TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
December 06, 2009
• Create a dynamic bar graph with customizable values
• Streamline graph production without sacrificing quality
 
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
Remember Expression controls and layer names are Case Sensitive.
Running Time: 20mins.


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by Djowie 02/23/2010
Props 2 Andrew ;)
by PIBE3357 02/05/2010
HEY ANDREW! NICE TUTO, YOU HAVE THOUGHT SUSTITULAR THEM ABOUT SPANISH. GREETINGS FROM NICARAGUA
by Alan 02/04/2010
hey can anyone tell me how to .. after completing the toturail, at the end he brings back the camera movement, how does he do that? I keep trying to bring back the camera movement but i cant
by goran 02/03/2010
The part of the dog eating a cat and been sick, made my day, i was very angry, i like to see your tutorials to feel better.
by Emmanuel 01/29/2010
Hola soy un Argentino interesado en su paquete casi completo de casi todos los programas el precio estaria establecido en pesos no en dolares, solo es para quedarme tranquilo bueno nada espero su respuesta lo antes posible desde muy atte:
by DFR (SPAV) 01/20/2010
Thanks, really great tutorial, once again! I noticed that a few people have posted interest(myself included), in the Bars that were created in 3ds Max. I realize this is an AE forum/site though, I also noticed in certain instances, AK included what he did in 3ds max. Can I ask for an addendum to this tut that explains how he got those great bars, or at leat a writeup on this blog on how he did it? I know the focus is the animation and getting the end result of controlling images and the like, but with such a cool look, you can't help us wanting to make an animation that looks just as cool. Thanks again!
by Pasan 01/18/2010
Hey Andrew You are the best.Great Job Man.
by Adam Stewart 01/18/2010
I taught myself AE with your help. thank you so much. I also purchased about half your product and now I have quite the income thanks to your willingness to help others. thank you all!!!
by soufian 01/18/2010
Great tutorial Andrew !! great job ! and wise solution !
only it would be more usefull if it was rendered without the blue athmosphere so we can blend it to our sceans !

thanks from morocco !!!
by labidi 01/18/2010
good work , thanks
by Wooow 01/17/2010
Yea hes probably not the best, but for sure these are the best AE tutorials on the internet.
by Adri 01/13/2010
ive tried it in combination with your sound key tutorial ... you can easily build your 3d equalizer or something like that ... nice idea :)
by Kimble 01/13/2010
Andrew Kramer...sincerest thanks for the fantastic job you're doing. I'm fairly new to motion graphics and truly appreciate your clarity in all your tutorials. I appreciate your sense of humor too. Your team of professionals truly deserve a great deal of thanks for the outstanding time and effort put into your tutorials...many thanks dude!
by hasang 01/11/2010
Thanks Alot you are The Great AVATAR! for Adobe AE.

Hasan Dubai
by AlienMatos 01/10/2010
You Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love your tuts... im gonna learn AE with your tuts... really
by Omanand Permaul 01/08/2010
great work Andrew Kramer your a Godsend ... thank you for sharing your work with the enthusiast... motion grafics community ...ur a motivational factor when were sometimes discourage...

thanks again
Greetings from Guyana South America
by lanre 01/06/2010
Great tut! you awesome. learnt lot of useful things
by stef 01/06/2010
it is nothing but owesome! Greeting form china
by laserfisch 01/05/2010
I`m not sure what I like more - your humor or the quality of your tutorials. Greetings from Germany.
by Pingu 12/30/2009
Awesome Tutorials, you are the best with after effects

Greetings from Italy^^
by djfilms 12/28/2009
This tutorial is astounding for its cleverness. Somebody give Andrew a Nobel Prize, or something.....
by Jonathan Lyerly 12/28/2009
Andrew - another awesome tutorial. Thanks so much for everything you do!

I thought it would be cool to animate the values under the bars too. Here is an expression that will do that. Put this expression in the Source Text for each layer. You'll need to also change "Bar 01" to "Bar 02" for the second text field, etc. It just has to match whatever you named your comp for the corresponding Bar.

