Vine Grow Effect in After Effects Using Particular
In this video tutorial we'll learn how to create a growing vine effect using a particle generator.
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Joey Korenman (00:16): What's up Joey here at school of motion and welcome today, 25 of 30 days of after effects. Today, we are going to talk about particles and specifically trap code particular, which is one of those plugins that every single after effects artists out there kind of has to know it doesn't come with after effects, but frankly it probably should. At this point, we're going to use particles in a way that you don't often see them used. Most people think of particles as making explosions or magic effects or things like that. I'm going to use them because particles allow you to trigger animation, which opens up a world of possibilities. That would be very hard to achieve. If you had to hand animate everything, don't forget, sign up for a free student account. So you can grab the project files from this lesson, as well as assets from any other lesson on the site.
Joey Korenman (01:00): Now let's hop into after effects and get started. The point of this video is to try and get you guys to understand some of the cool things you can do with particles. Uh, when, when I say particles, I'm sure a lot of you think about, you know, magic effects and, and things that look like particles, but actually particles are really just a, another technique that you can use in motion graphics, and specifically the way I'm using them here is to generate the leaves automatically for me along these vines. Um, you know, whenever you have a lot of repeating elements, but they need to sort of be born at a certain time and you need an animation to be triggered at a certain time. Particles are one of the best ways to do that. So we're gonna use particles in kind of a unique way. And hopefully it'll just give you guys some more ideas about, uh, you know, things you can do with them.
Joey Korenman (01:58): So let's jump in and get started. So I'm gonna make a new pre-camp here and we're going to call this vine oh one. And I apologize, cause I have the sniffles a little bit today. So you might hear me sniffling, so you can, uh, you can create the vine any way you want. You can, you know, you can do it very simply with the shape layer and, you know, make it whatever shape you want and then go in and, and adjust it. I actually used, uh, the 3d stroke pro plugin from trap code because as I pointed out in a different tutorial, it has this nice feature of letting you taper, uh, your strokes and, and for a vine that's really, really cool. So I'm actually gonna use that, but if you don't have that plugin and you're following along, you can do the exact same thing just by drawing a shape like this.
Joey Korenman (02:46): So I'm going to make a new solid, and I'm going to call this vine and I'm going to draw a shape on it. So let's make it simple. Uh, maybe the vine starts down here and kind of curls up like this, and I'm just going to kind of adjust this as I go, and I want it to kind of curl around in, on itself and make one of these nice little kind of curly Q shapes. All right. And maybe we'll pull this in a little bit. Okay, cool. So there's our, there's our vine shape. All right. And then maybe, you know, maybe, maybe it should be pushed over a little bit this way. Alright, perfect. So now with that mask on there, with that shape, I can add the trap code, 3d stroke effect. All right. And if you drew a shape layer with the shape, it would look exactly like this, the advantage of 3d stroke.
Joey Korenman (03:38): And if you haven't watched a, the tutorial, I think it's part three of the kinetic type series where I use 3d stroke to create this crack, but it's got this taper option in there. And if you enable it, you can see that it lets you taper the beginning and the end of your shape. And so I just want to taper the end. So I'm gonna turn my tape or start to zero. And so now I've got this nice vine. Um, and so let's not worry about picking a color for the vine yet right now, we just want to animate it. So what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna, I'm going to animate the end parameter here. So let's bring it to zero. Let's put a key frame here and let's make that take two seconds and it animates on. And, uh, I am going to easy ease these just so there's a little bit of, you know, a little bit of a speed change to it.
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I’ve watched a lot of particle tutorials… Most of them are terrible. Yours is easily the best I’ve seen. Your explanations are concise clear and meaningful. Thanks!
This is just marvelous, what a great teacher you are. Love the way you explain everything. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I'm spreading the word.
This is awesome, I'm an animation artist, I have watched this channel for the first time, and I learned a lot of things from this single video. ill keep watching this channel.
Wow, your chops are unreal. Love it. Great tute.
Quick tip: If you don't have '3D stroke', you can use the 'Write-on' effect and key-frame the brush size to get the tapered edges of your lines
@craveleaks8102
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the quick tip, +Buklen. Appreciate it.
@seencapone
4 жыл бұрын
You can also use the Write On effect to keyframe the color of the stroke across its length. The colors blend beautifully and will appear to write 'on top' where the path crosses itself, just like a real paint stroke. I don't know of any other native method to get a rainbow-spectrum color effect across a path. What's more, with the Write On effect you can keyframe the brush size anywhere along the path length, not just taper the edges, to get truly variable calligraphic looking strokes. Of course, since this tutorial was made, the latest version of 3D Stroke lets you do both these things easily.
@bartoszilkowski7611
2 жыл бұрын
There is also a taper option to animate in shape's stroke (since 2019 I believe)
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial, Joey.
