Monday, June 7, 2010 at 12:25PM 
Quba has made this tutorial on how to create accurate reflections in AE. It is surprisingly simple! And it works for the camera-aware Trapcode plugs such as Particular, Lux and 3D Stroke. Check it out here:
http://qubahq.com/2010/06/tutorial-100-accurate-reflections/
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 3:47AM Particular v2 - Massive from Peder Norrby on Vimeo.
Download AE CS3: AEP
Eight pre-made comps with Trapcode Particular v2 using massive amounts of particles. Download the AEP and play with the settings! There are seven extra comps in there as well - so 15 comps all-in-all! + one edit for benchmarks. Uses Trapcode Lux, Form and Horizon in some comps.
The massive amounts of particles are generated using the Aux system which is a function that allows emitting particles from particles. The Aux particles create trails from the main particles. These are then in turn affected using different things like gravity, turbulence etc.
Took me 45 mins to render the "edit" comp (consisting of eight comps, 47 secs in total) using my MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. What's your render time and hardware?
How about hooking up Emitter Position to Sound Keys? Could be worth a try!
Design & Music by Peder Norrby / Trapcode / Rymden
Download AE CS3 AEP
The music is available under Creative Commons Attribution license for download: http://soundcloud.com/rymdenmusic/pentagram-mstr
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 3:46PM Sample AE project for Trapcode Particular v2. It also uses Lux and shows how well Lux and Particular integrate now when Particular supports shading from comp lights. The setup is like this: the particle texture is a pre-comp with some simple polygon-shapes. The emitter is run in the beginning of the comp, creating the poly-based shape. After that time is frozen by keyframing Physics Time Factor. The camera is rotated to create some motion.
The intensity of the lights were manually keyframed to match the audio. The background gradient was made using Trapcode Horizon.
Download AE CS3 zip archive
