NEW TUTORIAL: Animating a Still

June 2nd, 2010

In this tutorial inject life into a still image by creating a 3d-looking camera movement and animate the movement of the smoke. We will also add realistic camera jitter and simulate a rack focus with dirt on the lens.

This tutorial was based on this recent test video that everyone seemed interested in so I put together this tutorial with all of my findings. Enjoy!

Watch Tutorial

Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

15 years ago

185 Comments

Dorze from Ethiopia

15 years ago

Thanks for the videos about After Effects. I was outsourcing some of this stuff before. This has helped me out a lot!!!

Sandr0G

15 years ago

THX! You are amazing!

Gee

15 years ago

Astonishing!!

Thank you for the great tutorial!

nixar kan

15 years ago

gr8.............thx

James Cawley

15 years ago

Here is some free hand-held tracking, download the AEP, it's all attached to the NULL object. Just pick whip and use.

http://ridgelinecreative.com/blog

Tracked from a Canon 7D with a 50mm lens. Moderate movement.

Merci

15 years ago

This one is amazing Andrew. The render is so realistic!

Lenin

15 years ago

thanks Andrew! its amazing!!!

Ben

15 years ago

PLs make a mocha tutorial

Great tut

gopal

15 years ago

greet tutorial but
just see this add http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1LoJt7IZw&feature=related
how to make this advertisement pls think

Kurt Vachon

15 years ago

Awesome Tutorial Andrew!

This is the first one I can say I've had almost 100% success in learning and executing. Here's my result if you're interested....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHFQrn2R54

Jonathan

15 years ago

Hey Andrew !! really cool tutorial, thanks for everything, and if i'm not mistaken, i saw that you're working on a new product....am i right? when you went to apply Optical Flares in the video Copilot section of EFFECTS, i saw DRAGON or something.... can we know what's that about? ok, thanks for everything Andrew, you rock !! greeting from Argentina !

CATBOXFILMS

15 years ago

you should've at least tried to pronounce it correctly! Eyjafjallajökull

personman

15 years ago

Video not found: http://video9.videocopilot.net/efc5e19e65fe9ca2cbd9818d45ac92a1/videotutorials/106-Animating_a_Still/data/tutorial.flv
:*(

Andy Pirog

15 years ago

Ah Andrew... im still here since very beggining tutorials.
Must say you made a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE leap in AE tech.
This tuts are godly amazing, Your progress is stunning.
Keep good work

and MOOOOORE tuts

Abhu

15 years ago

this is cool
off topic:
Me and my friends just recently entered a video
contest and need lots of views to make it to the top
five. We would appreciate if you gave our video a watch, thanks.
ps: don't watch the other videos it's based on views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7lEAnQQSzc&feature=player_embedded

Mac

15 years ago

Hi, good stuff. A while ago I did a 2d to 3d in AE. What I did is modelled a heart in Zbrush and then rendered and composited in PS with multiple passes to give it a real look. The heart was then totally 2d. Then in AE I dropped the 2d render into the comp and used the depth map (of the same model, grabbed from zbrush) to control the blur amount in z-space, thereby simulating a DOF effect on a 2d image (actually, used the same map for the blur effect on the particles). Have a look here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIiZ3tOMKP4

There is no DOF enabled here.

cariaga

15 years ago

AE + VC + AK = WOW

Mario Shamhon

15 years ago

Hey andrew a friend of mine is attempting this tutorial its coming out great. BTW how do you keep coming up with ideas for new tutorials

Tav Flett

15 years ago

Howdy,
Thanks for all the help, seriously digging the turorials, especially the bits when you abuse the fat guy.
Keep it up!
Tav

Tav Flett

15 years ago

Howdy,
Quick hello and thanks for all the help, seriously digging the tutorials, especially the bits when you abuse the fat guy.
Keep it up!

