Today in this brief tutorial, I’ll go over how to break up and fracture objects in Cinema 4D and bring it into Element for some animated shattering goodness. Something to keep in mind is that this isn’t just for Element, you can use the same technique to fracture objects in Cinema 4D for your own 3D projects, I’ll just be referencing Element as that’s what everyone is wanting to use right now.
We’ll be using a free plugin called Thrausi by Nitro4D to quickly shatter our objects. We’ll really just focus on the fracturing part in this tutorial, I may do a more in-depth tutorial later on focusing on spicing it up, animating everything, and making it look good in the near future. If you would like to see this tutorial, let me know!
With a bit of motion blur, depth of field, and some styling, you can create a pretty neat fracture animation inside Element in no time at all. Hopefully this tutorial answered a lot of your questions, if you have any other questions or comments, feel free to leave them below!
Really sexy
Thank you my friend
Really a big thank you! because I wanted to do something like that a couple of months ago, but I could’nt because it would take too much time, but with element it’s really fast, like 20 time faster ^^!
So thanks for the tips.
Anytime buddy, glad you found my video useful
Hi Friend
This Is Very Interesting Tutorial
Please Made The Tutorial about ” break up and fracture objects in 3D Max 2012”
thank You Very Much My Friend
Thanks man!
Hi,
This is a very cool plug-in, I’ve been trying to do this manually (without any plugins) for a long time in C4D but to no avail. Still one thing that bugs me is that after I break apart a text object or something simillar and I render it doesn’t look right – there are bumps and irregularities in the shape of the object which I suppose is natural because of those little pieces but I would like to be able to break an object apart and make it look perfect untill I do something with it.
I don’t know if you understand what I mean so to illustrate here are two screenshots:
1. regular motext object – http://iv.pl/images/77513042864064685516.jpg
2. the same object broken apart with Thrausi – http://iv.pl/images/85545228036847005944.jpg
Notice how weird the second one looks…
Thanks in advance for any help
I definitely understand what you’re talking about, it’s one of the limitations of this free plugin. I’d recommend Xplode if you want a full featured fracturing plugin, it’s really affordable (like $13) and works well without this limitation. I guess for now you can render a “perfect copy” and fade it out with the “fracture copy” whenever it shatters.
Hi VinhSon,
Thanks for the reply. The weird thing is that I’ve seen some different tutorials about Thrausi on YouTube and almost none of them seem to have this issue. I guess I’ll have to try the fade in/out method but to be completely honest I’m not entirely sure how to do this when each letter appears individually. I’ll also take a look at Xplode.
Thanks again!
Try turning off the Phong in Cinema 4D. It’s the small yellow/orange circle next to layer name.
first i really would love to thank you for all your tutorials really great work and keep it up , really i leaned alot from your videos . second i would love to ask if there is any plug in for 3dsmax do the same or is there any way to do the same idea inside of max
Thank you so much, your support and kindness keeps me going!
As a Cinema 4D user, I don’t know much about 3DS Max, but I know for sure you can easily do it manually or find many plugins free.
Nice work man
Thank you!