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Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training

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Overview

Get up to speed with Red Giant Trapcode Particular 4, an industry-standard particle generator for Adobe After Effects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
1. Getting Started in Particular
  • Applying the Particular effect to a layer
  • Fundamentals of the designer
2. Working on an Intro Project
  • Creating an emitter
  • Refining the system
  • Compositing the system in the scene
3. Working with Emitters
  • Defining particles per second
  • Exploring emitter types
  • Animating emitter positions
  • Working with direction and velocity
  • Understanding pre-run
4. Adjusting Particle Attributes
  • Choosing particles
  • Adjusting life
  • Drawing parameter adjustments
  • Working with animated particles
5. Creating Custom Particles
  • Using layers as particles
  • Understanding sprites
  • Working with polygons
6. Working in Three Dimensions
  • Understanding 3D in AE with Particular
  • Shading with lights
  • Animating with cameras
  • Creating shallow depth of field
  • Emitting particles from OBJs
7. Building Multi-Systems
  • Defining multiple systems
  • Adding systems
  • Inheriting attributes
8. Next Level Systems in Particular
  • Understanding dynamics
  • Creating bounce interactions
  • Stopping time with Time Factor
  • Emitting particles from particles
  • Emitting particles from layers
9. Creating Light Streaks
  • Working with Streaklet
  • Blending streaks
  • Creating transitions with streaks
10. Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
  • Working with fire presets
  • Emitting fire from a graphic
  • Adding embers to the system
11. Generating Whimsical Backgrounds
  • Building the initial system
  • Setting the colors
  • Change motion with physics
12. Fluid Dynamics
  • Defining fluid dynamics
  • Working with fluid force
  • Building fluid systems from scratch
  • Animating a fluid system emitter
  • Building multi-emitter fluid systems
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Ian Robinson

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