Sand plug in

[Mike Clasby]

Without a particle genrator you can do it with Shatter with the correct settings. You could even throw scatter on top of it to make the particles finer.

Maybe this tut will help:

Text that Blows away like Sand by Emanuel Eriksson

https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/eriksson_emanuel/sand/index.html&forumid=2

[Adrian Charles]

yikesmikes,

thankyou very much for the pointer, looks very much like what l am looking for!

Adrian Charles

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

You could also try a 3rd party Program called particleIllusion (which is becoming a plug-in for AE in the near future). The prgram works well with AE, and it’s really fast.

Elvis deane wrote a tutorial on doing this very effect:

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/deane_elvis/logoExplode/index.html
And this could easily be adapted for use in AE.

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