From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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Adding particles with Form and Particular - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
Adding particles with Form and Particular
and now we're going to add some pizzazz to it, some extra sparkles and things going around here specifically a layer of Particular particles, a layer of Form particles, now look over to this comp to explain this, I'm going to be wondering why Form and Particular, why not just do it all in one, well the Particular particles cause particles and Particular just die out Now here's this interesting thing, since I did this effect several years ago they've updated Form and so I can't do this anymore, we can't replicate this. In times past, you would have, you would come down to an effect like Form or Particular in the rendering section, there would be this blend mode that's different than the blend mode in the particle section, cause this blend mode refers to how the particles interact and the particle blend mode section refers to how the blend mode of how the particles overlap with each other. But, in the rendering section, the blend mode determined how the whole instance of the plugin…
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