how do you do this torn effect

[Mike Clasby]

It looks like real 3D to me. You can get a “lite” version with CC Split and Roughen Edges. You won’t see curled edges or the highlights, but it can look good in a fantasy-whimsical way.

Bigfoot rips open a fern wall about halfway through this:

https://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2710509

[Mark Allen]

To create that look – it would be pretty easy to just paint it. Wouldn’t require much art skills even. Essentially you’re lightening one side with variation, darkening the other, make sure on the dark side you have some flipped over edges which are highlighted. So – the creation of it would not be complex. The animation of it on the other hand is where there would be a thousand solutions.

If it were a really quick few frame swipe – you could literally get away with a garbage matte wipe from the clean to the ripped. If you wanted to slow it all down though you could take your cleanplate and your tornplate and then split them along the exact same line down the tear. Now you have two halves. You could then for the clean plate animate it pushing away with mesh warp on each layer (so pulling the edge graphic inward on each new half. On the torn one, you are doing the opposite.. now, you would want to make sure that the tear point is matcing as you do this. Then… once animated you dissolve from clean to the tear.

just an idea.

you could actually paint the highlight and darkness on the “cleanplate” as well instead of using dissolve. just use a solid with masks to do your live painting changes.

there are proably 20 other ways to do it.

To me, this doesn’t look 3D at all, I’m sure it was painted, btw.