Thanks for those amazing free contents. This channel is fantastic.
This tutorial is wonderful! I am a beginner to AE and I learned a ton on this....one strange thing-with a new MBP, when I tried to update the leaves by putting in the vein and the gradient for some reason it wouldn't update. I tried a lot of things like a new random seed, purging. etc. Finally under Rendering->acceleration I turned it from CPU to GPU and it immediately updated.
Nice lesson , thank you! :)
Thanks for the tutorial.
As always, really cool tutorial ! I had a problem with that simple expression at the beginning. It returned me an error and I don't why. I've just copy my path keyframe to x-y position and it worked. Thank you very much for all those very useful free contents !
@mistahtobi
4 жыл бұрын
you probably typed it as .toComp[(0,0,0)]; instead of .toComp([0,0,0]);
thanks very much for this tutorial
Wow! Just "The perfect after effect teacher"
Thanks for your share!!!!
another great tutorial
Fantastic.. Loved it. BTW, Edit -> Purge will help to update the scene (no need to switch the resolution or change the random seed) 🙏
this is amazing... amazing
@schoolofmotion
7 жыл бұрын
awh shucks...
Very Cool !!
I have been looking for this thank you!!My channel theme is grapes and I was confused on if I needed to animate it.
very well , thank you
Wonderful! thank's a lot
For the newer version, for the colors to show, you go to Sprite controls -> Colorize -> 100%
why do i burst into uncontrollable laughter whenever someone says "and then i'm gonna hit u" in an after effects tutorial (9:11 in this case) very useful one tho, thank you for teaching us!
I got my basic vine done and understand moving them to create shapes, but how do you write with it.
Hi! Do you know why and how to correct that when I add the 3D stroke effect, it becomes transparent
Hi, Great video, I just got one problem. No matter how high I set up life of particles. They start to dissaper as animation plays along. What am I doing wrong? Thank you so much :D
Hi, great tutorial - I've one issue - if I adjust the original path - say to make the vine grow to a different place, it seems to break the Path Null and the particles don't follow the new vine path. I can't figure out how to keep the vine path editable. Thanks.
Is there a way to get the vines to wrap around a person or object?
When I add the gradient and the vein, it doesn't show up in the comp - it just shows a solid leaf color. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
Great
I set my anchor point as instructed, however the leaves don't quite sit on the vine, advise? cheers.
Why the project file extension is .x-zip-compressed. How to open it?
screen real estate...wow, the choice of words
This is great but try doing this now with AE 2021 and Particular 15. It's nearly impossible without going crazy. Everything is so damn slow despite having the latest hardware. Super sluggish interface, disk and RAM hogging until crashing the entire system, nowhere near real-time work. A total shame. What have they done?!
Hey, struggling with the expression. You mentioned listing it in the comments of this tutorial. Can't find it anywhere and I can't see if you're ending expression with a : or ; If you see this question can you let me know? thisComp.layer("PathNull")toComp([0,0,0]); is how I have it. Does it look right? Great tutorial so far!
@jennycreative1
4 жыл бұрын
BTW I fixed it. I didn't have the dot between the ) and toComp thisComp.layer("PathNull").toComp([0,0,0]); worked.
@aghoshdev3213
3 жыл бұрын
I am also having the same trouble please help me. I think the expression is correct but particles are not following the null
@ridgeee7913
3 жыл бұрын
@@aghoshdev3213 same
how to open x-zip compressed file?
What do you use to make the vine grow if you don't have 3D stroke?
@basementapefilms
Жыл бұрын
turn up particle life
Miss the days of Ram Preview 😭
@schoolofmotion
7 жыл бұрын
I don't know, the new disk/RAM preview feature is pretty fast in comparison.
Hey, help me... I don't have "particular". Your suggestions needed...
@aidanbenbow6682
3 жыл бұрын
Particle world effect also allows for custom particles (choose textured polygons and then set the layer with the leaf composite as the texture) but I haven't figured out yet how to make the particles stay put (they fly off all over the place!)
2021 and 3D Stroke is still flickering.
how come I don't have 3d stroke:(
I can’t open the file
@schoolofmotion
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Adrian, if you change the file extension from "-zip-compressed" to ".zip" the file will open for you.
This project wont download?
@schoolofmotion
5 жыл бұрын
Hmm it seems to be working on our end. You're signed in to your School of Motion account right?
@Zfrancis87
4 жыл бұрын
School of Motion Joey, ty for the superb tute! 🙏🏽 I was hoping you could tell me the specs on your computer. Particularly, the processing speed (ghz) and the Ram because I’m considering converting over to a MAC. Thanks, again man
Shame red giant has sold out to Maxon and now the only way to get their plugins is with a rip off subscription. I was a loyal customer for years until they made that crap move
Заебис!
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