Particle Playground: Ice

Posted on 25. Nov, 2007 by Jerzy Drozda Jr in After Effects

Christmas are coming so it’s about time I show you how to create nice snow that will stick to the layers that you have in your composition.

While shooting footage for this tutorial Georges butt almost fell of because of the very low temperature. But hey… we’ll do anything for all of you boys and girls watching ours tutorials. Thankfully after drinking 10 cups of hot tea everything was back to normal.

In this experiment George and I will show you how you can create a snow falling from the sky. And if that wasn’t enough we are going to show you how to make the snow stick to the rooftops, cars standing on the streets, logos, or even actors in your footage.

And we even have a small challenge for you. After watching this tutorial try to create a custom shaped snowflake particle, or even few snowflake shapes.

Make sure to see the related tutorial: Particle Playground on Fire

Download: Tutorial project file (After Effects CS3)

Tags: particles, Tutorials

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27 Responses to “Particle Playground: Ice”

fReezEr.

25. Nov, 2007

Very nice Tut. Respect my friend ;)

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Tielman

26. Nov, 2007

Excellent tut. Funny i was just thinking on doing such thing, but didnt know how. Your telephatic also or what?:)
Great!!

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Umair

26. Nov, 2007

Hey guys nice job buddy really really cooooolllllll!!!!!! ;)

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Kopiart

26. Nov, 2007

I wonder if you came up with it just for Christmas or you needed that in your Bruteforce project?

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Daum

28. Nov, 2007

Really nice tut. The same stuff in realtime (if you have a webcam):
http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/flash_8_webcam.html

Cheers !

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Maltaannon

28. Nov, 2007

Actually… I’m a flash developer also, and I used to do things like that when I was playing around, and the ideas for Particle Playground on Fire and Particle Playground on Ice came from my very old experiments, just like one of my first tutorials – Oily Stratum, that was also inspired by flash.

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Jenny

05. Dec, 2007

Hey Maltaannon,
Thanks for everything. I like how in most of these tutorials, and I mean tutorials in general off of creative cow and what not, the creators always seem to think they are comedians.
what wit, I do prefer one liners so if you watch some Mitch Hedberg it will save time on the witty banter that I do so much enjoy.

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Leo

05. Dec, 2007

Some people should shut the f*** up…

Thanks for your work! keep it up! I really enjoy your tutorials, thay crack me up. I’ve learned a lot with them.

Take care.

PS-”Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.” (Mme. de Puixieux)

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Stefan

07. Dec, 2007

AWESOME MAN I LOVE YOUR TUTORIALS YOU`RE GREAT! Also i hope that you will make some tutorials for advanced techniques for trapcode particular or trapcode FORM =] Keep up the good work!

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Psalmuel Leye

11. Dec, 2007

Hey Maltaannon
My name is Psalmuel Leye, i live in Nigeria and im feelin ur snow over here.
i think ill do my own snow to cos we dont see snow here in Nigeria.
Anyway, Thanks for ur work. i hope one day u will put all these great tutorials in a CD so i can buy all the copy.
Keep the snow fallin

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Maltaannon

11. Dec, 2007

Sounds like a good idea! Thanks Psalmuel.

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Bob

28. Feb, 2008

Hi Maltaannon !
I’ve just found your site ( clicked on a link on VCP )
And i’ve downloaded all of your tutorials :D
This is the first i watched and i’m very impressed..(i love them :) )
I’m curious for your other and upcoming tutorials ;)
I will let you know what i find of them
A lot of greetings from Holland and keep up the good work, respect

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Bob

28. Feb, 2008

By the way, i think George is a really good actor too, haha !

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TGD

26. May, 2008

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Bjoe

05. Jun, 2008

hey this is great dude…
this is what I’m looking for a longlong time ago…

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CHANDAN

10. Jul, 2008

i m so happy with u r site.BAssycally i m student of multimedia from PTU Univercity (INDIA) last sem.pls give more information this softwere & all other new softwere.
Thakx & Hopefull
CHANDAN DRAVID

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Shavkat

26. Jul, 2008

ooooo thise is great tut man. good job thise is realy amazing. and maltaannon please help me about “CC effects” please. Thanks I will wait you

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CristalCube

11. Aug, 2008

Pretty cool experiment!!

Thanks George!!

Greetings. CC³.

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Latoywri

14. Sep, 2008

OMG….you are Hilarious…just like the guy from VCP. ^///^

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Tom

23. Jan, 2009

Czesc. Its the best Tutorials that I ever seen. Cause you record them ,so its easy to leran it step for step! But for beginners it would be good to know thekey- shortcuts that you use, cause sometimes its hard to understand. Keep up the good work!

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udin

19. Feb, 2009

Hi George, very great tutorial, , but i have little question, how can i make the turbulence field in particle playground(i not have particular), like particular turbulence field, i made circle line stroke with many particle apply to it, with no velocity n the gravity, like vcp new tutorial, sorry for my bad English language

many thanks keep rock hahaha

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Rovert Scott

10. Mar, 2009

I followed your tutorial step by step, but for some reason the snow does not fall, it just spawns randomly on the screen, and does not move. I only seem to have this problem when I apply the X and Y speed to Red and Green. I’m doing this on an NTSC based machine, if it helps.

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Maltaannon

10. Mar, 2009

Really hard to say, NTSC has nothing to do with it. My guess is that somehow you missed something. Find me on Skype. If I’ll find some time we’ll work on it.

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Павел

22. Dec, 2009

Отличная статья. Краткость явно сестра автора ;)

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good! but no so good

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