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Are photorealistic particle effects possible in Motion?
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[Chris Northcross] “I don’t think that’s an unfair comment at all Gareth. You’re asking how to make your work look good”
I really don’t want to start an argument, but I do feel that I’m being misrepresented here. I’m asking about approaches to making a certain style of effect, which I think is a different thing to simply “making my work look good”. I’m not asking for an “instant nice” button. I want to understand the processes behind achieving organic-style particle effects.
“that is the same way Andy Kramer, Andy Neil, Mark Spencer, Simon Ubsdell, Nick Campbell, and a whole host of others did it. They put a lot of time and effort into learning how to make their work look the way it does”
But crucially, I doubt that all of them did it without any external guidance or tuition whatever. There will be plenty of incredibly talented motion graphics people out there who will have soaked up every tutorial and other piece of advice they could possibly find. And why not?
Yes, sometimes you *will* happen upon great effects by accident just by playing around with parameters, but other times you’ll see something someone else is doing and say “Hey, that’s great, how have you done that?” and you’ll learn something that informs your own work.
After all, we don’t all have unlimited time to just sit and play in the hope that we can create the effect we want, and there’s no point re-inventing the wheel with every project. And I’d say that some people *do* have their heads wired in a way that allows them to see connections between seemingly disparate parameters or filters and use them to create certain effects that would otherwise seem difficult or impossible to achieve without special plug-ins.
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[Gareth Randall] “But crucially, I doubt that all of them did it without any external guidance or tuition whatever.”
Can’t speak for others, but when I started playing around with Motion, there were NO tutorials at all on the internet, and few books. Most of what I know in Motion I got through experimentation with the different elements (because I have the personality type that wants to understand how things work so I try different things). The other “training” I had was from what I knew of AE, and AE tutorials. I did a lot of reverse engineering of AE tutorials, figuring out how to build effects with behaviors where AE was using keyframes, but learning a lot about lighting and camera moves directly from AE users (AE and Motion are similar when it comes to lights and cameras).
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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Here’s a tutorial that takes you through some of the techniques used in the example above:
Pretty basic stuff but it might be of use to someone.
Simon Ubsdell
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Perhaps the easiest way to create photo-realistic particle effects is to use libraries of organic particles, such as Particulas https://vegasaur.com/Particulas
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