From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Creating flickering candlelight with Particular

Creating flickering candlelight with Particular

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Creating flickering candlelight with Particular

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I'm so excited about this tutorial. Okay, we're going to make the little flickering candle flames in TrapCode Particular and using a few extra tools. And I just, I love this. Okay, so we're going to do is we're going to start out in the particle start comp. If you want to look at the final version in the complete comp, you can do that. apply that to the solid layer, and then we have this. And we have a TrapCode Particular, where is it at? It's somewhere in the middle of our composition. We actually don't want it to emit from the regular point, I want it to emit from these lights here. Now these lights don't actually light our scene in after effects, but they do store the data telling us where the candle wicks would approximately exist in 3D space. So they become great sources for our particle emitters in TrapCode Particular. They can also be used kind of like null objects, their data can be copied and pasted. Now to use them as emitters in Particular, we got to change their names. So…

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