Tutorials and experiments 1

The Purpose of this post is to show my experiments thus far as well as evaluate them as to how I could improve the work done as well as talk about how I accomplished the animation.

The tutorial above is a very en-depth video about how to create particle in Adobe AfterEffects as well as highlighting what plug-ins to use.

The plug-ins that where mentioned are, Trapcode Suite (particular), Optical Flares and DNxHD Codec. These plug-ins enable the user produce animations like these to this extent.

It also goes in to how to to make the particles movement and appearance more natural but using blur effects, adjusting opacity, size and life of the particles. This tutorial alone gives me enough information on how to create my own particle animation which I can start experimenting with.

This second video shows me how to make an object in AE respond to an audio track that has been imported in to the composition.

This video uses the basic AfterEffects program for this tutorial, so no plug-ins are involved which makes this tutorial more accessible for me as I don't need to worry about downloading the necessary plug-ins required. I found this tutorial very easy to follow as it highlights all the details of the process as well as showing the short cut commands, accelerating the process. Out of this tutorial I've only used the portion that explains how the animate the reactive object.
The reason behind not using the other parts of this video is because I already have pre existing knowledge how to edit and manipulate the images that where imported in the video.

Above in an animation using the tutorial above as a guide, I found this tutorial easy to follow and it allowed me to produce the animation below, I will however will overlay a particle effect on top of this and see how this'll work.