HELP: Need Good Particle FX plug in for AE

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HELP: Need Good Particle FX plug in for AE

Posted by Eric Goldstein on January 17, 2006 at 8:28 pm

Help,

I’ve been searching for a particle effects plug in for AE for fire, explosions, clouds, fog and water. I haven’t found anything that was realistic or controllable enough.

Does anyone have any recommendations.

Thanks,

Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
er**@*********lm.com

Aharon Rabinowitz replied 20 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
7 Replies

Aharon Rabinowitz
January 17, 2006 at 8:47 pm

Check out Trapcode’s particular and also wondertouch particleIllusion – while the latter is not a plugon for AE, it works well with it. Plus it comes with 1300 preset effects (Fire, smoke, water, sparkles…etc.) out of the box, and is easy to customize.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com
Stone Reader
January 17, 2006 at 9:13 pm

And PI will be releasing an AE plugin soon. So get to know it, and soon you won’t even have to leave AE to use it.
Eric Goldstein
January 17, 2006 at 11:22 pm

Thanks for the help. Any idea when PI will bring out their AE plug in?

Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com
Andrew Yoole
January 18, 2006 at 4:31 am

I wouldn’t hold my breath. They’ve been promising for years.
Aharon Rabinowitz
January 18, 2006 at 4:49 am

they aren’t giving any dates at this point. Sorry.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com
Eric Goldstein
January 18, 2006 at 5:38 am

Thanks Andrew and Aharon,

Aharon, I read your tutorial for working between PI and AE. Can you use tracking information in the same way to
animate something generated in PI? Also, do you use the Import file capability in PI to help designing your animations?

Thanks,

Eric

Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com
Aharon Rabinowitz
January 18, 2006 at 1:58 pm

By import file, you mean BG, right? Yeah often. I always render out of AE as a final, but I do bring compressed video in as my BG for reference.

You can use tracking, since it uses XY position data. Just copy the keyframes and then import them into AE.

I’m not into the hard sell, but I have a particleIllusion/AE training DVD that answers a lot of the questions about using them together. You can find more info in the link below my name. Take it easy,

Aharon

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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
—————————————-
Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

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