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  • Vishesh Arora

    December 1, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    I think its a simple animation of flares with alpha channle. Animate some flares moving vertically with transparent BG and them precomp them all. Apply CC Cyllinder Effect on the precomp and creat new camera. You can then rotate the Cyllinder using the Cameea Controllers. For creating Flares search for Video Copilot Optical Flares. It is one of the best bundle of different flares.

    Vishesh Arora
    3D and Motion Graphics Artist
    Films Rajendra

    Blog:
    https://digieffects.wordpress.com

    Demo Reel(3D):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

  • Yousif Ali

    December 1, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    Thank you for you’re help, i understand what you mean now 🙂

    Another thing i was wondering is the particles that are floating about…how do i make them, and when i do they collide and form a bigger one; im asking this mainly for the explosion at the end.

    Sorry i’ve only just started with AE, so excuse the amount of questions.

  • Vishesh Arora

    December 2, 2012 at 10:17 am

    Yousif

    For creating particles you can use CC Particle World effect that comes with AE. Though you have to spend some time to understand its properties.

    The most powerful plugin for creating particles is Red Giants Trapcode Particular.

    There are many tutorials on YouTube and on Red Giant TV

    Vishesh Arora
    3D and Motion Graphics Artist
    Films Rajendra

    Blog:
    https://digieffects.wordpress.com

    Demo Reel(3D):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPgIJU_BR8

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