From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
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Using Trapcode Particular
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
Using Trapcode Particular
The built-in particle system, while it works, does take a bit of tweaking and experimentation. There is a third-party particle system from Trapcode that's a bit easier to use called Particular. Let me show you. Now let's take this existing adjustment layer and turn it off. Let's add a new layer and choose Solid and we'll make it the comp size and just fill it with black. This will make it a bit easier to see. Now I'll apply the third-party filter from Trapcode called Particular. This filter's pretty easy to use and you'll see a lot of options. What we're going to do is start to adjust things here. So for the emitter, I want to create a box. This allows me to adjust what's going to happen. Let's go ahead and turn off the other layers for a moment so we just see the actual emitter. In this case, we've built a box to emit and what I want to do is adjust where it's coming from, so we'll set that to come from off…
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