Particular v2 - Massive

Particular v2 - Massive from Peder Norrby on Vimeo.

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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

Custom Particles

2009 has been a great year for messing around with Form.  I've created a few simple particles in cinema 4d that I've used in my form experiments as well as a few commercial jobs that I'd like to share.

Most of the quicktimes have alpha channels and are loopable, perfect for particular or form.

Download via mediafire here.

Merry Xmas Trapcode community!

Poly Blink

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 

Sparticular

My first script for Particular. Sparticular helps you acheiving a better final result by enabling 3D interaction between your particules and your 3D world. [Editors note: This script is very clever! It makes many instances of the Trapcode Particular effect and sets up the Near/Far planes on each]

Get the free script right here on aescripts.com

Form_SSRI

An experiment with Trapcode Form using CC Sphere as particle source.
Download AEP.