ZyNTaX

15 years ago

Here is a clip i made using this tutorial:

http://www.vimeo.com/12468812

Harry Allen

15 years ago

I'm having issues with the paralax effect. I'm using CS5 (not that I believe that is part of the issue). I can adjust the first two corners for the effect, but when I move ahead in the scene 4 seconds and hit reset and attempt to move the two corners opposite of the ones I modified there is no change made in the animation. The animation is applied to the first 5 frames or so, but not from keyframe to keyframe... I love your tutorials, and this is the only issue I have ever faced. I thank you for all the work you do!

Ilkka

15 years ago

Nice tutorial, could you try making tutorial about creating glowing sand effect like in Prince of Persia sands of time movie? That would be awesome!

Emanuel

15 years ago

I dreamed I met you, we greeted and talked for a while but rarely because they speak the same language.

Thanks for your tutorials.

actually read all the comments?

Greetings from Argentina.

Deep Biswas

15 years ago

Hi Andrew, Gopal is right, you have to reply to this message. The video is here, the Ultra Tech Cement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1LoJt7IZw&feature=related . I had last watched this ad, may be some 3-4 years back, and ever since then i was wondering about the technique that might have been used in making this wonderful ad. At least tell us something about this.

"Sorry for my bad English"

gopal

15 years ago

greet tutorial but
just see this add http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1LoJt7IZw&feature=related
how to make this advertisement pls think

Shaun Brackett

15 years ago

That is RAD! Yup, I just said rad, its just that cool! I can make some great use out of this. Thanks Andrew!

Amr Assem

15 years ago

Andrew .. You Are The Master Of GFX .. God Blessed You For Your Sharing Knowledge with others ..

Iaenic

15 years ago

I don't suppose any of those tools you are working on are a GPU-accelerated fractal frame plugin, or a true 3D beam plugin?

15 years ago

Hi there!
Really nice tutorial.

this is my approach.
http://www.vimeo.com/12425234

I used my own lensflare project instead of OF.
You can download it at www.the-pi.de.
Feedback appreciated.

So long, Pi

yosefanan

15 years ago

thanx Andrew

you just make a great job

I have a question ...

What is the Dragon Filter that you made ???!?

it's in VideoCopilot Filters

Matthew Sabia

15 years ago

Hey Andrew thank you so much I needed an affect like this to make a camera move for my new Burning Building video!

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_iwdv2kpuk&feature=related

Thanks

Pawanvir

15 years ago

Love the Andrew's humour and Pro quality tutorials for no penny. due to final handheld camera shake parallax effect is loosing its space. but who knows it might happen also in real shot too haha great tutorial, Thanks.

ignacio

15 years ago

that was just....awesome :O

Vijesh Rajan

15 years ago

Amazing tutorial - applied this theory to a montage of stock images. Here's the result - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-2gy_LZWi8

Sam

15 years ago

@Deep Biswas. Very good!

Thanks for the tut, Andrew. Really awesome!

Jeff Hanel

15 years ago

Great Tutorial! This is my first ever attempt of animating a still. Its not much, but I hope it will only get better with practice. Thank you Andrew Kramer! You Rock!

http://www.vimeo.com/12376838

Jordan

15 years ago

i love you tutorials andrew your a natural at this type of stuff and deserve to be were you are and you are the only person i've ever known so good on all the adobe products youre amazing but just one thought which after effects do you use in this tutorial is it cs5 ??????

Jordan

15 years ago

i love your tutorials there the best you can get for adobe and photoshop and whatever else you use one question which adobe do you use in this tutorial???? is it cs5

clancy30

15 years ago

frozen crossing 2 is out check it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a08ViuvORRM

Mario Shamhon

15 years ago

This tutorial comes in pretty handy, because I'm currently creating tv bumpers for my school

Tom

15 years ago

That Parallax effect was disturbingly easy!

impszi

15 years ago

woaw that's so cool

Sascha

15 years ago

Awesome Tut ...!!

Here's my Volcano:
http://www.luegner.ch/fxphd/Eyjafjallajokull.mov

Keep up the Good work, Andrew & Team
Greets from Zuerich, Switzerland

Fraze

15 years ago

What do you use this for?

