NEW TUTORIAL: Blast Wave

September 29th, 2010

In this exciting new tutorial we’ll be creating a powerful explosion and shockwave inside of After Effects using elements from Action Essentials 2 and built-in effects. We will use Mocha to motion track the difficult shot and explore advanced blending and compositing tips. It’s a good 44 minute tutorial so tell your wife (or spouse)… it’s After Effects time.

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Andrew Kramer

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11 years ago

186 Comments

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caftan marocain

8 years ago

I loved this tutorial. You rock Andrew! I made my own version and put it on youtube and a co-worker thought it was real. I still see areas that I could improve on to make it better. But I’m onto other tutorials. Comments are welcomed on my channel.

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

Preston

10 years ago

I loved this tutorial. You rock Andrew! I made my own version and put it on youtube and a co-worker thought it was real. I still see areas that I could improve on to make it better. But I'm onto other tutorials. Comments are welcomed on my channel.

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

Art

11 years ago

LOL....LOL...LOL...AWSOME...

I did awake everybody with my laughter..it's 2:00 AM CT...This is great !!!....

:-))))...Thanks Andrew...u're the man !!!..

LOL...

Gracias..

Shrey Malhotra

11 years ago

Hi Andrew , thanks for the tutorial , really amazing .. earlier i used to make stupid,over done effects but now after seeing your tutorials i learned alot…

Greetings from India keep up the good work !!

Shrey Malhotra

11 years ago

Hi Andrew , thanks for the tutorial , really amazing .. early i used to make stupid,over done effects but now after seeing your tutorials i learned alot...

Greetings from India :) keep up the good work !!

Maniac221

11 years ago

Hi andrew thx for posting this amazing tutorial look at my blast wave with your tu.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXq10-CsdZE

wish you a good time and greetz from germany

Maniac221

Mazen

11 years ago

Hey Andrew,
you'd doing a great job. Thanks for these great tutorials and all these stuff ;)

And I was anstonished as I saw things from your tutorials and VFX-Stuff in german television :D

Greetings from germany, and keep it up ;)

Ramez

11 years ago

Its awesome , thank you

lukaas3g

11 years ago

nice,you can go to universal studios!!!

mystic7

11 years ago

I'm kinda pissed because I don't have anyone to control the camera for me, and then I realized I don't actually have to be in the video. So I'm gonna try this again with camera movement so I can play with Mocha.

Francis

11 years ago

Incroyable, vraiment très bien ce tuto... comme tous vos tutos, c'est magistralement réalisé. Quelle classe !!! Bravo Andrew !!!

Andrew Larson

11 years ago

Hey Andrew was just wondering I noticed that the footage that you used in the tutorial was an image sequence. I just wanted to why and what camera you used. Thanks man! it was a very cool tutorial.

Sachin

11 years ago

nay way great work i want ur Brain..!!!!!!!! haaa...

Kasule David

11 years ago

Or man Andrew Every time you come to be my best
Thanks for this wonderful new tut

Martin Enoksen

11 years ago

I enjoyed this tutorial much! What do you think about my newest film, using After Effects? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGVbQuw44WU Thanks : )

EGGa

11 years ago

ora weruh

kowen ngomong opo Le????
inYonk kagagh Ngerti..
:-P

iran

11 years ago

THANX i love you

LuiSerrano

11 years ago

Yeah!!!... Andrew for President xD.

I vote It.

Wes Cordell

11 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGkmRrEebXg&feature=recentu Thanks for the tutorial! Came in very handy

Morhaf

11 years ago

omg this tutorial was so amazing I fell asleep half way through!

but maybe that was because I was watching it in my bed, and I was really tired, and it was cold so staying under the covers kept me warm. anyhow, great tutorial!

I just wish I knew how it ended..

Zak

11 years ago

I vote that you continue producing tutorials that are more theory based, where instead of explaining how to do one specific task or group of tasks (e.g. extracting keyframe data from audio and using it to animate through expressions)
Instead go the route of explaining the technique of more advanced compositing (reflections, lighting, interaction, super fast garbage matting, etc...) I think that quite a lot of your viewers (including me) know how to create and use blending modes, masks, keyframes, expressions, and most effects as well as a handful of plugins, what we are really looking for is how to utilize our toolset to create awesome stuff like this explosion!
Another interesting thing to show would be creating motion blur in post using Real Smart Motion Blur plugin from Revision Effects or the CC Force Motion Blur effect. Shooting at fast shutter speeds allows for better keying, tracking, and wider apertures without ND filters in bright lighting.

bizkit

11 years ago

Andrew Kramer for President!!!