AnimationCompletion=thisComp.layer("Bar 01").effect("Percentage")("Slider")/100;
x = thisComp.layer("Bar 01").effect("Bar Value")("Slider")*AnimationCompletion;
y = Math.round(x);
y
by eathan28 12/25/2009
love this andrew! really helpful for the project im doin! :))
by cavetajimmy 12/23/2009
MIL GRACIAS....
by hichamb_15 12/22/2009
really greatfull tutorials.
i just want to tell you that if it was any possibility to translate the videos from english to french, people will come to watch videos more that they do now.However, i'm really happy to learn from your videos.
god luck
by Alex 12/22/2009
GREAT!!! Very nice tutor!! from Nigeria.
by Yousef 12/21/2009
Why is the project called "Giraffes 02"? :P
by amrull melodic 12/21/2009
Nice Turorial....
But, if you can make a powerful twister...
Help Pleace....!!!
Video Copilot.... Is My Teacher...!!!
Thanks...
by Nicollas (NRiP) 12/20/2009
hello Andrew, how are you? I am loving of the AE, everything that I learned until the start of this year was alone, but since January you have taught me very, I have 15 years and intend to be a Motion Designer, I find that I am learning with the certain person, you are of congratulations with its work.

I have a question, which the configuration of your PC?

The Friend there of low, exactly name, almost the same age that mine, that coincidence not?
by Kaz 12/19/2009
the background looks really good on this but the tutorial doesnt explain how it was created.. is it possible to explain that or make some tutorials with great constructed backgrounds and walls..

cheers from Australia
by Nicolas 12/19/2009
Hello my name is Nicola and I am Argentine Spanish language as you know at this moment I am using a translator but Andrew tutorials are great but my question was whether they can translate or subtitle the tutorials, that would serve him much to people with Spanish language and also increase web visits to know that I am not the only one interested in these effects is so incredible that I am only 14 years and learned a lot from this alone I need you to please think
by Nicolas 12/19/2009
hello my name is Nicola and I am Argentine Spanish language as you know at this moment I am using a translator but Andrew tutorials are great but my question was whether they can translate or subtitle the tutorials, that would serve him much to people with Spanish language and also increase web visits to know that I am not the only one interested in these effects is so incredible that I am only 14 years and learned a lot from this alone I need you to please think
atte
Nicolas
by arman 12/19/2009
good work man!!!
by Lluc 12/19/2009
It's a fascinating tutorial, you're my teacher


From Vic,Catalonia
by Lucas Kuhn 12/19/2009
You explains it so good that I'm brazilian, I didn't make a english course (learn it with lineage 2) and I understand all of your tutorials!
You're so good. Congratulations by the great tutorials and products, and I want that you make a 3ds max tutorial with reflections, materials, bitmaps, metalic effects and more. You are so good! The logo with particular is so good too! Thanks!
Greetings from Brazil!
by Jamiel Banda 12/18/2009
Fantastic stuff,
by VideoCopilot Mania 12/18/2009
Hey Andrew,
I have an idea. When you make the 100th tutorial, if you can make a free package with all of the projects :) It will be cool !!!
By George. Greetings From BULGARIA !
by mohamed 12/17/2009
I wont to leering this program start with what ?
i need to u experience
by Naeem 12/16/2009
Hi, sir this is my 1st reply in ur site i really learn alot and don some amazing work with the help of ur tutorials u r doing a great job and may God give u more power 2 do this kind of amamzing work in future..... thanks again
by Terskov Alexander 12/16/2009
Awesome tutorial! Thanks! I' waiting for 100! Is 100 will be a New Year present?
by VideoCopilot Mania 12/16/2009
Hey Andrew can you give us an idea for something cool for Christmas ?? Something for the family :)

Greetings from Bulgaria !!!
by Rafay 12/16/2009
im expecting something special for century. WOW

But i know Andrew will come up with somthing Extraordinary. and sometimes, simplicity is extraordinary too. :p
by wedfu 12/16/2009
Andrew thank you for this tutorial, it falls at the right time to record my end of year
by Cepreu4 12/15/2009
I think that it would be a really good addition to make a 3D passes (bars and shadow with alpha separately from background) to skip this meaningless operations with cutting out bars from a footage.
by Anthony Herrington 12/15/2009
Oooo the 100th tutorial is making me anxious!!!!

