Explode surface using circles

[ddinisco]

I am trying to explode a surface using circles. Using polygons, and wrapping the texture produces the look I want, but the polygon is shape is a square. How can I produce a similar effect with circles? I tried sphere, but that is a totally different look.

Thanks
David

[Anonymous]

there is a really easy to use effect in AE which can achieve this very fast in a very nice way, with a lot of presets shape.
But, i’m a french man, and i only know the name of the effect in french (“eclat”), but it should be in english “layer exploder” or something like that…

[John Montgomery]

I have used the squares before, but applied a layer with a circle matte on the texture to make it appear as though they were circles. This can work for certain applications, but not all.

[ddinisco]

But the explosion particles still appear as squares when applying the circle matte to the texture.

[John Montgomery]

Ah…yeah..sorry. Problem with not being at the machine (and not reading your message).

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