Create a Palmticular Tree

Aug 10th in Motion Graphics by Vincent Boudier

Vincent introduces a few of the new features in Particular 2 with the creation of a growing palm tree. Put on some sun screen and enjoy!

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Author: Vincent Boudier

I'm a 28 year old motion graphics artist based in Paris. After 2 years of audiovisual school, I became a Flame assistant in a big french SFX company. When the company closed, i decided to fly with my own wings and became a freelance After Effects artist.

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  • Trapcode Particular 2 You can download a trial version here.

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    eric August 10th

    So nice and fluid – great job man. Thanks!

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    Denis August 10th

    sweet one.

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    Leon August 10th

    Very nice! Thanks!

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    jophin August 10th

    WOW…Nice Tutorial!!!Congrats…

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    Jon Draper August 10th

    Very very cool. Probably the most unique thing I’ve seen particular used for….will watch tutorial later….Cheers.

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    THE_EMPEROR August 10th

    Excellent use of Particular v2. Uniquely Done.

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    Regis August 10th

    Well done! Pas mal du tout l’utilisation de Particular 2 comme ca.
    A+

    -Regis

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    Binggeba August 10th

    Nice effect, and good to see more different uses for Particular.

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    lucas August 10th

    lol faut soigner ton accent , sinon le tuto est super

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    Charlotte August 10th

    It is too attractive, I am very impressed…

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    Jonas Stenberg August 10th

    Wow! Wicked stuff!

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    damien tailhades August 10th

    J’adore l’accent ! C’est génial ! J’ai le même, je comprend tous ! hé hé. Entre Mattrunks et toi AE-tuts va bientôt devenir un site francophone ! ;)

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    ahmed August 10th

    It’s very nice idea and well done effect

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    olli August 10th

    …the best thing I’ve seen for quite a time! very beautiful!

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    makproductions August 10th

    nice effect… but tutorial is hard to follow cause of broken english. maybe a written one would be smoother… thank again though.

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      Vincent BOUDIER August 10th

      Yeah, i know…
      As we say in France, “I speak english like a spanish cow…”
      Sorry for that…
      The next one will be a written one, sure

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        Lyndon August 11th

        Its all good homie, you speak better english than i speak french :)

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    Tino August 10th

    sory for this comment, but for some reason i can not watch the movies. It says that the links are not found on my computer. Could you check it again plz !

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    Karpathia August 10th

    a bit confusing, maybe if did it from the start instead of explaining over the already done example.
    but very nice.

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    Abe August 10th

    I have seen plants created with the old version, but I have to say it looks so much better with the shading in 2.0. Brilliant, gonna check it out.

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    adem August 10th

    çok güzel ya :)

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    Lyndon August 10th

    awesome, i knew it was a matte of time :)

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    Adam August 10th

    Really cool use of Particular 2! I found the tutorial difficult to follow, not because of your accent but because you skipped over settings and steps.

    Also, the compression on the video makes it difficult to make out the settings, so it might be helpful to clearly say what settings you have used to get the effect.

    For example, if setting velocity, don’t say something like, “and we set the velocity” and move on to something else. Say, “and we set the velocity to 5.0″ – explanation why would be helpful too :)

    I had to pause the video numerous times just to see what settings you used.

    Hope I’m not coming across harshly – just trying to offer some specific suggestions to make a great effect match a great tutorial.

    Thanks for putting this one together! Look forward to seeing more tutorials from you in the future…

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      Vincent Boudier August 11th

      I tried to make a step by step tutorial, but it was one hour and a half long…
      So, instead, i decided to make an overall presentation of the setup.
      Sorry for going too fast on some settings or steps… You know, it’s my first tutorial, and i’ve got a lot to learn…
      Here is a direct link to the project file, if you want a closer look !
      http://files.me.com/vincent.boudier/fo8o2u

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    Rafael Guerra August 10th

    C´est trés creatif! Very clever usage of Particular.

