Particle Illusion - Creating Motion Backgrounds Fast [Getting Started]

Ben Brownlee shows you how to create a unique retro arcade background for an intro graphic using Particle Illusion.
Particle Illusion has thousands of free emitters available, and sometime the most important job is to sort and favourite the ones you want to use. Once the most suitable ones have been found, it is a case of tweaking the settings to make it look right for the project. Emitters can be moved and positioned in space and time, animated and perfected. You will learn when and where to use Mip mapping, plus some other more advanced features of Particle Illusion.
When happy, we will render out our background and finish the effect off in our edit system.
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[@ausdoug974]

very helpful. I learned a lot from this video. Thank you

[@Dartanbeck]

Ben, these videos by you and John ROCK!!!
Thanks!

[@BorisFXco]

Thanks very much. I hope they're letting you create some cool stuff in PI!

[@Dartanbeck]

@@BorisFXco Absolutely! I'm in the process of rendering out a cool new CG (3D) scene just for the occasion! Gonna be Awesome!

[@Stevesimage]

Wow amazing...thank you

[@BorisFXco]

Most welcome 😊 Thanks a lot for watching.

[@MARobotham]

Thanks for the helpful videos! I have both the standalone and plugin version, how would I go about creating a seamless looping background? many thanks.

[@BorisFXco]

Hi Mark. There is currently no way to automatically make a seamless loop. What I have done before is to render out an overlength version and do a transition between them. Many times a straightforward dissolve works perfectly.

[@MARobotham]

@@BorisFXco Yeah I realize there are other ways, just curios if it could be done from within the program. Thanks for the reply :-)

[@claudiaphoenyx9970]

how to insert video or background picture ?

[@BorisFXco]

If you are using the plug-in version of Particle Illusion, just apply the effect to the layer you want to use. If you are using the standalone version, you will have to do a quick trick using the emitter called Emitters 2020 > Solid Color. Change the shape of that particle to your background, and that will add in a background. You cannot insert video into the standalone version only the premium version : borisfx.com/products/particle-illusion/#upgrade

[@beMOTIONdESIGN]

Is there a way to easily loop emitters?

[@BorisFXco]

As in video loop or keyframe loop? Video loop requires the old render, dupe the layer and crossfade trick. This works best for fast emitting objects like fire and smoke. We don't have a way to internally loop the keyframing of an emitter. If you're in AE, you can set up a loop expression on the Emitter position parameter and Particle Illusion will respect that in its UI.
It's an interesting feature request though. I'll bring it to the dev team.