dragging material (eg. sand) with moving letters

[Julia27138101pruj]

Hello, I'm a beginner in After Effects and Dimensions. I would like to make the effect of a letter expanding horizontally  - giving the perception that the letter moves sand while doing it. I'm not sure which tutorials/key words I need to study to learn how to do this. Is there any one that may give me advice?

[Rohan0120]

Hey, I am not 100% sure what you mean. But perhaps (Maxon + Red Giant) Trapcode Form with Particular tutorials could help you out.
I would start with: After Effects Tutorial: Particles Logo & Text Animation | Simple Way - Trapcode Particular Tutorial ...  or After Effects Tutorial: Particles Logo & Text Animation in After Effects (youtube.com)
And for moving the sand watch some Trapcode Particular tutorials.

[Mylenium]

You may want to settle on something simpler. Such stuff would even be difficult to set up in a proper 3D program. Lots of particle animation and driving it with invisible helper objects. With enough time it could probably be done in Particular or using good old Particle Playground, but that kind of is the answer in itself. It still requires experience and knowledge of these tools as opposed to rehashing some tutorial or downloading a preset/ template project.

Mylenium