Getting Started with Trapcode Particular

An awesome five-part series of tutorials on Trapcode Particular. These are geared towards the new users, but is a great watch also for the experienced.

Particle Man

Using the new "RGB - XYZ Velocity" mode in Trapcode Particular 2.2 with motion vectors from Twixtor Pro.

Process:

Full Tutorial:

MIR colorfields

12 comps of colorful animated bulging sheets, ribbons and more using Trapcode Mir.

It's hard to get this to compress well to H.264 - for full quality download the AEP and render it.

Try putting some image with colors you like in the "tex colors" comp.

Get the CS5 AEP here: colorfields_CS5.aep

Music: "Mario Bava Sleeps In a Little Later Than He Expected To" by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com)

MIR landscapes

14 comps with procedural mountain landscapes generated in MIR

Explanation:

Download AEP: MIR_landscapes_CS5.aep

MIR on fire

Example of Trapcode Mir creating a stylized fire around text with the flames licking the letters.
The text is editable in a pre-comp.

Download AEP: MIR_onfire_CS5.aep