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  • Steve Roberts

    November 27, 2006 at 2:20 pm

    You should be able to use Trapcode’s Particular to create that, though it also may have been done with a a 3D app.

  • Mylenium

    November 27, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    Particular’s particles with DOF enabled should give you what you need.

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  • Dmbchile

    November 28, 2006 at 3:01 am

    Any chance of explaining me how to do it?
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  • Steve Roberts

    November 28, 2006 at 3:35 am

    You’ll need to apply Particular to a new solid, and add a new camera to the comp. You’ll need to stop or slow down the particles, maybe a second after the start of the Particular layer by keyframing the Particular time factor (under physics) down to zero after you have a good-looking number of particles on the screen. Tweak the number of particles emitted and the velocity to get that right. You’ll need to shrink the particle size down as well. As for the Depth Of Field, you’ll need to adjust it on the camera until it looks good. (You might need Particular 1.5 for DOF)

    Now if you need the particles to move whie frozen, you might want to consider moving the camera around the particle cloud by placing a 3D null in the middle of the cloud, parenting the camera to the null, then rotating the null slowly around the Y axis.

  • Majorasshole

    November 28, 2006 at 6:53 am

    or you can make a few layers of spots in photoshop
    bring that into AE and animate each layer as a 3d layer at different speeds and depths in 3d space.
    use motion blur and gausian blur on each layer of spots at different levels depending on how close they are to the camera

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