Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training

Get up to speed with Red Giant Trapcode Particular 4, an industry-standard particle generator for Adobe After Effects.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Getting Started in Particular

• Applying the Particular effect to a layer
• Fundamentals of the designer

2. Working on an Intro Project

• Creating an emitter
• Refining the system
• Compositing the system in the scene

3. Working with Emitters

• Defining particles per second
• Exploring emitter types
• Animating emitter positions
• Working with direction and velocity
• Understanding pre-run

4. Adjusting Particle Attributes

• Choosing particles
• Adjusting life
• Drawing parameter adjustments
• Working with animated particles

5. Creating Custom Particles

• Using layers as particles
• Understanding sprites
• Working with polygons

6. Working in Three Dimensions

• Understanding 3D in AE with Particular
• Shading with lights
• Animating with cameras
• Creating shallow depth of field
• Emitting particles from OBJs

7. Building Multi-Systems

• Defining multiple systems
• Adding systems
• Inheriting attributes

8. Next Level Systems in Particular

• Understanding dynamics
• Creating bounce interactions
• Stopping time with Time Factor
• Emitting particles from particles
• Emitting particles from layers

9. Creating Light Streaks

• Working with Streaklet
• Blending streaks
• Creating transitions with streaks

10. Where There's Smoke, There's Fire

• Working with fire presets
• Emitting fire from a graphic
• Adding embers to the system

11. Generating Whimsical Backgrounds

• Building the initial system
• Setting the colors
• Change motion with physics

12. Fluid Dynamics

• Defining fluid dynamics
• Working with fluid force
• Building fluid systems from scratch
• Animating a fluid system emitter
• Building multi-emitter fluid systems

Conclusion

• Next steps