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  • Tutorial fairy dust

    Posted by Sandrina Vandoninck on April 26, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    Hi everyone!

    I’m making a special project for school. We need to make a little movie for Marketing so we have to follow a company. We had chosen for Plopsa Indoor Hasselt, it’s an amusement park in Belgium. Kidsmarketing is our theme. I allready made a little movie. There are interviews and you can see the attractions, children playing, …
    I only need an introduction. I want to make something with fairy dust. There’s a movie on youtube, but I can’t find the tutorial.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCTwlCAo9XQ
    Here it is.
    My question is: is there someone who can help me with this tutorial?
    I would appreciate it!

    Thank you guys!
    Sandrina

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    John Cuevas replied 14 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • John Cuevas

    April 27, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    You can recreate that really simply with CC Particle world. I made an example project for you to use as a starter project. 4044_fairydustcs5.aep.zip

    These are the values I used but they all can be adjusted to taste.

    Apply CC Particle World to a solid. Adjust the Longevity to 4 seconds. Animate the X position of the produer.

    Also animate the birth rate by setting a keyframe(decide how many particles you need) and then move 1 frame forward and set a keyframe to 0. This way when the move is finished, you are creating particles that might drift on screen.

    Physics Settings: Velocity = .25, Gravity = -.05, Resistance = 1.5

    Particle Settings: Create the particle size and color you want.
    I used a color map that starts with the solid color I created and changes to a light blue over the particles 4 second lifetime.

    Finally I added a slight glow to the particles.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

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