Animating cracks ? + realistic camera shake.

[Tony Kloiber]

You might try the lightning plugin to generate a matte layer. If you can find an image of some cracks you like, you could reveal them using the paint plugin.

To shake the final comp place a null in the comp and wiggle it’s position and scale and then parent the other elements to it. The problem of course will be that your bkg plate will show it’s edges so you have to scale everything up just enough to prevent that from happing. Add another null and parent the first null to it and then scale up as needed.

TonyTony

[Eran Solomon]

The lightning plugin was a good idea to get crack shapes. but how exactly do I generate a matte layer from that? since the plugin makes the lightning moving and not just one piece of crack like I would like

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Try shattering a layer with the effect called Simulation > Shatter.

Set the shape to Glass

Set the viscosity all the way up to 1

Set the Gravity to 0

May not be waht you want, but maybe…

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[Mike Clasby]

Scott Frizzle’s freebie animation preset “Quaker” is great for camera/scene shake, fills in the edge pixels and all, check it out:

https://www.scottfrizzle.com/free_quake.html

Just add the preset to the preset folder in Adobe>AE>support or navigate to it from Animation > Apply Animation Preset.
It’s all explained in a pdf. Sample movie available at site.

[Mike Clasby]

You could do Composition>Save Frame As to get a still of that lightning you like.

[Tony Kloiber]

yikesmikes is right on here. Make a new comp, add a solid, add lightning effect and tweak until your happy with the shape at a given frame, export that frame and bring it back into you project. Viola, you have a crack matte.

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