“House” TV show animated opening

[Tony Kloiber]

When you say particles, do you mean the dirt on the lens kind of stuff? Or is it microbes? Hard to tell in that quicktime.

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[Sophie Gallo]

yeah i guess you could call them “microbes”… it looks like the depth of field is enabled to theyre blurrier up close, but it almost looks like each particle has its own behavior….. maybe they did it all by hand? ive been trying to figure out who animated it but i cant find anything.

[Steve Roberts]

A bit of clever Googling (house, opening titles, bryan singer) led to:

https://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/99/thought-of-it.html
https://www.d-kitchen.com/launch_center.htm

That’s about as far as I can go with it … sorry …

[Steve Roberts]

You could probably do it with Trapcode’s Particular by generating some particles, then slowing down the time factor.

[Sophie Gallo]

thanks-
i feel like a real idiot, since ive been googling it for days with no results…. apparently im not very god at googling.

do you know roughly how they created the particle effect?

[Sophie Gallo]

thank you again!
you guys are great.

[Thehardmenpath]

The shot with the spinal column you mean?

I always believed it was made with a bunch of dots put in 3d and a rotation of the camera with the center placed at the column sketch more or less. Only the dots are in 3d.

When the camera stops rotating with an ease in, the dots become a bit alive because the ones more near the camera seem to end a bit later. I believe no further effect is needed there.

It’s a nice tricky opening shot with a lot of fake 3d. I think the rotating brain consists of two 2d layers with opposite x movement. Clever and sweet.

[Sophie Gallo]

thanks- for some reason im just having difficulty making the particles stand still, then have subtle movement. it seems like i just cant keep them from traveling out from a point, but just “hover”. anyway, thanks for the insight!