Tobias

11 years ago

Hi,

Copy and Paste of the mocha data did not work for me. Can anyone explain what aim doing wrong.

Pablo

11 years ago

Hi andrew this is a great tutorial thanks for sharing your knowledge
i want to ask you if you dont know how to edit a video with effects and all that stuff but broadcasting live i hope you can help me
thanks youre great

Ryan

11 years ago

I have been researching and trying to figure out the best way to use Mocha for visual fx. Every tutorial I ever see if mainly for motion graphics with the corner pin effect. Thank you, Andrew, for showing me a perfect way of using this application with motion blur! You saved a lot of headache! This is why I learn from you.

Thanks!

EDI

11 years ago

Andrew, you think is possible to use optical flares to create the shock wave effect ?
Great tutorial !

Thanks,

marwanbusafi

11 years ago

Tanks Andrew it's amazing tutorial......

haydora

11 years ago

dear Andrew
best regards from Africa

Mathias

11 years ago

Excellent Can't wait to blow stuff up!

Spencer T

11 years ago

Great tutorial! The only thing missing is a shadow; It probably wouldn't be too hard to precomp some of the smoke elements, turn them on their side, and tint them black.

Atlanta video production

11 years ago

Thanks Andrew! I've been wanting to learn how to make a shock wave like that for a while!

Arley Daza

11 years ago

Muy, muy vacano tu material... es espectacular la forma en que explicas paso a paso los efectos y el resultado final... es transparente y MUY CLARO tu lenguaje, lo que me a encantado de tu sitio y de tus productos.

Muchas gracias por el tutorial.

Saludos desde COLOMBIA!

NO-ME-star.light

11 years ago

hi andrew so amazing u chang my life style with my job as animator.....thaks for u and ur all team of vediocopilot.....

Simple

11 years ago

Andrew u're genius u bringing hope into the visual stuff,impressive creativity kp it up.

fel

11 years ago

awesome. any idea how this commercial is being done? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZuFqs7O5qc

anas

11 years ago

hi agine

this the pic 2 u know what it's abute

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs007.ash2/33732_1431242376169_1086153317_989816_2723143_n.jpg

thanks bro

Lashan

11 years ago

Very nice. It's such a big coincidence because I made a video over the summer using the same techniques... Mocha for tracking, as well as the AE2 for the VFX stuff.

Cheq it out: http://vimeo.com/12496331

mystic7

11 years ago

Well, here's my take. Remember, I'm just an old fart, fartin' around with After Effects, so this is, at best SyFy movie of the week quality ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1c71ihSCp8

anas

11 years ago

hi boby ..
thanks alot for those tutorials they are help me so mutch ..
I wona aske u something in A.F.E .
i lost the icone that was 4 3D in A.F.E and I couldnt find it nowhere would u help me please .
so wher i can find it ?
thankx agine

ABPROductions

11 years ago

This is awesome!! Actually for those of you interested, check out this link I found for movie effects:

http://www.techxilla.com/2009/11/17/visual-effects-of-your-favorite-movies-in-the-breakdown-mode/

It talks about how they made the special effects for several movies. Maybe (Sir) Andrew Kramer, you could reproduce these and make some more tutorials.

Subsonic

11 years ago

Very nice! Featured this on my blog http://tutorialshare.net :)

nif alnasser

11 years ago

hiii Adrew
we miss your new tutorials

thanx man

Ethan

11 years ago

Nice tutorial Mr. Kramer! I just thought you'd be interested to see that I made a CG blood burst simulation for compositing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOKc-5RWXY Hope you check it out :)

master4ever

11 years ago

cool !!

nice tutorial…

Maniac221

11 years ago

Hi Adrew great Tutorial look this Blast Wave with your tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXq10-CsdZE&hd=1

greetz from Germany

R-CANE

11 years ago

You blew me away with this tutorial

Mohammad Samir

11 years ago

Dear Andrew Ur Perfect and Best Animation Designer...
Your Effects and Using it is very nice i liked it very Much....Samir from Afghanistan

jeroen breevoort

11 years ago

Wow, I really did not expected that explosion! Please keep making movies this is really good!

