:O very very nice

That was beautiful. Made me think of my Pie-O-My. A salut.

Andrew, what are the specs on the machine you use to do all your AE projects? I know you’ve posted the answer before, but I’ve searched the forums and FAQ and I can’t seem to find it. I’m wanting to buy/build the perfect workstation for post-production and I thought I’d take a cue from the best. Thanks!

@Daniel: I did this test on a core 2 laptop. My main workstation is a dual quad-core xeon with built-in flux capacitor.

Damn, I always wanted a flux capacitor, where the hell did you get that?!

Wow 2,000,000 particles!? I doubt my comp could handle 100,000. Looks sweet Andrew, the colors are awesome!

LOVE IT!

May have to upgrade my flux capacitor though.

LOL, just watched the video, “Sorry, camera man fell asleep”. BRILLIANT!!!

Whoa Very Very Nice Its Beautiful an unique keep up the work. Thank You For your hard work

Full tutorial please?

Btw, I actually like the black background one better.

thxxxx for the hint about worckstation andrew

Whoa that is amazing quality work!

@ David W. Your computer can “handle” as many particles as you can throw at it. Just takes a long long time to render thats all. Like Andrew said, he turns the numbers way down to work then turns them back up to render.

Fantastic job.

2 mln particles would kill my computer for sure. Today I’ve rendered out a trapcode form clip- about 4 min length. WIth motion blur AE says 18 h left. SO I passed, and turned off motion blur. Everything took me 5 hours.

Wish me good luck with further projects with that PC.

You should choose another colors, diferents to the menstruation!!! hahahaha anyway, It looks so Good

lovely work Andrew.

The shadow on the floor? Is that made with a render of the main particle comp, with blurs, etc added?

really good choice of colours on this. very original and a different look for you. i think the community would benefit from a quick tut on this even though you’ve uploaded the project file since working with that many particles can be troublesome.

Wow.. there has been a lot of reacting to sound featured lately…

Here is a video I did and released today… (there is a bunch of optical flares in it…)

The first fully accessible music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRFrUFPdRk&playnext_from=TL&videos=2PmDvkdRpWo&feature=recentlik

Sorry my English is not write very well because I’m from Brazil. Would make a complete tutorial of this great effect? It can be 1, 2, 3, 4 … parties. These system particuals really was VERY GOOD. Thanks for sharing Andrew. Hugs

Stop talking about tutorial on that. You have a lot of resources @ internet and just play around.

I tried to do some vector blur like you describe on a network visualization a while ago for a very different look.

http://vimeo.com/7663373

I love that yours has that wonderful pysop ink look.

@Justin Jones not mine, if I tried to render one frame it would crash. Of course, I’m running XP, so that’s an important factor.

Totally Awesome.. the “Sorry, camera man fell asleep” was epic !!

Wow. That’s wierd. I was just at graymachine.com last night watching that tutorial. Always good to see different takes on it though. Thanks A.K.

Will you be doing more Trapcode-related tutorials in the future? I could see a separate section for that…*wink*wink

This would be genius if it had some fire embers!
I still would love to get that project file Matthew.

Andrew, apart from the visual effect which is actually stunning, I wanted to ask you something, do you compose the music yourself ? Like this one or the Pro scores music, because I saw your name in Payment Plan’s credits in the music, and because of the Piano that’s behind you in the Payment Plan blog show.

If you do compose the music, then you are my hero.

Seriously.

No, I don’t compose the music, I mix and do sound design, I do create some stuff but usually not for broadcast. This track is by Bob Aci.

Andrew, I plan to buy CS4 soon and I want to make the best investments, so other than Particular what third party plugins would be essential for the best After Effects experience?

what a beautiful amazing animation .

What is the name of the song that is playing? Excellent work too my man!

Interesting. Would like to do something where you have a track for every instrument(Drum, Guitar, Vocals, etc.) and do individual partical system for every music track.

That Was Magical

Happy Canada Day Andrew and the most awesome Video Copilot Crew!!!

