Text to Sand Animation Tutorial | After Effects Particle Dissolve | Text to Dust Effect | NO PLUGIN
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Want to quickly turn your text into particles? Then this tutorial is for you!
In this video you will learn how to create text to sand, text to dust animation in Adobe After Effects without any third party plugins. Particle dissolve effect can be used in many scenarios, such as logo animation, intros or outros, text animation and more. Luckily After Effects has built in effects to create an awesome particle dissolve scene in just couple of minutes. After watching this video you will be able to turn any text, title, lower third into sand or dust particles. This is a highly creative and customizable effect, so make sure to experiment with the settings and create a text to sand, text to dust animation that you like. You can also get a free project file below if you want to follow along this tutorial.
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IF PARTICLES are contained within boundaries of a text layer then use SOLID COMPOSITE and set OPACITY to 0% instead of cc composite.
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much obliged
Thank you! I was about to get crazy because of the boundaries.
the goat
Do you know what about CC Composite isn't working any more? Thanks for the Solid Composite work around, was just wondering.
you are the best man
This quick tutorial will teach you how to turn your text into sand or dust particles in Adobe After Effects without using third party plugins. Hope you learn something new.
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This was so easy to follow! I appreciate how well you laid out the steps quickly. BRAVO!
thank you for being straight to the point and keeping it under 5mins
Mate I want to shake your hands right now! This is the first AE Tutorial that made me think "Yes, I can use it!". It worked perfectly and you made my day. Well...my night since it's 2am😂HUGE THANKS AND INSTANTLY SUBBED!
So glad to hear mate, enjoy and thanks for watching❤🤝
This is one of the easiest AE tutorials to follow and understand! Thanks so much! Love your style!
Thank you so much❤
amazingly well explained, thank you! The only thing is that I am having the same problem as another comment, the particles are bound within the text box, tried precomposing but didn't work, bit stuck
Thank you❤
Maybe something's changed, it should either be cc composite effect or precomposing a layer to remove the bounds
Hi, thanks for the reply, I managed to open the handles to the edges of the composition which worked but now the alpha part doesn't make the particles stick to the letters, never mind. 🙏
Hey, it is kinda late but still, here is the solution, add solid composite instead of cc composite and set opacity to 0%
@@SmertimbaGraphics Never too late, thanks for that tip, I'll give it a go 🙏
Another awesome tutorial. I learned this effect sometime ago. But the tutorial I used was around 30 mins long. You manage to do a better tutorial in 5 minutes.
Thank you 😊 I'm super glad you enjoyed. I always try to make tutorials as short as possible, because I myself hate when tutorials are unnecessarily long and half of the video is silent thinking on the next step or stuff like mm, hmm, alright and such 😁
Thanks for the support 😊
Great , i will use this in my next video !
Enjoy✌️
This is for us who have to watch the animation all over again when we want to use the effect:)
Everything do this ,
Woooow! Thank you so much. Perfectly explained. I will try it with an image instead of text.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank u,.. your tutorial is very simple to understand and also you're simplifying by telling which thing will happen by using each tool thanks a lot make more videos like this
It's a pleasure ✌️
where is the mega-like button? totally deserve it
Thank you😁❤
Great video I like how you brought so cool effects in just 5 min video 😇
Thank you so much 😁
Really appreciated for this tutorial,man!God Bless You!
You're welcome!
think you very much broo😘😘
Welcome 😊
Yes; very good and as you said, pretty straight forward; thank you; very much appreciated!
THANKKK YOUUUU
Really appreciate this dude! I don't use after effects but started today, this encourages me to use it for motion graphics, subbed
Glad I could help!
Excellent video thank you.
My pleasure❤
Thanks a Lot... saved me from quitting a job
Glad I could help✌️
Thank you! I had NO idea that After Effects could do this! I mostly use it for monochrome work but have recently gotten into streaming and want to make an awesome "BRB" screen. Sadly, trying to use this with more than one word is more difficult...
Yeah, there are many ways of creating particles, this is just one of them
Thank you so much! Helped me with my school project!
Happy to hear, enjoy 😊
Cool vids. Learnt a lot! Got yourself a new subscriber *thumbs up* indeed
Thank you, welcome ❤
loving this
Thank you for making it so easy to understand awesome!