Elitez Angeles

11 years ago

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Just Want To Make Sure Bec. Some Of It Are Fan Made.... :D

Elitez Angeles

11 years ago

Also, This Is not A Spam Or Scam... I Just Want To Share And Support On There Works.... X3

Elitez Angeles

11 years ago

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Here Is My FanPage And You Can See Andrew Kramer And Freddie Wong On My E.A.P.C. Tab

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They Can Easily See Andrew Kramer's Works And Also, Freddie Wong's Works

XD

Zak

11 years ago

Very nice tutorial, and glad you were able to bring Mocha into the mix finally. You seem to like using 2d tracking for 3d effects, with mocha you can use multiple planes within the scene to simulate 3d tracking in most shots, it's not as accurate as bojou, but then again after effects doesn't cost 10k...

Marcello

11 years ago

Hi Andrew,

Your stuff is truly great and using action essentials 2you inspire me to do stuff like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TDfSbDk8rY
Thanks

Moonlight

11 years ago

How come it wont let me watch

Jimmy

11 years ago

Exelent explosion ! good job Andrew ! what next?! :D

11 years ago

sau geil!!!!!!! :-)

Ben Kramer

11 years ago

hey Andrew this is a great tutorial but i am in Mocha 2.2.1 for after effects cs5 and i think there is something different about it because even after checking all of my settings in mocha, once the solid is in after effects it only covers half of my video and the corner pin info is different from yours. it'd be great if you could tell me what if anything i am doing wrong and keep up the good work. Thanks

Benta

11 years ago

hi,
nice tutorial...
i used your plugins & elements...
we creat music videos & publicity videos
you can see in
www.benta.me
thanks andrew

Lucho

11 years ago

a living legend indeed; many thanks!

erblin shala

11 years ago

Andrew thanks for all these magnificent tuts.
Can you make a tutorial like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij_QrkpNyuc

(3d text with reflection of lines etc ) :-)

salmanlp

11 years ago

Great composition Sirlove your work and ideas

sushy

11 years ago

simply but great

best regards from france, you have a lots of fans here

mauro castillo

11 years ago

Exelente tutorial, gran calidad y sobre todo muy útil para aprender After Efects
Saludos desde Quito-Ecuador- Sur América

Alldin Dauti

11 years ago

MANY THANX!!!! :D

ryan kai

11 years ago

hei people. i have cone clip and want to have same kind of effect on that video. bulding in the background have to explode and smoke have to some straith to the camera and stuff. is there anybody other like andrew kramer would like to realstic vfs to this video? please email me. you will get reward(: if you do great job as andrew.

you can find the raw video to work with in:
https://files.me.com/ryankai3008/qo3mwh

and about me in www.ryankai.com
email ryan.kai3008@gmail.com
hope to hear from you guys, and this is urgent.

thank you

MarleyHutchinson

11 years ago

Hey Andrew,

i tracked some Canon 7D footage in Mocha and then followed your tutorial through (having never used mocha before, and solely relying on after effect's built in tracker) i imported my image i wanted on screen. When i put into the pre-comp of the black solid and played, the image distorted and bent as i played, and the image was not representative of the tracking data seen in mocha. Do you know any reason why this could be?

Thanks.
Marley.

Kurt Wright

11 years ago

It's so funny, the same day that I watched this I saw basically the same thing on "Undercovers". You work on that show too don't you? Was the car bomb in the second episode your work because it was awesome!

w3dran

11 years ago

Explosion is great but I don't like static ground in front. Maybe some scatter ground as a reaction from blast/dust wave.Everything else...HELL YEAH!!!

Willy B!

11 years ago

How much fun would a little Action Essentials 2 and OF be with this Vimeo video?

http://vimeo.com/15286128

Keep up the inspiration!

wb

Shaked

11 years ago

Thank You for all the tutorials!
Maybe you should be the president of USA and then we will be learning after effects at school!
The first president who is also a AE expert!

