Mir Smoke with Particular Dust

I was experimenting with creating smoke with Mir. It's basically two blurred layers of mir with slightly different settings. Added some dust with Particular too. It's not perfect but pretty cool. The comp was made so it can be extended to any duration (uses no keyframes, just time-based expressions).

Download project file (AE CS6 or later): MirSmoke_CS6.aep

Realistic Dust Hits using Trapcode Particular

An amazing tutorial by John Einselen where he shows how to create realistic dust hits using Trapcode Particular. It also covers an advanced depth-compositing techniqe utilizing Particular's Z-Buffer input.

Dust Hit

Quick dust hit / smoke puff using Trapcode Particular with a custom particle sprite generated with AE Fractal Noise.

Download AE6 AEP dust_hit.aep

Resurrected from trapcode-people