Particle Effect Man

fracturedray · Post by **fracturedray** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:48 pm

How I did this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwoqL5gbdCc

This is basically particle effects attached to bones but some extra things needed to be done to get it right.

I drew out the shape of a man and made him weirdly proportioned.

I opened the shape layer settings and turned on the noisy settings for the man's body as well as the particle effect shapes.

Then I started on the particle effects in the belly. I played around with shapes and particle effect animation settings until I found something I liked. I then used the tip selgin had for eliminating particle trails.

Tip: Each shape in the particles use “cycle” because I animated them fading out.

I duplicated the effects layer and placed them all over the body changing sizes/settings as needed.

Once done I did a short animation. I saw that the man's body looked ok but I wanted to just use the particle effects only.

So I duplicated all the effect layers and shorten the duplicate effect life down to 4 frames. This made the body shapes more obvious.

Here is the final file. http://www.mediafire.com/?yvtmuaiqba5zbt0
You are welcome to learn from it. Just be aware that it took 30 minutes to render 11 seconds.

Onionskin · Post by **Onionskin** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:07 pm

very nice, thanks for sharing

benecosse · Post by **benecosse** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:32 pm

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:42 pm

Amazing effect! Brilliant. It works perfectly. I did something similar a long time ago for flames from a dragon, using bones to control the movement of particles, but this is way cooler.

-vern

ulrik · Post by **ulrik** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:06 pm

Thank you for sharing this, great effect!

fracturedray · Post by **fracturedray** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:43 am

thanks, I figured I owe the forum something after all the help I got.

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:36 pm

Hi fractureday,

I like it a lot how you share your techniques with us. This is very kind. Thank you for this!

This particle man looks very cool. I also tried something like this once.... but I did not get far. I will try your method!

fracturedray · Post by **fracturedray** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:56 pm

thanks Tagirijus,

I hope you share your work with us. I'd like to see some cool particle people walking around or at least demons who are on fire or something.

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:48 pm

Hehe, unfortunately in my next project will be no demons or sometthing like this, sorry.