
How to Create Explosive Flower Fireworks
Dec 23rd in Motion Graphics by LloydPreview
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Nano December 23rd
Awsome
thanks man 
( )Steve Jabs December 23rd
Isn’t this your… second… tutorial?
( )PhSn December 23rd
Possible with CC Particle World, too?
( )Josh December 23rd
Very well presented and good tut!
( )really like the attention to detail and little tips like the expression
DKumar M. December 23rd
Nice Tutorial Lloyd, It’s been always a secret for me that how to create good fireworks effect. It gives lil help.
Thanks for Sharing.
( )sangmantan December 23rd
congratulation to aetuts. hope will continue psdtut succeed
( )Nate December 23rd
This is your second tutorial, isn’t it Mr. “Aie-tootz”?
( )Nick December 23rd
Great Tutorial! Keep them coming Lloyd. I really like your work and design style.
( )Ideal December 23rd
Awsome tutorial
( )mamjed December 23rd
Hey maybe he made this one first. why does it matter any ways…
Really interesting, I saw the actual animation this was made after a year ago and I loved it. Its so nice to finally see how it was made. I think the gravity on the flower should be less and there should be a small ramp on the opacity over life too. Other then that, I completely loved it!
( )Meneses December 23rd
Nice…..tuto!!!
( )Dave December 24th
Really well done tutorial, I appreciate all the small details and tricks here and there. I’m fairly newbie, but I was able to understand everything you did with ease.
( )Skellie December 24th
Hey guys, this tutorial was indeed recorded before the other one, but we decided to publish the AETUTS intro tutorial because, well, it seemed fitting for our first ever tutorial
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( )NetOperator Wibby December 24th
This is so beautiful. Excellent tutorial to make some videos for spring.
( )Josh Drake December 24th
Ack – another tutorial that uses shareware plugins! Can you make some tutorials that don’t need software from Trapcode? I don’t mean to sound annoying, but it would be nice to be able to do the tutorials.
The result looks nice, though.
( )Mars December 24th
great tutorial! My AE prof used to show this piece as inspiration in class!
One thing I would add is that before you invert the y scale on the second firework to create the reflection, set your anchor point level with the horizon line!
But this tut is worth it simply for that expression alone, oh yeah, plus the awesome particular work.
Thanks!
( )Dan December 24th
eh, this is kind of cheese
( )Dante December 24th
Very nice tutorial! I like the idea of the mountain being the silhouette of a woman, very interesting the effect it leaves.
Congratulations once again.
( )KezMondo December 24th
Video player needs fixed. When I turn volume down to 0 it does nothing. Full screen takes up the whole 2 monitors i’m using with one black useless screen. Fix it please, good tute though.
( )Gabriel December 24th
Really nice tutorial! Congratulation on it! Keep doing this great work!
( )Page Gardens December 24th
Could be more realistic.
( )illd December 25th
Not bad! It looks funny…
( )Ale December 25th
Looks interesting. Will check the tut later
( )illd December 25th
…and the Expression is really handy. Thanks for sharing!
( )Maor Hazan December 25th
@_Very Impressive!
( )Brandon December 26th
Just one question; maybe I wasn’t paying a super amount of attention but how can I apply the exploding effect to a text layer.
( )Lloyd Alvarez December 26th
Hi Brandon, if you want to apply this effect to a text layer simply set your type in a pre-comp and use this precomp in the same manner as I use the flower in the tutorial
( )Kris December 27th
guys please post some advanced tutorial….honestly this tutorial is very basic
( )Brandon December 27th
Lloyd Thanks! Waiting for you reply I was going into photoshop Making the test and saving it as a .png ; this way is much more time saving,.
( )Brandon December 27th
-test *(text)
( )Valeria December 30th
great explanation of Particular variables, thank you!!
( )oskar January 7th
Love the moutains/hills
Dunno why. It just seems like they have some “curves” i like, if you know what i mean.
( )Hessein January 17th
Nice tutorial, thank you
( )kamal98 February 10th
yet anther great tutorial.
( )mike February 11th
Great Stuff.
( )CgBaran Tuts April 22nd
Nice work thanks
( )juan July 26th
more thanks. Excelent tutorial.
( )C August 1st
when i apply the flower pic it uses the whole border and looks like a square. how do i fix this? i am stumped
( )freed January 7th
brilliant tutorial!
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