!!! Awesome work!!!
Nice effect and I want a tutorial about that.

Thanx again Andrew!!!

Vicky Shah

15 years ago

OUTSTANDING SIR JI.......

Angel

15 years ago

I hope the car window is okay...

Vizion

15 years ago

Sorry but I thought that was freaking hilarious. I don't know if thats what you were going for but that was definitely a great short film.

Mark

15 years ago

WOW!

You guys are amazing - Sam should get his own movie!!
Directed by Mr Kramer, of course

Love the "look" of the film, the humour, wet myself when Sam kept getting hit by the gun and the mirror line lmao

Thank u x

Thonbo

15 years ago

does sam have a twitter account ? need to follow Sam Loya,
cant we get a sidekick tutorial where sams shows us something cool , like a powerpoint tutorial or what ever he is good at, that would be awesome

- "and ill press... edit - duplicate..." my favorite kramer quote

Eduardo

15 years ago

Andrew!
That's aaaaawesome!
You make so cool stuff as usual.
I hope I can make something like that some day.

dante

15 years ago

wow!!!this is totally AWESOMEEE!!!
thanks andrew!!!!!!!!!

dahool23

15 years ago

HAHA... I can see u in the Mirror....
so cool.. no sense but intense.

Tyler

15 years ago

Great job!! That was an amazing short haha
Pretty hilarious

I'm looking forward to the tutorial that comes from this.
You guys always impress me. Keep it up Andrew!

Ahmos

15 years ago

OMG it was EPIC!....

Scyleung

15 years ago

Wow, cant wait to see it in 3D!!! haha it was pretty cool!! quite funny too!!

Emin

15 years ago

great done.

But toooo short. Nice effect and we want a tutorial about that.

vious21

15 years ago

You're the best Andrew. Can't wait for the time-freeze tutorial.

kawa3d

15 years ago

that is wandifl

raj

15 years ago

cool camera and shatter effect

Ryan

15 years ago

J-E-L-L-O

Something useful

Suvir

15 years ago

The TREATMENT to the shot kinda reminds me of the movie
SAW...

Mauricio Alzate

15 years ago

wow I love it, the slow time Excellent!!!

Suvir

15 years ago

I Think Andrew Luvs this Basement car parking...
And also suffocate SAM down there...

Neways gud one Andrew..

wPERRYd

15 years ago

Whoa!!! this effect is what I've been searching for ^_^
can't wait for the tutorial... Hurry up AK

SHERAZ

15 years ago

hahhahaha NICE ONE FUNNy n COOL SAm is a nice actor

Eugene Opperman

15 years ago

Oh poor Sam, never is your day, is it???

*I wonder if there's any turkey in the fridge?

Thonbo

15 years ago

you should have ended the shortfilm with sam doing the demon face at the guy!

Thonbo

15 years ago

so how is this story related to the last tutorial (3D Ledge) ??

Donald

15 years ago

Hey Andrew!
I'm a huge fan of yours man (yeah, obviously :s).
Keep up the community service. And wish you luck.

Here's what I wanted to say. I was watching this Demo for Nero Multimedia Suite 10 on their site and then something felt very familiar. I played it again and then I realized that a bunch of the stuff they did have already been showcased at VideoCopilot.
I just thought you might wanna brag about it in your next Tutorial xD.

http://www.nero.com/enu/video.html?v=n10-demo

Hey man, you make me feel as though nothing can stop you when you really, really wanna do it. I'm sure you have that impact on millions, if not billions, of other viewers of your tuts.

Sincerely,
Donald.
New Delhi,
India.

ray

15 years ago

I smell a 7D convert in the air!!!

Robert

15 years ago

The effect was awesome but the story was not epic

Brad

15 years ago

That was epic! VFX were awesome! Love your sense of humour too

Kenneth R

15 years ago

LOL, good one, nice effect

Next Level Designs

15 years ago

hey andrew, um i just looked through this film again and its reli cool man ... just one question ...look at the very bottom of it ... u know wen u play vhs tapes they kinda blur at the edge, well it that wats happening in the film or was that like an intended effect or sumthing?

josef

15 years ago

very fun^^

but why the color of windows break not same color to another windows???
this is a pic >>> http://www.nepix.net/img/images/19notsame.jpg

Next Level Designs

15 years ago

Sam Drives a lexus thats way cool ... lol ... the car should transform

Vick1138

15 years ago

LMAO was I rolling throughout that thing. Awesome AK

r4y

15 years ago

jajajaja veo tu cara por el retrovisor, muy buena!!!