These all look so good!!!! This is a great accomplishment Andrew!!
by Sameer 12/14/2009
As we just did your are the best and its was 83 bit on you and i have won it, its like a dream cames true.
best of luck.
AK,
by Trevor L. 12/14/2009
hey andrew. i was wondering if you can give me some tips on how to make a intro so i can show my work to some possible clients
Thanks,
Trevor
by benx 12/14/2009
im so gonna do something lyk this for skl or something...lyk a project..xD
thanx!!...


SUPERHERO TUTORIALS!!!..
there are so many ppl out there doing lyk whatever...
we need a little instruction and this site is just awesome for learning!!!..
by ShoeToad 12/14/2009
And now show us how to build the expression...
by Goldorachox 12/14/2009
Moustache gracias great tuto
i gonna take a drink for you from belgium
by george 12/14/2009
think you Andrew very nice...I hope you will make more and more exciting things 3Dmax
by Ian Leo 12/13/2009
Hi Andrew! Great tutorial thanks!!
by Eduardo 12/13/2009
Andrew your tutorials has changed my life. I never knew how to do all that stuff that I watched on TV or on a movie. Cheers from Mexico City.Keep doing great things.
by Jad 12/13/2009
Great tutorial, amazing, it would have been cool if you explained the expression, but I'll check it out closer and try to figure it out by myself, it won't damage my brain I guess :)
Thanks a lot, your tutorial are reaching lots of people, thanks for your help, I wonder what is going to be tutorial number 100 hehe

Keep rockin' :) I bought some of your product they rock too.

by Vahid 12/13/2009
very useful. thanks.
by peter 12/13/2009
Thank you sir,nice tutorial!!!!
by Allan Samayoa 12/12/2009
Oh! men i really need it some thing like that, before November 29, (It was Presidential elections in my country, HONDURAS)and i do some graphics in 3D for the TV Channel that i work for, and im glad to tell you, i used some thing like this tutorial without knowing, i do the render and i use TIME REMAP too, but the idea come to me because some monts ago, you tell in your blog than you are working in a cool way to do 3d graphics, then i put my brain to work. THANKS ALWAYS FOR YOU GREATS IDEAS.
by Matthew Park 12/12/2009
Once again.... Not dissapointed. Keep it up Kramer.
by Martin 12/12/2009
Hmmm - the idea was to make ONE render as Andrew said. The render AK made took 20 min. for ALL bars. Would you really make 30 renderings if you had that amount of issues to show ?? THAT is Not the idea.

One rendering in 3D, an' you're of to go with expresions - i Think it's a preeety darn nice way to save (exspensiv) time

WAY TO GO - Vc/Ak ... thumbs up


quote: by Vasiliy Slyusar 12/11/2009
Very usefull tutorial. Thanks.
Maybe, it's better to render out each bar separately from 3dsMax.
by ubay 12/12/2009
cool
by Makarand 12/12/2009
Thank you sir,nice tute.... this will be more helpful for saving time in rendering....with all due respect i call you real AE Guru...and hope you're 100th tutorial will be more exciting...like never before seen

Merry Christmas
by vishesh vikrant 12/12/2009
u r r gem sir realy..thanx a lot
by SELVARAJAN 12/12/2009
Hi,Iam not sure whether you read comments but if you do here's a request :Could you pl do another motion track tutorial like 'crater on road' -may be with Syntheyes instead of horribly expensive , unaffordable Boujou ?
by Janus 12/11/2009
Excellent tutorial, very useful!
by Daniel Miori 12/11/2009
Great tut Andrew!!!

Nice way to use expressions...

by Vasiliy Slyusar 12/11/2009
Very usefull tutorial. Thanks.
Maybe, it's better to render out each bar separately from 3dsMax.
by Dot 12/11/2009
Hi
can you post the max file?
by Joey 12/10/2009
The dog/cat part made my day. Thanks for the tuts, it's awesome!
by AV.Rishi 12/10/2009
Dear Andrew, We looking for 100 th tutorial....
by Juan 12/10/2009
Andrew, I hope your wife and your kids to be better!
We are pleased to have you around here again!