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    Power man August 11th

    Hi

    Bit of feedback here, you really need to change your video player from the current one, Even with a dedicated 4mb broadband connection its still jerky.

    There are plenty of ones out there.

    ( you have flash tuts on here, why not build one yourself )

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    Modisana August 11th

    Great outcome…

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    khaled August 11th

    great work
    thanks’ for your tutorial waiting for amazing tutorial more and more
    thanks’
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    Trak August 12th

    beau boulot Vincent, ca marche vraiment bien

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  27. GREAT TUT!!!!!

    Thanks for your contributions to the AE community.
    Your very talented and original. I have haven’t even thought about using Trapcode Particular 2 for these type of “Growing” effects.

    Thanks Again, I look forward to future tutorials.

    P.s-Don’t take any of the feed backs to heart, just areas to improve on for the next Tuts. (I HOPE YOU MAKE MORE!!!) I personally didn’t have trouble following along, but I guess others did.

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    m-_g August 12th

    Merci Vincent très bon tuto, il est vraiment puissant ce particular 2

    PS : I think some of you are quite hard with his english,
    try to do one in french ; )
    I do prefer the video tut’s bescause it’s often easier to understand the process…
    I’m not convince it would have been easier to follow a step by step one

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      Vincent BOUDIER August 12th

      Merci !
      Et , tu sais , ils ne sont pas si dur que ca avec mon anglais, 3 ou 4 commentaires sur 30, je m’attendais à bien pire !!!

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        m-_g August 12th

        hé hé ! par contre pour seule critique tu ne précises pas assez bien la mise en place de la scène au départ (pas assez pédagogique pour un débutant), par exemple comment on met en place particular dans un solide, comment on lie les expressions avec “l’escargot”, ou encore bien penser à mettre la vélocité des particules à zéro, etc…

        En tout cas merci encore pour ce tuto !

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    khaled August 13th

    thanks’ for tutorial
    i hope if you can make it from scratch it will be easy to follow
    make it parts
    thanks’ for your tutorial relay great tutorial and i hope to learn cool trick from you

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    P August 15th

    sorry to be a party pooper. but this was the WORST tutorial iv seen on aetuts.. bad english makes it hard to follow, and the fact that u did the tutorial over an already made project makes it very hard to follow.

    the whole point of a tutorial is to explain it to an audience who have no idea whats going on, i wouldnt pay $2 for this tutorial let alone $150

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      Vincent BOUDIER August 17th

      Sorry man, it was a first try…
      If you want to know, i didn’t take the 150$…

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    DJDAMITH August 17th

    Thankz alot….

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    adam August 17th

    The tutorial is a pure madness confusion
    that makes me think that you have not really a clear cue
    what a presentation is about….tray to write some lines about your lecturing before

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    Eric Kristin August 18th

    Obrigado pelo tutorial excellente!!!

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    Tom August 18th

    Great concept….illegible Flash tutorial. Is there a way to use less compression so the info on screen is readable? Building it as you go will also help to clearly communicate what is being done if you do intend this as an instructional piece.
    (Reference an Andrew Kramer at videocopilot.com tutorial to see what I mean).
    Its really a very creative use of Particular.

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    sid August 18th

    great project can not understdand a word of this guy what the hell is he saying &**)*&&*( sorry for my french should i say ……..

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    sid August 18th

    great tutorial no clue about this guy he sucks

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    Jake September 3rd

    Great idea. TERRIBLE TUTORIAL!!!!!

    C’mon you lot. Get somebody better please. This was difficult to follow, he passed through lots of details and he barely speaks english. What’s the deal?

    Don’t get this guy doing tutorials any more!!

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    Qaiser Kwl September 9th

    I am very very impressed & i am very happy tutorials

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    yturru September 15th

    YEAH Vincent pour la france c’est good your tut !

    Thanks a lot for all, Yturru

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    venky September 20th

    nice tutorials

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