From the course: Designing a Channel Ident
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Setting up a 3D particle system
From the course: Designing a Channel Ident
Setting up a 3D particle system
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll create a stream of circles that shoots out from the middle of the first O in the Zoom logo, and accompany this cylinder with a nice trail of particles. To save some time, I'll share with you all the values that works in this case, but I urge you to play with the effect and see what you can come up with, especially if you are using a different logo. Alright, so let's begin. I'm going to scroll down first and switch off the speaker in front of our audio, this way it won't be in our way when we preview the comp. And then I'm going to select the Zoom outline logo because I want to create the particle layers between this layer and the O layer. So now I can go to the Layer menu, choose New, and create a new solid. Now I happen to know the color that I want this solid to be, and I'm going to use this color for the particles themselves. So for the U, it's going to be 30%, the saturation…
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