My pleasure, enjoy💯
Thank you, bro!
Happy to help you out✌️
Thank you for making so easy☺
My pleasure 😊
Hey you sound like Korg from the MCU and I think the Snowman guy from Monsters Inc ty subbed
Thank you😁
Thank you for this! Really usefull
You're very welcome!
Thank you for this tutorial! Very usefull.
I was looking for such tutorial which can teach me to create particles without third party plugin. A very easy tutorial completed just in 5 minutes. You not only complete the project but also explain what each option in the effect plays its role. It is marvelous. Can you please tell how can I convert it to reveal instead of wipe?
Thank you for the compliment 😊
Well it I don't think I could explain that in a comment, but try something as simple as reversing the time, so it would be a reveal instead 😁 might be too basic though, still an idea💡
Damn this was helpful. thanks man
Welcome❤
Thank you for this. Quick and easy to follow.
Happy you liked it, thanks for watching 😊
much appreciation
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hey! awesome tutorial, everything i did worked besides the fact that when I did this it only applies the dust within the text box and not the composition as a whole, i followed step by step so not sure if AE updated it out of existence the way you showed here but is there something I maybe missed? Thanks and great vid!
Try precomposing the text layer and do it that way, it should work fine
I had the same issue, and pre-composing it worked! Thanks a ton
Thx bro❤
Any time♥️
Thank you brother!! 👍👍✌️
You are welcome 😊
Great video! Thanks ✌🏻
Thank you for watching 😊
Tnxs so much
Welcome😊
Hey, thanks so much for this tutorial. I am working on a project and wanted to emulate this style of animation. Is there anyway we can make different parts of the dissolve fade in different directions at the same time? Almost as if it's breaking apart
Hey, thanks for commenting. Not with this particular method, shatter effect with a custom shatter map could create such an effect, or maybe a trapcode particular plugin which is paid, that's a downside.
Here is shatter & break tutorial hope it gives you an idea: ua-cam.com/video/aRKS5lKecU4/v-deo.html
Awesome! TYSM!
Welcome, glad you liked it 😊
great very easy and short Technik
Thank you 😊
Hello, thanks for great job, but can you explain why do particles continue to play after the animation ends?
Make sure the producer is not on the text after the animation ends, otherwise it will continuously emit particles
Buddy this is my first after effects learning video total begginer to it. It was really easy for me to understand it. Could you tell me how to create this as a plugin so that I dont need to apply so many settings everytime. I am able to create this dust to sand effect but i want to make it as a plugin so that i can easily just by clicking the plugin add animation to my text
You can save a project file and import it into a new one as a template, then adjust the animation without having to create it from scratch
epic 💥
Thanks 😁
Great tutorial. Using it in a project. Just got messed up at first because my anchor point in wrong position. Thanks
Thank you for watching, I'm happy it helped 😊
Hey! Thank you for the tutorial! Can I just ask you if I can apply this to a whole text composition or if I have to redo the entire process for every text one by one?
Hey, yes you can apply it to a whole composition as long as you adjust the emitter size properly
@@SmertimbaGraphics thank you!
Thanks
Welcome 😊
Great video. Can anyone help me in telling me how to make the opposite, that is Sand to Text/Images. Thankyou.
You can pre-compose everything, then right click the precomp layer, time, time reverse layer
tnx sir
Good tutorial, question... when I add the effects to the text, it crops to the size of the text and not all the composition, do you know why? (sorry for my english, it os not my first language)
You need to precompose the text and then apply the effect so it doesn't crop
gr8 video for me, ur videos like treasure for me bcoz i m learner , biggest like 139, full watched , stay blessed dear sir
I'm very happy to see you enjoy the content 😁 keep learning mate
Very much easy to learn... keep rising and shinning SMERTIMBA GRAPHICX
Thanks mate 😁
following this step by step precisely in ae24.0 and my result is so bad and different, can you possibly update?
Pre comp the text layer and then apply the cc effects to it and it shud work
Hey, it is kinda late but still, here is the solution, add solid composite instead of cc composite and set opacity to 0%
Can we do this effect in a vector logo?
