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Advanced AE Particle Effect?

Postby exVanquish » Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:20 pm

I want to kinda take a pic of an anime character (Black and White) and make it kinda turn into particles. Then come back together into 2 different bars. The 2 different bars I want them to be = distance from the center and to make the particles on each half move to create the bar on the opposite half of the video. If I'm making sense.
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Re: Advanced AE Particle Effect?

Postby Enigma » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:54 pm

Have any video or scene where it has been done @_@?
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Re: Advanced AE Particle Effect?

Postby exVanquish » Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:08 am

-Soup wrote:Have any video or scene where it has been done @_@?


I have something similar. It's a MAD though. And it's only a third of what I want. It has the particles part which isn't the problem. It's the part of making the anime character turn into particles.

The video is the Shin+ie onoken movie I think? That or this: onoken×ESCT sound graphics 2005で発表されたSHN+ie氏の作品 (Which I have no idea what that means)
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Re: Advanced AE Particle Effect?

Postby Zarxrax » Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:01 am

Use a mask to make the character disappear.
At the same time, add particles from the area that is disappearing.
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Re: Advanced AE Particle Effect?

Postby requiett » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:35 am

I thought it over for a few minutes and visualized what you're after. I think it can actually be done with the built-in AE shatter effect. Get this:

You have your character mask/cutout/subject explode into a shatter mask. You'll probably want to slow the speed of the shatter explosion down toward the edges for effect, and it'll probably look better if you use a lot of small particles.

Then create you create the bars you want in PS, etc. Take the same shatter effect you applied to the character and apply it to a separate shatter composition with the bars. Be sure to keep all the variables the same (seed, speed, etc). You then export that into a lossless AVI, reimport it, and REVERSE the footage and line up the shatters, and have it fade in over the character, so it will seem like the particles are reassembling.
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Re: Advanced AE Particle Effect?

Postby darkargasio » Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:01 am

The best solution is trapcode form layer with layer maps set to the source clip animated with the disperse parameter.
An easier way is the scatter effects.
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