How To Composite Realistic Breaking Glassware (Bottles, Pints, & More) | After Effects Tutorial

How To Composite Realistic Breaking Glassware (Bottles, Pints, & More) | After Effects Tutorial

October 7, 2021
Cody Vineyard

Learn how to composite high-quality glassware stock footage for realistic breaking glass effects.

Want to send your gunfight scenes to the next level? Adding effects like Breaking Glassware as bullets fly by in a bar or restaurant scene can quickly take your visuals past the typical shootout VFX. And here at ActionVFX, we are all about providing the resources for next-level work!

In this After Effects tutorial, we will teach how you to create realistic breaking glassware with stock footage. No need to go break glass in-camera and waste time on set.
There are multiple types of glassware in the Breaking Glassware collection like bottles, pints, wine glasses, and more, matching the atmosphere of your scene (bars, classy restaurants, etc).

This After Effects tutorial covers:

  • How to composite realistic glassware breaking VFX
  • Creating realistic glass refraction
  • Using reference to create matching reflection
  • Add splashing liquid inside glassware using Small Water Hits Vol. 2

Ready to give this a "shot"? Click here to download the plate so you can follow along.

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