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Using After Effects’ CC Particle Systems II to Create Snow for a Snow globe

By February 18, 2014No Comments

Charles Yeager offers a quick look at using CC Particle Systems II for creating animated snow in a vector snow globe in After Effects. This represents the last component to the tutorial which is setting up the snow for the globe – the first two cover creating the dragon character and the snow globe itself and vectorizing the drawing in Adobe Illustrator.

[blockquote source=”Charles Yeager – CGtuts”]In this Quick Tip, we are going to use the effect CC Particle Systems II to create snow for a snow globe animation.[/blockquote]

Almost a forgotten effect, CC particle Systems is different than CC Particle world in that it is inherently a 2D effect, while CC particle World is 3D. Check out the tutorial for Creating Particle snow for a snow globe in After Effects here.

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