Dr Strange portal effect with Particular ?

Question

Hey,So after seeing the movie, I was really curious about how managable it would be to replicate that visual in After Effects, and despite douzens of tutorials online, not a single one (in my opinion) get close to a decent result, the only one who's actually really close to it is from Moraru.So I decided to try and experiment on my own with Particular, I manage to have a decent loop of particles, but using Particular for only a few weeks, I still have trouble understanding how to use it to affect my particles how I envisionned it.Basically, here's a screenshot of the look I'm trying to get : http://www.doctorstrange.asia/assets/img/common/doctor-strange-portal-menu-bg.jpg The biggest issue I have is to set the motion of the particules the right way, their look is mainly related to motion blur and glow, that's not an issue, but I can't seem to get the motion right.Any ideas ?

Mylenium · Accepted Answer

Hum... I'm actually not familiar with the Aux particles settings, and therefore I would need to experiment with it before to understand it.

But actually, I continued trying to get closer and closer to the result I wanted adjusting the settings and the motion blur, and I went really close to what I have in mind.

Here's what I've got at the present time :

Still need a few adjustments in my opinion, for instance not all the particles follow the same path on the picture I linked in my first post, some are loose and go kinda crazy on the left, up and down.

I assume I could duplicate my layer and change the settings to something with less particles, but I still need to find a way to affect their motion (physics, velocity, direction or something else ?) to create those crazy particles.

NB : I would have take a screenshot of the whole app but I couldn't display all the settings I already had affected within a single screenshot.

There aren't that many "crazy" particles actually. Logically analyzing your reference image really only gives the following results:

the particles move in Z direction away from the camera after they have left the emitter
there is gravity towards the bottom, explaining the curved paths of some particles
possibly there's a slight wind from the left, making them fan out a bit more on the right side
the rogue particles appear to be just a result of random low emission velocity and very short life spans, that prevents them from producing trails
the emitter itself seems to have some rotation along its up-axis to further create this twisted/ curved look of the circle

All of this can easily be re-created by tweaking the settings in Particular, though of course it's hard to envision the actual result just from a still and no doubt the effect was done in a more complex environment like a 3D program or Nuke.

Mylenium

Mylenium · Answer

Without seeing your actual settings in Particular and how it looks on your end, nobody can advise.Mylenium

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