Abhishek Chaturvedi

15 years ago

awesome stuff andrem,hatts offf

Nik

15 years ago

Holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is gonna be awesome.

Sam Welker

15 years ago

Well done andrew!! I really liked the coloring and the camera works.. The effects were truly amazing... The one thing I saw that I think could be improved is the dialogue, the plot line, the conflict.. There wasn't enough for me to understand it.. I hope my words were helpful! I can't wait to see your interpretation of the projection mapping and such.. Thanks for this great site man!
Your fan and friend
Sam Welker
The PsychoChromatic Enginear!

Mark W

15 years ago

That was pretty hilarious

I thought the glass effect on the end was awesome!! I can't wait for the tutorials!

bob

15 years ago

hay i want to see the tutorial!

William Fong

15 years ago

Huh...Sam didn't die...unexpected. Great camera angles, humor, and effects!

David W.

15 years ago

"But, I can see your face right here" *SMACK*! LOL, that was so cheesy it was brilliant!

Nice glass effect.

goran

15 years ago

Great effects, I always was wondering, how do they make those matrix effects, but now, I think I'm gessing.
I have a question and I hope you answer, Are you making a tutorial of this? Are you gonna sell that tutorial?
I Recommend you to sell it, becuae it's professional work.

Stephen Martin

15 years ago

AK, very cool effect. Was the music created in ProScores?
Can't wait for the tutorial on the glass effect.

Great work!!

SM

GForce

15 years ago

very good. was it rayfire you used ? that bank guy is really ruthles. Oscars for Sam and the guy in the backseat. again wel done.

R-CANE

15 years ago

Good thing Sam didn't get hurt or insulted in this one... oh, he did?

Arise Productions

15 years ago

Nice contrast using a 17 thousand dollar camera and a 1,700 dollar camera. Was the 7D a hotrod camera? Great work and very funny.

Jeffh3962

15 years ago

"But I can see your face right there." SHUTUP, I'm asking the questions here haha. Epic.

bwoogie

15 years ago

Oh my goodness!!! That was amazing! Almost as good as your cat!

mike

15 years ago

really really fantastic work gentlemen. Oddly enough, it looks exactly like a parking garage i filmed in 2 years ago. who knew....

Alyrat

15 years ago

Always a pleasure watching your creations!!!

tmas

15 years ago

hey.......time freeze shot......

i was expecting this one...... whn u showed those time freeze clips in ur blog...
it would be awsome if u made one tutorial on this time
freeze effect.
r u going make it... plz let me know........
anywayz... i waz shocked whn suddenly tht shot came.....awsome...u r amazing.

Jack Daniel Jenkins

15 years ago

This will be an awesome tutorial when it comes out. "How to pistol whip Sam Loya"

HIT HIM AGAIN!!!

Daluz

15 years ago

Seems like i ve seen the second guy somewhere.
Really good actors and its funny but the video is too short.

Jcorrea

15 years ago

Nice movie!!! wait the tutorial

Dino

15 years ago

Very cool!!! AWESOME!!!!
Loved it.....

Brazil

JPerez

15 years ago

Nice car Sam!

What car is that?!

Awsome short, good work guys!

Brian Campbell

15 years ago

Overall I enjoyed the premise.

That said the color grading was a bit over the top, and the 7D's jello-cam effect is hard to ignore in those opening shots.

The glass breaking scene reminded me of the scene from Swordfish when the bomb goes off. While I look forward to the tutorial on this I really would love to see some tutorials on how to better integrate effects shots like this into the footage. The scene seems to awkwardly pause before you move into the glass breaking fly-out. I know this is necessary because you likely used different applications for each shot, but I think it's rather essential to maintaining the sense of temporal continuity in the scene.

Despite my ramblings I still think this is a well-produced short and I look forward to what you'll do with the concept.

NicChap

15 years ago

Red One hey! Nice. Testing it out, or actually own it? On that note the 7D gives pretty sweet results too. Did you find that it takes a while to set up the shots for focus et all?

