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Crumbling Wall
Hi guys. Wondering if anyone can help me.
I am currently creating an ident for some people, but have hit, quite literally, a wall.
The basic concept of the ident is that after a short animation, the main character in the comp strikes a wall, as he does this, pieces of the wall crack and fall away, spelling out some text.
Basically, i’ve got to the point where the wall is struck, but can’t come up with a way to get it to crack or crumble in any kind of realistic or fun looking way. I’m pretty new to AE, and i’m pretty sure this is dead easy, but hey, we all had to learn somehow. Does anyone have any ideas how to achieve this effect convincingly? I would forever be in your debt.
Thanks
Luke
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3 Replies
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Not sure if this’ll give you what you want but try playing with the Shatter effect – I’d imagine that you’d have to crank up the gravity settings and probably viscosity.. (I’m quite new to AE also, so I don’t know if this effect has enough flexibility to allow you to make the pieces fall naturally.. )
–KTFA
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Easy? Not in the least.
As Kevin noted, SHATTER is your tool of choice. There’s nothing easy about Shatter but it’s a ton of fun. There are many tutorials for the filter on the ‘Net but none of them really tell you what you need to know to do what you’re after, not directly.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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As for making the wall fall to pieces… I can think of two ways…
shatter as mentioned (pain but fun) – you’ll have to blow it up with that, crank the crap out of the gravity.. just play with it until you achieve a look you like.. lots of ‘net tutorials etc..
other method is if you know any 3d stuff (3dsMax, Maya, C4D, – blender 3d is free and comparable mostly..)
Sorry we can’t be more specific, but that effect is just one of those that theres no “easy” way to accomplish..
-Jeremy
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