I learnt a fair bit working this animation out. I wasn't sure what elements to do in photoshop and what to do in after effects. I tried doing the crack animated in photoshop, and I was intending to have the smash animated in it also. However I would then have to pin this to the existing pendulum, which is fine, I tested tracking it and I got that working. For the smash however, it was going to be more fiddly for the heart to be at the same angle so the shards of heart fell in the right place on the ground, and not at a random angle in midair. This was a very short project so I wanted to do it in the most time efficient way. So what I did was have the entire crack as a photoshop layer. Then animate a mask over it in after effects, so it looks like it cracks more when it hits the right side. I then replaced this with layers of the cracked heart, at the frame when the heart hits the side for the last time so I could animate each cracked segment separately!
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| Initial idea |
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| Animating the pendulum in photoshop |
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Crack layer, which I masked and revealed in after effects.
Segments which I animated falling in after effects. |
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