![]() ![]() We also knew that some of the most powerful features in particular were being left untouched by most users because they’re fairly complicated, and even if you understood them, they were buried in a very deep UI. And we knew a lot of users felt this way. Until version 2.5, Trapcode Particular was a very technical, numbers driven experience that I powered through to get to a worthwhile end result. ![]() You can also check out Erik Escobar’s review of Trapcode Particular 2.5 over on, which includes a conversation with Aharon Rabinowitz, Director of Content and Communities at Red Giant. I have to say I’m really impressed with Trapcode Particular, and even after just a few minutes noodling around with it, it’s instantly obvious why it’s so firmly embedded at the centre of the After Effects community’s creative heart. If you want to develop a good understanding of what each element does and how it is contributing to your particle animation, then spending a bit of time playing with all the various building blocks and adjusting elements individual settings (putting parameters into the negative also often produces interesting results) will be time well spent. It’s pretty incredible how easy it is to create complex effects very quickly simply by adding various emitter, particle, style and physics ‘blocks’ together in the Blocks section of the Effects Builder. I would recommend sticking with the default particle when playing with the effects builder, as this seemed like the best way to get genuine real-time playback in the viewer, as when I set it to something more complex everything slowed down considerably. Without this visual way of building specific particle effects and getting instant real-time feedback (on my Mac Pro at least) in the viewer it would be easy to be very quickly overwhelmed by the options. Particular 2.5 Includes over 130 new Effects Builder presets, giving you over 180 fully-customizable presets for creating flames, spaceflight, fireworks, explosions, smoke and more.New Sprites and Polygons – Particular 2.5 includes over a hundred still and animated sprite images, easily loaded through the new Effects Builder. New additions like the Effects Builder in Particular 2.5, present a brilliant way to engage with the endless creative possibilities the software can produce, for the very first time. The Trapcode Suite From An Editor’s PerspectiveĪs a film editor, I won’t claim to really know much about the in’s and out’s of the entire Trapcode suite, and so my side of this ‘review’ will be more limited, but represent a new user’s experience. That said, you will save $690 if you buy the suite, compared to buying each plugin individually. ![]() For example, a full license of the new plugin Tao is only $99 (‘Academic’ pricing is available at a 50% discount for students and teachers), whereas the suite’s powerhouse, Trapcode Particular, is $399 when sold separately. ![]() You can buy each plugin individually if you wish, although the prices do vary somewhat. At $999 it’s not a cheap collection of software, but if you’re a professional motion graphics artist it’s going to be the kind of money that will return it’s investment in time saved and client’s delighted over and over again. This introductory video from Red Giant will give you a good overview of each of the 11 plugins and what they can do. Red Giant were kind enough to send me access to the full suite for the purposes of this review. The entire Trapcode suite was recently updated to version 13, and saw the addition of a brand new plugin, Trapcode Tao – which allows you to create 3D geometries along a path (more on that later). Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite, and specifically Trapcode Particular, are often seen by motion graphics artists as an essential item in the creation of superior looking shots. ![]()
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