The solid you were working with should have disappeared – in its place, you should see something that looks a bit like a firework, along with a 3D grid and some other guide marks. Add the Simulation effect CC Particle World to the layer and you should see an immediate change. Even though we’ll be working in 3D, you can leave the solid as a 2D layer. First, create a new solid, the same size as the composition you are working in. If you end up doing this kind of work professionally, Particular is absolutely worth investing in – but you can still do a lot with After Effects’ built-in Particle World and it’s the perfect tool for learning the basics.ĬC Particle World is an effect, which means it needs to be applied to something. It offers more advanced controls and options than the built-in effects do, but it doesn’t come cheap: Particular by itself costs several hundred dollars and the entire collection of Trapcode effects runs around a thousand. Of all the many effects, scripts, and presets that can be added to After Effects, Particular is easily one of the most popular. Trapcode encompasses a suite of effects made by the third-party company Red Giant.
If you do any online searches for particle techniques in After Effects, you will probably see another effect mentioned a lot: Trapcode Particular.
Many of the options in Particle World can be applied to the other particle simulation effects as well, so learning this one will give you a good head start on using the others. We’re going to be focusing on CC Particle World, since it’s the only effect that works in a 3D environment. If you look under the “Simulation” section of the effects, you’ll see that there are actually a few different particle-related options: CC Particles Systems II, CC Particle World, and Particle Playground. Even as a purely abstract aesthetic element, particles can add a lot to a composition. Particles can be used to create all sorts of interesting effects, including rain, snow, smoke, flames, fireworks, stars, and a lot more. Let’s explore one last 3D topic with one of After Effects’ coolest features: particles. Please let me know how I did and if you have any tips or corrections please leave a note.So far, we’ve created 3D objects, cameras, and lights in After Effects.
So even though you might be saying, “I can make this effect happen in Particular in 5 minutes,” keep in mind there’s always another 90% out there. Which takes a bit of effort to learn compared to the plethora of turnkey particle generators out there, but I think it’s a good start for a tutorial since it encapsulates so much of digital compositing. So here is my first tutorial on Blurrypixel using an often overlooked particle effect in After Effects, Particle Playground. And that’s what learning is about, right?
It may not be what I was expecting and it may be completely different than what I was studying, but it was always beneficial and always unexpected. But if I took the chance to look beyond my own “pretentiousness”, I would find there was always something invaluable to learn from them. At school there were always teachers who in all honesty were experts in their field simply because they knew 10% more about it than 10% of the students they were teaching.
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