After Effects Shatter Pieces On Floor

A key to making shatter work the way you want is to use a gradient layer or a separate layer that tells the shattter effect how to behave this will make more sense later on you can make your gradient layer in photoshop illustrator or another graphic program then import the file into after effects.

After effects shatter pieces on floor.

On first impressions the shatter effect may seem kind of cheesy. If it is set to 1 only the pieces in the force sphere corresponding to white or nearly white areas on the gradient layer shatter. Some of the effects in ae s library are quite useful. If it is set to 50 all the pieces in the force sphere corresponding to white to 50 gray areas on the gradient layer shatter.

After effects shatter floor. In this tutorial you ll learn how to make shatter glass effect transition using adobe after effects. Hello i m sorry this is kinda messy but i hope it helps a bit. This is an easy tutorial even beginners can follow.

Http bit ly ae glass click the link and discover more about creating a dynamic shattered glass style animation in adobe after effects. This tutorial is going to help you learn to use the shatter effect in after effects. Some effects in ae have been around so long that we tend to overlook them. If shatter threshold is set to 0 no pieces in the force sphere shatter.

Naturally to make it dynamic i had to apply the rigid body tag to each of 200 pieces cos it didn t work with parent null and if i connected these pieces into one object and made it dynamic then it wouldn t shatter. Using only the too. You can also make the layer in after effects itself which it what we will do. Which looks odd and not what i thought of and somehow i did find a way to keep it together just until the collision.

Plugin play shares some advanced shatter techniques for making the standard after effects shatter stand out.