Yeah, it will work with any layer
I've done this effect before and it worked before hand but going about this now, my sand particles aren't flowing outside of the text box section... any way to fix this?
Pre compose the text layer or add cc composite before particles
@@SmertimbaGraphics if I switch around the cc composite and particles it still does it.
Hey, it is kinda late but still, here is the solution, add solid composite instead of cc composite and set opacity to 0%
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can you do 3d water letters (moving yellowy) and the they atomize (spray) with the pass?
Not sure if this effect would be able to, you need something more advanced, like particular for example
particular? @@SmertimbaGraphics
Hi, so can I make from particles to text? like I want to the text appears with the particles
Yeah, precompose everything and time reverse the layer
with new composite effect in after effect 24.0, this is not working, i had to use bcc composite. thanks
You can also pre-compose the layer instead
why is cc composite/solid composite needed at the start?
To expand the boundaries of the text to the full extent of the composition. But in recent versions cc composite doesn't work, you've got to use solid composite instead
@@SmertimbaGraphics thanks! I u can't just use the particle effect on the text layer itself? u need at least 2 layers?
For a complete animation you need 2 layers, 1 for the particles and 1 for the actual text that will disappear as particles appear
How to make the particles fill the entire screen. I am importing a two word text
Play around with gravity settings to spread the particles out, if that is what you mean
Quick question, what if you wanted the sand to be leaves instead? Like the text turns into leaves then blows away.
You can add a leaf texture as a custom texture map to the effect so that the particles would have a form of leaves, but I'm not sure if that would look good, I haven't tried. Anyway for complex particle animations you would be better off with particular plugin😁
@@SmertimbaGraphics thanks for the response! 💖 I’m quite new to after effects! And no this is for a logo animation. So I’m not trying to do anything complicated 😅. I was just trying to see how to make the logo disappear into leaves and then float away haha. Is there any tutorials you can link me to with adding custom texture maps to an effect?
No problems, I should have one where I do that but I am making background with lines, you could just watch the part where I add custom line shape and get an idea of how to do it with a leaf.
ua-cam.com/video/Pwa3HJc2JGk/v-deo.html
Can i do this with a picture just to make a gif ?
Sure, it will work with anything
@@SmertimbaGraphics thank you !
Can I use it with a PNG image?
Yeah, should not be a problem
@@SmertimbaGraphics it workedddd damntt mate, respect hands down, for your video ;) it's 2025 imagine 2040? omg
Reply to this comment in 2040😂
Bro, what computer do you have?
Back then while making this video I had ryzen 3600 + gtx 1060 with 16 gb ram 😁
The particle dispersion is happening only within the text size. How to make it disperse all over?
That's something people started commenting about recently, I will have to troubleshoot it myself
@@SmertimbaGraphics I guess it's happening with the latest versions
Hey, it is kinda late but still, here is the solution, add solid composite instead of cc composite and set opacity to 0%
how to make an appearance rather than a disappearance as in the video, I did not find such a function for this effect
You can reverse the effect by time reversing the layer. Funny enough I am going to show that in tomorrows video😂 stay tuned
i watch your video , when you animate logo with this effect , but i try use it in text , but I can’t do it, I don’t understand how to do it@@SmertimbaGraphics
Greetings bro, if i had more than one text... how i set the inverse animation for all of them? #TNXALOT
To inverse the animation you could precompose everything, then right click the layer, time, time reverse layer
what is the software you are using ?
After effects?
Hi how do I apply this to two rows of text?
Hi, do it separately for each row
@@SmertimbaGraphics Okay thank you!
My pleasure ☺️
when i chek source alpha inheritance the effect disappears
Did you follow the tutorial step by step?
If it's parent on another layer, the position value has changed, so I couldn't see it. Check the position value :)
why do these tutorials never work... I'm done with these incomplete tutorials,
I'm here for an hour, repeat the process again and again, and the text doesn't disappear at all, it just has a sand effect on the original text
Did you add a linear wipe and animate transition completion? That is what makes the text disappear
App name ?
After effects
My particles won't extend to the full size of the comp they seem to be restricted to the size of my text - any advice please?
Add solid composite instead of cc composite and set opacity to 0%
@@SmertimbaGraphics Thank you
@@lynneholman891 thank you too
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