From the course: Element 3D Essential Training (2013)

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Fracturing objects

Fracturing objects

In this tutorial, we are going to look at blowing stuff up, like this. (video playing) I am not sure what it is, but something inside of me gets very happy when that happens. But, we're going to talk about blowing stuff up. I realize we have already talked about, kind of, how to do this, because we have already talked about Multi-Sub- Objects and how to activate them, and have those pieces kind of scatter. But, when we are working with the Animation Engine inside of After Effects, there is actually a little bit more that we can do. This is actually much more complicated than it seems. If I go over to Fractured FINAL, we could see the actual composition that I used to render this. And, it seems like there is just a few things going on, here. But, in actuality, there is a lot. So, I have two layers of Element. Actually, I have one layer of Element that's just an environment object, with the environment on it. And, it's the blurred version, because glass looks so much better when you…

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