How to create shredding or shearing effect

[Richie Tovell]

There’s a couple of disintegration effect tutorials over at Video co pilot.net

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/disintegration/

hope that’s some help, you could also look in to using shatter instead of particualar maybe?

[Michael Szalapski]

As previously mentioned there are some good options at Videocopilot.net.
There’s also this tutorial using Wondertouch’s ParticleIllusion.
And you could always use the formerly famous text blows away like sand tutorial here at the COW.

Any of these techniques may be what you want. Or you could use them as starting points for your own ideas.
BTW, all of this can be found with quick Google search or two.

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[Sean Worsell]

Great advice. Thanks. I’ll use the tutorials suggested. Though Creative Cow is a far more effective searching tool than Google. You guys gave me two perfect responses out of two (versus 2 million on Google). 🙂

[Todd Kopriva]

I recommend searching using After Effects Community Help search. It is a Google Custom Search Engine that has been constrained to the websites known to reliably contain useful information about Adobe software—including Creative COW and Video Copilot. This is the same search that is used if you search from After Effects Help and uncheck the This Help System Only checkbox.

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[Sean Worsell]

Cool. I didn’t know about that.