Rodrigo MariÃ³n

15 years ago

Hey andrew, thnx so much for this tutorial, I've been making a lot of shorts recently and this tutorial saved my life trust me. Thank you and please, keep on making tutorials more often

Cheers from a Spanish guy living in Vienna (Austria)

Olivier-Mauritius

15 years ago

OOOHHH cool.... But I'm waiting for the tutorial promised with the short film you did...

Jhon

15 years ago

Great job, man!

As always, you're the best...
Cheers, from Argentina

Deep Biswas

15 years ago

Hi, the other day few of my friends visited an old scary palace in India. He took a few snaps over there. i have created a small video combining many photos together, making it wider and animating using the same technique as here. the corner pin. there were no cameras used.i have used action essentials dust, optical flares and zaxwerks 3d flags as well. and yes the sound is from one of your projects- Payment Plan. Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial and your tips. Here is the video:
http://vimeo.com/12323150

Shan Ali Shah

15 years ago

nice tutorial thanks from pakistan

Diego G

15 years ago

Talking about bombs (see above)...
Andrew wouldn't it be a good idea to make a tutorial about making (fakes) nuclear explosions? Or something like that perhaps? That'd be nice, I think...
But well, you're make the tutorials, so you choose

rahat

15 years ago

sorry, i didn't give u my youtube link.its here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-s0aZaRwds

rahat

15 years ago

i can't think after effects without u. u r a ...what can i say....u r a mega star!!! we love u Andrew. ok, i have uploaded an animation in youtube Named "perfume". I've made it with the help of ur two tutorials. if u watch,i'll feel honored. plz plz watch it.u r also in my facebook friend list.

rahat

15 years ago

Andrew,
I feel jealous about u.dont know how many peoples like u, i am one of them.u r a megastar.god bless u nd long live u.although i've uploaded an animation,named "perfume" with d help of ur two tutorials.if u watch i'll feel honored. Again i love u nd jealous u.

tilen

15 years ago

Could you do your next tutorial on a MARVEL like intro???
and is it hard to make animated films?

NAVEEN

15 years ago

Hey Andrew ......
Iam Naveen ....
Please call me this is my no: 09633620627
I have many doubts in AE.........

butliere

15 years ago

andrew you are tha bomb...

MehranCG

15 years ago

that's very very Cool . you are very Best ANDREW

wissam

15 years ago

thank you master
very gooooooooooood one!
I think that was {afterburn}

ayal

15 years ago

really cool tutorial anything you do just look so real!!
i took the idea and tried to make a kind of bullet time or a freeze frame effect inspired by your technique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJ65th3DSM

lucien

15 years ago

@ mr roper. Do you mean something like this?http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2008/07/breaking-free-news-templates/
You can just find it in blog/projectfiles, it was under your nose haha

Larry V

15 years ago

Hey! Just wanted to say thank you for doing this. You're very creative on your solutions and it was a slick tutorial. Thanks again.

Bryan Thomas

15 years ago

I agree with Marçal Solé...

Keep doing ya thang, Anderw! And to me this is one of your best tuts (although there's about 50 runner-ups from ya!!).

Great stinkin' job, man!

Nate

15 years ago

Ok fantastic tut as usual! But I have a question, when you twirled down your plugings to pick Optical Flares I saw another one on the twirl down menu that was called 'Dragon'.
What was that?

Chaosblare

15 years ago

kudos on another great tut

Real Illusions

15 years ago

Great Tutorial Andrew as usual.
It would be great, if you make a little Tutorial from the "Onesize: Playground Titles", with the fight sceen.

Greez

B!zzy

lurv10

15 years ago

OMG coooooooooooool.
but what happend to the glass that breaks tutorial.

Ayb from the Philippines

15 years ago

What the heck is that Dragon plug in doing in VIDEOCOPILOT slot in the EFFECTS? Whoa! Pretty exciting. But, hey! What happen to the QUICK MATTE Effect? Anyway, thank you so much for the tutorial AK... More power...

