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Michael Park ~ Creating Advanced Glitter using Expressions with Trapcode Particular
Michael Park ~ Creating Shimmering Glitter using Trapcode Particular
James Lee ~ Building Up Particles
Joe Chao ~ Creating Paper Ribbons and Confetti
Joe Chao ~ Creating a Logo Assembling Animation
Mylenium ~ Particular - Frequently Asked Effects
David Zandnerg ~ Creating Liquid LIght by David Zandnerg
Serge Hamad ~ Building the Cage: Part 4 of the Golden COW by Serge Hamad
Dave LaRonde ~ Dave LaRonde takes a look at Trapcode Shine

	Joe Chao view bio Adobe After Effects Creating Paper Ribbons and Confetti Often for festivals and celebrations, we are asked to create animations involving colorful ribbons and confetti. In this tutorial, Joe Chao creates the ribbons and confetti and then demonstrates a couple of ways to shoot them out of a cannon. This animation would be useful, not just for Christmas, but for any festival. Tutorial Adobe After Effects Creating a Logo Assembling Animation Joe Chao was once required to create an animation in which a flock of fireflies assemble into an insect shaped logo. In this tutorial, Joe demonstrates a quick method to duplicate the effect using Trapcode Particlular. Tutorial back to top

	Serge Hamad view bio Adobe After Effects Building the Cage: Part 4 of the Golden COW by Serge Hamad Many of you have seen Serge Hamad's various animations in the After Effects forum at CreativeCOW. In this 5-part tutorial, Serge demonstrates the steps involved in re-creating his "Golden COW." In this tutorial you will be creating the cage around the planet. You will need 3D Stroke from Trapcode as well as Invigorator Pro or Classic for this one. Note that with Invigorator Classic you won't be able to open the provided AEP though. The emphasis in this tutorial is on the use of the transparency mapping technique. Tutorial back to top

	Dave LaRonde view bio Trapcode Dave LaRonde takes a look at Trapcode Shine When Trapcode first introduced its Shine plugin, early practitioners marveled at its speed. Sure, Shine may be fast on a G4 or a Pentium IV machine, but what about a humble Powermac 9600/233? What if you're still using OS 8.6? What if you only have AE 4.1? How good is it working within those constraints? Dave LaRonde shares his experiences with using Trapcode Shine. Review back to top

	James Lee view bio Adobe After Effects Building Up Particles This tutorial by animator James Lee demonstrates a building up of particles to simulate a disintegrating hot air balloon using Trapcode Particular and Adobe After Effects. Tutorial back to top

	Mylenium view bio Trapcode Particular - Frequently Asked Effects Ever since Trapcode Particular was released one year ago, many people have developed a keen interest in this tool. However, even after this time many people find themselves confronted with problems. Regular questions on the Trapcode forum here at the COW clearly prove this. This tutorial is meant to explain some of the commonly asked questions and make your life easier by giving a few tips and tricks as well as some simple expressions. Tutorial back to top

	Michael Park view bio Trapcode Creating Advanced Glitter using Expressions with Trapcode Particular In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates another, more advanced method for creating shimmering glitter particles using Trapcodes 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. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Trapcode Creating Shimmering Glitter using Trapcode Particular In this tutorial, Creative Cow leader, Michael Park, demonstrates how to simulate shimmering glitter particles using fractal noise, colorama effect and Trapcodes Particular plugin. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	David Zandnerg view bio Adobe After Effects Creating Liquid LIght by David Zandnerg In this tutorial, David Zandnerg creates a 'Liquid Light' background element using some basic knowledge about Trapcode 3D Stroke & Shine and Turbulent Displace from Adobe. The important thing to remember is that this tutorial is flexible, so change it as you like to whatever works for you in terms of shape, color and size. Also keep in mind that the tutorial is designed to give you some idea of the simplicity of After Effects for creating abstract art or to just have fun. Tutorial