From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
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Creating the fiery top in Trapcode Form - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects
Creating the fiery top in Trapcode Form
and I'm going to go ahead and click OK so it's not going to look exactly right Like I was trying to, I was working really hard so one of the things you have to be aware and you're going to learn a lot, hopefully, about Form as well. So, I'm going to go to Base Form and I'm going to change the base form from the box grid here to a layered sphere, and we don't really need the layers and we don't really need the layers of the sphere, we just need the one, so I'm going to take Sphere Layers down to one, and we actually need more of kind of like a capsule look than a sphere, so I'm going to change the size to XYZ Individual so we could adjust these independently, and for six X and Z I'm going to use 450, and then I want really tall, so I'm going to do 1000 here, or maybe even 900, that might work. Now, we're going to need a lot of particles for this. We don't want our audience to see these dots, so this is going to have to be a very dense…
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Examining the original plan, and why it changed4m 20s
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Creating the textures with Fractal Noise, part 18m 20s
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Creating the textures with Fractal Noise, part 26m 12s
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Making the textures equirectangular7m 13s
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Assembling and compositing the ball components6m
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Coloring the ball4m 53s
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Creating the fiery top in Trapcode Form13m 29s
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