Flow maps with Foam are awesome and the stuff you can do with Particle Playground is pretty neat (like snow that sticks to layers ). A variety of robots say an indoor robot navigating in a warehouse could use particle filters to localize itself based on the input from a range-finding sensor such as a 2D-Laser scanner or Particle Filters for self driving car could be applied to fuse sensory input and identify lane markings on the road.
Particle Playground is also a 2D effect, but this one has different settings to control how the particles react with one another. CC Particle Systems II CC Particle World CC Pixel Poly CC Rain CC Scatterize CC Snow CC Star Burst Foam Particle Playground Shatter Wave World.
So even though you might be saying, “I can make this effect happen in Particular in 5 minutes,” keep in mind there’s always another 90% out there. ago MoGraph/VFX 15+ years Don't forget Foam and Particle Playground There are a lot of really cool things you can do with them. CC Particle Systems II is essentially the same as Particle World only there are no 3D functions. We’re going to be focusing on CC Particle World, since it’s the only effect that works in a 3D environment. Which takes a bit of effort to learn compared to the plethora of turnkey particle generators out there, but I think it’s a good start for a tutorial since it encapsulates so much of digital compositing. If you look under the Simulation section of the effects, you’ll see that there are actually a few different particle-related options: CC Particles Systems II, CC Particle World, and Particle Playground. This is interesting because BlurryPixel is getting some great effects by using Particle Playground’s ability to use displacement maps… and it’s a nifty low cost solution for this effect if you don’t have Trapcode Particular.Ĭheck out the Creating Particle Effects with Particle Playground in After Effects Tutorial here.īlurryPixel notes on the tutorial: “So here is my first tutorial on Blurrypixel using an often overlooked particle effect in After Effects, Particle Playground.
#PARTICLE PLAYGROUND VS PARTICLE WORLD HOW TO#
BlurryPixel shows how to create fantastic particle effects using Trapcode Particular… Particle Playground… wait…what?! – Yes, old-school particle playground that has shipped with After Effects for a long while now.