What particle effect is this?

[Scott Novasic]

any number of basic particle systems can do that. They just did a quick cut from the head to a particle system with basic ‘lines’ as the emitter.
They also had these lines take on the coloring of the ‘head’ of the character. Most particle systems can inherit the color of the host layer. Given that they did not have the heads actual shape ‘explode’ it is a pretty easy effect to do. I did not list an actual particle system because I believe most any one out there can do that effect as good or better.

hope that helps some..

SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects

[David Pattson]

thanks that helped, i was able to use cc scatterize to do that…now I just need to learn other basic things. like how to end an animation immediately at a certain point and how he zooms in to the head with everything surrounding it turning black. anyways thats for another thread, thanks again for the help.