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Digital domain has a great breakdown for some of the VFX for Transformers 3. In fact if you browse their website you will find many amazing reels and finished work that will surely inspire you!
February 9th, 2012
93 Comments
The finished work available at the website is simply amazing! The images posted speaks volumes about the quality of the work. Thanks for sharing.
my new video based in copilot.net tutorials awesome andrew kramer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31xbVWpVuTo&feature=channel&list=UL
BlueGene
13 years ago
Very Cool, Did anyone notice that the smoke is blowing north and the flags are blowing south?
Amazing!
Its the Message to All
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Check this Video
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Navin
13 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnY2e3AL_W4
Please chek out ma work
its ma work done in after effects nd 3ds max
nd i proudly say that Andrew Kramer is MA Teacher
Please chek out ma work
its ma work done in after effects nd 3ds max
nd i proudly say that Andrew Kramer is MA Teacher
Toby O'Brien
13 years ago
That was amazing, I really would love to just spend a week in some of these CGI studios to see the magic happen. But how do you get a model of a city that is real? Is there software or is it some very skilled artists?
Great shot breakdown. Wow great effects. Watched the movie the other night, thank god for the effects teams who carried the movie. Without the effects this one would have been a 100% stinker.
@Andrew...keep up the good work. I'm amazed at all you do and are able to accomplish! Great inspiration on this site!
@Andrew...keep up the good work. I'm amazed at all you do and are able to accomplish! Great inspiration on this site!
Elijah
13 years ago
This made me think, because Battle: Los Angeles used action essentials 2 and so did Act of Valor.
Hey whats up Andrew.
Iv been following your tutorials for years now and have become abit of a Motion Graphics Artist and im quite imprest with these scene replacement tutorials i was wondering if you could do a tutorial this time using a 360 rotating panoramic scene replacement with a forward camera movement.
Iv been following your tutorials for years now and have become abit of a Motion Graphics Artist and im quite imprest with these scene replacement tutorials i was wondering if you could do a tutorial this time using a 360 rotating panoramic scene replacement with a forward camera movement.
jeroen
13 years ago
This one is realy cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhjYiUr5Xc&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhjYiUr5Xc&feature=player_embedded#!
Samuel
13 years ago
Maybe.... he is putting the last touches on element and is going to release it soon! Has anyone noticed how he never did a tutorial on how he did all the dropping grenades on the ground.... maybe he did it in element... ? 
Mike
13 years ago
Michael bay got robbed! I have two kids, can't get anything done. I'm amazed that Andrew does what he does. Love your work Andrew and thank you. I have learned so much. Love action effects 2. Keep up the good work.
Mike
Mike
Patrick
13 years ago
You guys should stop expecting him to do a tutorial every second, he has a life, a family, and if he does a do a tutorial you should appreciate it and not ask for another one the day after, i think the point is stop expecting stuff from this site, get a life, check the site whenever you want and if there's nothing new, its not the end of the world, he has done 125 tutorials already, at least appreciate that.
Jay
13 years ago
Andrew is a man of knowledge! I look forward to receiving his knowledge. VCP are creating a new product and I am looking forward to buying it. But I have learned a great lesson from my son. He tells me he is hungry, then he starts to scream and shake. But it won't get his food ready any faster. His food will be ready when it is ready. Not too hot and not too cold. Element will be ready when it is ready and it will be just right.
The real smithy
13 years ago
For all the people complaint on 'where's Andrew?'. You'd probably find 1. He's moving house(that takes time with two kids), 2. Probably helping JJ Abrahams, 3. Doing a new free tutorial, 4. Still trying to get his new software up and running. Give the man some time to breathe.
Tim LR
13 years ago
For all those people who are so impatient with Andrew, take a step back and see what this site has to offer!! World class products that are actually used in feature films and commercials. 125 high quality tutorials from a guy that have worked on those films. His tutorials are not just some of the best on the web, they are fun as well, therefore memorable. He'll probably have something up as soon as he can. Maybe he is sick or maybe he is already meeting to do work on Star Trek 2! So just take it easy
Andrew's working on the greatest thing ever in After Effects and he is putting extra time in for us to make it even more great so he earns more respect and patience then he's given in these comments. And these digital domain vfx break downs have a lot of revealing workflows and techniques if you look at it some more and is really helpful how the scenes are put together. I say stop whining pay respect and only check the website once a day, and go do some volunteer work, make yourself useful!
ur Gr8
Just curious, if digital domain offered you a full time time job andrew, would you take it? And close copilot?
Paul
13 years ago
Andrew, these tutorials are great but one thing.
When you first launched this website it was excellent in the way that you were posting tutorials every week or two weeks.
Its eems that this website is getting a little stagnant in the way of not much happening.
If you want yoru viewers to be more loyal, you nees to get stuff up alot of the time and gain more momentum.
Just doing one tutorial a month is going to cut it. Alot of other websites out there are keeping interest by posting more cool stuff.
Just a little heads up buddy, no offence intended.
More importantly if yo are selling product, you need to keep the website buzzing.
Thanks
When you first launched this website it was excellent in the way that you were posting tutorials every week or two weeks.
Its eems that this website is getting a little stagnant in the way of not much happening.
If you want yoru viewers to be more loyal, you nees to get stuff up alot of the time and gain more momentum.
Just doing one tutorial a month is going to cut it. Alot of other websites out there are keeping interest by posting more cool stuff.
Just a little heads up buddy, no offence intended.
More importantly if yo are selling product, you need to keep the website buzzing.
Thanks
dave
13 years ago
you can definatly tell a hell of a lot of work went into that, I also sense Fumefx was used for a lot of the fire particle fx
Austin
13 years ago
this is so cool, thanks for sharing. Please if you dont mind u can send a list of other design groups as well. thank you
Anton
13 years ago
Every day i visit to your site for cheking new lessons and posts. From Russia with love! Thank you!
