In this episode of Red Giant TV, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a technique for placing layers inside the middle of a particle system – crucial to truly integrating your CGI effects with your live action footage or motion graphics.
RGTV Ep. 15: Better Compositing with Particles
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You should do a tutorial on the last part where the particles go around a layer considering it’s a little more current. Nice tut, though.
Wow! Creative Cow is fast. The DVD [Internet killed the video star] that I ordered this past Saturday – arrived today. I haven’t watched it yet but I did watch this tutorial. Good stuff. Shows off your footage very well. For whatever reason the concept of – stacking order – eluded me for awhile. I know, I know it’s not brain surgery. But this tut reinforces that concept nicely and reveals some hidden Particular parameters also. Thanks for making it.
Aharon, thanks so much for this, I’ve often come a cropper with this issue, resolved generally with far too much time spent duplicating the particles, placing one behind and masking out the foreground, which with any moving footage is both time-consuming and a bit of a nightmare!
Really great tutorial, as always man.
Cheers!
Byrnee
Thanks Mr.Aharon ver nice tut
Thanks Mr.Aharon very nice tut
Loved the tutorial Aharon! I was not aware of those parameters in Particular. That really opens up some new possibilities. Thank you!
Thanks Aharon
Had the same problem with text, duplicated the particle layer but did not know how to use the near/far vanish.
this tut really helped
Cheers!