My new hero O.O

Oooh a flux capictor in your computer!? That is awesome…. Now all you need is some plutonium, and a Delorean. Then we can go to the year 2015 and see how funnier you got…

the track is my favorite lullaby song

Bob Acri – Sleep Away

Amazing! Awesome job Andrew!

Andrew, I don’t know if you have answered this question before but I haven’t had any luck in searching prior forums. But I was curious as to what title font was used for Super 8?

2,000,000 ?
I don’t think my PC can handle that. Can I get away with fewer but bigger particles (Cloud-lets for example?

H” Great work, and the idea is as simple as difficult (for me at lest) I not expert on these things but I think that the red colour looks so ugly it’s too strong for the eyes I’m not sure if that right but It’s going to make you boring after 2 or 3 seconds I know it’s just a sample although it should be perfect( I have no I idea what I’m talking about!!! I’m just an amateur) for the song it’s nice but there is some kind of noisie layer that I didn’t like
anyway very very Great job ANDREW we DO love you man, and we wait always something new and creative THANKS it’s only what I got to say.

i open the project in my AE cs5. All things in black , all disappear … its my pc can not afford huge amount of particles?

hi andrew..can you do a video about the workstation you use?please…..?

So Andrew, you dream about what the future holds for story telling in visual arts?
What changes will we see in the next 10 to 20 years if the last 20 years have changed so drastically. What computer power and display methods will be around the corner.
Can only dream…..

Hey Andrew,

Thanks for sharing. How did you achieve the look of the “seamless” backdrop? John Dickinson posted a piece some time ago by Esteban Diácono which had the same effect and I just can’t seem to replicate inside after effects.

Is there a shadow catcher layer that particular projects the shadow onto? Would love to hear how you approached that!

Have a great 4th!

I love this kind of work immensely. It is proof as to what kind of work load one may through at AE

it was drop tears my eyes because of laughing. Cameraman falls a sleep. lol. I like that wit.
It must nice to work with you.

Omg..so awesome…Kramer I love you : )

How did you achieve that sandy look on the one with black background?

Hey Andrew ! I wanted to thank you for all your job, you’re an amazing man with beautifull idea and you share with everyone ! Thank you a lot for all you did =). This video is amazing, the particular system you made is awesome, fluide, poetic and offcourse with your funny humour ! ^^ I’m sorry, i’m french, and like all french, i dont write/speak/think english very well. I hope you can read my comment and… have a good day

Oh yes, this will give people a lot of inspiration!
thanks man!

plockroy

Looks nice

Did you only use CG-particles with a vector blur filter, or is there smokeelements from Action E. II?

Wow this sample video could actually be played on the iPhone where im using twitter!
It looks great Andrew!

fire that goddamn cameraman!!! btw this is beautifull

Heard this song somewhere…Win 7 Sample Music “Sleep Away”

My god its amazing explendide
Show de Bola ( portuguess)
Arrazou veio..

Amazing sir ji…

Wow amazing.
I saw that tutorial by Harry Frank and I thought the first half was quite good, but when he started adding water and the stars it began to look a bit tacky..
Could you please do a tutorial on this as well?

some of my creations
http://www.vimeo.com/user2183189/videos

oh yeah, nice Andrew …. as always

How did you made the shadows? Just for change…Ecellent work

Hold on.. why didn’t i think of that.. I should have used a light as an emitter, instead of all that expressions, parenting for linking different particlar systems, making my file complex..

Thanks AK

what is flux capacitor ? is there something we can put in our pcs called flux capacitor… other than the one from the movie?

Thats so funny !! I just watched this on red giant software minutes before you posted it!!

Great anyhow,

I’m interested if you can loop this type of animation seamlessly because I have a loop that i would like to put this animation onto…

hi Mr. Andrew
i like the work very much it’s really remarkable
i love you

Love your work. This comp is beautiful.

