[Chris Comley]

Edward,

Thank you so much! That worked! You have no idea how happy you just made me. I’ve been trying to figure that out for a long time now.

Thanks again!

[Chris Comley]

I actually just figured out what was causing the issue 2 minutes ago. For some reason it was jittering because I had Depth of Field turned on in the camera options. As soon as I turned it off, it stopped doing that. I’m going to just take the depth of field with a slight gaussian blur on an adjustment layer. I will try you’re suggestion though. See if it works. Thanks for the advice!

[Chris Comley]

[Doyle Lewis] “Did you take a look at your screen Position and Anchor Point key frames. It looks like a stray key frame rather than a glitch. It also doesn’t look like the problem is with the camera.

Doyle Lewis, Assistant Videographer

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Hey Lewis, thanks for responding.

Sadly, yes, I’ve checked all my key frames on every layer that I have in all comps, nothing else in the project has any keyframes other then the camera and the null object that is moving the camera.

[Chris Comley]

I kind of have it set up like that already, just in a different way. But in the end, it’s the same effect.

The problem is, I can’t create the cut out shape, I need After Effects to create it.

Sadly, I’m not that good with creating things manually so I’m not able to create a shape that looks natural. As you can see above, the best I can do is the “comic-bookish” look.

The shatter effect with the shape set to glass is perfect. Just I need the force to be square and not circular.

[Chris Comley]

I appreciate the response and pointing me to those videos. They will help me make what I want look more realistic, but they’re not what I’m really looking for.

I’m not currently at work, so I can’t show you an exact screenshot, but I quickly made this at home.

Pretend that’s a basketball court. I want the text to fly down and hit the basketball court (which is the easy part) and then I want to be able to shatter the court just like above, but more realistic. As you can see, it looks more like the “POW” box from a comic book or something.

I watched the Procedural Crumble tutorial, but all that’s gonna show me is how to crumble out the text. I technically need to “crumble” out a portion of the background and have it look real instead of comic-book-ish.

Any ideas?

Thanks!