Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 11:00AM 
Trapcode Particular used to create a crazy smoketrail rainbow. Six Light Emitters are parented to a 3D null. The null is animated on a path in 3D space and the Light Emitters follow.
Download AE 6.0 AEP - crazy_rainbow.aep
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 10:44AM 
Uses Trapcode Form to create an effect of Text (or any image) turning into sand.
Download AE CS3 AEP - text_to_sand.aep
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 10:35AM 
Advanced example: Trapcode Shine with smoke. Uses Fractal Noise to generate a smokescreen.
A 3D null-object "lightpos" is used to position the Source Point of Shine using an expression.
The logo and the smokescreen are 3D layers. The smokescreen layer is placed in front of the logo layer towards the camera. The camera is animated to move from left to right and auto-oriented towards the logo.
Shine is applied to an adjustment layer and smokescreen is used as a luma matte for that layer to create the look of rays in smoke. This adjustment layer is not shown in the illustration above because it is a 2D layer. The smokescreen layer is an animated Fractal Noise effect with keyframes set for Evolution and Offset Turbulence
Thanks to Scott Frizzle of Artifact for the inspiration!
Download AE 5.0 AEP - smoke.zip
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 10:31AM Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 9:48PM 
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
