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How to Create Explosive Flower Fireworks

How to Create Explosive Flower Fireworks

on Nov 11th 2010 with 44 comments
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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File size 170MB

 
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  • Nano

    Awsome :) thanks man :)

  • http://www.stevejabs.com Steve Jabs

    Isn’t this your… second… tutorial?

  • PhSn

    Possible with CC Particle World, too?

  • Josh

    Very well presented and good tut!
    really like the attention to detail and little tips like the expression

  • http://www.instantshift.com DKumar M.

    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.

  • http://ardyanstyle.com sangmantan

    congratulation to aetuts. hope will continue psdtut succeed

  • Nate

    This is your second tutorial, isn’t it Mr. “Aie-tootz”?

  • Nick

    Great Tutorial! Keep them coming Lloyd. I really like your work and design style.

  • http://www.idealdesigner.net Ideal

    Awsome tutorial

  • http://www.mamjed.com mamjed

    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

    Nice…..tuto!!!

  • http://www.davepit.com Dave

    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.

  • http://skelliewag.org Skellie

    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 :).

  • http://pw-software.com NetOperator Wibby

    This is so beautiful. Excellent tutorial to make some videos for spring.

  • http://www.tutorialwow.com/ Josh Drake

    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

    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. :D Thanks!

  • http://www.1pixelbrush.com Dan

    eh, this is kind of cheese

  • Dante

    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

    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

    Really nice tutorial! Congratulation on it! Keep doing this great work!

  • http://pagegardens.com/ Page Gardens

    Could be more realistic.

  • illd

    Not bad! It looks funny…

  • http://www.theadmad.com Ale

    Looks interesting. Will check the tut later :)

  • illd

    …and the Expression is really handy. Thanks for sharing!

  • http://www.maorhazan.co.cc/ Maor Hazan

    @_Very Impressive!

  • Brandon

    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.

  • http://aescripts.com Lloyd Alvarez
    Author

    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

    guys please post some advanced tutorial….honestly this tutorial is very basic

  • Brandon

    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

    -test *(text)

  • Valeria

    great explanation of Particular variables, thank you!!

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    Love the moutains/hills

    Dunno why. It just seems like they have some “curves” i like, if you know what i mean.

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    Nice tutorial, thank you

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  • kamal98

    yet anther great tutorial.

  • mike

    Great Stuff.

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  • http://tuts.cgbaran.com/ CgBaran Tuts

    Nice work thanks

  • juan

    more thanks. Excelent tutorial.

  • C

    when i apply the flower pic it uses the whole border and looks like a square. how do i fix this? i am stumped

  • http://www.lovehatedesign.co.uk freed

    brilliant tutorial!

  • Romeo

    Very nice tutorial man, thanx for sharing

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