Spencer Tweed
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6.5?! I suggest upgrading… Anyway, I don’t think you are going to get a very decent result with only After Effects. You could always do it in a very cheesy way by just splitting the layer into 2 halves and then animating the position and rotation, but other than that I don’t know how you’d really do this. Sorry!
– Spencer
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Wait, so you want each shard to be that exact image? So it is made up of itself? I’d use a particle system for that…
– Spencer
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If you do 3D this wouldn’t even be too hard in something like 3DS Max. The newest version of Max has a pretty quick and easy cloth tool that supports tearing.
– Spencer
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Digital Tutors and Lynda will definitely teach you a few things, but from personal experience the hard way has been the best way for me. I just take every job I can, and when I run into something that I don’t know how to do I learn it!
I end up with almost every type of job coming across my plate and each one teaches me something new, it may be the most stressful way to learn but I think it’s also the best. Once you get the basics down (videocopilot.net) you just need to start going out there and getting jobs. You’ll learn new stuff on each project you do – one day you’ll need to do audio visualization, the next invisible compositing, the next a lyric video, etc.
And as for your questions about expressions – check out https://aenhancers.com/ though from my experience expressions only help make things easier/faster but are not totally necessary to being a pro in AE. (Don’t get me wrong though, I love expressions!)
– Spencer
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Cool, thanks! It’s amazing how quickly these things vanish from my mind…
– Spencer
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Ah, now I remember. Thanks!
– Spencer
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Holy crap, check it out! When did that happen? It works perfectly!
– Spencer
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Yeah, that’s what I tried and got weird results… It’s also just messy – I use this effect way too often and don’t like precomps all over the place if I can help it.
– Spencer
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Hey Todd,
Thanks for the article – didn’t even know about the swap buffer! This really seems like a great update to AE (which is the point, I know!).
– Spencer
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[Walter Soyka] “Remember, though, the graphics card only comes into play with Ae for the ray tracing renderer and select third-party effects. It will not accelerate classic 3D rendering or most of the built-in effects.”
That’s not totally true. Large portions of the GUI have been switched to GPU: https://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/guides/AE_CS6_WN_Reveal.pdf section “New Graphics Pipeline.”
– Spencer