Comments on: Growing 3D Vines

By: Wellen in AE - digitalvideoschnitt.de - das Videoschnitt- und Camcorder-Forum

Wellen in AE - digitalvideoschnitt.de - das Videoschnitt- und Camcorder-Forum — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:33:53 +0000

[...] dort auch recht gut erklärt. Es sieht aber eher wie Wellen auf nem Teich, nicht wie im Meer aus. Maltanoonhat auch was zu Wellen in AE gemacht, dazu nur das ganze andere (über Kabel, etc.) nicht beachten. [...]

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:47:53 +0000

GOOD ONE!!!!!

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:12:26 +0000

Give me more details. What kind of error, when does the error show up? How did you generate the zdepth sequense… everything you can give me will be useful. I never came across an error that might be similar to what you’re describing, and I’ve been working with zdepth quite a lot.

By: Santiago

Santiago — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:39:18 +0000

Hey man i tried to import a Z-Depth .PNG image sequence to AE, but it keeps showing an error, any way i can solve this?

By: akz

akz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:39:43 +0000

soz for double post but…

where u get the pluginz?

By: akz

akz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:39:16 +0000

where do u download the extras?

By: Pulpo

Pulpo — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:54:05 +0000

Hello, this is my first post in your site. I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge with all the people around the world. Thanks very much.

By: keshoo

keshoo — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:30:16 +0000

Great job

By: Richard Castro

Richard Castro — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:32:35 +0000

You’re amazingly right! how d’you know it?
I’m using vr 1.1 or 1.0.1 I think… I’ll just buy the new version or maybe update to a new version if possible. Thanks men… you help a lot of people by sharing everything little thing you know in AE. Keep up the great works you’ve got and JAH bless you always..

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:35:25 +0000

If you don’t have motion path in your particular than you are probably using an older version of the plugin. I think motion paths were introduced in version 1.5

By: Ricahrd Castro

Ricahrd Castro — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:59:27 +0000

Hi maltaannon. I’m new in after effcts so it’s kinda hard for me to follow your tutorial, especially this one. I’d really like to do this vines but i can’t use the MOTION PATH technique that you said. It does not appear in my TrapcodeParticular fx. Hope you can teach me or somehow tell me what to do, or some ideas. THanks a lot. By the way, you and Kramer are my teachers in AE, thank for both of you.greetings from Philippines. (wait for your reply)

By: thepeterchen

thepeterchen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:07:31 +0000

i really like watching your stuff, man! some good ideas. keep it up
p’

By: אפטר אפקט, מדריכי וידאו בחינם 2 . (עוד כמה אתרים). » Seriously

אפטר אפקט, מדריכי וידאו בחינם 2 . (עוד כמה אתרים). » Seriously — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:38:21 +0000

[...] שנראים אותו דבר, מה שאני אוהב שהם מכירים אחד את השני, והם מנסים להראות מי יותר טוב, ואז אנחנו מקבלים כל הזמן מדריכים יותר ויותר [...]

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:21:20 +0000

huh?

By: Samuel

Samuel — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:10:42 +0000

How to get the effects in the after effets?

By: TGD

TGD — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:40:05 +0000

[...] • 62 Comments [...]

By: Zorba

Zorba — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:14:15 +0000

Oh my god
u are fantastic

By: LA

LA — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:30:05 +0000

WOW! Now that was something! One of the best and most useful tutorials of my life! thank you verrrrry much!!!!

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:45:51 +0000

All the answers are in the About section.

By: Nitin Chand

Nitin Chand — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:19:13 +0000

WOW..maltaanon…I m reallly so happy for wht U do for US in free..I m curious abt wht are you doing these days or wht r ur recent prjects and which company u belong to? do u own ur motion graphics or VFX company???? plz ans my question if that’s not that private…!!!!!!!!!I m AE slave and work for many MUSIC VIDEOS, VFX and Motion graphics, Obviously Inspired by u and kramer too,I simply ENJOY AE, watch out my stuffs:
http://www.youtube.com/vfxnitin

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:56:28 +0000

Well… yeah. You cant really do anything in 3D in AE so far. I know for some people this usage of particles is obvious, for most it’s new, since particles are always categorized as things to do snow, rain, smoke and such, so I figured I’d show a few different approaches like this one.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:26:20 +0000

:D when i first see the name of tutorial, i realy think this was amazing…

but this the old song about particles, ш was disappointed..

