How to make glass crack effect??

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:23 pm

Debug Mode´s "Wax" has a shatter effect too.

OK what would I do with the pic with the shattered glass brush?

Take my pen tool.
Make some selections that fit too the shattered glass.
Tweak my settings to have my composition in a 3D room.
Rotate the pieces that I cut out with the pen tool.

Well I gues I try it now! =P

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:01 pm

gameboy12615 wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:you could always find you some cracked glass photoshop brushes, and then do what Ryko89 said
thanks...I've tried some PS brushes...but only use brush seems not enough...look:
http://media.imhb.cn/homepic/2008/6/19/ ... 302_s4.jpg
the crack is not on the original picture...and there is no refraction effect at all...

Ryko89 wrote:just take a picture of a shattered window, or download an image of a shattered window. Apply it to the footage, play with the transfer modes and color correct it, then mask out each glass shard's inside and move it a bit around to give it that uneven look for your video

yea i was building on his statement here.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:04 pm

gameboy12615 wrote:thanks...I've tried some PS brushes...but only use brush seems not enough...look:

the crack is not on the original picture...and there is no refraction effect at all...

If you just want some refraction effect on it, then in photoshop fill each section of the glass with different shades of grey, and then use displacement map in After Effects. You might even be able to animate the displacement amount for a cool look.

Sierra Lorna · Post by **Sierra Lorna** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:39 pm

I just did mine with a bunch of masks using the pen tool in AE. I used Stroke on the masks with black and white, and changed the Position of some of the scenes to make displacement. Zarxrax's idea sounds cool though, I never thought of that.

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:45 pm

I dunno about all them fancy EFF-ECKS. I could hook you up with a nice ass-crack effect though.

gameboy12615 · Post by **gameboy12615** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:03 am

Sierra Lorna wrote:I just did mine with a bunch of masks using the pen tool in AE. I used Stroke on the masks with black and white, and changed the Position of some of the scenes to make displacement. Zarxrax's idea sounds cool though, I never thought of that.

Thanks for your help...I also thought pen before...but what a shame I never thought add a stroke...orz...this time it looks better>_<

gameboy12615 · Post by **gameboy12615** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:04 am

Ryko89 wrote:just take a picture of a shattered window, or download an image of a shattered window. Apply it to the footage, play with the transfer modes and color correct it, then mask out each glass shard's inside and move it a bit around to give it that uneven look for your video

yea i was building on his statement here.

ya...thanks again...as you said:

nice!!!I will try to make the 1st effect>_<

Emotive · Post by **Emotive** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:02 pm

I can see some wavf editors bookmarking this thread already :<i></i>|

The last picture seems pretty nicely done, but maybe a little too "dirty"? Unless that's what you're actually aiming for..

gameboy12615 · Post by **gameboy12615** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:20 pm

Cast to Stone wrote:I can see some wavf editors bookmarking this thread already :<i></i>|

The last picture seems pretty nicely done, but maybe a little too "dirty"? Unless that's what you're actually aiming for..

yea...a liittle dirty...I'm trying to find some "clean" crack effect burshes...^Q^

NS · Post by NS » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:21 pm

My favorite part of all this is that after all this effort you're putting in to learn this effect, you'll use it for like half a second in a video :O