Sorry for the useless comment IM FROM ISRAEL

thx again

Hassan A. Al-Tarooti

11 years ago

I am vrey happy abuot your tutorial

Tarik

11 years ago

Finally a tutorial on mocha! Thank you very much andrew

Polymr

11 years ago

wow, my comment sounded dodgy; im all about the sexier half of the food chain. (Also a writer, is there wind prob in here)is the aussie cow legend who intervwd u based in oz? id google it but i hasta roto poledancers feet an hair. LONG LIVE COPILOT

altaf

11 years ago

the result is stunning. what a fun tutorial.

jjoe

11 years ago

Brilliant as always Andrew!
only thing is my motion track wont work properly, I copied your points exactly using mocha cs5 but it doesn't track well.
if anyone can help me id much appreciate it.

AsmatullahKhan

11 years ago

Nice and very good work

atul palande

11 years ago

adrew you are awsome and thanks for all this tutorials and hope you would help all us in future

Polymr

11 years ago

re "The world would need other Andrew Kramer!". bro pls... do u know how silly that concept sounds? :p Andy U R 1 of a kind an we all know it. you are my digital hero, PLEASE incorporate skateboarding into a tutorial, im sure sam is a natural hipster doofus.

Joe S

11 years ago

AMAZING tutorial! huge fan of your work, and your tutorials are the only one that i keep tabs on. everytime i see any of you and your teams stuff, makes me want to go out and film and put the effects in. keep at it!

BobFromChicago

11 years ago

As always a fantastic tutorial, the one thing i thought of was that since it was suppose to be caught on tape and not part of say a film being made i would have thought that maybe cause an iris effect for the camera, you know when a sudden burst of light happens and your iris automatically closes a lot to limit the amount of light coming in. So that way things kind of get dark for a second then lighten back up. Just a thought.

Bob

Nikko

11 years ago

shit is tight man. all the right detail is in there.
You b da man, mah man!

jacob zelaya

11 years ago

good tutorial, like all other videocopilot tutorials. Greetings from El Salvador

Anthony

11 years ago

Sometimes you just gotta... tweak it a little bit.

Great tutorial!

Peter

11 years ago

MORE MOCHA TUTORIALS ANDREW! great work by the way. shout outs from the philippines

Pablo

11 years ago

Hola Andrew, te escribo desde Argentina.
Aca hay muchisima gente que te sigue y aprende de tus tutoriales. Seria un honor que vengas a este país a brindar una conferencia, saludos!
Contactame si estas interesado

illd

11 years ago

Hi Andrew,

great work - thanks for sharing! I saw that you worked in 32 bit mode - would you suggest to work with "Blend color using Gamma 1.0" activated inside AE?

mystiq

11 years ago

I think the link to "Watch Sample Video" is broke

chris

11 years ago

wow stunning effect!

Angelo de Witt

11 years ago

Great techniques, pretty simple stuff

Abi

11 years ago

Awesome, man.
Great tutorial as always. But to watch you solve every problems on the projects, that's something more to see.
Great job man. Always admire your work. Thanks!

Donny Williams

11 years ago

IM NOT GOING TO LIE.......IT KINDA.......JUST A LITTLE BUT..........DIDNT MAKE ME........NOT JUMP

Aaron Poisson

11 years ago

Very nicely done!!! I love how the AME2 dust filled the frame really making a volumetric feel from the blast wave to blend reality with the compositing!

mystic7

11 years ago

This shows the importance of color correction in making it look realistic.

ömer tatlısöz

11 years ago

thanks, thanks Andrew :)

Joraph

11 years ago

Thanks Andrew..
You really Rocks

Reza

11 years ago

Thank you soo much! By watching this tutorial, I learned how to track motion even if the markers fall out of view! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Dude!

David S.

11 years ago

Someone might have said it already, but you can export the tracking data as transform and not corner pin data. Save you a ton of time.

Jrob

11 years ago

I have a challenge for you Andrew.

what would be your approach to making a building collapse, i have wrapped my mind around this one for a long time have yet to come up with anything decent. (i know part of the problem is that i don't know how to use a 3d editing program and i do not own one either)

so building collapse help please?

PlasmaStudio

11 years ago

LOVE YA LOVE YA LOVE YA LOVE YA LOVE YA LOVE YA!!!!!

Silver Dance

11 years ago

ya man i just withing to that tutorials good thanks man

AdrienF

11 years ago

Yeeah you heared me !! Ty very much for this AWOSOME tutorial !! Really well done, and for free !! I really appreciate all your free work, just for us !! So Thanks a lot for that !!

