Make a Podrace in After Effects (tutorial)

Borrowing from the Pod-Racing scene in StarWars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace, this tutorial shows how to use either Trapcode Particular or CC Particle World to create a particle tunnel. I then use 2.5D images to create a desert floor, CC Environment to create a sky dome and CC Radial Fast Blur on an adjustment layer to add blurring around the edges to mimic a Formula 1 speed tunnel.

Part of my Makin' Wormholes series, showing how to create really cool, sci-fy particle tunnels in After Effects

Links mentioned:

CC Particle World tutorial: https://youtu.be/0oz62W7LuK8

Particular tutorial: https://youtu.be/T-ZYc3QRzHQ

Project download: https://bit.ly/3jLFGmh