Girum

15 years ago

Hi Andrew am from Ethiopia
Am working on project exactly like this and expect this tut what a coincidence tnx man keep tut as teach
If u got any break u should have to visit Ethiopia we really worship u

nipper

15 years ago

it's so cool ,but i just have aecs4 how can i get aecs5

Nikolas

15 years ago

Man you are the VFX Man...I'm so glad to study in the Andrew Kramer's VFX college!
Regards from Colombia Man!

Luke Neumann

15 years ago

"My comment/suggestion would be to add at helicopter sound that is not in motion. When I watch the video and hear the doppler effect of the helicopter and I???m watching a stationary camera position it seems out of place."

Please don't post such garbage. When someone gives you access to tips and tricks that are used in the industry for FREE...please, please, please, please, don't give in to the urge to critique his work. I don't want people like you to be the reason Mr. Kramer ends up deciding to charge for his tutorials.

Sorry for the rant...the comment just seemed out of line for so many reasons.

"Hey, Michaelangelo, I like the Sistine Chapel, but I just don't know if I agree with that old guy and the younger guys' fingers touching...can we change that maybe??"

Mr. Roper

15 years ago

Hey Andrew, Im trying to create a news marquee kinda like bloomberg or cnn. Any suggestions?

D3FO3

15 years ago

Your like some kind of hurricane of creativity. Hurricane Andrew and Typhoon Sam. Sam is a typhoon of inspiration.

Jon

15 years ago

Very nice. I would like to see more of this type of tut. Many times all I have to work with is stills, this type of tut has lots of usage possibilities. For what it is, it looks better than many "end of the world" movie fx, less is more, again.
Thanks!

hmk

15 years ago

exuse me i meant from outside to inside XD thx hope you answer me

hmk

15 years ago

hey andrew a have a question about the trapcode particular plugin for cs4 ; could we invert the emission of particles
and transform it from inside to ouside

thx i need this ;p

Nic

15 years ago

That picture almost looks like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in the infra-red spectrum...

How hard would it be to do the opposite of this tutorial and make a still out of an animation?

Yamil

15 years ago

Thanks again for this nice tutorial but PLEASE don't forget about the tutorial of Sam crashing the car's window. For a long time I've been looking to do that same effect of the glass shatter in AE and 3dmax.

Jack

15 years ago

thx for the amazing tutorial as always. this has helped me a lot learn more about using after effects to it full thx again

Antonio

15 years ago

Big big big Andrew!!!

wolaem

15 years ago

Hi Andrew !
Thanks from Munich in Bavaria

Mike

15 years ago

Great tips. Things I never would have thought of. I'm definitely purchasing Optical Flares just too keep you guys happy and continue this wonderful site.

NathanObrien

15 years ago

I Second the comment what was the Dragon Plug in??

Awesome Tut works great

racketen

15 years ago

More distortion. thanks AK.

Is that dragon pluggin somthing new? I noticed it in the tutorial?

H.S MOVIE

15 years ago

hey

, nice technique.

Dwaine Vassell

15 years ago

Oh yeah, I did notice that Dragon pluggin. Sounds like a new product from Video Copilet>?

Lol~!

Ã¶mer tatlÄ±sÃ¶z

15 years ago

thanks Andrew

Jeff Wyatt

15 years ago

Visually looks amazing and I look forward to watching the tutorial. My comment/suggestion would be to add at helicopter sound that is not in motion. When I watch the video and hear the doppler effect of the helicopter and I'm watching a stationary camera position it seems out of place.

Jan Post

15 years ago

"What's in the box" is a great movie.

the tutorial is great. after watching it i can't believe how simple it is to make such an awesome footage from a still. i just need the right effects lol

hmk

15 years ago

hey andrew take a look at this : you won't sleep with it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4

GREAT JOB

-hmk-

Ari Lieb

15 years ago

When I try to use the stamp tool, I did EVERYTHING you said to do, same mouse and keyboard controls, same everything, but it just copies/paints the picture over. I am using CS3 is that why?

