Disintegration

Trapcode Particular used to disintegrate a layer.

Download AE 6.0 AEP 

There are a few pre-comps that makes this possible. The "exploder" layer is used as a Layer Emitter in the main comp. As you can see it reveals a small part of the text and travels from left to right. From this area particles are emitted.

The "hider" layer is simply the text gradually hidden.

Bounce mode is enabled and setup to use a floor only.

Resurrected from trapcode-people

Official Trapcode Suite training by Peder Norrby

Clip	Description	on-line	download
Shine in action	Introduction	view	download :: 5.0M
Shine cutoff rays	Avoid having rays cut off	view	download :: 4.8M
Shine in motion	Setting Shine in motion	view	download :: 11M
Shine gobo	Create a 3D gobo, advanced	view	download :: 10M
Starglow in action	Introduction and basic use	view	download :: 5.2M
3D Stroke in action	Introduction and basic use	view	download :: 5.4M
Sound Keys in action	Introduction and basic use	view	download :: 3.2M
Lux in action	Introduction and basic use	view	download :: 6.8M
Lux in depth	More thorough	view	download :: 7.0M
Particular	Getting Started by Harry Frank	view
Particular in action	Introduction (v1.0)	view	download :: 5.7M
Particular bounce	Bouncing particles on 3D layers	view	download :: 11M
Particular custom	Custom particles (in v2 "Sprite")	view	download :: 22M
Particular new in v1.5	Depth of Field, Motion Path	view	download :: 20M
Particular v2 tut 1	Shading, Textured Poly etc	view	download :: 65M
Particular v2 tut 2	Streaklet, Ortho etc	view	download :: 23M
Particular v2 tut 3	Float, Transform World etc	view	download :: 48M
Echospace in action	Introduction	view	download :: 7.7M
Echospace precomp	Echospace with 3D precomps	view	download :: 6.4M
HDR	Using HDR (32-bit float)	view	download :: 41M
Horizon	Basic use	view	download :: 80M
Form	Form Training by Harry Frank	view
Form intro	Introduction and basic use	view	download :: 78M
Form layer map	Using Layer Maps	view	download :: 43M
Form audio	Using sound to affect Form	view	download :: 60M
Form fractal	Using the fractal noise field	view	download :: 51M
Mir	Geometry and shading	view	(download from page)
Tao	Three parts by Chad Perkins	view

Customizable 3D Ribbion/wire with Particular

With this set up you are able to dynamically make a ribbion or wire as long or as short as you like. You are also able to attach anything you like to the two Nulls at either ends of the rope. This allows you to link objects to the wire very easily. And because it is done using Particular the wire can be moved in 3D space.

You can grab the file here: http://hypoly.com/downloads/3d-ribbon/

Smoke Trails Tutorial by Andrew Kramer

Awesome tutorial by Andrew Kramer that shows how to create realistic smoke trails using Trapcode Particular: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/smoke_trails/ 

A little experiment - Shadow mapping Particular Objects

Here's a little test I did while working out how to create shadows for Particular layers.

 It uses a duplicate of the main comp to create a "Shadow version" of it, with the camera in the shadow comp linked via expressions to the light source in the master comp. I'll post the AEP on my site if anyone wants to play with it  - at http://www.digitaldistortion.net/rsrc_particularShadow.html