BTW nice work. Hoping there's more...

danny

15 years ago

haha 80 million dollars and 6 years of production. LOOKS LIKE IT /IRONY!

Awesome short film andrew! I really enjoyed it!

Paul Martinez

15 years ago

Well great, they are stuck in a bullet time effect, he's never gonna get the cash now.

D3FO3

15 years ago

ok. that was frign magnificent work

Christopher Oliver

15 years ago

LOL THAT WAS FUNNY. "but but i can see your face right here....."

Iain

15 years ago

That was cool, but it wasn't really AMAZING. I feel like the credits were twice as long as the movie, which was only like 3 or 4 shots. If that's not what it was, it certainly felt like it. It had one cool effect, and some funny dialog, was it really as MIND BLOWING as everyone says?

herr

15 years ago

Ohhh my goddd, Amazing!!

Taylor C.

15 years ago

well written, well shot, well acted, well played!

Augusto

15 years ago

Tutorial pppppllllllleeeeeeeaaaaaaassssssseeeeeeee!!!!!!!
Great work...., brillant.

Regards from Argentina.

mazart

15 years ago

You guy`s are not HUman...hate it...!!hahah

Hian Battiston

15 years ago

That is an AMAZING short film, I love it!
I also want to say I'm very thankful to Video Copilot and Andrew Cramer, you are helping me a lot with After Effects and I recommend Video Copilot to everyone who wants to learn After Effects.
Thanks very much indeed guys!

Davlet Linares

15 years ago

Masterpiece! XD

Darren

15 years ago

can't wait for part 4!!!!!

Ramzan

15 years ago

Andrew hi, can you tell me, what font do you use for text in your "watch now" payment plan image?

Alex A

15 years ago

YES!!!!!!!!
Time Freeze!!!

Ken

15 years ago

I liked the glass effect...the green color was a little over done. Needs more natural color.

Ahmed Al baker

15 years ago

Liked it ... nice work as always

Dustin

15 years ago

Awesome work! That glass looks so cool and Sam's acting is Oscar worthy! Can"t wait for the tutorial!

Magic

15 years ago

HAHAHA Andrew!!!
what great effect!!! love it.
Auuuch, feel sorry for sam, both did great acting!

sonicballer8888

15 years ago

what was up with all the distortion/wiggle/wobbly effect in the beginning when he was walking to his car?

pavarotti

15 years ago

AWESOME! I want to see the sequel

Bob K

15 years ago

I really hope you used 3DS Max to create the shattered glass ...

Osvaldo_Tampico

15 years ago

I just hope the effect in the next tutorial to be the camera moving one! instead of the glass one! Simply awesome! I think it's called camera mapping!

Ash

15 years ago

Moooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaar

Paul

15 years ago

I knew I would be laughing at this one. Superb!

paul holt

15 years ago

How about another gunman turns up to hassle the first gunman who has not paid his electricity bill and so on and so forth, until the whole car is full of gunman...you could choreograph some funny synchronized gun pointing sequences...all aim at the guy on the left, all aim at the guy on the right, all aim at Sam.....BANG!

BTW when will the tuts 65+ be available on DVD

Kevlar

15 years ago

I'm curious to see what 3d tracker VC decided it use. I know its not a multi-camera bullet time effect because if you look very carefully the muzzle of the gun moves slightly during the camera move.

I like the grading and the sound editing.

walter perrault

15 years ago

That Was Great Andrew Is There A Possible Tutorial i Hope ? also Poor Sam Your Either Blowing Him up, Beating Him up ,or making Him Jump From Tall Buildings, One Of These Days he might Get Even Hmmmm. Thank You So Much Andrew For Shareing Your Talents With The Community And Your Goofy Humor......

Osvaldo_Tampico

15 years ago

Hahahahahaha "The goal however, was to make it look like it was shot in one evening???" Hahahahaha!!! Take that "THE RAVEN" XD

KevinW

15 years ago

Wow that was a really thick window, hehe. And no DOF on the glass

You should add a shot where we get to see the window go smashy-smashy in all it's slow-mo glory

--
Kevin

Adam

15 years ago

Very good , found it quite funny " i can see your face right here " Made ma laugh xD

Good job , love the glass effect

Vin

15 years ago

That was funnier than crap!!! Love the glass thing, I guessed it first!

rimmy

15 years ago

hey i thank you for your tutorials its help me a lot however i would like to shoot some short with you. I live in new jersey, i hope your local.

