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Hello!
I was wondering if any of you know how to make a glass shatter effect.
Like if someone jumps through a window. 
Are you looking to do this completely in bricks? If so, check out Buxton's video, "Twisted".
If you want to do it in post production, check out Detonation Films for some free effects. Partway down that page there's links to some free shattering glass footage.
I want to do it in post production becaude i don't have blank bricks.
I am going to check out detonationfilms, but it may be hard to make it fit the window size.
Anyway, thanks for the answer! 
fxhome said that they are looking at making a 'Shatter' preset for the new Hitfilm product they are making.
Action Essentials 2 has glass in it.
You could also (In theory) do it in Blender, then render it out with an alpha channel.
Wax+Detanation films=amazing effects.
When I was in legoland I bought some blank bricks. Those can be used for glass shattering
NXTManiac made a tutorial about smashing a glass table, but it's very simple. In my film Physics Lesson, I just used a bunch of clear pieces and sent them flying in all directions away from the source. A lot of the rigs holding the pieces up are mostly off-screen, but the ones that aren't hidden are also made of clear pieces. They just look like shattered bits of glass too so that works pretty well. I'm not a fan of special effects, I like doing everything in-camera.
You could also do it in post using After Effects' "Shatter Effect." If you made the window a seperate layer and toyed with the particle size, you could probably come up with something pretty cool. However, if you don't have After Effects, as they said above, DetonationFilms would probably have something that would work for you.
Also, Pixel Poly looks nice with a Force Motion blur on an adjustment layer above it.
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