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Creating dust layers with Particular

Creating dust layers with Particular

From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial

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Creating dust layers with Particular

- [Voiceover] Trapcode Particular was used to add some dirt and dust to the clean 3D render lines of the animated stroke that was generated inside the 3D software. In order to track the movement of this line, nulls and lights were exported from the 3D software and then, Particular can use those lines in order to create those particles. Since Particular is also a 3D-aware effect, it can use the same kind of move and everything will align perfectly together. All we need to worry about is to set a few emitter and particle settings inside the effect, so, let me show you how this was done. So, I am still inside this paper pre-comp which is part of the introduction for the N-Trig commercial. In the previous movies, we've already seen what happens in this 3D render line, this is the outcome from the 3D software, so this is the line that we are seeing over here, and of course, the blueprint paper, this is all the animation done inside After Effects by animating 2D Photoshop and Illustrator…

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