TylerVisionFilms

15 years ago

Very well done once again Andrew! Be sure and check out our firs short using Action Essentials 2 on Amish Extremist!

www.funny-crap.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAtKwc63eQc

kaine

15 years ago

That was incredibly, been looking for a budget way of creatin an effect like this ever since you posted the examples a few weeks back

Matthew Park

15 years ago

Amazing as usual. Well done.

Eric

15 years ago

TutOrial PLEASE!!!

it looks great!

Ben Whiting

15 years ago

So were going to learn how to turn car headlights on, Right?

drobins10

15 years ago

Who can afford a Lexus for a short, let alone break it's window. SWEET! I hope it wasn't JJ's Lexus, or you got some 'splainin to do.

Jice

15 years ago

That music! Is! Awesome! Next audio collection you do can it have that kinda stuff in it? It reminds me so much of Mass effect 2 and other Grungy Sci Fi stuff and would love to have something like that available to play with.

Ehsan

15 years ago

Kinda cool It was. The Matrix things are always exciting.

let me guess about the effect. you masked the still frame of the guys in the car and put it into the scene and then the camera moves around the empty car while the matrix thing starts.

Well, sorry If I'm not a good guesser!
Ehsan from Mashad, Iran

Nick

15 years ago

sadly that glass effect has been used many many times, the most recent was in a vfs effects reel

Zen

15 years ago

Woh awesome man , I hope you can make a tut for the advanced camera mapping at the end.

Naoto

15 years ago

ahahahha-!! Mr. Andrew!
awesome!!!

loved 1:30

good acting, Mr. Sam!!

Henry

15 years ago

Kinda disappointing???
I still thought it was hilarious though!
Wish it could've been longer.

Phil Winston

15 years ago

Want to help make a real movie? We have no budget either

Leagz

15 years ago

cant wait for part 2 !

Inspire84

15 years ago

PHILLIPS CINEMA anyone? This effect is now going to get over saturated.

mitch

15 years ago

congratulations, is the least expected of you, are the best.

15 years ago

Loved it. Hope Sam isn't to bruised up from getting WHACKED fifty times hahahahaha.

Hakan Zscherpe

15 years ago

Good job. I really like the audio. I don't know if you effected it, but it sounds pretty cool when Sam is in the car. A friend of mine is really into this whole Video Copilot thing like me and since he is watching all the blog vids, I wanted to ask if you could make a little shout out to "paul the canadian guy from honka" It would make me smile and save the day on which I would see it. thx.

Aaron

15 years ago

. . . everyone is talking about the end effect. I loved the build up and release of the starting of the car. Brilliant!

Morten S. Clausen

15 years ago

Not the face through the window! Not the beautiful face!

Geyck

15 years ago

What?! Sam didn't die?!?! I want my money back!

Is this the first time we heard Sam talk? Those gun smacks looked like it hurt.

OveA

15 years ago

So, there will be a tutorial on how to dramatically open car doors? Finally!

elasticmind

15 years ago

hey!

kitchen windows explodes in that way!
car windows doesnt rip and explodes

and then: 2 hits with the gun, a window smash and still no blood on sam head?

mr kramer i want my money back

catboxfilms

15 years ago

on May 17th, 2010 @ 3:28 pm Jeremy said
"my jaw literally dropped when i saw that! i totally didn???t see that coming!"

Haha, me too!

andi

15 years ago

wow! everything 5 stars

Hammam

15 years ago

what can I see.. hurry up with the tutorial anderw !!!

Michael

15 years ago

what shots were shot with the red one?

Aaron

15 years ago

Literally LOL! I think the neighbors are going to call the cops for me disturbing the peace. So over the top, such a cool effect and what a surprise ending!! LOL!! Andrew Kramer is the best. And poor, poor Sam.

Vrumona

15 years ago

NICE Movie!!!
Great special effect

Jacky Liang

15 years ago

woo this is really nice! what font are u guys using? I like it a lot

Matthew Sabia

15 years ago

Andrew I'm not usually the type to say this but that was EPIC!!!!!!! I can't wait for a tutorial on this. I've wanted to do an effect like that forever!