Here's what I did : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-24t3xU8x0

Hope you're gonna like it !!

Have a good day, from Switzerland, land of cheese and chocolate (no that's a terrible bias !! :P)

Mehran Aghramazani

11 years ago

Why you don't show my comment?

I am very Sad. :(

Blindpixel

11 years ago

Sam leaving the scene at the end of the explosion or Sam re-loading a grenade launcher (to create tension and drama also to reveal the source of the explosion would make it a more complete scene.."like Sam taking revenge for all the past abuse at VC")

Mehran Aghramazani

11 years ago

Hi Andrew.
Woooooooooooooooooo! This is Good Work Man!
Thank You.:D

And What About your New Product "Series Two"?
tutorials is enough for Series Two.

Please listen to the @Edris Mohammadi Comment.

Joe F.

11 years ago

Excellent.. can't wait to dive into this. I just finished an explosion scene for my film day before yesterday, now I'm interested to see what I did compared to this because the process sounds very similar in the description. But then again, now I may have to revisit my scene based on what your teaching here. Either way, excited. Thanks mate!

anadaido marika

11 years ago

wow ! BLOWSOCKS is make BLASts bomb inevate tutorial is mr Kramer the !

Jordan Reyes

11 years ago

Videocopilot rules! andrew is the best After Effects and vfx guru!

ArkuBricK

11 years ago

Ey baby!!,it´s After Effects time!!
Ok, Andrew!! I´m ready

Avnish

11 years ago

amazing work bro... u rock as always... @

beesh

11 years ago

Andrew thanks for this! Maybe you can use AE2 to simulate a shrapnel hit..hmm?
:)

Canvas

11 years ago

I can honestly say that this was the best composed video ever!

Dominik

11 years ago

" by Edris Mohammdi

Hi, Andrew

Did you see the movie “Wanted” (please see).
Do you can make a movie Like “wanted” (00:30:30 to 00:30:40)
"

LOL :-D

Jerry

11 years ago

That is such a cool video effect. I scrubbed through it and saw so much detail going into this effect...flawless....you even did the ground bursting up in a pile of dirt right before the fireball....AWESOME!!!!!

David

11 years ago

I've seen all of your tutorials but I was really excited to see this new hobo action star!

ShehabArt

11 years ago

Hey andrew I like your idea for moved your hair on head *.-

B!zzy

11 years ago

thx andrew for new stuff

Edris Mohammdi

11 years ago

Hi, Andrew

Did you see the movie "Wanted" (please see).
Do you can make a movie Like "wanted" (00:30:30 to 00:30:40)

anxs220

11 years ago

I thought that the failed blog show was like a joke
and the explosion was fake, and it looked like created with ae2 footages ))

Thx for the tut!

Andy Pirog

11 years ago

damn HELL YEAH

im owner of paintball field and this is things i've been looking for - as inspiration and so on.
Planning to launch promo video of my field - will give You link Andrew when finished.

great respect.
Andy

Stephen

11 years ago

Very convincing. I like how you set up the viewer to be looking away from the explosion as it occurs. Like a magician does to distract the slight of hand. The only suggestion I have would be for you to be knocked forward and incinerated once the shock way reaches you.

Cheers!

Mohamed Zakzouk

11 years ago

great tutorial Andrew it's different and have really really great tips into it I loved the tip of tracking it's really smart :)

alpino

11 years ago

hey andrew.THx for tuto.Can u make sound edit tutorial?

Chris

11 years ago

Powertase, these tutorials aren't here for Andrew to show you 'how to make an explosion', but rather to show various techniques in AE. Honestly, the thing I most took away from this tutorial was how to get a good track out of blurry footage (which, when shooting on a 550D there is LOTS of it!).

AK could probably spend a week on a shot like this, adding in hundreds of small details to sell the shot-but he has 40 minutes to give a quick overview of how he approaches certain problems.

If you want a 'better shot' and to 'Go further, go harder, go over your limits' then create a shot that has all of those elements you feel are lacking.

Yoda5629

11 years ago

Cool, you called your PCs and the HDD after the Indiana Jones movies;)

mungkey

11 years ago

Ur the man Andrew.

Edris Mohammdi

11 years ago

Thank you so much Andrew for new tutorial!

