From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
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Using After Effects particles
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)
Using After Effects particles
As we start to work with an environment it's important to note that there's often atmospheric conditions. Fog, mist, dust. These are things that you can add to a scene to make it look more photorealistic. Typically this is done with a particle engine. Affect Effects has a built-in engine and there are some great third-party ones as well. Let's start with the built-in tool. Go ahead and choose open for the project and navigate to the lesson 11 folder and open up Particles. Now open up the Vancouver scene here and you see we've got an environment with our trees and clouds and an overall scene. What I want to do is add some particles in. Now there are many ways to do this, but I'm going to start by adding an Adjustment Layer initially. And from the Effect menu I'll go to Simulation and you'll see we have some different choices, Particle System, Particle Playground, and others. Let's try the Particle World here. Now…
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