Reverse shatter effect without plug-ins

Harry Frank also has a new 45-minute tutorial of a shatter effect without filters. It’s mostly expression-driven, and uses Illustrator to break up a layer into pieces, then expressions to automatically make the pieces move randomly into place. Look for the tutorial on Graymachine on Monday; here's the result:


Reverse Shatter Effect from graymachine on Vimeo.

Update: Harry Frank posted the Reverse shatter expression.