I thought this is a new revolutionary way :D but this only particles

but you as before at a height, respect….

By: kris

kris — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:05:35 +0000

very nice maltoon. You really solve it, you took the challenge. Your the man!

By: bogdan bucur

bogdan bucur — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:54:19 +0000

:)…true

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:44:22 +0000

Thank you. Thank you so much. I know exactly what you mean, and what you’ve mentioned is a real purpose of my tutorials. It’s all about the sparks.

By: LifesShort

LifesShort — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:20:28 +0000

its funny how i watch every tutorial you and andrew ever made and i still get a diff idea from each of them .. ive never used yours or any one elses tutorials for anything they were doing . but id catch one little thing i never knew and it sparked something so different ..ideas sparked just from watching your tuts have sent me into so many diff directions .. thanks so much bro .. i reallly appreciate it

By: Joon

Joon — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:49:58 +0000

Hey Maltannon
Thanks for great tutorial.
My question is what different does it make if i use null objects and link the positions of emitter to the null than just doing it with light(motion path)? Is there any difference? I just want to know if animating the emitter by using motion path is any different than doing it by using a null so i know which to use in which scenario.
Thanks

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:55:04 +0000

http://Shockwave-sound.com/, http://flashkit.com/loops/, I don’t really know. I’m usually doing my own stuff.

By: Amit Zinman

Amit Zinman — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:37:54 +0000

Hey, I’m looking for a good sound loop to accompany the vine growth. Any ideas?

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:28:03 +0000

Well… that’s not really my point. Andrew knows about this tutorial and I always talk with him before posting something that is somehow relevant to his work to get his agreement. Besides I pointed out in this tutorial that I would also do it in 3D max or any other 3D app, and I also said that it is a good and probably best approach to this certain situation. I just wanted to show you guys that it is also possible to do in AE to some extend. The results are not as slick and you simply can’t do some things in AE - thats it’s nature - to be a 2.5D app, but I believe that creative people can get some out of this tutorial anyway, and that was the point of making it. To bad you can’t see that.

By: AngryMan

AngryMan — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:32:43 +0000

Well you managed to take few of the Andrew’s coolest tutorials/ideas, recycle and spit out your own “genuine” 2in1 tutorial and get away with it while bashing Kramer…
You could’ve at least point out that you used everything form Andrew Kramer, and then added some small things like Bevel & Emboss… And I don’t care that you two “talk” from time to time if he used/based something on your tutorials he would’ve given you a full credit for your work/idea. I just hate to see that you fool/mislead people into thinking that you’re better than Kramer with this cheap knock-off! 18/31/32/61

By: harry

harry — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:26:25 +0000

this the gOOd one I pay u ********

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:13:05 +0000

Great job Maltaannon!!!, you owned Andrew Kramer HAHAHAH !

Its 100 times better, without using any 3D programs ;)

By: olek

olek — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:29:30 +0000

“Polak potrafi”

Pozdrowienia z Niemiec

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:58:09 +0000

Just wait till you see the next one.

By: Habehsa

Habehsa — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:08:27 +0000

What can i say you are The best not only that Best of the best!

By: Habehsa

Habehsa — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:10:00 +0000

You are the best of the best man 10Q so much for those tutorials. we love you Addis Ababa,Ethiopians

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:00:29 +0000

thanks for the kind works. I really don’t know why the video doesn’t work for you. I checked it and it works for me, and no one else complained about it. I think the problem might be somewhere on your side. Anyway… you can always download the project file and see it all in full glory. Enjoy.

By: illd

illd — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:35:20 +0000

Unbelievable Masterpiece!

One note:@ 34:31 Video always breaks down, maybee becaus im using the opera Browser. Im a trying it again with firefox, cant wait to see the finish!

By: aefreemart : Maltaanon.com Tutorials

aefreemart : Maltaanon.com Tutorials — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:33:54 +0000

[...] of the sites in the Toolfarm network is Maltaanon.com. Check out his two newest AE video tutorials: Growing 3D Vines and Flashlight Titles. They are really amazing. Posted by Michele Yamazaki on Tuesday, April 29, [...]

