June 8, 2009 by John Dickinson | 10,953 views | Comments (24)
In the final part of this series we’ll look at how to add some more detail to the shatter in Cinema 4D using the Knife tool, add dust in Adobe After Effects using Trapcode Particular, create a quick background and fake refraction using the Displacement Map effect. Note: I forgot to record a step in Cinema 4D: After adding the Particle Null, right click the layer and choose Cinema 4D Tags > External Compositing. This will ensure the null is available in After Effects.
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24 Responses to this post
June 8, 2009 at 6:17 am |
Hey John,
These have been great tutorials. I think that in this last one you skipped the step in Cinema about adding the external compositing tag to the particle null? Keep up the GREAT work!!!
June 8, 2009 at 8:43 am |
Nice John,
Thanks for sharing this with us.
June 8, 2009 at 8:46 am |
I highly recommend this 3-part tutorial. It’s a wonderful companion piece to the just released “Making It Look Great 6!” btw – if you don’t have Cinema 4D, there’s a hidden bonus in “Shattering Glass – Part 3.” John goes into detail on a great way to use Trapcode Particular. The thing I love about John’s tutorials is that, like an After Effects comp, there are many layers of learning in each lesson. This is one of his best. Download and enjoy. Best, J
June 8, 2009 at 10:05 am |
Thanks so much, with the quality of this series I hope you’ll become as popular as you should be. I’ve been checking this site almost as much as videocopilot waiting for part 3. An amazing effect that most people would have paid for.
June 8, 2009 at 1:31 pm |
Thanks for the comments. Supporting Motionworks is as easy as grabbing one of our great training products, including the new Making It Look Great 6 Cinema 4D release.
June 9, 2009 at 12:33 am |
Great series !
Especially the tip with the knife tool to ad some extra detail is really cool. Thank you for sharing JD – you are really a sportsman
June 9, 2009 at 9:07 am |
awesome tutorials…thanks a lot…. loads of interesting stuff… cheers
June 10, 2009 at 9:01 am |
Great stuff John.
While waiting for part 3 I tried a different technique to add additional small shards.
Rather than 2D triangles I made a simple rotating glass animation in c4d. I used the original illustrator shatter map as a colour layer map in Form so all the pieces conformed roughly to the slices. Then I made a rough cirlce matte to bring them on with a similar technique as you used with your particular layer.
Probably overkill but ‘fun’ to problem solve.
anyhoo here’s a frame of my shard animation:
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/2853/glasspiece.jpg
thanks again for your informative tutorials John.
June 10, 2009 at 9:09 am |
better still here’s my shard movie loop:
http://img190.imageshack.us/i/glassbit01.mp4/
June 10, 2009 at 3:25 pm |
Great work Simon. How about showing us the finished spot too
June 15, 2009 at 3:59 pm |
Great work Simon, I would love to see the finished animation.
July 22, 2009 at 5:06 am |
thanks john, you are incredible!!!
July 30, 2009 at 11:16 pm |
This is great. Very helpful. Can you make a tutorial how to make a wine glass shatters? Thanks!
September 7, 2009 at 12:39 am |
The best tutorial I ever seen with both c4d and AE. But when u show me the third part the quickTime Player is stuck in the beginning and refuse to show me more of your increadible work. :O/
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September 7, 2009 at 2:06 pm |
Update————-23:05
Now it works – great work!!
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September 7, 2009 at 3:25 pm |
Hi Bit-101, great to hear it’s working and thanks for your feedback. All the best with your Cinema 4D and After Effects journey! Best, John.
September 29, 2009 at 3:07 pm |
Really good tutorial you got here John!
cheers mate!
September 30, 2009 at 3:22 pm |
Hi Nikko, what particularly did you find useful? Best wishes, John.
February 14, 2010 at 5:01 am |
I have bin looking for this kind of tutorials for ages. this is awesome and most learningfull. I have not started on part 1 yet, because I want to ask you a question. In after effect i want to slow down the shatter effect and then zoom into one of the glass pieces, in this piece I want to add a image or footage, is this possible??
I am really looking forward to your reply.
regards Hamid
Denmark
February 14, 2010 at 3:08 pm |
Hi Hamid, it’s all about resolution… you could zoom in but everything would go soft unless you created this at a really huge size. You could also create the hero shard at a large size and simply zoom into that while blurring out the rest (to hide the res) perhaps. Best wishes, John.
March 29, 2010 at 3:36 pm |
Hi John this is a very good tutorial and I recently found it very useful, thanks alot. However I’m stuck because I need to add various images on the shatered pieces of the mirror. Do you think that I need to enable something from the render settings in Cinema 4D or is there something else that I’m missing??
Thanks alot and keep it up!!
March 29, 2010 at 3:41 pm |
Hi Spany, adding images to individual shards is somewhat more complicated than shattering one image. Perhaps you use external compositing tags and composite them in AE? Someone else might have a better idea…
Best wishes, John.
August 1, 2010 at 6:13 pm |
thx John it’s very good tutorial
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