Wolverine
13 years ago
mark christian said about 3ds max and maya....
" Maya has a deeper feature set overall, but there are advantages to each. Traditionally, Maya is positioned as the tool of choice for large crews because it scales well and has a bulletproof scripting language. 3ds Max is marketed to smaller studios and is generally considered more user-friendly. However, it's really a matter of choice and great work can be done with either. The tool is much less important than the artist "
what that means?
" Maya has a deeper feature set overall, but there are advantages to each. Traditionally, Maya is positioned as the tool of choice for large crews because it scales well and has a bulletproof scripting language. 3ds Max is marketed to smaller studios and is generally considered more user-friendly. However, it's really a matter of choice and great work can be done with either. The tool is much less important than the artist "
what that means?
Can you make a tutorial Of these Effects: like the Collapsing buildings and more 3D stuff
Youre Awesome!
Django
Youre Awesome!
Django
kage
13 years ago
another shot breakdown.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoqPd9PeFg&feature=related this one is from ilm
These are some amazing breakdowns!
I have seen every movie they worked on!
could you teach us how to do this stereo stuff in AE?
might even be a good idea to integrate it in Element
Greetings
I have seen every movie they worked on!
could you teach us how to do this stereo stuff in AE?
might even be a good idea to integrate it in Element
Greetings
Alexander
13 years ago
Does anyone have a second-hand renderfarm for sale?? I'm a bit short on cash.
Impressive.... and I agre on an earlier comment... would be a wonderful thingif some genius turned the trend towards nondestructive VFX?
Merlin
13 years ago
Ive been following DD and ILM for a long time, they are without doubt the best in the business for me.
John
13 years ago
I watched the video on their website, and almost everything looks really good and realistic but that image you posted Andrew I really dont like, if I saw that on a movie I'd be very disappointed even some1 that knows nothing about VFX can tell its a 3D model and not a real building.
I had the privilege of working with Mark Lasoff (while at EA) who garnered some notice for his work on Titanic when he was at DD. They were using Houdini at the time and so with his recommendation we tried to shoehorn it into the Medal of Honor game of which I was the primary VFX guy on and he was the Art Director. It didn't work out but it was fun trying.
Looking at this reel fills me with incredible joy to see how far FX have come since I was a kid. I wonder if they're still using Houdini and if not, then what their pipeline is. Whatever it is, these people are incredibly talented.
Looking at this reel fills me with incredible joy to see how far FX have come since I was a kid. I wonder if they're still using Houdini and if not, then what their pipeline is. Whatever it is, these people are incredibly talented.
reza basirat
13 years ago
Dear Andrew,
Hi.
I had previously invited you to watch my video clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiVqAYZPauE), but unfortunately i misspelled your last name;
i.e I wrote C instead of K for the first letter of your surname. first of all, i do apologize and i feel so sorry about that. moreover hoping to forgive me. I'll improve the mentioned file and will replace it with the new one.
P.S. I notice my misspelling your last name after receiving some comments from the others now.
Regards
Reza.
Hi.
I had previously invited you to watch my video clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiVqAYZPauE), but unfortunately i misspelled your last name;
i.e I wrote C instead of K for the first letter of your surname. first of all, i do apologize and i feel so sorry about that. moreover hoping to forgive me. I'll improve the mentioned file and will replace it with the new one.
P.S. I notice my misspelling your last name after receiving some comments from the others now.
Regards
Reza.
Alex
13 years ago
Yup... I will never be skilled like that 
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Adrian
13 years ago
They don't need cameras, operators an other stuff... just good computers and 3d software... Nice computer animation, not MOVIE for me...
Lukas
13 years ago
Andrew, when Element 3D is coming out? I can't wait for it and i think all of us has been waiting for it for so long now. At least give us some details or a prediction about release date?
Mubeen
13 years ago
hai "Andrew"
how is life going
Thanks for showing this ..
This will change the minds of VFX technicians to create such Thinks
how is life going
Thanks for showing this ..
This will change the minds of VFX technicians to create such Thinks
iacere
13 years ago
That looks sooo awesome, especially the part at 0:25 when they are jumping out of the chopper!!
Thanks for the Link Andrew
Thanks for the Link Andrew
The real smithy
13 years ago
You Should try posting work from weta and ILM also.
After all ILM did the hard work on transformers creating the actual cg robots.
After all ILM did the hard work on transformers creating the actual cg robots.
Ben
13 years ago
Very great. Thanks for sharing. It's my goal in life to be able to make something that good.
this is amazing, again! I really like every single thing from VideoCopilot + Transformers has some great VFX
John
13 years ago
I think you broke their site Andrew. It's taking me 10 mins to load a 2:31 min vid and it stops at 1:30 mins. lol
If someone from DD is reading, host your videos on Vimeo Plus/Pro or something!
If someone from DD is reading, host your videos on Vimeo Plus/Pro or something!
ehsan
13 years ago
Are they use after effects for compositing?
After effects or Nuke?
witch one is powerfull than?
After effects or Nuke?
witch one is powerfull than?
Throck
13 years ago
One day I'l work there. Probably as a janitor but still...
That wing suit sequence is maybe the coolest thing I've ever seen.
That wing suit sequence is maybe the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Voxel physics are the best...it has really ramped up the ability of VFX artists to work with particles, like the dudes coming up out of the dirt. Mmmmm....voxels....
jkmalisa
13 years ago
Thanks for sharing.
It's a bit scary though because it makes me realize how much I still need to learn
It's a bit scary though because it makes me realize how much I still need to learn
Employee47
13 years ago
Hey Andrew, do you happen to know which software was used? Nuke? Maya? AE?
thanks...
thanks...