Andrew:
Did you see the movie 300 (please see).
In this movie, movie creators used Blood videos like
"Action Essentials 2: 02. Blood"
Do you can make a movie Like 300 (00:48:00 to 00:49:10 Slow Motion) with your Axe (or Spear like 300) and with your Action Essentials 2.
Do you Understand?

I am Edris Mohammadi from Persia.

Duncan

11 years ago

Hey Andrew, did you have anything to do with the film "skyline", the trailer looks like an optical flares advert? Keep up the good work.

dutch_steven

11 years ago

love it! may i ask what kind of camera you use? the effect looks very realistic! thanks Andrew!

Eshita

11 years ago

This looks sooooooo realistic =D
i loved your tutorials
i love your tutorials
and i will continue to love them =D !!!

Powertase

11 years ago

Hi all. i challenge you to make better explosion.
What we miss is shockwaveson the ground. one can see that ground is not moving. In such powerfull explosion, ground would "dance", not only shake. So people, if you want the real thing, probably FORM should be envolved (If not 3D).
Also, some camera movement should be envolved, little zoom, and particles ricochetting from the lens of the camera (leaving small dents and scratches on it)
So Andrew, we know you can do better.

Go further, go harder, go over your limits.
PT

NEVER

11 years ago

You roll the world!You even professional than all of my lecturers...i feel that it is so watse time to go to the college after I found this website...

Danny Tumia

11 years ago

Sooo sick, BRILLIANT

farhad

11 years ago

my wife wanna kill you !

CATBOXFILMS

11 years ago

by R.A. Elliott
September 29th, 2010 @ 10:49 pm
"Dear Andrew,
I hate to bring this up again, but its always in the back of my head every new blog post: what ever happened to the Action Essentials short film?"

Exactly! I think we've waited long enough!

GuanoLad

11 years ago

I notice the new trailer for "Skyline" seems to be overloaded with your optical flares.

cyclone muette

11 years ago

andrew,...tu es un genie...je ne sais plus quoi dire. chapeau maitre!

Gabriel

11 years ago

Its After Effects time!

Armin

11 years ago

i saw this before T too easy !
we need something more interesting!

ayuiop

11 years ago

yaa it's super cool!
msg from Taiwan

R.A. Elliott

11 years ago

Dear Andrew,
I hate to bring this up again, but its always in the back of my head every new blog post: what ever happened to the Action Essentials short film?

Matthew Sabia

11 years ago

Amazing as usual Andrew! Great tips that I'll be using very soon! :)

Aung Ko Ko

11 years ago

I'm so like your idea when I watched your blog show. I believed that u can be best actor

KKG

11 years ago

I don't have a wife, so Instead I told my homework that's due tomorrow "Its after effects time!"

Sazarret

11 years ago

GREAT TUTORIAL!
And, even though you should use the tracking data straight forward from Mocca as transform data instead as corner pin data, your technique was really helpful with a big roto project I'm work on with a product that comes in and out the frame changing shape and rotating.

Thanks man you are the best.

Adam Everett Miller

11 years ago

Andrew, Looks Great!

I knew I would see the shockwave work it's way back to the front someday :)

http://web.archive.org/web/20051029005515/http://www.videocopilot.net/resources.html

It ain't a "city explosion" or anything, but the end result looks nice.

Ramon Villalba

11 years ago

Thanks once again Andrew!, this is a powerful tutorial and very useful too...greetings from Colombia

Tincho

11 years ago

Thanks Andrew! I wanna know this... Like alwais, in every tutorial, you surprise me! Hugs from Argentina!

Kenz Creation

11 years ago

I know you will do this Andrew!! I had been waiting for this since your failed blog show,lolx.Thanks you!

11 years ago

u rock andrew!!!

Dustin

11 years ago

Cool! A tutorial with mocha involved, going to watch right now!

seshu

11 years ago

its coll re.... come on andrew go go go .....

Cody

11 years ago

Thanks andrew, but can this be done without mocha?

Alex

11 years ago

Yes! Finally, a new tutorial. Can't wait to watch this.

R-CANE

11 years ago

I love dcreating stuff like this!
Thanks Andrew

paul holt

11 years ago

excellent, great to see you back as always, I look forward to extracting the core techniques and applying them in new and interesting ways;-)...its also great to see you mention Mocca in a previous comment...have been learning this for a while now and its tracking abilities never fail to impress

chemsou

11 years ago

tkank's andrew for this exellent tutoriel !!! et thank's for Mocha for motion tracking XD

VIVE VIDEO COPILOT !!!!!!!!!!

