Article Focus: In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates another, more advanced method for creating shimmering glitter particles using Trapcode's Particular. The main advancement is the implementation of 3d rotation of the glitter particles, as well as using expressions to convert the rotation of the particles in all 3 axis to drive a greyscale map, which in turn is used to color the particle using colorama and create the shimmer effect when the particles face the camera.
Creating Advanced Glitter using Expressions with Trapcode Particular
David, are you having trouble following the tutorial? It is pretty step by step. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have or help you if you are stuck. I don't know if I still have the original file. Let me know. I am happy to help in any way I can.
Creating Advanced Glitter using Expressions with Trapcode Particular
Sorry about the A/V sync problem. I noticed it when I was compressing for web and went into Premiere to try my best to fix it. I didn't have time to redo the entire tutorial. Hopefully, it is close enough to follow along. If I get some time, I will rerecord to eliminate the problem.
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