Cam

15 years ago

Hi Andrew,

It's good to hear about the suite of 3 tools being released.... Is one of these QuickMatte? It'd be nice to see it released before I'm 40 (I'm 15 now...)

Anyway, thanks for the little bit of info about "Dragon"... I'll expect a launch date soon... Haha...

Thanks from the UK,

.:Cam:.

euclid

15 years ago

Thanks for the paralax effect. Simple in fact ...
Waiting for Dragon ...
Hurry up Andrew! We can't wait

Euclid

Rutger

15 years ago

Can't wait (I have said that before, didn't I?) to watch your new tutorial, looks like another cool one!

Felix

15 years ago

@Andrew:
"the plug-in does not have to do with dragons, although it would be cool if it did."
Sounds like the last statement from Iron Man ("I'm not the hero type! Cause that would be erroneous and ... fantastic")

greetings from Germany

Patrick M

15 years ago

Yes mate!As usual awesome tut!Lemme know if you are ever in Ireland (as if lol) Anyway thanks for all the great resources Andrew!Very much appreciated xD

ç¦å±±è‹±ä¼šè©±

15 years ago

as always another great tutorial, much thanks.

15 years ago

EPIC! Really helped in bringing more techniques to this process. Excellent work.

Stefan

15 years ago

Hey Andrew,
thanks for the tutorial. I was hoping you would come out with "animating a still" after watching the recent test video.

Very excited to hear more about this "Dragon" plug-in you are keeping under wraps.

Stefan

Stefan

15 years ago

Great tutorial! I noticed that you have some new plugins when you were appying optical flares, what about them?

Bahaa

15 years ago

Thank, great Tutorial!
What about telling us what the 3 new tools are ?

Vicky Shah

15 years ago

Hi Sir,

This Awesome but, if u make a tutorial for blast smoke than it is good...

Good work...great

Daniel Broadway

15 years ago

Pure speculation on my part, but Dragon could be related to a 2D fluid simulator such as Turbulence2D for creating fire and smoke. Dragon = fire. Of course, I'm probably wrong, but it's fun to guess.

aren

15 years ago

Thanks for this one. Can do alot of nice looking work with these tips. Again, thank you Andrew

NASIM

15 years ago

HEY, CAN YOU DO A TUTORIAL ABOUT (HOW TO REMOVE WIRE IN LIVE FOOTAGE) IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.

YOU ARE MY HERO (ANDREW)
I THING YOU WORK WITH JJ Abrams IN HIS NEW MOVIE (SUPER 8). ISN'T IT <

woan

15 years ago

Great!!
Awesome Andrew^^

Phil

15 years ago

I'm really wondering what technique you've used... because the result was so convincing... I'm going to watch that now

Andrew Kramer

15 years ago

@Dragon: The "Dragon" Plug-in is one of 3 new tools we are developing at Video Copilot. Dragon is a codename only and the plug-in does not have to do with dragons, although it would be cool if it did.

Gene

15 years ago

I'm guessing that it summons a REAL dragon out of that volcano. It's a plugin you can only use once.

DOBLED7G7TS

15 years ago

VERY WELL DONE ANDREW! that was awesome ...

Did anyone else notice "DRAGON" under plug-ins?

ANDREW FARRIS

15 years ago

I couldnt help but Notice the "Dragon" Plugin? What is that?

Esteban

15 years ago

Andrew, thanks for you tutorials! all awesome! I learned a lot from you. thanks again!

Sean B

15 years ago

Awesome tutorial! You have helped me so much in grasping the beast of a program that is After Effects

Timothy Cross

15 years ago

Brilliant. your work is awesome as always Andrew!

Salomon

15 years ago

Thank you Andrew this is very amazing! I'm already happy for the others tutorials who are comnig but this on is realy awesome.

