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Examining the original plan, and why it changed

Examining the original plan, and why it changed - After Effects Tutorial

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Examining the original plan, and why it changed

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and a lot of uses for After Effects. But I want to talk in this tutorial about how my plan really changed from what I initially thought I would do for this ball. You see, initially, I thought, "Okay, well, I made this little ball here for this scene "and Korda'a's magic is more, "and Korda'a's magic is more, "so we'll just make a bigger version of this "using the same tools and techniques "but just make it bigger." And we did that. And my initial tests were pretty cool. And I really liked the intensity of this. And I used CC radial blur in order to create these little spikes here, CC radial fast blur, actually. But I love the way that this looks, I mean, it looks like a bigger version of what we saw before. But the problem is, is that particle systems generally are not very scalable. So you can't make a really big particle system and then scale it down very well, or likewise, make a small particle system and then…

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