By: Mazzimiliano

Mazzimiliano — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:20:12 +0000

Thanks for coming back!
Keep it up!

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:36:58 +0000

Your comments give me a good reason to continue guys! Don’t stop, and I won’t stop either. By the way… If any of you is going to be in Poland (Warsaw) just give me a call. Maybe we’ll meet and have a beer. Cheers!

By: Wesley Ob

Wesley Ob — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:10:47 +0000

Karim Dehibi said it well. Students like us need a way to learn AE…Im incredibly grateful for all of the tutorials.

By: Karim Dehbi

Karim Dehbi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:15:18 +0000

dobry den!

i am only a student and i don’t have possibilites to pay with paypal coz u need a credit card ( u can’t have one if u don’t have steady income)

anyway wanted to say great job
i just discovered your site today (before i only knew video co pilot)

good to know there is an AE god on this side of the world (europe)

i like the way you think!
im a belgian student doing internship in czech republic
i visited poland 3 weeks ago (krakau it was nice!)

have a nice day and plz keep it up
poor students and aspiring aftereffect artists (a³) need YOU

By: mike

mike — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:16:10 +0000

thanks 4 46 min!! wow

By: Urt

Urt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:54:20 +0000

Great tutorial man! I learn a lot from your tuts, especiallt technical stuff. Great source for becoming confident with AE and its many tools. Looking forward to that circle tut you mentioned!
Cheers!

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:39:36 +0000

Binding the light direction on the Bevel & Emboss layer style would require changing the particle rotation on the particle emitter to the rotation inside the custom particle precomp, and that produces less quality results. Besides, it’s hard to know how the Speed Rotation within the Particular is calculated. It could be measured I guess, but what can I say… I got lazy.

Above that - I already don’t like you dude. You seem to be thinking like me, and if theres two of me, that means I’m not special. Of course theres George, but that’s a different story ;)

By: Brian Berneker

Brian Berneker — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:10:29 +0000

I’m surprised that an expressions junkie like the great Maltaanon didn’t create an expression to lock the vine highlight rotation steady to the comp! Otherwise great groundbreaking tutorial Jerz! I’m sure Kramer will be humbled :)

Brian

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:11:43 +0000

It’s nice to be back.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:51:19 +0000

I thought you forgot that you have a website! Thank you for coming back…

greets from Israel

By: nomair

nomair — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:25:04 +0000

it’s very good thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks

By: UmairVFX

UmairVFX — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:07:36 +0000

Wow nice dude…!

Sir Malttaanon… could i suggest you one think….?

actually my suggestion is why you not try you launch any VFX Challenge here like any vfx video same as CGtalk where you can see a forum named mini Challenge or Challenge…. hope you will consider about it…??

waiting for your response… ;)

http://www.youtube.com/user/umairvfx

check this out guys and Sir Malttaannon ;) my new try with after effects and 3d studio max …

please comments there…

Regards,
UmairVFX

By: fReezEr.

fReezEr. — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:57:07 +0000

The best Tutorial after CE ShapeExtruder i think(a lot of many techniques,tips & tricks), so my friend go forward and only forward and you all will be better better and more better ;)

Andrew Hlus - MUST BE BETTER :)

By: iori

iori — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:55:52 +0000

Why not delete noname’s reply?
He doesn’t even show a little respect to you!
I’ve watched your tutorials Maltaannon, it’s excellent!
Though may not be that practical in this particular situation,it still leave us more to think over and explore.

Also I think you could make more tutorials so that we can be inspired, thanks!

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:41:05 +0000

Don’t be so hard on yourself.

By: noname

noname — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:18:48 +0000

idiot

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:30:46 +0000

Me and Andrew Kramer are friends, or at least I think we are. We haven’t meet yet, but we do talk from time to time, exchange ideas and such. I also think that any kind of battle is pointless since (like you’ve noticed) we have completely different style and we simply do different kinds of tutorials, although taking custody over Sam is pretty tempting.

I believe that if you want to bind particles to a path you have to use the Light. PArticular was designed that way. But of course instead of using Motion path you can just animate the position of the emitter. It gives the same results in specyfic cases.

Particles can be bigger than 200×200. Particular will then display the warning but it will still work. The idea behind particles is that they are small, theres a lot of them, and they don’t have much detail in them, but if you want to use bigger particles you can. The only downside of it is the render time.

