Advanced Electric FX Tutorial! 100% After Effects! 

Great stuff as always. I barely use After Effects anymore, but I still love watching your tutorials. The times when I do put together a video I always find some way to put a nice touch on it with a combination of the concepts and techniques you teach. You always get a chuckle out of me at some point. Thanks, Tim

Damn that cloud effect looks beautiful

I'm thrilled you guys are still creating content. I remember watching Video Copilot roughly 6 years ago. You guys just popped into my head a few days ago, so I decided to check in. Glad to subscribe. Keep up the great work!

Andrew is an amazing example he is so passionate. You can tell he enjoys his job.

The quality of explanation and the details... everything's so great... I just love you 3000...! 😄

Thank you for always explaining more than just "click here make it this value", there are always a couple extra seconds to say what you are actually affecting, making it easier to apply the effect to anything. Yours is one of only a handful of channels that have actually helped me learn some new techniques and further what i know, plus you're funny, making any lesson alot less boring and alot easier to remember. a sub for you sir!

This is by far one of the best tutorials I've ever seen. Thanks a million.

Too good man, rarely have an excuse to use AE effects for work but I just love watching these as entertainment, blows my mind that this has remained free during all the years. Much respect!

Amazing tutorial. One of the best I've seen. Great talker, perfect speed, easy to understand and follow with great results. 10/10.

Sold me on Elements 3D with that tangent. Entertaining and intuitive as always!

I want to thank you for being an inspiration and always remind me to play in after effects to find cool new possibilities within the tools we all already have!

And now you gonna see thousands of video templates with this freaking awesome lighting effects invading the markets ... thanks Andrew for everything

A lot of awesome stuff to learn from this video. Thank you so much Andrew Sir for this 😀👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻

Woohuuu - Andrews is back! Thx for the great tutorials!!

One thing is for sure when you are going to watch Video Copilot Tutorials, There is always new knowledge, learning and techniques you can get from it. Thanks Andrew Cramer! for giving us always awesome tutorials

Just when you think it can't get any better....another tutorial comes out. Thanks Andrew !!!

How could anyone dislike this? :/ Really Helpfull though. :)

Brace yourself to see this in everyone's video introduction on their own channels now.

Thanks for letting me know about many 1st-party effects with this tutorial. Now I can go and update all of my existing projects and avoid some dumb pre-compositing, additional solid layers and baking I was always doing.

I cannot express enough how thankful I am for your videos. Thank you so much, you're the man.

the Intro always gets me so hyped

you make realy good After Effekts Tutorials. Thank you for that😉😎

I've been wanting to use force lightning in some future stop motion projects but I just couldn't find a tutorial/video that had effects that I liked. And this are what I've been looking for!

there's no doubt..... every sound effects, songs, in your video makes the video even more awesome. geez lots to be learned....

Miss you Andrew

The best!

Been using that FX Console. Shaved off enough time on my work I now get to see my children. Thank you Andrew!

Andrew, been following your channel since ~2010 or 11! Anyway always brilliant. Thank you so much for helping all the VFX artists out there learn more & FOR FREE! :::)

Great tutorial, especially the back lit cloud lightning. I followed along using Nuke ;)

I am a simple guy, I hear "Andrew Kramer", I hit like.

I've been waiting so long for a new tutorial from you :) I've been repeat watching all your old ones and I was ALMOST bored.

Amazing work as always! Thank you for sharing Andrew!

Amazed, thank you sensei

The intro where it reveals the logo when the lightning hits it from both sides is so clean. I need to know how to make that!

Andrew, I SALUTE you, man! I got a bit tired after watching the tutorial, and you had to MAKE this! Hats off!

What a deep study about lighning. This was enlightning. Thank you.

ophhh yessss!!! finallyyy :D

These are the times when I realize that I have After Effects and I know ca. 1% of it... Awesome tutorial 👍👍👍

Learning when and where the Solid Composite can come to the rescue is challenging. Thank you very much for the wisdom.

This weird feeling when u have 30+ and you know basically most there is to know about photoshop, and your learning curve is not that awesome as it was once upon the time, and you see the level of deepness of this tutorial, and you're realizing that getting to this level of advanced is practically locked for you. I'm hitting subscribe button, and the bell with tears. You are Aron Nace of after effects.

Adrew! You sir, are a national fucking treasure! On the behalf of every living creature in Milky Way: Thank you for these tutorials! Andromeda peeps will be jealous.