Robin Pedraja

15 years ago

es interesante pero todavia se ve que es mentira

Qaiser

15 years ago

gr8......
wonderfulll

Roy

15 years ago

Hey Andrew,
Again a awesome tutorial you made there.
But I wonder what the recommendations are for a image to become 3d like that, cause I suppose its not achievable with each image.

Thnx!

-Roy-

kadeer

15 years ago

i tink i am in love with Mr. Kramer!!!

thank you so much for da tuts!!

reinou

15 years ago

the shaking tips is awesome!!!
great one, Mr. Kramer!

SXVBAKA

15 years ago

cool
make a 3d tutorial,are the best

Mishig

15 years ago

Thank you very much AK. One question: When will be tutorial showing techniques of Payment Plan.

Andrew Kramer

15 years ago

@Kristinn: You can check out the free After Effects Basic Training:
http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

goran

15 years ago

I didn't saw that tutorial coming. it's the 106 tutorial, you work hard, that's because you love what you make, right?

Amit Sharma

15 years ago

YES YES YES YES YES!

Kristinn

15 years ago

hey, can you guys make a basic tutorial, where you can find this and that and so on

that would be a huge help

btw, I'm from Iceland...

Markis Gallashaw

15 years ago

Thank You so so much!!! I watched your sample video from the original volcano blog post over and over to attempt the same result on my own [no es tan buena] - Lets just say I needed this tutorial

I really appreciate it!

Nawaz Alamgir

15 years ago

u rock - Thank you Andrew For Great Tutorials !

Akash verma

15 years ago

once again . Thank you so much Andrew !!

Allen Zayden

15 years ago

Nice Andrew, we all thank you! When will the glass shatter camera projection tutorial from the short film you made earlier this month come out?

15 years ago

Awesome! The parallax tip is phenomenal, and so simple!
Looks great! Was that CS5?

Brett Perry

15 years ago

Very cool effect. What do you think about substituting Particular 2.0 for Particle World, the advantage being the dust particles could interact with the comp light and the flare adding even more realism to the scene?

Mohamed Zakzouk

15 years ago

great Andrew I'll watch it NOW

Hussain

15 years ago

Very nice and very informative also great
touch of realism.
Very nice Andrew.

Best Whishes
Muhammad Hussain
Pakistan

Ryan

15 years ago

can i ask why your not using AAE CS5 please??

thanks

youssef sarhan

15 years ago

I did something similar to this before!

http://vimeo.com/8702380

between 0:00-0:06

-

i gotta say, this is a much nicer result andrew made

Stephen Barrante

15 years ago

Really enjoyed that Andrew. Great job.

alex

15 years ago

Thank you Andrew!!!
You take the time off to spend time with us.

Sergio

15 years ago

Incredible! I don`t have words. Amazing!!!. Thank you Andrew.

Gene

15 years ago

Yeah yeah, great tut as always. Love the smoke, love the liquify explanations, love the flares -> So what's "Dragon"?

You can't just go and name a plugin "Dragon" and expect patience.

Fabiano

15 years ago

That's amazing Andrew.

What can you tell us about the Video Copilot's Dragon Plugin?

Brandon Sirota

15 years ago

Great! could you please post the file?

Gert Brouwer

15 years ago

The adding of a natural movement is excellent. Thanx for all the tips.

Thijs

15 years ago

Nice

Thanks AK!

Dustin

15 years ago

Awesome! Going to watch right now!

Hype Napungra

15 years ago

I haven't even watched this tutorial yet but I know it's going to kick my ass as usual. The effect in the your original clip was fantastic and the first time since starting with vfx that I thought "How the f**k did he do THAT?"....Ha!

Thanks again Mr K & the VCP mob!

Joshua

15 years ago

'Dragon' plugin? Speak up!

