Particle Illusion After Effects Cs6 15
Tanja Mcinnis
These Emitter Library emitters are the starting point for building new particle effects: the first step in building an animation is to add one or more emitters from the Emitter Library to your project.
Background Image: When on the background will be an image instead of a solid color. Useful for some effects, especially if they get their colors from the source layer. (Particles can get their colors from source only in the plugin version). Note that selecting an emitter that gets its color from the source will use this image automatically for the particles regardless of the setting of this option.
Wondertouch particleIllusion is an amazingly cool and almost effortless special effects tool. particleIllusion is for anyone who needs explosions, muzzle flashes, fireworks, waterfalls, realistic effects or psychedelic trips without the drugs. Perhaps best of all, you might not even have to hire a dedicated animator, since you can probably be up and running in an hour.
Particle effects are special effects that work by animating small individual graphics into a larger effect. Snow is a good example: one flake is a particle and the complete effect combines these into a snowy New England scene. The snow can float or icily rain down, but a good particle effect will completely fool the viewer. Random, natural motion is the key to believable effects and good applications accomplish this with a minimum of hassle.
Throwing a visually stunning effect into your video is mind-numbingly easy, but of course the real test is when you start performing more complicated effects shots. Complex projects, with a couple of particle generators and some multi-point animated blockers, require more processing power. The application will take advantage of OpenGL hardware on your display card when available. Unfortunately, consumer display cards have a rather variable implementation of the OpenGL standard. Even low-end professional cards worked well, however. We found that about 70% of the decent consumer 3D display cards in our office worked. One computer crashed violently, however, even in software-only mode. Fortunately, you can download a trial version of the application before you buy to test for these types of problems.
Using a consumer ATI Radeon 9800-based 3D card, particleIllusion was smooth as silk with more complex projects, with realtime previews and a responsive workspace. In software-only mode on a 2.2GHz laptop, the program was totally stable, but much more cumbersome to use. Realtime previews were impossible and scrolling, zooming and modifying effects required a lot of patience. It was a lot like using Adobe After Effects, really. Before particleIllusion, however, an equivalent effect in a 3D-animation package would need an overnight render (at least). Instead of an overnight true 3D effect, you can often get away with a 2D particleIllusion effect that takes only a few minutes to render. This realization really clarified for us was how amazing particleIllusion is: with modest hardware support, the program makes complex effects editing a truly joyful and creative experience.
This After Effects particles project features 14 unique categories of effects. You can use them to style your photos with particle effects. You can easily adjust the blur, colors, direction and speed of the effects. This is a great photo animation toolkit for beginners and pros alike.
All courses on Envato Tuts+ are now free! And we add more free courses and tutorials to the Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel frequently. Learn how to use particle effects in After Effects. Get some inspiration with this video course from Jonathan Lam, all about how to control particle effects in After Effects:
In October 2018, Continuum relaunched Particle Illusion, a Mocha Essentials workflow with magnetic edge-snapping, and updates to Title Studio.[2] In October 2019, Continuum introduced Corner Pin Studio with built-in Mocha tracking for quick screen replacement and inserts, 6 stylized transitions, and 4 creative effects.[3] In October 2020, Continuum released its largest update to date, with over 80 GPU-accelerated cinematic effects (film stocks, color grades, optical filter stimulations, digital gobo library), over 1000 drag and drop presets, a custom FX Editor interface, and real-time particles.[4] In November 2021, Continuum added After Effects multi-frame rendering, native Apple M1 support, fluid dynamics inside Particle Illusion, 60 movie/TV-inspired color-grade presets, and more.[5] In October 2022, Continuum introduced 10 new transitions, a simplified Particle Illusion workflow, an atmospheric glow effect, and over 250 curated presets.[6]
In June 2020, Boris FX launched Optics, its first plugin developed for photographers and digital artists.[23] The plugin delivers cinematic effects to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom and is also available as a standalone application. Optics includes over 160 effects in categories such as lighting, film stocks, lens effects, gobos, and color grades. In February 2022, Boris FX released Optics (v 2022), which adds Particle Illusion, a photorealistic particle engine, beauty tools, and over 2000 presets.[24]
ParticleIllusion for After Effects is the plug-in version of particleIllusion 3.0, the standalone particle effects application from wondertouch. With particleIllusion for After Effects you can create a huge variety of visual effects and motion graphics elements.
