From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects

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Creating the fiery top in Trapcode Form

Creating the fiery top in Trapcode Form - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating the fiery top in Trapcode Form

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and I'm going to go ahead and click OK so it's not going to look exactly right Like I was trying to, I was working really hard so one of the things you have to be aware and you're going to learn a lot, hopefully, about Form as well. So, I'm going to go to Base Form and I'm going to change the base form from the box grid here to a layered sphere, and we don't really need the layers and we don't really need the layers of the sphere, we just need the one, so I'm going to take Sphere Layers down to one, and we actually need more of kind of like a capsule look than a sphere, so I'm going to change the size to XYZ Individual so we could adjust these independently, and for six X and Z I'm going to use 450, and then I want really tall, so I'm going to do 1000 here, or maybe even 900, that might work. Now, we're going to need a lot of particles for this. We don't want our audience to see these dots, so this is going to have to be a very dense…

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