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

tests with new fractal types in beta 3 (AEP included)

This is the "Bubbley HiComplex" comp that uses the Multi SmoothRidge type. Here used with the Seamless Looping functionality to create this ever-looping GIF.

"Oil Flow" - same as above but with specular and almost no diffuse. 

Here is the SmoothRidge fractal type lit with a few lights and Material properties setup so there is almost no diffuse and lots of specular. Lux also used here to visualize the lightsources.

Also included is another test with the technique from the Mir Thing tutorial.

If you want to check them out here is the AE project (CS6): mir_beta3_stuff.aep

You'll need Mir v2 beta 3 to render correctly.

There's a couple more comps in there too. Let me know what you think in the comments!

Mir Thing Tutorial

Here's the final clip we'll be re-creating:

Tutorial on creating the above:

Using Trapcode Mir v1
For finishing touches also uses Trapcode Shine and Form.

Covers setting up the "spikey" shape using an amplitude map for the fractal. Also shows the "finishing"; creating the background, light-rays, shadows, glow, atmospheric particles etc.

Low Poly Mountains with Trapcode Mir by VinhSon Nguyen

Procedural audio reactive animation

I did some tests with letting Sound Keys control Mir that came out pretty cool.

Download AE CS6 AEP: AudioMir.aep

Download AE CS5.5 AEP: AudioMir_CS55.aep

Procedural audio reactive animation.
Quick test using Trapcode Sound Keys controlling Mir to generate visuals from audio.

In this case, three expressions are used on Mir:
Rotate Y = time*20;
Amplitude = 200+thisComp.layer("SK").effect("Sound Keys")("Output 1");
Frequency = 200+thisComp.layer("SK").effect("Sound Keys")("Output 3");

Where SK is the sound keys layer and Output one is setup to capture bass and Output 3 is setup to capture the high frequencies. An invert effect was manually inserted.

Music: "Fortress" by -ono- (freemusicarchive.org/music/ono/document_of_life/06_Fortress)