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  • Bar Chart “Shattering” Thru the Top

    Posted by Cory Blische on June 29, 2016 at 7:22 pm

    Hi! I’m a long-time reader of the forum and tutorials, but this may be my first post yet!

    I’m working on a project that involves lots of financial charts. Specifically, some bar charts that the client wants to see “break thru” the top of the y-axis scale. (Here’s a rough storyboard of the animation.)

    Initially, I thought I could use the Shatter preset to achieve this effect. My thought was that I would turn the Shatter layer 3D, flip it 90° on the x, and that would be that.

    Not so easy, as I see Shatter doesn’t really create 3D objects, the way a particle generator would.

    I toyed with creating the “ceiling” with a number of thin shapes and then keyframing them, but it would not be the ideal way to do it, as it would be so time-consuming.

    Does anyone know of a reasonably quick solution to this problem?

    Daniel Waldron replied 10 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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