• Adobe After Effects

  Trapcode Particular and Form

  Posted by Ben Le tourneau on May 24, 2011 at 2:40 pm

  Hello Guys

  Just been banging my head several times on the table and have come to the end of my RND.

  Please can some one help me even if its to say your mental and that can’t be done. I NEED CLOSURE.

  I’m trying to Emit from a single point using Trapcode particular and I want the particles to form a human shape.

  I have some keyed footage and I have created the shape using form. However what my true desired effect is…….

  For a single point to emit a spray and over time the density builds up to a human particle shape.

  Any thoughts cleaver people.

  Thanks for taking the time to read this brain fart.

  All the best

  Ben Le Tourneau

  Ben Le Tourneau

  Michael Szalapski replied 14 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Darby Edelen

  May 24, 2011 at 2:46 pm

  The only way I can think of to achieve this is to use the human shape as the emitter and then use the Spherical Field under the Air Physics properties to ‘suck’ all of the particles in to one point.

  Darby Edelen
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  Ben Le tourneau

  May 24, 2011 at 3:08 pm

  Cheers Darby

  I did try something like that but sadly it just didn’t give me the desired effect.

  Thanks ever so much for the idea though.

  Ben

  Ben Le Tourneau
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  Michael Szalapski

  June 21, 2011 at 1:35 pm

  Do the effect in reverse. Follow any text to sand or disintegration tutorial and using the physics of Particular, spherical force field in Particular (set to a negative number), and some extra distortion effects (bezier warp maybe?) to make all the particles go to a specific point.

  Precomp it.

  Time reverse the precomp.

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