Alexander Lehnert breaks down a shot the he recently created of a woman’s silhouette that breaks apart into particles while morphing into a falcon flying away that was created in Nuke with the Spline Warp Tools, and then uses After Effects for the particle transition effect using Trapcode Particular. Check out the Morphing a Lady into a Falcon using Nuke & After Effects tutorial here.
from the tutorial description: In this shot we’ll be creating a disintegration transition effect of a woman’s silhouette that falls into dust while morphing into a falcon flying away. We’re going to prepare our single plates needed for the shot in Nuke, as the whole production was based on a Nuke pipeline. However, The main particle transition effect will be in After Effects using Trapcode Particular and a CC Blur.