Étienne

11 years ago

Einstein was smart...But YOU are a genius! Thanks for sharing your knowledge like this, everybody loves you and everything you do is great. It's cool to know that there's still some people on the planet doing things with passion, not with the purpose of getting rich. I've bought few of your products and hope you see it like a "thank you for all your free tutorials and presets!" The world would need other Andrew Kramer! Thanks again!

Tyler McCue

11 years ago

Hey Andrew quick question, is there an easier way to instead of masking yourself frame by frame? I looked closely at your final shot and i could see some masking errors around your hand. Couldn't you duplicate your footage then mask and feather it in such a way they co-inside. something along those lines?

Jared R.

11 years ago

Wow. WOW. That was great! And pretty darn innovate, too.

tox

11 years ago

Wow i was here 20 minute ago and went to WC came back and NEW TUTORIAL!!!!!!!!!!! Yahoooooo!!!! Andrew Best))

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

Well the one good reason for using corner pin data is the you can later extrapolate tracking points based on any position within the frame so you can multiple tracks for multiple areas... Although admittedly for my example a straight transform data would have been easier.

Guillermo

11 years ago

Hey Adrew I have a question, why you don't used the transform option from mocha directly? whats the diference between your way and the normal transform data applied to a null object?

Good job
greetings from Chile.

Andrew Kramer

11 years ago

@Dvpstudios, in retrospect that is probably a simpler solution I was going to talk about the benefits of using expression but the tutorial ran long.. I'm considering a small followup using mocha v2 with the new shape tool as well. Thx!

DVPStudios

11 years ago

Great Tutorial! Is there any reason that when using the tracking data from mocha you didn't copy it as transform data? I think it can be applied to a null without having to retrack.

Max

11 years ago

OMG I are THE man I wanted a tutorial for this effect so bad!!

lP E I Nl

11 years ago

Nice Mr. Andrew Kramer..
Your Video Tutorials, helps me alot..
I owe you for that..^_^
Godbless..

Gforce

11 years ago

Going to watch it now. Say Kramer, what ever happened to that Twitter thing? Did you ever got enough twetts? Just wondering.

Matthew Sabia

11 years ago

YES! Can't wait to watch this after dinner! lol :)

clancy30

11 years ago

I think i will stick with a real IED :)
Just joking anyway i done some tests and i just used after effects traking it turned out not bad, but i guess its time to make a short movie andrew am locked and load lets sam and i go on an opretive mission behind enemy lines.

Jan

11 years ago

Weee! thanks! :D

endos

11 years ago

honestly andrew you are becoming more of a legend daily. Big ups man, you are the best

Osvaldo_Tampico

11 years ago

OH OH OH! Wait I'll go for a snack! VC Tuts are better than TV Shows XD hahaha Watching!

Florin

11 years ago

haha i`m thinking how to implement something like this in one of my weddings clips :D something like mr & mrs smith.

Mohammad Taghi Karimi

11 years ago

hey ya
Wow Cool
I'm Sure After MJ I Know He Was King Of Pop
But You Will Be King Of AE
I Don't Know When But You Will , Soon

IANH – BR

11 years ago

I LOVE YOUUUU!
thank you so much andrew!

sebastian ferrando

11 years ago

yeah baby!
Nice work dude
thnks
keep going on!

Tony

11 years ago

Clever way of solving the tracking problem.

MissionGrey

11 years ago

She Has Been Told

oras

11 years ago

GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

Daro

11 years ago

As always fun,creative and a BLAST.co-pilot style.

JAMES MARKUS

11 years ago

awweeee yeaaahhhhh

Leonardo Sonza

11 years ago

Hell Yeah!
thanks for another good tutorial.. and for making us happy :D

Leonardo Sonza

11 years ago

Hell Yeah!
thanks for another good tutorial.. and for making us happy :D

Tyler McCue

11 years ago

Sooo You should totally let me come visit you and well be best friends cause you can read my mind!!!! :)
This is awesome, making you awsome.!!!!

felipe de jesus ramos

11 years ago

NICEEEEEEEEEE Andrew!!

FOREVER AND EVER VIDEOCOPILOT!!!!!

Jon

11 years ago

NICE I love it! thank you

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