advanced Disintegration Effect inside Maya

we will explore the surface shatter tool inside Maya.at the end of this lesson you will understand how to use this tool

we will explore the Solid shatter tool inside Maya . at the end of this lesson you will understand how and when to use this tool

We will see how we can use maya native mesh tools to do some custom fractures , and take a look at how they react with the ncloth solver.

1. you need to download and install the soup tools from http://www.soup-dev.com/tools.htm
2. we will take a look at how to fracture our geometry using a procedural method.
3. test our fractures with the bullet solver.

1. you need to download and install the voronoi script from http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/script/voronoi-texture-fracture
2. learn to when and when not to use this script.
3. learn how to adjust the uvs of your geometry to enable a non uniform fracture pattern .
4. test our fractures with bullet solver.

1. we will use the text tool to output just curves .
2. convert the curves to a quad geometry .
3. manipulate the geometry to output a nice extruded and smoothed version of our text.

1. learn how to use quick selection sets inside maya.
2. we will use the multi cut tool to shatter our geometry.

in this lesson we will tale a look at the ncloth node and how its affecting our text.

in this lesson we will check the uvs for our fractured text ,wish we should have done befor we fracture the text .

We are going to create a black and white map to control our fracture using a ramp 2d texture .

In this lesson we will apply the texture we just have made in the lesson befor.

Direct and drive our simulation using maya turbulence , drag and vortex fields .

1. We will cache our geometry and reverse our simulation .
2. Create a camera and animate it .

1. Creation of an IBL (image based lighting) environment light.
2. Creation of translucent material.
3. Quick look at the render setting.

1. download this script http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/script/camera-and-object-positions-to-after-effects .
2. export our camera and a null object to after effects

1. Add particles in after effect
2. Add motion blur
3. Color correct our comp