Create this popcorn animation style easily in After Effects using Newton

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Create this "popcorn" effect using Adobe After Effects and Newton 4. 🍿 🤩

This can be done very quickly, here's how:

I've used images here, but you may use videos or shape layers. Best practice is to send Newton optimized shapes ( rectangles or circles). This will speed up your preview and give better results.

Import your footages.
Duplicate them to have around 100 layers (more or less depending on what you want).
Randomize the entry point of all your layers. You can do it by hand, but here I'm using a script called Rift.

Launch Newton.
Set a Comp Wall at the bottom (but you can use 2 or 3 walls depending on your design, composition format, etc.).
Turn off gravity by setting it to 0.
Set the Sub-steps to 50 (or more, the more Sub-steps you set the more precise the animation will be).
Set the friction of the walls and objects to 50.
Use the Randomizer to randomize the position and rotation of your objects.

And that's all! You've got your animation.
You can, of course, tweak the settings to make it your way.

You could also use the teleportation feature to reuse the layers once they are offscreen!

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