Particular 2: Overview
Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by Jerzy Drozda Jr in After Effects
It’s finally here. Trapcode Particular 2. Check out this video tutorial to learn more about my favorite new features.
Click here to watch the video tutorial
We’ve all been waiting for this moment. Trapcode has finally released the second version of the most popular plugin in the After Effects world – Particular. In this tutorial I’ll present some of the new features of this amazing plugin creating four small projects. We’ll start off slowly and then move to some more advanced things, but as always – Peder Norby (who is the founder of Trapcode and the plugin developer) had made all the new features super easy, and the Particular itself is now even more accessible and robust.
Below is the list of those four mini projects we’ll be creating in this tutorial along with the features they explain. If you want to see the results there’s a video on my YouTube channel.
- Light Streaks [Streaklet, Shading, Position Subframe, Light Emitters]
- Dark Alley [Shading, Trapcode Lux, Light Falloff]
- Micro Particles [Textured Polygon, 3d Rotation, Spherical Field, Emission Extras]
- School of salmon [Textured Polygon, Orient To Motion, Motion Paths, Turbulence Field]
This tutorial is very brief on all the subjects, but it will surely fill your head with some ideas and hopefully make you create something that you’ve always wanted to do, but never had the tool to do it. Well… now you have it – Trapcode Particular 2. I will be making more tutorials on this amazing plugin, so stay tuned.
As a side note: you can support this site by buying Trapcode Particular at Toolfarm, or if you already own it you can simply get Trapcode Particular Upgrade. Trapcode plugins are one of the few that I recommend for any After Effects user to have in his toolbox – whatever you do, at some point you will need it, so get it now.
Download: Tutorial project file (After Effects CS3)
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Ryan Ragle
08. Jul, 2009
Great demonstration of Particular 2! LOVE the fishes.
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James Wicks
09. Jul, 2009
Great tutorial(s)!
One of the best plugins just got better.
And Maltaannon makes it look so easy.
James Wicks
Thomas Stocker
09. Jul, 2009
So much inspiration at once! Also can’t wait to explore those new features ☺
By the way: Love the new Look of your website!
peter
09. Jul, 2009
good demonstration. like the fishes :)
Piotr
09. Jul, 2009
Amazing man, I also love the fishes. Dzjekuje Bardzo.
Rami
09. Jul, 2009
Hi Maltaannon,
Great tutorial. I really love your all your tuts.
Can you PLEASE add the option to DOWNLOAD your tuts from your website????
John Stanowski
13. Jul, 2009
You can save them. Just right click on the Watch Video Link and save the file. It’ll be called video.flv. Just change the name. You’ll need something that plays flv’s like Adobe Media Player.
Kai
10. Jul, 2009
Awesome!
too bad I can’t afford it…
:(
khaled
10. Jul, 2009
great tutorial i you give me more information and tips
that i miss
thanks
khaled
10. Jul, 2009
hay i want your advice
what the best 3D application that i can use in motion graphic with after effect
3d studio max -may -cinema4d -
what you suggest
I’m relay tired of thinking
can you help me
thank’s
v Ralle v
10. Jul, 2009
Wow, really nice demonstration. I like it. I also wanted to try out the new particular but at the Red Giant homepage I just can download the old v1.5.1 trial. Is it possible to download somewhere else?
Btw: beautifull new page maltaannon.
Loay
10. Jul, 2009
Thanks a lot
Marc
11. Jul, 2009
I don’t like your tutorials
the tutorials from videocopilot.net are better
Chaabane
11. Jul, 2009
really….!!!
i believe ,maltaannon’s tutorial are great and very usefull ,especially when it comes to expressions, maybe you’re looking just for great lookiing graphics,rather than great tips&tricks for AE.
you can’t wait AK all your life ,to get a new ideas !!!?
Peter
29. Jul, 2009
I see kids around whining about tuts, who is better and who is not, this is a place where you can get a lot of tips, AK is great, one of the best around, but there are also great others and thumbs up; maltaannon is one of the them.
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Oscar Barrera
12. Jul, 2009
Great features!! What about load in particular a photoshop 3D layer as custom particle (or sprite). Could this option serve as workaround to solve the problem of the flat salmons???
Jerzy Drozda Jr
12. Jul, 2009
Unfortunately no. Polygons are flat, and the textures are flat, therefor Textured Polygon particle will also be flat. No good workaround yet, except the old trick with a camera in the Custom Particle comp connected with your main camera – but that’s really not very elegant solution.
antonyb
12. Jul, 2009
Hi
I’ve been messing around with Particular 2 the way you have. When I tried to follow your ‘Salmon’ tutorial my fish don’t always point in the same direction. Originally I tried it with an arrow made in a shape player and got that same result; some of the particles face in the opposite direction to the motion path. Any idea why this is happening?
Jerzy Drozda Jr
12. Jul, 2009
Yeah, I’ve noticed that too, mostly on the first frame right before the particles start to move. This might be caused by few things, one of which is the fact, that you have few “motion path” sources – like the Motion Path light, Turbulence field, Velocity and others. It’s just something we have to live with for now, but I really don’t find it that disturbing.
