Particles test

The company I'm working for develops a 2D animation software, used world wide for Film and Tv productions. The software has a long history and nowdays is really reach of features and tools, that can give you an aid in creating and realizing your ideas and animations.

One of the most interesting sections of the software is the FX area. Here, among a lots of 'image' effects, you can find the simulations effects and the powerful particles effect.

Particles let you create the 'usual' effects the particles are used for (like fire, rain, flocks, wind and the like) but one thing peculiar to this software is that you can use control images for influencing numerous parameters of the particle effect.

In this example you can see how to use control images for placing the particles in chosen spots (the coloured dots). The purple dots use the color gradient for influencing the particles size creating a distance effect: the small alien slugs are bigger near the viewer and become gradulaly smaller near the door.

The paticles can be animated by the effects parameters (applying forces, rotations, change in size and colours) and/or can be animated drawing the appropriate frames.