Jan Post

15 years ago

wow thanks! you made a tutorial for this! awesome³

Daniel Broadway

15 years ago

Awesome tut. I did this very same effect in my Star Trek trailer last year for the launch smoke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HN1H_ShuIo

Kride

15 years ago

And I have repeated it still before left tutorial))))

Davi

15 years ago

Hello,Andrew!! I'm from Brasil!!!!
.Thanks for this tutorial, with simple explanation and I aim.
I learnt very much with his tutoriais.
Thank you and the brasil in the Top of the world of soccer Africa!!!
Davi

Jerry

15 years ago

Great tut Andrew. I loved the part about capturing the camera movements from a live "shaking-cam" shot and using it in the volcano scene to control the main camera. Awesome tools to use on my next video. THANKS. You're the best.

comex

15 years ago

all i can say is that ur a legend.
thanks man.

mohamed

15 years ago

good tut andrew as always,but i thought that u will make a tut about your short......(is it the same technique or u will make another tut for it?

Sam Bourne

15 years ago

Thanks for sharing your technique!

TuLpFiCTioN

15 years ago

Like Borat would say....very niiiiiice hehe

Fayax

15 years ago

Epic Tutorial!
by far one of the best, useful tutorial

head

15 years ago

It's really nice Tutorial. Thank you Andrew.

Radster

15 years ago

Thx a lot Andrew! Hi from Bolivia!
best web site ever!

Tyler

15 years ago

Best tutorial by far.

Goldfinch

15 years ago

Hey, Andrew Kramer - there should be a word much more powerful than just THANK YOU, to express my gratitude to you for all you have done.

atifqureshi

15 years ago

this is toooooooooooooo good ....................

You???ve done it again! A thousand thanks! Now, I just need to grab my DSLR, my helicopter and go find a volcano. Where is that un-pronounceable one??? Iceland? I???m gonna need a boat, too!
i want to tock to you please tell me sir

Slimgoldmouf

15 years ago

cool tut but I want to know what is that Dragon plug-in when u put the Optical Flares on the project.

Brad Jacques

15 years ago

King Tut:

You've done it again! A thousand thanks! Now, I just need to grab my DSLR, my helicopter and go find a volcano. Where is that un-pronounceable one... Iceland? I'm gonna need a boat, too!

David Wood

15 years ago

Awesome, gonna watch it right now. Maybe it will help me on this intro I'm working on.

15 years ago

What's 'Dragon' in your videocopilot plugins menu?

Teddy

15 years ago

hey! Thank you so much for this tutorial
I read your blog and i was wondering how to do it!
and just when i came here to ask this question , i got my answer!

Max-via

15 years ago

Hi,
Thank you Andrew Kramer For Great Tutorials !!!

R-CANE

15 years ago

You amaze me everytime Andrew! and you're so actual too!

CATBOXFILMS

15 years ago

Awesome!!!!!!!! thank you so much

Roland

15 years ago

Hey,thx for the cool inspiration!

Navigas

15 years ago

Awesome tutorial! Also, when you're going into the Effects> Video Copilot section, there's an effect called "Dragon". What is that?

McKay

15 years ago

Oh my goodness! This tutorial is perfect to use for a movie I'm making! Thanks, Andrew! You're the best.

Vurado

15 years ago

Awesome !

Thank you !

Dennis

15 years ago

wohoo! its great!

oras

15 years ago

worck on it

thx andrew

daper

15 years ago

Cool!!!!!!!!!! Thanks andrew

just another day...

15 years ago

cool =]
tnx andrew

Brendan

15 years ago

WOOOO Finally! Thanks AK!

15 years ago

Ohhh yeaaaah! This is very useful! You've done so much for so many people that wants to learn vfxs... If you ever visit Barcelona, I'll guide you.

Navigas

15 years ago

Thank you, Andrew!! I've been waiting like a little boy for this!

adrian

15 years ago

parece interesante cuando tenga tiempo lo probare y opinare si me gusto gracias

Mark

15 years ago

Oh god! Thank you Andrew!! Thank youu!!

Gimei

15 years ago

Hey, thx. Great

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