Thanks for this tutorial
by nick 12/10/2009
please....tell me.....when is optical flares coming out? This month?
by vic 12/10/2009
what were your compression settings for the project footage? very good res for only 793kb.
by shoze 12/10/2009
I must say that this is the first tutorial which isn't helpful... All I can do is copying the project and the expressions, and maybe change the graphics... I mean you didn't really help us to learn new things, just showed what you are capable of doing...
But you are a Cool guy!!!
by Chris O 12/10/2009
EXCELLENT! You just made my PowerPoint presentations that much more awesome!

Boss is gonna love this...
by Blake 12/10/2009
awesome! not anything crazy but this will be useful in making me look for professional at work!
by shahed 12/10/2009
that was nice , but I wonder why you skip the important part (Expression),it was better u explain them too , thanks

Shahed from Iran
by sravan 12/09/2009
nice tutorial I would have like to see how did you rendered such a glossy bars in 3dmax
by Chronoarts.com 12/09/2009
Now... Andrew Kreamer is my Master ...!!
Very proud if I could Meet Andrew Kreamer...
you'll always be the best.
thanks for this very helpful

once again thanks a Ton.
in indonesia : sekali lagi terimakasih banyak...!!
by Brock Smith 12/09/2009
My dog Keno actually ate my black cat i used to have named ebony... no joke.
by Stephen Cho 12/09/2009
99 tutorials!!!!
I wonder 100th Tutorial is >o< hehe
looking forward to it~!!!
And nice Job!! as u always did~
by Aaron 12/09/2009
Not exactly one of the most exciting tutorials, but I have to admit probably one of the most useful! Especially for me, a college student ;].

I'll definitely will use this in school sometime.
by lucas M. 12/09/2009
nice, i can hear the air conditioning of your room
by Pe?o 12/09/2009
oh yeah, I forgot to say thank you for all this stuff...So THANK YOU Andrew and Thank you video copilot, I hope you will make more and more exciting things...
by sunil(nepal) 12/09/2009
nice and useful tut thnx andrew from nepal !
by Kamanzi 12/09/2009
Can you imagine how your tutorials,help peoples in this world,Man you're wonderful,no Andrew no After Effect,from RWANDA(AFRICA)
by Kakatis 12/09/2009
Other very good tutorial Andrew.
You are the Best!
Thank you from Brazil!!
by mauroalzate 12/09/2009
GREAT!!! Very nice tutorial !
by jaallmighty 12/09/2009
How do you make plug-ins? Please answer.

Good job on those tutorials.
by Erjan 12/09/2009
Merci beaucoup pour ce Tuto !
Je les ai tous vu, tous géniaux ! =D
by Talos 12/09/2009
Great tutorial, anything that makes bar graphs less that utterly boring has to be good.

I have been looking for something to add a little extra to a variation of your HUD i have been playing with and the 2D bar graphs with a wiggle on the value looks just the ticket.

Can't wait for 100th
thanks
Tal
by B 12/09/2009
cool. my most productive 20 minutes of the day.

from Hong Kong
by jedmellon 12/09/2009
Hey fantastic tut, but I think you should doubble check those stats, I think you will find that in 2009 robots where overwhelmingly unhappy with the bar graph, studies showed almost 0 popularity in comparison to that of the pie chart.

Thanks Again.
by Floskfinger 12/09/2009
I'm sorry to tell that I got too bored to finnish wathing this.

This wasn't entertaining at all! (Yes, I usually watch your tutorials as entertainment during lunch.)

Hopefully the next one will kick ass instead!
by san 12/09/2009
hey andrew this is a great one.
i love it...
by max 12/09/2009
damn, almost 100 tuts. gues the next one will hopefully kick ass (maybe sam`s)
by KayJay_DX 12/09/2009
Andrew, you never become uncreative. Love it!
by Wassim Lens 12/09/2009
Woow ,
Thanks My Teacher Kramer For Great Tutorial
by Yossi 12/08/2009
Ha! I just had a Statistics project, and this would have been useful! There's another one coming up later on this year, though.

Thank you countlessly for your tutorials that are so relative and applicable to our daily lives!!!
by rui bras 12/08/2009
´cause of you my wife want a divorce.i spend my nights watching your tuts.i love you dude. ooh, by the way don´t you have a little room there?i don´t no where i´m gonna spend my nights after tomorrow.
p.s.i´m a excellent cook. cheers from brazil.
by moonjk 12/08/2009
Always Thanks. From South Korea
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