• Adobe After Effects

  delay the Shatter?

  Posted by Peter Stenhouse on September 1, 2005 at 11:02 am

  Hi there. Firstly If there is a tutorial on the shatter simulation please point me to it! my questions are quite simple, but I still can’t seem to find the answers.
  I want to start the shatter effect some frames into the layers animation, once the image I am exploding has drawn on. How do I delay the shatter effect.
  Secondly, what is the gradient layer for? I can I use this to improve my shatter.
  Thanks foy your help.
  Sincerely
  Peter

  David Arbor replied 16 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Peter Stenhouse

  September 1, 2005 at 1:57 pm

  I sorted it out..by animating the threshold of a gradient layer. Found the Shatter tutorial on this site and am now very content blowing stuff up. hear there and everywhere.
• 

  David Arbor

  March 3, 2010 at 8:07 pm

  Peter, I know this post is four and a half years old, but I was just trying to do the very thing you asked and I couldn’t figure it out. A quick google search and lo and behold, a COW post comes up! Thanks for responding to your own question once you figured it out, that’s always helpful and obviously in this case, very useful.

  Thanks Again!

  -David
  http://www.davidarbor.com
  Editor/Videography/Graphics

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up