How to Create Explosive Flower Fireworks
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: After Effects and Particular
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Run Time: 32:50min
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 an amazing post from former Aetuts+ editor, Lloyd Alvarez. This was Lloyd’s first tutorial for Aetuts+ published in December 2008 and beautifully explains some more advanced ways to use Trapcode Particular. Let’s take a look…
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a unique twist on the traditional fireworks display. The tutorial shows you how to create fireworks with Trapcode Particular, and how to reflect this effect over water.
Tutorial
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Awsome
thanks man 
Isn’t this your… second… tutorial?
Possible with CC Particle World, too?
Very well presented and good tut!
really like the attention to detail and little tips like the expression
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.
congratulation to aetuts. hope will continue psdtut succeed
This is your second tutorial, isn’t it Mr. “Aie-tootz”?
Great Tutorial! Keep them coming Lloyd. I really like your work and design style.
Awsome tutorial
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!
Nice…..tuto!!!
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.
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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This is so beautiful. Excellent tutorial to make some videos for spring.
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.
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!
eh, this is kind of cheese
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.
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.
Really nice tutorial! Congratulation on it! Keep doing this great work!
Could be more realistic.
Not bad! It looks funny…
Looks interesting. Will check the tut later
…and the Expression is really handy. Thanks for sharing!
@_Very Impressive!
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.
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
guys please post some advanced tutorial….honestly this tutorial is very basic
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,.
-test *(text)
great explanation of Particular variables, thank you!!
Love the moutains/hills
Dunno why. It just seems like they have some “curves” i like, if you know what i mean.
Nice tutorial, thank you
yet anther great tutorial.
Great Stuff.
Nice work thanks
more thanks. Excelent tutorial.
when i apply the flower pic it uses the whole border and looks like a square. how do i fix this? i am stumped
brilliant tutorial!
Very nice tutorial man, thanx for sharing
I just started using Trapcode Particular and I hit a snag. When I tried to form the flower fireworks one of two things happened. Either it formed a silhoutte of the flower in the color of the particle layer or it formed a glob of the colors of the flower but not in the shape of anything. Any ideas
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what was that noise at 12:11?
Thank you very much for helping me / us for understanding power of Particular. I really enjoyed watching your great tutorial. All best! n.