PRE-VISUALIZATION FOR FILM WITH JASON MICHAEL HALL quick fx, glass shatter glass

 This tutorial was all about finding special effects to amplify the scene. One way of doing this is using green screen effects on YouTube, importing to After Effects, dropping a key light which falls the green automatically and adjusting the alpha. This can be put in a card on Maya like plane/image-plane.  If there are many types of the same effects you like, you can offset them so they go off at different times to make a new effect. Tiff or PNG work when exporting FX from AE. If an effect needs to be cut in terms of length then Maya's graph editor allows such changes. You save the effect as a Master File/ Maya ASCB to be imported into your scenes.

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