Takes into account the position of the viewer. It modelsthe reflection of the light source back to the viewer. It can createthe illusion of shininess. For realistic effects, you can animatethis control by using higher and higher values to mask the transitionfrom filtered to nonfiltered versions of the layer.
The Layer Exploder explodes a layer into newparticles, and the Particle Exploder explodes a particle into morenew particles. In addition to explosion effects, the exploders arealso handy for simulating fireworks or for rapidly increasing the numberof particles.
When you choose a layerfor Layer Map, Particle Playground ignores any changes that youmade to that layer within that composition. Instead, it uses the layerin its original state. To keep transformations, effects, masks,rasterization options, expressions, or keyframe changes for a layerwhen you use it as a particle source, precompose the layer.
Displays a frame from the layer based on the Time Offsetyou specify, regardless of the current time. Choose Absolute whenyou want a particle to show the same frame of a multiframe sourcelayer for its entire lifespan, instead of cycling through differentframes as the effect layer advances in time. For example, if youchoose Absolute and specify a Time Offset of 0, every particle showsthe first frame of the source layer for its entire lifespan. Ifyou want to show a frame other than the first frame, move the layerearlier in time until the frame you want to show corresponds tothe In point of the Particle Playground layer. If you specify aTime Offset of 0.1, for example, each new particle displays a frame thatis 0.1 second after the frame of the previous particle (or everythird frame of a 30-fps animation).
Starts playing the layer from a frame chosen at random, withinthe range between the current time of the effect layer and the Random TimeMax you specify. For example, if you choose Relative Random andspecify a Random Time Max of 1, each particle starts playing froma layer frame chosen at random from between the current time and1 second after the current time. If, for another example, you specifya negative Random Time Max value of - 1, the Random Time Max isbefore the current time, so that the range within which new particlesstart playing advances as the current time advances. However, the rangeis always between the current time and one second earlier than thecurrent time.
Some controls affect the particle from birth:Cannon, Grid, Layer Exploder, and Particle Exploder. Others affectthe particle after birth and over the course of its lifespan: Gravity,Repel, Wall, Persistent Property Mapper, and Ephemeral PropertyMapper. To have full control over particle movement and appearance, youmust balance these controls.
A persistent change to a particle property retainsthe most recent value set by a layer map for the remaining lifespanof the particle, unless the particle is modified by another controlsuch as Repel, Gravity, or Wall. For example, if you use a layermap to modify particle size and you animate the layer map so it exitsthe frame, the particles keep the last size value set by the layermap after it exits the frame.
An ephemeral change to a particle property causesthe property to revert to its original value after each frame. Forexample, if you use a layer map to modify particle size and youanimate the layer map so that it exits the frame, each particlereturns to its original size value as soon as no layer map pixelscorrespond to it. Similarly, if you apply an operator such as Add,each time a particle passes over a different layer map pixel, thevalue of the layer map pixel is added to the original value of theparticle.
Dr. Badler suggested I use Houdini, a special effects software. Because Houdini has built in simulations, including both particle simulations and fluid simulations, I would avoid writing any code. After much debate, I decided to proceed with the project. With no prior experience with Houdini, I spent a few days learning the interface and exploring the software before attempting a complex fluid simulation. I followed an online tutorial to make a simple beach and wave simulation. This included creating a mesh model of a beach and using a fluid simulation to create waves crashing against the beach, adjusting for fluid friction and adding other properties like wind (Zheng 2014). While this was unrelated to flooding in the Amazon, I learned important concepts about fluid properties and setting up passive colliders, or objects which the fluid interacts with.
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