Thank You so much Andrew!

PS: Tell Sam I can bail him out of jail if he needs it

Jon

15 years ago

That was very impressive! Very dramatic and well done.

Epiphonic Media

15 years ago

Where can I get fake guns like that? And if I have one will I get arrested?

Antohne

15 years ago

If only the short actually had an ending. ... unless there is a sequel demonstrating more effects!

Charlie

15 years ago

Hilarious. Looking forward to the tutorials.

AK, it may be my system, but several of the hard sound effects seem unintentionally panned right.

Cheers! Sam rox.

Paul

15 years ago

It could have been "EPIC" as the youngsters say.I think it needed a bit more of Mr.Kramer's humor.But I did like it and also hope there is a sequel.

Austin Witherspoon

15 years ago

I liked the text. I dont know what you guys are talking about.

Fred Cavender

15 years ago

Great short! Thought the color correction was a little harsh but it was really fun and well put together.

Now to get to it... awesome! I was just in the middle of working on a time freeze shot, and was starting to wonder about integrating 3D elements into it (I don't know 3D at all), the rest I have figured out.

So you've answered my call for help, do I call you Batman?

Now I'm just hoping you did this with live action footage and not stills, because that's what I'm going for... (a test if anyone's interested : http://www.vimeo.com/11785629 )

I do hope I can call you Batman... great work! keep it coming!

theMightyThor

15 years ago

SAM Talks? WOW, the things you learn on the internet? is this leading up to a tutorial? i had to watch it twice just to here sam say, "But i can see you right here" hahahah seriously, is that sams first talking part ever?

Azel

15 years ago

well that's good work but I have to admit it's disappointing! I thought you would come with something really great but unfortunately it's not :S Too much text at the beginning for only 1 minute of movie..! hope you guys are going to keep on and do a better one

oh and I don't think the glass effect was really impressive.. it's not looking good enough for me.

Jan Post

15 years ago

HOLY SHIT THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOMELY AWESOME AWESOMENESS

Mike

15 years ago

Wow, this is amazing, it was also really funny! But from noticing past posts on the blog there is going to be a tutorial on that freeze frame glass shatter thing. I'm eager to learn how to do it!

Max Manus

15 years ago

SHORT STOTY, BIG EFFECTS!

liked it

Ryan

15 years ago

I find it strange how you shoved his head through the glass and there wasn't any blood. He got his head smashed through glass and theres not even a wound.

I'm loving the quality. Nice short film.

Iain

15 years ago

Need tut now please. Loved this. Are you doing any more

Adam

15 years ago

lol the bank sent a gunman over $30

Razrox

15 years ago

If you don't make a tutorial on this i think i could. I'm thinking panning shot of car, still shot of the 2 actors animated with.. a few layers to give the 3d effect going around them, then 3d glass tracked over the footage and then it all composted together. That's how i would of done it.

theboss

15 years ago

@ 1:49
try to focus on sam fingers
there is a mistake

but after all nice short movie
i liked the car

Andrew G

15 years ago

@ Ville R.

No Mr. Krammer who runs the best website for video effects and who has realesd products about visual text effects and has worked on many profesinal text based senes for TV. does not no how to keyframe the ocpacity of a text layer so it fades in.

Please will you release your own tetorial so we can all listen to your great wisdom from now on.

/sarcasm

Mauricio

15 years ago

Wait, so... according to the credits it was shot with a RED (ouch!) and a Cannon 7D, so I guess the Matrix effect at the end was achieved by using a photo. Did you use vanishing point for this? Or several 7D one next to the other, set to take a picture at the exact same moment (much like in Matrix)? Or maybe it's a new feature in CS5? What was it???!!!!! You are driving me crazy!!!
By the way, just give Sam an Oscar.

Diane

15 years ago

"I'll ask the questions." LOL! Awesome, Andrew!

Lokman Mouatamid

15 years ago

did you use a RED ONE camera!? WOW!

ps: the video is great, but in my opinion there is a lot of "green color effect" it's cover too much the color of the footage.

Lokman Mouatamid

Heber

15 years ago

MMMMMM...not quite sure if the last shot was the best....I saw Sam´s face a little weird like it was a picture transformed and twisted....

And the glass...I seen better...this was like ninja assassin kind of to plastic...

