Friday, October 19, 2012 at 3:02PM ;)
Amazing tutorial by Buwaneka Saranga. Uses After Effects, Trapcode Particular 2, Photoshop. Check it out here: http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/after-effects/create-cosmic-lighting-effects-with-particles/
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 2:39AM ;)
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Fresh of the the festival circuit, we proudly present the internet premiere of our short film Kiss.
"Le soleil est le passé, le terre est le présent et la lune est le futur."
As Paul Auster once said “The sun is the past, the earth is the present and the moon is the future.” In our first independent short film we explore the consequence of something as innocent as a kiss. A love story between the sun and the moon. We believe that every solar eclipse is the moons attempt to reach the sun...
CREDITS:
Director: Joseph Hodgson & Franck Aubry
Anmation & Art Direction: Joseph Hodgson & Franck Aubry
Production: Racecar - racecar.no
Sound Design: Erlend Elvesveen & Sven Erik Nordset
Sound Mix: Erlend Elvesveen
Music: 'Stille' by Bendik - nrk.no/urort/Artist/bendikmusikk/default.aspx
For more info: kiss.racecar.no
Joseph notes: "We LOVE your Trapcode plugins, couldn't live without them. I think we use them in almost every project we make!
Trapcode plugins were used in Kiss - in the abstract section, when the sun and moon meet as well as in the pre explosion and the full explosion. (Particular the most)"
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:10PM 
Po Finds the Truth – Image courtesy of DreamWorks Animation
This post was written by Sarah Wise for Red Giant's Blog. See original post.
When Kung Fu Panda first hit cinemas in 2008 we fell in love with martial arts misfit Po the Panda and the Furious Five as they fought and defeated the evil Tai Lung. But this year the challenge for the teams at DreamWorks was how to create the second installment and build on the successes of the first film.
In Kung Fu Panda 2, not only have the characters developed, but the film itself has upped its game with more explosions, more chases and more visual excitement – all thanks to the dedicated VFX teams at DreamWorks.
Lead After Effects animator at DreamWorks, Daniel Hashimoto and his close-knit team of AE artists have brought amazing impact to some of the film’s most memorable sequences, using Trapcode Particular and Form.
Po Finds the Truth (2) – Image courtesy of DreamWorks AnimationDaniel told us: “One of the film’s most dramatic sequences – “Po Finds the Truth” – pulled out all the stops. In this sequence, which involves a village on fire near the snowy woods, Form and Particular were used to create snow, embers, smoke clouds, and a highly-stylized flame effect. The customization and versatility of Particular made it a very powerful tool to have at our disposal. Our Visual Development Artists painted the stylized effects which we wanted to bring to life in the 2D sequences, but not just in 2D, but also in stereoscopic 3D**. And since Particular, Form and Horizon all work within a 3D environment, they were ideal for the look we wanted to achieve.
** Check out Episode 59 of Red Giant TV to learn about using Trapcode Software to create Stereoscopic 3D effects.
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 10:50PM 
Peder Norrby comments: "Exceptional work from John H. King. He seems to use matchmoving to integrate wonderful abstract Trapcode Particular elements into city scenes. One impressive thing is how he works with light so that the sun seems to illuminate and shine through the elements and shadows seem to be cast."
John H. King writes:
"At the very end of all things, like in the first beginning, No one knows
Everything is about to be written.
So, slowly, the vail of illusion fades out.
Thoughts and memories mix up, an immutable dance of time, space, shadow and light, and in the core of vacuity, the invisible world rebirth.
The world that never was."
Teaser for a short movie I'm working on for months now on my personal free time. Still a lot of work to do... Hope to release a Final cut on the fall 2011. After so many hours working on it, just sharing some of the shots! Hope you will like the mood of the "invisible".
Adobe After Effects CS5
Particular 2.1
5D Mark II
The priceless support from Somepling
Ten thousand cups of Coffee
J.H.K 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 6:19PM Today we released a maintenance update for Trapcode Particular for AE. Bugfixes include:
- the crash bug with Textured Polygon and Sprite particle types
- the aliased/moire rendering error
- the input z-buffer problem (was only a problem in CS3/CS4)
Read more and get the update from Red Giant:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2011/01/18/trapcode-particular-2-1-1-goodness/