Create a Palmticular Tree

on Nov 25th 2011 with 55 comments
Tutorial Details

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from back in the archives of Aetuts+. Today we’ll look at a post that first introduced many of the features found in Trapcode Particular2 by creating a growing palm tree. This tutorial was first published back in August of 2009.

Tutorial

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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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  • http://www.frozentoy.com eric

    So nice and fluid – great job man. Thanks!

  • Denis

    sweet one.

  • http://www.vileo.nl Leon

    Very nice! Thanks!

  • jophin

    WOW…Nice Tutorial!!!Congrats…

  • http://www.youcamp.co.uk Jon Draper

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

  • http://www.ylchaithanya.com THE_EMPEROR

    Excellent use of Particular v2. Uniquely Done.

  • Regis

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

    -Regis

  • http://randomshutterbugger.blogspot.com Binggeba

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

  • lucas

    lol faut soigner ton accent , sinon le tuto est super

  • Charlotte

    It is too attractive, I am very impressed…

  • Jonas Stenberg

    Wow! Wicked stuff!

  • http://www.damientailhades.com damien tailhades

    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 ! ;)

  • http://hdmediaproduction.com ahmed

    It’s very nice idea and well done effect

  • olli

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

  • makproductions

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

    • Vincent BOUDIER
      Author

      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

      • Lyndon

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

      • Eddy

        Hey great tutorial,

        could you paste the expression codes in here ?

        as I cant read them properly,

        thanks

  • Tino

    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 !

  • Karpathia

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

  • http://cinematiceffects.com/blog/ Abe

    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.

  • http://www.bilisimdenizi.com adem

    çok güzel ya :)

  • Lyndon

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

  • Adam

    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…

    • Vincent Boudier
      Author

      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

  • http://noisejunkies.net Rafael Guerra

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

  • Power man

    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 )

  • http://www.behance.net/Modisana Modisana

    Great outcome…

  • khaled

    great work
    thanks’ for your tutorial waiting for amazing tutorial more and more
    thanks’
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  • http://trakntrak.blogspot.com/ Trak

    beau boulot Vincent, ca marche vraiment bien

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2bc107c91c8112454c96a5871b91718c?s=80 Samuel David Rustenburg

    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.

  • m-_g

    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

    • Vincent BOUDIER
      Author

      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 !!!

      • m-_g

        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 !

  • khaled

    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

  • P

    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

    • Vincent BOUDIER
      Author

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

    • TUT DEFENDER

      Don’t be such a Jacka$$! You need to discover the fun of having some helpful hints and tips, then figuring the rest out on your own. Don’t just follow these tutorials word for word. EXPLORE some variations. Use your eyes, and not your ears! Look at his settings and not what he is trying to explain. YOU ARE A JACKA$$!

  • DJDAMITH

    Thankz alot….

  • adam

    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

  • Eric Kristin

    Obrigado pelo tutorial excellente!!!

  • Tom

    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.

  • sid

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

  • sid

    great tutorial no clue about this guy he sucks

  • Jake

    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!!

  • Qaiser Kwl

    I am very very impressed & i am very happy tutorials

  • yturru

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

    Thanks a lot for all, Yturru

  • venky

    nice tutorials

  • Billy

    Great Effect…..HORRIFIC TUTORIAL! That was the most confusing mess I have ever had the displeasure of sitting through. Seriously. Great…the guy speaks English….but he couldn’t teach anything in French, much less English. If the editors of this site are going to accept tutorials, the ability to CLEARLY present ideas should be the FIRST and FOREMOST priority. If you can’t do that….WHAT IS THE FREAKIN’ POINT?

    GOOD GRIEF! I finally get around to doing this tutorial and spend the entire 3 hours it takes me to get through this mess wishing I had passed. WTF!!!

  • Dean

    Awesome tutorial! Don’t worry about your accent. Great minds think in different languages. Could you re-post the project files by the way? It would help a ton.

  • Mike

    Please re-post project file for closer look .
    Thanks

  • Mike

    Where to find project file for settings plz .

    Thanks alot.

  • nagesh

    nice tutorial man

  • vadeen

    It is a good example not a good tutorial. You did not show what exactly you did to make the tree you don’t say which control slider you used, all you did was open the project file and click on thing that are all ready there, how is that going to help some one that knows how to use after effects but is not that deep in to it yet to look at some thing like this and do it for them selves. At less show how to make the tree from nothing, make a new comp and start there

  • Sayyeda

    The example is so good but the tutorial is very difficult to follow. And i badly need to do this for my assignment :( where do we get the Particular 2 effect from? cant follow the tutorial without the plugin.