[Alex Brandt]

Okay, I’ve messed around with trapcode particular and its looking much better than I thought it was capable of. However, I am still going to use real sand keyed out from a green screen. Once I have the footage of sand, how do I “link” the footage to the footage of the dancer. Much like how trapcode particular emits particles from the dancer, I’d like to do the same with the sand footage. Any leads?

[Alex Brandt]

Ah, i see. Particular just might do the job. I’ll try experimenting with real sand as well.

Thanks!

[Alex Brandt]

Thanks guys for the quick advice.

I’m actually working with trapcode form and particular in this project as well. The dancer footage I have is also footage of my own that I have keyed out. So I feel I am soo close. I definitely have run into many tutorials making sand to text or vice versa. I do have the equipment (green screen, and a canon hf21 camera) that can help in capturing actual sand. I was thinking real sand would be much better than particles even if it is trapcode particular.

If I use trapcode particular, you’re right, wouldn’t the particles have to be VERY small? I’d like to keep the silhouette a silhouette and not have the particles define the shape…