00:00In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a particle disintegration in After Effects without using any plugins.
00:06Let's get started.
00:09First, create a new composition and name it Master.
00:14Now create another composition and name it Text Logo.
00:23Now drag Text Logo Composition in Master Composition.
00:27Now open Text Logo Composition.
00:30Click on Type Tool and write your text.
00:34Increase the font size, change fill color.
00:39Go to Align Panel and align the text horizontally and vertically.
00:43Now go back to Master Composition.
00:46Now to create the disintegration effect, go to Effects and Presets,
00:51search for Shatter and apply it to the Text Logo Composition.
00:55In Effect Controls, change View to Rendered so we can see the effect.
00:58Now, if I play the animation, you can see that our text is being shattered.
01:03Open the Shape Settings.
01:05Here we can change the pattern.
01:07By default, it's set to Brick but there are several different patterns available.
01:11I'm going to select Glass.
01:15Next, we have Repetitions.
01:16This controls the number of particles in our effect.
01:19I'm going to increase this to the maximum value, which is 200.
01:27Next, we have Extrusion Depth.
01:30As you can see, the particles have some depth.
01:34If you don't want any depth, simply set this value to 0.
01:41Open the Physics settings.
01:42You can also increase the rotation speed slightly.
01:46Next, we have Turbulent Motion.
01:47You can experiment with these settings depending on the look you want.
01:51For this example, I'm going to use X and Z.
01:54Next, we have Randomness.
01:56If I increase this value, you can see that the particles start flying in different directions.
02:01On the other hand, if I set Randomness closer to 0, the particles stay much more organized and move together.
02:07So, you can adjust this value depending on the look you want.
02:11I'm going to set it to around 0.2.
02:14Now, we're going to change the Gravity, set Gravity to 0 because we want the forces to control the movement
02:20of our particles.
02:21At this point, we have the basic Shattered animation.
02:24But if you want an actual disintegration effect, we need to work with the force fields.
02:29Open the Force settings.
02:31Here, you can see that we have two force fields.
02:34You can create the disintegration from whichever direction you want.
02:37For this example, I'm only going to use Force 1.
02:40Let's open it up.
02:41First, we have the radius.
02:43Let's change the position of the force and place it around this area.
02:48Now, increase the radius slightly.
02:50If I play the animation, you can see that the particles are moving in this direction.
02:56And if I move the force to the bottom, the particles will move upward.
03:01So, by changing the position of the force, you can control the direction of your disintegration.
03:07Now, let's animate the disintegration.
03:10Move the force to the desired position and add a keyframe for radius.
03:14Set the initial radius to 0.
03:17Press U to reveal the animated properties.
03:19Move the playhead to around 3 seconds.
03:22Now, increase the radius until the entire text disappears.
03:26Now, if I preview the animation, you can see that we have our particle disintegration effect.
03:31We can also control the speed using the strength property.
03:34If I increase the strength, you can see that the particles move away much faster.
03:39I'm going to set it to around 3.
03:41So, now we have our particle disintegration effect.
03:44The best thing about this effect is that you can use anything inside the media composition.
03:49Now, let's create a color-changing effect like the one shown in the example.
03:55First, select the text layer and duplicate it.
03:57Select the bottom copy and apply the fill effect.
04:00Choose whatever color you want.
04:03Now, select the top layer and apply an effect called Linear Wipe.
04:07You can find it in the Effects and Presets panel.
04:10Drag it onto the top layer.
04:11Now, we can control the transition using transition completion.
04:14Set the initial value to 0% and add a keyframe.
04:18Move the playhead to around 3 seconds and set transition completion to 100%.
04:22Now, you can see that the color changes as the animation progresses.
04:26We can also increase the feather slightly to make the transition smoother.
04:30Now, when we go back to our master composition, you can see that as the particles disintegrate,
04:35they also change color.
04:36For example, you can use a logo instead of text.
04:39I'll place a logo here and scale it down.
04:42Let's disable the text layer.
04:44Now, when we go back to the master composition,
04:46you can see that the same disintegration effect is applied to our logo.
04:50And that's how you can create particle disintegration effect in After Effects.
04:54Link is in description to download project file.
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04:59Thanks for watching.
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