Objects coming at screen

[ottoneres]

Hello mographers/animators,

I'm studying some new techniques on After Effects and I stumbled upon this:

https://vimeo.com/228243554

I'm trying to recreate the animation found at around 00:32 when many elements "explode" to screen.

I set up my camera, my 3D on layers, but does anyone have a suggestion on how to tackle the animation? It doesn't seem all manual labor.

Thank you in advance.

Otto.

[Jose Panadero]

You can achieve this animation by using Trapcode Particular or Superluminal Stardust. Both are particle systems than can easily add hundreds of elements and "throw" them to the camera.

[Rick Gerard]

As Jose said, if you have the budget for a 3rd Party Plug-in I would try Particular. Sequence all of your graphics with one frame per graphic, then choose the sequence as the particle. 

If you don't have the budget the easiest thing to do is set up some random expressions to distribute all of your layers in 3D space then animate the camera. 

Both of these workflows require a fair amount of experience with After Effects and knowledge of AE's 3D space. How much experience do you have?

[imeilfx]

And to add what Rick and Jose said if you don't have Particular and you don't know epressions to well you can use one of many scripts to distribute and randomly rotate those layers. After that - just animate your camera.
F.eg.
https://aescripts.com/distributelayers/
https://aescripts.com/3d-layer-distributor/
https://aescripts.com/randomizer/