Antonyb
12. Jul, 2009
Mine continue in the ‘wrong’ direction – it’s not just 1 frame..?
Jerzy Drozda Jr
12. Jul, 2009
that’s what I said above. maybe you’re other forces are pushing it in the other direction stronger than the motion path.
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13. Jul, 2009
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JTRidaura
13. Jul, 2009
Hey! very very interesting & funny (of course)
Regards.
John Dickinson
14. Jul, 2009
Great, precise tutorial George. I picked up some handy workflow tips too.
Delgadeth
17. Jul, 2009
Jerzy, please tel me how can a do the box that appearance when you writhe?
Jerzy Drozda Jr
17. Jul, 2009
http://maltaannon.com/blog/keysnatcher/
Delgadeth
20. Jul, 2009
Thx Jerzy, hope you publish this soon.
Phantommxr
17. Jul, 2009
I really wish I could afford the new Trapcode plugs for CS4!! but can’t living the life of the starving artist right now!! by the way Jerzy great job on all you do to keep me from being bored !! and I still owe you a pack of smokes, so if you ever get to Tampa area in Florida gimme a shout on the facebook, will buy you a pack !!
later,
Mike AKA Phantommxr
lyesdays
18. Jul, 2009
great jod, it looks so easy now, thanks to you, however I didn’t even get started, cause I don’t have the complete effects folder ,neither Particular, well Id appreciate you lead me to find out how or where I can get that missing folder(free… sure) , yuup I can’t wait to apply the light treaks since it looks so cool :D
tnx again !!
Emmanuel
18. Jul, 2009
UMM THIS DOESN’T WORK FOR CS4
Jerzy Drozda Jr
19. Jul, 2009
What doesn’t?
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20. Jul, 2009
Keep working, great job, I love it!
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Dangerdom
22. Jul, 2009
Awesome! Great roundup of the new features. Thanks!
Arun
27. Jul, 2009
Hi brother i like your tutorials very much.can you show some visual effects tutorials.
thankyou.
Ray
12. Aug, 2009
Great! I just used the fish idea for a production shot. I had some flying footage taken from a microlight. The story line takes the camera down to the ocean and needed a link to dolphins taken from a boat. Easy! Dolphin particles seen from a distance look good enough. Its not finished but I can see that it will work very well. Saved me several days if I had done in 3DS Max.
seth
19. Aug, 2009
great tuts, loved the salmon example…..
its amazing what things you can do with this plug-in, and the fact that there are 30 +/- more features, just intriging.
Dyllan
02. Sep, 2009
Dude! You are a Machine! Brilliant!
Thanks!
arex
26. Sep, 2009
jerzy jestes coolerski =)
warez ddl
19. Oct, 2009
Dude! You are a Machine! Brilliant
james
19. Nov, 2009
This is great! I really appreciate the time and quality of your work. I got 2.0 and have been playing with it.
I found CS4 to be a real let down in general, none of the CC plug ins came with my version, and none of my trapcode or redgiant plug ins will work in CS4, I bought the damn upgrade, and have now disabled it. But it’s not like I have run out of learning in CS3 yet. Just disappointed to have spent money on a product that is less then it’s predecessor. Not exactly like the first George Bush verses the second George Bush,(cause that’s just lame verses lamer) but close.
Jerzy Drozda Jr
19. Nov, 2009
You should check the source of your CS4 version. It’s been around for a while and all the plugs do work perfectly. Maybe your reseller is a scam. And I agree that the improvement from CS3 to CS4 is not as huge as it was from CS2 to CS3, however, there have been some significant changes as it comes to performance and user-friendliness.
Single
20. Nov, 2009
When I open your site in your browser, Safari 4 in Mac OS X, some elements of the page and off to the side and the text is broken: ( Please help me How can I remove the problem?
Jerzy Drozda Jr
20. Nov, 2009
I wish I knew. I checked the site, it validates, and I did check it in your config. Everything works fine. Don’t know what’s happening on your end. Sorry.
vindey
28. Dec, 2009
The best Particule plugin just got better.
but i just use the old version!
so that is something wrong when open the project!
nice work!
i like Amazing 3D particles !
it is so cool!
Questioner
16. Jan, 2010
what screen recorder do you use? I wish to get that black notification on the top right hand corner to show what im typing
Jerzy Drozda Jr
16. Jan, 2010
It’s my own software that I plan to release someday. You can find the info here: http://maltaannon.com/blog/keysnatcher/
Contact me If you wish to get a unofficial beta copy.
bobo
02. Feb, 2010
Sir, i can’t see my particular when i make a particular effect. How can i see particular? pls tell me. I’m just beginer. Pls i hope you will answer me.
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manisuresh
14. Feb, 2010
hi exlent tut
Fieldpros
09. Mar, 2010
Hi Jerzy my name is Dimitris i learn about you from all bets are off ( Aharon Rabinowitz) and i think that you are very charismatic people.Keep us informed!!! and continue the great job…