Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:19PM An imagination of flying in the gas clouds of space. Actual images of nebulas taken with the Hubble space telescope were combined in After Effects with CG gas clouds and stars made using Trapcode Form and Starglow.
Tutorial:
Download AE CS5 project file
Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 3:28PM A little experiment i did to create an semi-realistic ocean using Trapcode Form, fractal noise, vector blur and some clever texturing.
Get the Trapcode Form ocean file here > TrapcodeFormOcean.aep.zip
Drop me a note if you have problems, queries, or just to show off what you've done with it! ^^
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 3:25PM 
This is a trapcode particular experiment I worked on. Really working on the lighting and shading features in trapcode particular.
Vimeo Render http://vimeo.com/31113848
Download CS5 project file here: Zen Alien
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 3:30PM My first major test of the new OBJ import functionality of Trapcode Form 2. I created the galaxy object using the "Spray Points" tool in Lightwave, painting them into the rough shape of a galaxy. I then applied a vortex deform to it, to further twist it into the right shape.
This object was then brought into After Effects as an OBJ and I layered a couple of instances of Form to create the richness of the stars. I also used a luminance-tracked version of it with Video Copilot Optical Flares for the bigger stars, seen as you move in closer (as well the hot central star/singularity in the centre).
There's some fractal-noise-derived nebula objects in there too, to add to the overall texture of the piece. I've used Trapcode Horizon for some distant ones, along with some basic masked 3D planes. Anyway, hope you like it - the project files are available to download for free from the Digital Distortion website.
Music is "Cad Goddeu (Revised)" by Nest - serein.co.uk/releases/sere001/nest-retold
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:35AM I was watching this pretty cool video of how some of the fire effects were created in Kung Fu Panda 2 using After Effects and Particular (link). After a lot of watching i figured out how it was made and set about recreating the effect - which I think came out really well.
As a lot of people were interested in it, I thought I'd share the AE file - it is made in After Effects CS5 using Trapcode Particular.
Download CS5 project file: playingwithfire.aep