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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.

very nice, thanks for sharing

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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

Thank you for sharing this, great effect!

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

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!

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.

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