Glass Shatter

Hi, i'd like to know if there's any technique to create a glass shatter effect with a good reflection and a proper shatter pieces.

Here's the example.







Thank you any help would be awesome.

That's an awesome reel, but i'd want a Glass break more or less like the one in the example with the slow motion effect (wich probably is jutst done with keyframes or post production) (?) what i mainly want it's the positioning of the Pieces of glass and how to properly break them i used a regular explode effect and this is as close as i got.

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/341/breakr.png

As you can see i neither know how to get it to reflect a stock footage.. like in the example wich reflects slightly a city stock.

Download the project + Materials: http://www.mediafire.com/?7pluq87s9id6nr1

If someone could take a look into it. And try to fix the motion to look the same as the one in the example or explain it would be awesome !!!

I don't really have time to play around with this but since you are not actually destroying an object you could use a simple emitter with really slow settings and random geometry chunks.... however the next option is Mograph random effector set to turbulance.

Here is a quick set up that should give you a few ideas... I am not sure if its what you what since your files seemed incomplete...

http://www.mediafire.com/?mi4zesar9m6oda2
/Randy

Thats the SKy material.... try a few different HDR images and watch the difference.
I just used your image but your that artist had a building and stuff so just find the image you wan to reflect and put it in.

You may want to add models to the scene maybe some bounce boards.
Slight motion blur will really help sell it too. (Very little since everything is so slow)
Depth of Field is also a nice touch in the youtube clip.

/Randy