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Working with solid layers – a “burst” effect?
Hi all!
I’m trying to accomplish an effect where a simple solid rectangle will enter by a reverse-burst – as in, it starts out in smaller pieces all spread out and then comes together to form the solid rectangle.Any ideas? I’ve sampled some of the various effects, but nothing is really nailing it for me.
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well find the effect that ends up with teh result your looking for to start with, precomp and reverse teh clip
for example:
apply shatter, go to teh end of the effect life, fiddle with it till the peices are the way you would like them, and then play the clip backwards.
if none of the effects in after effects work for you it may be time to look at some 3rd party plugins
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Like they said, Start with whole then blow it up with an effect, then time reverse.
What initial shape do you want the smaller pieces to be?If square try Card Dance, with a many textured photo as “Gradient 1”, the x , y, z position with “Intensity 1” as Source, play with Multiplier. Card Dance is nice too because you can rotate the layers and also fly through with the camera in the plugin or use comp camera.
If just little flakes, try scatter. You may need grow bounds and of limited use if solids are large.
If little spheres try Ball Action. You can also twist the cloud of pieces.
If custom shape, try scatter and under shape,use a custom shape.
Particle Illusion and Trapecode do this a lot, Elvis over at the Cow PI forum here has a tut I think, click his head.
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