Hope that answers your questions.
Thank you for nice comments guys!

By: flatoshop

flatoshop — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:20:14 +0000

Great tutorial dude, i saw kramers vines tutorial but i don’t have 3d max, so i was unable to to that effect, i’m pretty sure that 3d max or any other 3d application gives better results, but this is pretty useful, and, its always good to see a good trapcode particular tutorial. I dont like the after effects particular system at all. i always use particular.

and i dont think theres need a battle between u and kramer, u both are great, and u have different style

what i do to link the particular with a path is only link the position [x,y] and [z] with a animated 3d null object, but i don’t undestern why you use the time() expression, you need to use that if u link the particular emitter to a light?
is it better to link to a light that link to a null object?

and one last comment, particulars cant be bigger than 200 pxs right? what happen on a camera close up? things go blurry?

OK thats all, thanx for your great tutorial, an greeting from Mexico, continue with your great tutorials!

By: ahmed

ahmed — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:41:05 +0000

Great job

thank u

By: olivesimon

olivesimon — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:29:14 +0000

Ouch ! It’s great, it’s so big, what a great job and a new perspective in using after effects…

I will try to translate it in french !:)

Keep going to battle with Mr Kramer ;) thx

By: ninguem

ninguem — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:19:36 +0000

Well………..not much left to say…and not much breath left on me…so……….f. nice!

The amazing amount of information inside your tutorials make’em really interisting.

Thanxxx mate.

Cheers.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:56:36 +0000

Hey my Genius-M, I have a request, I always wondered, how a CG element seemlessly integrates with a live action footage. I have researched but never found any good solution to it.

Any Idea or TIP or a tutorial will b very helpful, How to match the camera angle of a live action footage with a CG element? Also How to integrate both of the stuffs together to get the actual relistic Results?

I will b gr8ful to u, if u can post some example of doing this sort of STUFF.

Thank you my Genius-M for all the tutorials and plz I also beg to plz fill my request if u can.

Thanks again & Take Care - BYE - MARK

By: naim alwan

naim alwan — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:45:01 +0000

Wow… been waiting a long time for a new tutorial… it was well worth the wait… thanks man… you kick ass…

By: Vinnie

Vinnie — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:00:50 +0000

Awesome tutorial!! Thank you so much for them, much appreciated!

By: R-max

R-max — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:10:41 +0000

Ouch !!! Big Thank’s :-)

By: CalvinWood

CalvinWood — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:17:35 +0000

finally, i can see how did do it .i can’t guess the last time -_-

By: amir

amir — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:29:39 +0000

so nice
Great job !
you are the one and only
go on

By: mostafa

mostafa — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:12:10 +0000

i miss u moltaannon v.much
thanks 4 coming back

so nice tutorial

i want to see more

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:20:23 +0000

Hey Genius-M, ur BACK……hehehhehehe gr8 2 c u again.
Wat I always like abt u is ur Technique, u always try to tell some uncommon techniques, which is very useful.
gr8 job, thnx n keep us updated. Bye. MARK

By: khaled

khaled — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:07:56 +0000

yes this is Maltaannon creative man
great tutorial
thank’s wating for more

By: Maltaannon

Maltaannon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:32:43 +0000

Thanks guys. I just realized that something is seriously messed up with the video. For some reason I was unable to render it from Premiere, so I imported the edit into After Effects, and as I see everything is messed up. Sorry for that. I’ll try to fix it and replace the video file.

By: Splasz

Splasz — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:33:01 +0000

nice, nice. good job ~!!!

By: Nico

Nico — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:59:50 +0000

Great job !

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:26:48 +0000

I think we need an AE showdown between you and Mr. Kramer, winner gets custody of Sam Loya. ;)

By: umairvfx

umairvfx — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:19:05 +0000

Georage very soon i will upload my 3d vines video by using your amazing and awesome techinics… nice one Dude.. ;)

By: Craig Hellen

Craig Hellen — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:40:26 +0000

dude!!! you are the one and only AE god. Thanks for this

By: Darkskill

Darkskill — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:01:32 +0000

nice :)

By: UmairVFX

UmairVFX — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:24:48 +0000

WOW dude you are the only one… ;)