How to Make 3D Particle Animations without Plugins (After Effects Tutorial)

The "CC Particle World" and "CC Particle Systems II" effects are limited in what they offer. This effect unlocks another, less obvious method of creating particles in Adobe After Effects, allowing users to create a different kind of animation in which pixels are pushed out in three dimensions, based on their brightness values. Watch the tutorial to learn how.

Template Features:
Design presets – 41 comps featuring unique animations, including all of the animations from the demo video above.
Easy customization – The presets can be customized with convenient slider controls. Detailed instructions are found throughout the template.
3D – The designs are three-dimensional, and are compatible with After Effects camera layers. Reposition or animate your camera to view the elements from any angle.
Landscapes & water – Create basic oceans or landscapes. Control the amount of detail in the waves or mountains, and animate them to move in any direction to simulate camera flyovers.
Optional effects – Each preset includes multiple effects that you can unhide to quickly create unique new looks.
Works with footage – The Pixel Pusher effect allows you to push areas of your footage forward or backward, depending on the brightness, creating a stylized look for your footage that can be used for transitions, glitches, or a futuristic, 3D pixelation effect.
Includes both HD and 4K projects

[spyo]

Man I love you for everything you done in our community 💜

[TylerMcNamer]

You know, I felt the same with work Never Ending Story too.

*All of this looks magnificent!*
Thank you for the tutorial!

[parmaatma]

You just posted the great video.. Loved it a lot... Thank you very much pushing our imagination, work capacities and just inspirint.. You just helped everyone. Thank you very much a lot. Greatest wishes

[MisterMurphy]

You totally deserve a zillion dollars though! Love this, it's defo next on my list to get :)

[KasakyaGeorge]

Thanks for putting this tutorial first ahead of the zillion-dollar thought

[rrmez]

THANK YOU MY FRIEND!! im a student and this really teached me more than the classees

[TheDannycoyne]

Subscribed immediately. Thank you, fella!

[Arthur.H.Studio]

Bro - I'm only 3 minutes in and you have me excited and laughing all in one. : ) Brilliant.. ok.. cont...

[gjmliks]

10:02 Whoahhh! I've been playing with this effect recently but had no idea you could do that lol... what a game changer!

[ickvdjx]

what a chad, thanks god ive found ur video thats exactly what ive been trying to do

[sashomedia]

CC Ball action is awesome. I like it. But in order to make pixelating effect, like upclose screen or digital glitch I would use Grid effect.

[bradfab_fx]

Here’s my take, after effects has everything all the plugins have, it’s just up to you to use the default tools to figure out how to do those stuff. It is possible if you know how to utilise the tools Just as you’ve showed. Great job. Learning more and more from your channel

[TheCacauferreira]

clips. I use a drum loop and afterwards I want to record a appguitar. What happens.. the drumloop starts to record again along the

[vipulmehra]

How did you manage to have options under transform controls, pixel pusher control and texture control (16:28). is this some feature only in advanced AE version. Because I am using CS6, and although I have CC ball, turbulent noise effect ... I am not able to understand how the control options can be seen like yours. Please reply.. it is driving me nuts.

[ymws]

HAH I DIDN'T also i really liked cc ball when i got it, used it for distortion and weird transition with the scatter and reconfigure logos, it was pretty neat

[matt_freund]

My computer is crying - and so am I (computer cause of overheating - me because of joy!)

[tarazz]

Did you manage to make 1 billion dollars with it as you described? :))

[thepetch]

he softs like he could be the automated voice ssage