3:50 "a shocking number of results" LOL

Once again, Andrew Kramer blows me away with another genius use of simple After Effects tools. Like Steve Jobs said, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

loved that tutorial ! It's detailled, no plugin, fun comments and such quality !! I almost never comment RU-vid video but your's are so good that I have to ! Best regards from France

I'm early, and I'm here for some shocking puns in an amazing tutorial made by the most handsome guy

"I'll try to keep any electrical puns to a minimum" That's a gaddamn lie and _you KNOW it!_

this channel is number one to teach any beginner of this program afterefect ...excellent work men

More, more lessons. Such amazing things are made from such simple details.

The first thing I learned from this was that an "Advanced Lightning" plugin even existed.

This tutorial really sparked my interest.

Your solution to the challange is so simple it's pure genius! Congrats AK, these last tuts are the best I've ever seen and they're rising the bar to a whole new level. They're totally worth the wait. I hope you will never give up on making tutorials, because you're such a great resource for the AE community. People who always want more never fully learn, they just watch.

I Love ALL Your Plugins and Tutorials!!

Of all the tutorials I've done this one should be nice 'n easy, but for some reason on the cloud comp I CANNOT get the CC Composite to function properly. I tried several workarounds, but I can't get my original lightning back on top. This is very aggravating because I just want to get to the rest of the tutorial. I shouldn't be getting snagged when I am following every step down to the frame.

Hey Andrew, where is that helicopter- and car-modelpack for Element 3D that you never promised?

I am in the middle of a client project. So I just came to hit like on the video. And then watch later. Thank you Kramer! I owe my career to you!

Nice tut as always! :) Never stop doing this, Andrew!!

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HE's Back!! AWESOME!! and... Where is Intercept????????????

Well,... get some sleep Sensei Kramer!! Glad to see you back!!! This is awesome!!

Andrew sir,you are brilliant for 11 years experience of after effect and I double triple salute for you and your actor. best tutorial thank you.

when the next tutorial is going to be appear?

3rd!

Awesome video ... I'm so glad you take the time to teach us these techniques in order to learn how to do visual effects. Very inspiring ... thank you so much :)

I have never even touches after effects or any other visual tool, yet i find this very very cool. Instant sub.

8 months... where are you ?

the typographics that appear in the begining, called "Sui Generis" its actually a clasic rock band from Argentina jajaj

This is awesome. Thanks again, Andrew!

There is so much more that can be learned while watching the video, besides the effects itself.

dc movies starter pack

Andrew comeback!!! :(!!

WOW WOW WOW - had so much fun making these. Thank you very much!

FINALLY! After so long, he has returned.

where are the tutorials??

I missed this voice :)

Thanks for making this tutorial! We can make so many things from this. Lightning, laser pointers, Star Trek beams, spot lights, tree roots, veins, walking electric aliens... lol . And when you were using that texture it looked like you were putting lightning on the moon. :)

I was expirementing with other lighting types and personally I like the two way strike because it works very closely to the saber plugin.

who want a sports car Element 3D pack ?!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am Shocked that you used no 3rd party plugins

You really are an inspiration for me to try out new things on Adobe AE THANK YOU ❤️

Thank you!! My After Effects skills just got an upgrade.

who are the poor souls who hit the dislike button by accident?

AEW Rampage!!!

You never ease to amaze me! Thank you a million times Andrew, for all you do for the community. Keep rockin' Bro'! :))))))))))))))))) (Now, I'm gonna add some glowing cloud effects on the beginning of my Batman video ^^)

What I needed was simple, but next time when it isn't, I'll know what to do. Thank you!

When you realize "Intercept" was supposed to come out two years ago...

roses are red my garden's unkept where god-dammit is intercept?

learn a lot...thanks Andrew. I remember i m learning from you as i was a 14 year teenager . you are my favorite mentor ever

Dope video!!! And love that you used the 7th and Metro area in Downtown LA. Resident here! Keep these videos coming!

AWESOME tutorial, that's what I'm always waiting for, cuz Idk how to use the electric effects

ALWAYS THE BEST TUTORIALS OUT THERE! :D

Wow! Did not know about the lighting alpha obstacle ( amongst other things). Thanks HEAPS Andrew

dude I just looove learning stuff from you. Its just awesome haha!!

this plugin it outstanding and make everything look better,cooler, bigger, lighter ....waaahhh i love it

Awesome like always. Real fun to listen Andrew.

Who the hell thumbs down this tutorial??? this was awesome like all of the others thanks for sharing your time on a FREE training Andrew

That's AMAZING! Only Andrew could think about this!

What a great tutorial. Love it!

In love with your tutorial bro. keep more coming

AK is back! thank you very much! i love after effect!

Thanks for the awesome tutorial - I'm planning a short film project for later in the year and will certainly use some of this type of stuff. Should be great for real videos, special effects and Visual Effects working together!