What I’m having trouble with is mapping the amplitude to the particles/sec. I’m trying to reverse engineer the expression you used in the project file, but no matter how I adjust the values, my particles/sec stays at zero the entire time. Is there a quick explanation for this? Or do I have to wait for another exciting tutorial?

Thanks!

Bob Acri… <3
Great vidéo.
Greatings from France.

Hi Andrew,

This is Very amazing & beautiful.I seen ur all tutorials on videocopilot.net.i made Glass Orb, Volcano,(But Not as u made from ur tutorials, Now im working on Green Smoke.

Thanks for ur guidance & same will need in future also.

THanks & Regards,
Devinder Sidhu,
Bathinda, Punjab
India-151001
+91-988309385

Thanks.
You have done so many awesome examples that encourage and guide me to do lots of experimental and interesting outputs in AE.
waiting for your up-coming fabulous experiments.
Thanks again…..

Nice! “Sleep Away” by Bob Acri, love the tune!

hey~~
AK
i did try some blur effects
and i personally ” bilateral blur ” is the best

Why when I try to open the project it told me that is missing Optical flare effect???

Regards

Love your work and love how you teach:)
full tutorial please!
thanks!

Very cool, smooth result and great music !

Check this, not as nice as particles, but it’s live !
–> http://soytuaire.labuat.com/

Great Video! Great particle! Congratulations!
I would lile a tutorial for integrate 3d max camera and after effects camera
Thanks!

Hey Andrew
do you think you could explain how this here works?
http://www.trapcode.com/journal/2010/7/2/terminator-salvation-by-imaginary-forces-jeremy-cox.html

This is so amazing

VERY BEAUTIFUL!

Stunning! I had a similar attempt with particular and sound. I linked the particle velocity, position, and emitter amount to the sound element. I also used vector blur in variation with overlapping compositions to achieve the illusion of a very HOT flame.

Here is the result of my exploration. http://www.vimeo.com/11852442

Render-time: 5.1 hours OUCH!
Nice work Andrew.

That this intelligible to them in our Gzashth Thank you

Any possibility doing a CS3 version. Looks wonderful

Seriously, this was magical. I don’t have CS4, is it possible to put out a CS3 version on the blog to download? Anyways. I’ve been looking for such a smoke – like effect for a while now, and I wondered if you could make a tutorial? Please.

Can you make a tutorial on how to do this? I tried but had a very hard time making it look that good.

PS: Your tutorials rock

would you please to make a tutorials about Particle Animation to Music… because you can explain very clear how it makes…if you have time , could you make one ? Thank you so much..

Hi, this is great!
is it possible to have a tutorial for this? I have CS3 and I couldn’t open the file, so just a quick tutorial should be cool
thanks

I’d also appreciate if you’d make a whole tutorial for that. I am a real beginner in AE and I just don’t get it…

Although great work. Love it

Very nice effect and I was able to follow your tutorial without any difficulty. I do though have a question about generating sound keys. As a student I just cant afford Trpcode Soundkeys …but I find this method very limiting (and not always accurate). Is there a way, like in sound keys to isolate parts? ie Piano etc?

Great site wonderful tutorials.

Mark

PS I have to try moving back the frames a bit, maybe that will help align it better.

my version of after effects (cs5) wont do audio, it wont do it period. is it because i have it on a mac or what is wrong with it? I really need audio and i am only a beginner at after effects right now

This truly is a piece of art. It is extremely beautiful and I am glad you chose the white background with the black and red particles instead of the other one. Also, have you ever thought of producing commercials for Apple, because when the bit where it said sorry came up, I seriously thought it was going to say Apple iPod.

As always, great stuff. Could you please consider this to be a full tutorial on the future?!

Looks like Sam was at the camera again…

I made something similar here … gratz for the great tutorials http://vimeo.com/14282568

Hello Andrew. Just thanking you for another jaw-dropping effect that you created. Now I was wondering, couldn’t there be a way to turn this into a Windows Media Player plug-in? I’m tired of those cheap effects. Anyway, well done again; you got me hooked.