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Share via E-mailIn this tutorial you will discover how to:
- Use the explode modifier correctly to break apart your mesh
- Slow down time by tweaking particle settings
- Use force fields to give your particles an extra ‘kick’
- Create thousands of shards of glass in one fell swoop
- Color grade your work ‘hollywood style’
If you’ve spent anytime watching television, you’ve probably seen at least one commercial or trailer showing slow motion shattered glass. And if you’re like me you’ve probably obsessed over this effect and let it play in your head on repeat until the wee hours of the morning instead of sleeping.
It’s an effect that’s always been on my ‘to-do’ list, but never reached my ‘actually doing’ list until now.
Finished Result
Download the Starter .blend file Download the Finished .blendAt a Glance
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- 2:50 – Part 1: Text and Particles
- 18:07 – Part 2: Lighting
- 19:45 – Part 3: Materials
- 21:33 – Part 4: Compositing
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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you create something cool with it, show it off in the comment section!
Hi Andrew! was wondering if you could send me the link of the site were you got the nice sound effects from this tutorial?????
Greetz!
Hello there.
I got one simple question. I see on your finished results, that you got a nice animated glow on the text at the very end!
You didn’t show how to make that in the tutorial. So I wonder if you know of any other tutorial where I can learn how to do that, or maybe show me how yourself.
thanks
whenever i apply the second particle effect piece, it explodes form the objects center (origin) in one big blob, and not from where it should. any idea why? or what im doing wrong?
Great tutorial, can’t wait to try this!
Oh, and IOR actually stands for index of refraction, not index of reflection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_index
well thats my result http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE0OY5SfWjo
I was wondering if it is possible to get motion blur if the object is still but the camera moves
Seems like it is but you can t apply the motion blur to the Stars of the World, too bad.
Here is my result, it looks pretty decent imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28rLJWtheZk (WOW IT’S 720P!!!)
However, I did not damp the pieces and reverse the animation because the whole thing is gonna be an intro for a friend’s fragmovie and he wanted it to explode.
Unfortunately I could not raise the number of small particles over 5000 without Blender crashing…
Well, I attempted to follow the tutorial. Unfortunately turning on the vector pass in the rendering seemed to turn off my explode modifier in the 2.56a Beta. I rendered without the vector pass and this is the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zowb0qKyGVk.
Thanks for the great tutorial!
Hey Andrew,
In that part where you reflected that picture of city lights onto the glass, I was wondering how you managed to uv unwrap the inside of that sphere instead of the outside
Thanks
My final result xD
http://vimeo.com/19479693
thanks for the tutorial, it was very useful.
i made this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLJAhPUD5Nc
Any idea why my small shards appear from ball instead of text object itself?
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/8997
Confused (:
i think you didn’t select text when you create another particles, it can bi the problem or if you did that and copied settings from first particles try download latest version of blender on
http://www.graphicall.org/builds/
i hope i helped trust me i know how it is frustrating when you do everything by tutorial an still something went wrong.
It was selected, ball is at “middle point of text” or well in this case it’s below first letter but anyways. I think I have Blender 2.55 beta, what’re you guys using?
2.56 beta is latest version you have latest builds on link i’v given you
Thank you very much Andrew Price, made a breakthrough in my life!
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Great tut, Andrew! The best yet for me(as an answer to your question on FB today;).
Two questions though… How do you get Blender to render the animation backwards considering it won’t let me enter End frame @ 1? Also, how do you assign the second material on the words Blender Guru at the end of your animation (looks like a white metal texture, sort of)
That would help, thanks!
How do you make the surroundings you add to a scene for reflections invisible? Say you want your object to be reflecting many different lights like in the tutorial but you don’t want the actual surrounding mesh to show up in the render?
Right, so I’ve got all but one part working – how do I set up the sphere? I can’t even find it in your .blend file! I’ve just skipped including it, but I’d like to include it if possible because it looks cooler
If you, or anyone else, could explain in nice small words for me, I’d really appreciate it
I’m using a renderer called indigo, and I put it into the folder I was supposed to….Well It’s not working any ideas on how to fix it?
so i have a very simple question that i cant seem to answer..you choose the and partical system and do nothing else..but the particals start streaming out..i have a streaming partical effect chosen..also the view in real time option..whats the deal..
I have little problem, though it’s not related to this…how do you use an external render engine? I’m taking most artists’ advice and not using the blender internal, as it seems to suck at textures or something, so I want to render using LuxRender of Yafaray, but I don’t know where to start- help!
Ive been following the tutorial and the guidance/steps are awesome. However, I am finding that the play back inside Blender (not rendering) is about 4-5fps. On Andrew’s tutorial, his play back is full 25fps. I have an ultra high end PC and graphics cards and normally things just fly along … but somehow something has slowed me down and CPU usage (4 cores x 2 hyperthreads) is chugging at only about 20% (average). Anyone know of any settings that could affect my play through? What are others seeing?
Neil
Does it also work with my logo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcaDYJXb3OY
Here’s mine. http://vimeo.com/22414321
awesome tutorial, where are the sound effects from, please.
You can get sound effects here, although you’re going to have to spend time searching for the ones you want. http://www.freesound.org/
hey can you make a video on how to make the transformers 3 word intro
hi
its verey nice tutorial
but how can i play back particles ?
i did every thing but how to render as you did ?
pleace answer
hey awsome video but i want to make the shattering glass effects but i cant find blender 2.53 anywhere and you link says the page dosent exist please help me
2.53 is an outdated version, Liam. You can use blender 2.57b or wait till 2.58 comes out. Either way, here’s the link
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHyPdUbSBsU this is my animation, thanks for the tutorial great
I have the same problem than Neil Kolban… when i play it forward in the 3d view, i get a 2.04 fps and Andrew Gets the full 24-25fps… I have a dual Core 2.8ghz with a GeForce video card of 1gb and 2 gb of RAM…
Can someone help me? Or confirm me that I need more RAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaTscJfXxQg
my first attempt at this ended up pretty well I think.
Thank!
opps wrong video lol
Andrew where did you get this sound effect?? I am searching and I can’t find this one..:( Please help..
I have problems to download the tutorial . I do not recognize this ( Script )
Can I get a real tutorial
Thanks
Karl
OK I find a videotutorial on YouTube.
Your text start exploding at frame 1 and end up with text at frame 250.
My do the opposite. Is there an opportunity to change direction so it ends with the text displayed.
Thanks
Karl
Um guys, When I go to render before entering compositor… It doesn’t render the shards explosion. It renders them still as a glass box :/ Link can be found here: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/135/mylife.png/
Please tell me where I went wrong?
Many thanks for this tutorial…..I will request …pls more tutorial upload…….thanks.
Um..random question, how do I make the small shards he made on the side?