dust particles floating in air?

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dust particles floating in air?
by Ted Gore on Feb 10, 2005 at 9:06:54 pm

Hey all...

If you are familiar with MK12's embryo piece, you will know what I am talking about...

http://media2.mk12.com/v5_qt_html/2002/embryo.html

When you see the mouse close up, you can see dust flying around, like it's being caught by the light. Has anyone ever created something like this?

I'm thinking particular is worth a try, but thought I'd ask here to see if anyone had an insight

Thanks

Ted

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Re: dust particles floating in air?
by Jason Coursey on Feb 10, 2005 at 9:11:25 pm

My guess is that it was done completely in a 3d package. Maybe particles in Maya or some other program?

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Re: dust particles floating in air?
by Matt Hall on Feb 10, 2005 at 9:52:10 pm

Trapcode particular can make this look really well, and it works with the AE 3D camera. I can e-mail a preset that can be tried out with the demo if you don't own it.

Matt Hall
Director, Digital Post
CCG MetaMedia, Inc.

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Re: dust particles floating in air?
by Ted Gore on Feb 10, 2005 at 10:36:41 pm

well, I'm messing with it now, but please send me the preset if you have one.

Treadted2@mac.com

Thanks

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Re: dust particles floating in air?
by yikesmikes on Feb 11, 2005 at 7:44:16 pm

I was messing with foam and user defined images (tiny psd's painted in Photoshop) as "bubbles", images like the particles in Dan Ebbert's 3D Particle Generator (hey that would work too). They dust around quite nicely, although Particular is probably easier.

Question, do you get particle shape variation in Particular, are they all basically the same?

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Re: dust particles floating in air?
by Matt Hall on Feb 11, 2005 at 8:08:27 pm

You can set the particle to use a precomp as its source. So you then make differnt parts of the precomp different images. For example, the first ten seconds it's a square, the next 10 it's a circle, etc. Then, in particular, in the custom particle field, under time sampling, choose "random" now, whenever a particle is born it will randomly be a square or circle.

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