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How to make shapes/text explode in different directions?
I’m trying to make these letters go off screen as if someone is pushing them from the middle outwards:
What would be the best way of doing this? I’ve tried hand-animating, but it doesn’t look natural.
(Side note: The letters are individual images I created in photoshop and brought in as .png’s)
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks 🙂
– Ryan.
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6 Replies
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You can do that using the shatter effect.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/unguren_ben/shatter.php
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/mize_rob/AE-Shatter-Effects/video-tutorial
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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Oh, I wasn’t expecting that to work! Cheers 🙂
– Ryan.
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I’ve run into a bit of a problem, it’s splitting the inside and outside:
– Ryan.
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I believe Andrew Kramer has a tutorial relating to shattering somewhere on his website?
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Is each letter two files? That could be your problem. The plugin is randomly scattering everything.
I’d find a way to bind them together if so – precomp each letter, for instance. Or do a set of PNGs where the white stroke and the inner color are one file.
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I found out that shatter uses alpha channel to calculate the shatter, so as soon as I duplicated the comp, and made the second comp a solid red (instead of white+red), it worked perfectly.
But thanks for your help, I really appreciate it 🙂
– Ryan.
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