From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial
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Creating streaks of lights using Particular
From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial
Creating streaks of lights using Particular
- [Voiceover] Those light streaks, which almost look like they are seeds of lights, were made in 3D, and then to dress them up and make them look more interesting and vivid, a set of null objects that were used in the 3D software, in this case, Autodesk Maya, were exported from the scene, with, of course, the 3D camera. Then, inside After Effects, each null object position was used in order to drive a dedicated light by an expression, and then of course we can use Trapcode Particular in order to generate particles using those lights in meters. Here, let me show you exactly what I mean, and how it was done. So, here inside the same line sequence composition, and this time, I'm going to double click on this digital comp, and this digital comp is quite massive so we are actually going to examine it in a couple of movies from now until the end of this training, but I just want to show you what it consists of, so this is all the layers from top to bottom, total of 33 layers, and in this…
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