I expected more from Andrew...

Ricardo

15 years ago

Glass effect looks like the same effect in Philips Cinema video. Good Work!
I don't know but Fringe came to my mind listening that song.
Please Andrew, if you use 3D, please show it in Cinema 4D.
Thank you!!!

Austin Witherspoon

15 years ago

Lol. I loved that. Don' turn around. *wacks with gun* Oww! Why cant I turn around? Because I don't waant you to see my face. But, I can see you here. *points at rear view mirror*

deniroe

15 years ago

woooowwwhohohoho.. AMAZING BRO!

joko muniandy

15 years ago

hi machi..super short da macha..machi sikirama tutorial seiyi okva..neethanda en guru...unnale than inikki enalle after effect na enna nu theriyithu ...rombe thanks da machi ...

p.s : sorry da machi enukku peter(english) teriyaathuda..

ippedikki
un parema visiri(greatest fan)

joko muniandy @ cingkolawan

Ron in Calgary

15 years ago

That is wonderful, I have been waiting for this for awhile ... Andrew, can you do a camera move through the scene as well?

Lukas Stemmler

15 years ago

Epic ! I like the timing with the score !

Canon 7D ? A good one ? I've purchased a Canon Legria HFS 11 but I plan to buy a new, better one in the near future? Recommendable ?

15 years ago

Very cool. I liked it all, except personally I think it would've been nicer without the cut to black right before the effect. I'll still be anxiously awaiting the tutorial!

Diego G

15 years ago

"It was shot in 3D and we converted it to 2D so it could be watched on a normal monitor." HAha good one Andrew!

Hell Capitan

15 years ago

At first I thought you were knocking Sam's strength with the inability to open the car, then I realized it was because he thought it would blow up. First thought was funnier...

CameronCampbell

15 years ago

Ah this is the story of my life, except for the last part, I don't have a Lexus.

Ville R.

15 years ago

Opening titles?
You know... how to fade text in and out? No?

(short-film was good. Like the humour!)

Johntheon

15 years ago

Well that was pants, seriously, no narrative or nothing new, kinda pointless.. disappointed!

itai alter

15 years ago

Cool effect, I always wondered how they hit someone with a Gun and it doesn't hurt

Ruben

15 years ago

WoW!!incredible....great job again Andrew!!grtz

R-CANE

15 years ago

I loved the Optical Flares on the headlights.
I wanna do a short movie about a guy who walks into the living room with a bowl of cereal and then trips over toys his kids left on the floor and his bowl of milk and cereal flies everywhere, just like the glass...can you teach me please??

Gui

15 years ago

Absolutely, the phone cab glass was cheap...

Abe

15 years ago

LMAO, Great job! Screw doing tuts, you should just start doing shorts. I love how everyone assumes your going to give them a tut on this, LMAO.

TheOne

15 years ago

ANDREW!!!!! This is excellent as always. CAN YOU PLEASE DO A SHORT TUT ON EXPORT WORKFLOW?? My footage looks good like this while editing but never after exporting. I export usually QT Animation and do h264 in QTPro. What am I not doing that you are doing. This is so clean and crisp!!

Cadmoescarabeo

15 years ago

jajajajaja lol now where is the tutorial

Jeremy

15 years ago

my jaw literally dropped when i saw that! i totally didn't see that coming!

NAC1

15 years ago

so.. well, its a pretty long intro :d but i love it

btw. it is your car, isn't it?

Grant

15 years ago

So Funny! Look forward to the suspend glass toot!

Jax

15 years ago

The guy in the backseat was really funny. Great comic timing and coverage in the car. I wish there had been like a minute or two more, it seemed to be really picking up speed as a short.

Phillip Modin

15 years ago

The effect was the one starting at 0:45 until 0:50 where you can see the walls have a shimmer/wave effect like when you record with a low quality cellphone camera.

But really, when I saw that the text was still going almost half way through the timeline I was getting disappointed that this was a prank.

The glass freeze effect is similar to the concrete ground blowing up in many of the promos on site. The real trick is getting the camera to revolve around the live action actors.

Good job.

Nick Fury

15 years ago

OMG! I need this tutorial NOW. That's crazy! Greatly done, mr Kramer!

