Sawdust from chainsaw hits screen – How to

[Giriraj Bakale]

Hello LanceB

i think Autodesk Combustion,or particle Illusion Are the best software’s with lots of particle as preset.

best of luck

Giriraj Bakale

Giriraj Bakale
Post Pro
INDIA

[David Bogie]

CC Particle World has a floor that can be rotated to be your screen. The floor can be set to be sticky so particles stay put. The emitter parameters are similar to any other particle system and, because it is a 3D system, you should be able to give the illusion that the emitter is at the plane of the saw. Motion tracking will easily nail the emitter to the saw’s movements.

Changing the sawdust to the logo is a bit more complicated, can’t help you there directly but the “text into sand” tutorials here on the cow might give you some inspiration.

bogiesan

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[Kevin Camp]

i don’t have particular at home, but i’m pretty sure you can define a layer as a ‘bounce’ plane, set the bounce property to ‘stick’ and set it to use the alpha of that layer… this way the particles would stick only to the alpha of the logo layer. you’ll need make the logo layer 3d and position it wher you need it. and you may still need the logo to dissolve in full to complete the transition.

as far as creating saw dust like particles… in particular you can’t create freely tumbling particles like you can in cc particle world, but you can create a tumbling particle in another comp and use that as a custom particle in particular.

create a small comp (like 10×10) create a new layer that is a little smaller, maybe 8×8. make it a sawdust color and try adding roughen edges to make it more sawdust like. then make it 3d and add an expression like this to the orientation property: wiggle(10,180). that should make it tumble around a bit. bring that comp into your particular comp and set it as your particle.

you can set the emitter to directional and place it where it needs to be to seem like it is coming from the chain saw and shooting towards the camera and the logo… it’s a little tricky for a first particle system, but i think you can do it and you’ll learn a lot about particular. and you might post in the trapcode forum for more help/tips on using particular to complete this effect.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Steve Roberts]

Given that sawdust is very fine, you wouldn’t really see it until it hit the “camera” and starts to clump up, no? Couldn’t you just make little bits appear in frame rather than use flying particles?

Say, by using the never-used Dissolve mode (whee!) for the logo or maybe a gradient wipe with Fractal Noise + Noise (precomped) as the gradient to bring on the logo?

Something like that.

[Lance Bauerfeind]

Thanks everyone for your help. I’m on to it.

…this will be fun.

cheers

Lance