John Dickinson at Motionworks has a great tutorial in-progress.

In this 3 tutorial series we’ll look at how to build a glass shatter effect using Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4D. This section includes capturing the template in After Effects, creating paths in Illustrator and setting up imported splines as polygons in Cinema 4D.

All three parts are now online as MP4’s for ou to download and enjoy.

  • Part 1 – 10 Minute, 40MB MP4
  • Part 2 – 15 Minute, 40MB MP4 & Materials
  • Part 3 – 32 Minute, 60MB MP4