Fernando Vargas

15 years ago

Very, very gooooooodddd!!!!! hahahaha!

Brazil

Jay Scott

15 years ago

WOw Great work man! your so Awesome! Much love from Mississippi!

Wyatt Keel

15 years ago

Looks like someone watches Smallville. Except for that effect looks so much better than the one on Smallville last Friday night

catboxfilms

15 years ago

Spartan, are you kidding me? that was an AWESOME effect! i was in AWE!

mel haynes jr

15 years ago

I hope the tutorial is on how to bang people over the head with a CG gun in AE...that would be amazing.

or...the glass would be pretty sweet too

barney

12 years ago

LOL!!! I too am exited to see the pistol whipping tutorial!

Andrew

15 years ago

Darn, I just opened a Chase bank account two days ago. They were so friendly too.

Tom

15 years ago

Better acted than many episodes of Kojak.

oras

15 years ago

great jop sam specally that face

"i can see your face here why cannt turn around ? o0?"

Luke

15 years ago

Poor window. Wasn't even tempered. Oh well...

catboxfilms

15 years ago

I've watched it three times so far

15 years ago

r u f**ing kiddin me that is the most ridiculously awesome effect ever. I have ssen stuff like that before but never thought there would be a tutorial on it. . . . thanks AK

joshydely

15 years ago

That was AWESOME! you guys should finish this film We Want MOre! haha!

great job again!

Gui

15 years ago

Great short film !!!! I neeeeed this tutorial !!! I love it !! Serie TV Smallville uses it lots of time!!!

(sorry for my frenchy writting :$ )

oras

15 years ago

OMmg Totally amizing man

thats flying glass omg

mmid

15 years ago

AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!

Andrew

15 years ago

Wow that was cool! I've been wondering how they do that effect. Can't wait for the tutorial.

bob

15 years ago

amm it was good!!

ashley staggs

15 years ago

at a guess a 3d tracking program was used on the footage and then in c4d or 3ds max the glass was created with the 3d track, then composited in AE.

Seriously cool. Nice job.

behindvfx

15 years ago

Great production work on the scatter glass matrix effects. I guess this matrix effects will be on the upcoming tutorial.

Good vfx work, Andrew.

- Behindvfx

Will Townsend

15 years ago

Love it, the music, pace. And the buildup!
I wanna create summat like this for media studies.

Izzy

15 years ago

I GOTTA know if there will be a sequel!!!

...does Sam pay them?
...does Sam get revenge?
...does Same escape with a sweet payment plan with a low interest rate?

patrick

15 years ago

Awesome, can't wait for the tutorial

Ben Watson

15 years ago

Awesome. Teach us the color grading, master Kramer.

Thonbo

15 years ago

great work.
what would aftereffects be without you
adobe should pay you...

Moy99

15 years ago

Absolutely epic and hilarious.

Spartan

15 years ago

I'm guessing the effect was the glass

To be honest, it wasn't that great. I thought it would be really good but it was 1 minute of text and 1 minute of decent acting and cheesy lines.

Windrosepics

14 years ago

Post up sucka... lets see the links to all the spectacular films you have created that contain amazing acting and riveting lines...

Andrew... dude... that Sam guy is Oscar Quality don't know how you afford to have him in all your shorts..... Oh Geez... I mean... not that you guys are.... or that Sam wears your.... errmmmm... nice work!!!

oras

15 years ago

am here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nick

15 years ago

awesome effect at the end. wish the story could have been better. and the cinematography.

Chad

15 years ago

I can't wait to see how you pulled off the glass effect, could be useful for some matrix type stuff

nino

15 years ago

i saw that one coming

Brandon Sirota

15 years ago

I really loved it !!!

Samuel

15 years ago

Wow!!! this short is sooooo cool !
Really nice work , I can't wait to see the tutorial.

Brennan

15 years ago

If there were a word to describe just how awesome this is, it just wouldn't be enough to describe just how awesome this is. I'm so stoked for your next tutorial!

catboxfilms

15 years ago

Awesome! so cool cant wait for the tutorial

Brandon Sirota

15 years ago

First one but i think it was a good short not incredible but i still enjoyed it . I cant wait for the tutorial...

Thomas

15 years ago

that happened to me once. jk, that was good.

R.A. Elliott

15 years ago

Brilliantly done.