I often use Shine for creating light rays or adding stylized hot-looking backgrounds. The many other plugins in this suite allow you to create 3D imagery, create stylized compositing, or utilize useful tools. obj models, which can create beautiful HUD-like images or create interesting shapes. This is useful for lining up action with a sound effect, or to quickly drive organic animation. One of the most notable features of Form is that it be driven by sound. All particles exist from the beginning to the end of the layer that is to say, there is no birthing or dying of particles. This plugin is far easier to use and much more customization than After Effects' built-in CC Particle World.įorm is another particle engine, but works differently. My favorite feature of Particular is allowing particles to emit from lights, which makes it easy to make repeatable particle effects. It is a powerful particle engine, which is extremely customization and robust features such as turbulence, physics, time maps, and 3D integration. Particular is perhaps the most famed plugin in the After Effects community.

The two plugins that I use the most are Particular and Form. This suite contains many plugins which range from being useful to crucial for After Effects professionals. The Trapcode Suite by Red Giant is one of the most notable plugins available for Adobe After Effects.

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