Links were last checked and updated by hand: August 2021. The Carrara files for the scenes in the video are free here.Īll 200 sidebar links freshly collected in March 2012. The software recently had a total UI overhaul, which must be very annoying for seasoned users - but if you’re new to it you won’t notice that.įor stills one might look first at the affordable Corel ParticleShop and its addon packs, and even the many free Photoshop plugins kindly offered for Photoshop by Richard Rosenman.ĭAZ Carrara 8.5 Pro can also load all your Poser and DAZ content, and has “a robust particle system” in 3D. HitFilm is a sort of ‘affordable After Effects’ at around £250, and can be had for less - plugging the add-on Particles module into its free Express version currently costs £45 here in the UK. Sci-fi artists of more modest means will probably want to look instead at the far more affordable HitFilm and its particle generator, if making movies and animation. Apparently that’s also true of the ‘standalone’, which is only an editor for the presets. Looks nice, but the drawback seems to be that it will only render into expensive high-end video software, such as After Effects and Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Vegas Pro. They’ve given it a complete overhaul and their new 2019 version is 64-bit, as… “a lightning fast GPU-accelerated engine with a simple, easy-to-learn interface” with many new emitter presets… Particle Illusion was an After Effects 2D particle animation tool that was purchased by Boris circa 2018.

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