How do you make text disintegrate from the bottom up and fall into a pile of sand?

[Joshua22964241tlv6]

There are several effects I'm trying to accomplish here. I haven't been able to search the right words to find this online but I've posted a sketch below of what it is supposed to do. 

Similar to how a flame would burn from the bottom up...but it's coverting from "text" into a sand/dust like material. 

Note, it does NOT have any wind or disappearing in this environment like the Thanos disintergration (many of my attempts to find a solution bring that one up). 

The letters converts into sand and fall into piles of dust on an imaginary line below the level they fell from.

Any help is appreciated! TY! 

[Peru Bob]

This plugin might work for you:

https://www.maxon.net/en/red-giant-complete/trapcode-suite/particular

[Peru Bob]

This is similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcLD9W6dIzQ

[Mylenium]

There are any number of "Text to Sand" tutorials and the techniques can easily be adapted. Some use third-party plug-ins liek Trapcode particular, others creative application of stock plug-ins like Shatter and others. In any case, none of this will be a push-button job as pretty much each individual part of the fake simulation will require a lot of manual labor and multiple steps - eroding the letters, creating the drizzles, having dust pile up. AE is not a 3D simulation tool, after all, but even then people would split it up to save simulation time and have full control over it.

Mylenium