Particle Effects Solution for The VFX and Motion Graphics Industries

  

Particle Illusion is a standalone application that allows you to quickly and easily create amazing effects: explosions, smoke, fire, sparkles, motion graphics backgrounds, space effects, creatures, and abstract artistic effects -- literally hundreds of different types of effects.

Particle Illusion 3.0 is our fully-featured professional version. It uses the latest version of our particle engine, and can create the largest number of effects, with amazing realism and complexity.

The Interface

Particle Illusion's interface has been highly praised as easy to learn, work with, and master.

Fast, Easy and Powerful

Fast: Particle Illusion uses OpenGL for real-time (or near real-time) previews of all effects, and ultra-fast rendering. Render times are always in Frames per second, not seconds (or minutes, or hours) per frame.

Easy: You can add an effect to your project with a single click of the mouse, or you can customize the effect by changing some of the easy-to-understand parameters (such as "size").

Powerful: The number of parameters that you can change, coupled with some of the advanced features such as "Super Emitters" (particle emitters that create other particle emitters automatically), allow some of the most complex and realistic effects available anywhere.

Out-of-the-Box Effects

What types of effects are included? Too many to list, and many that would be nearly impossible to describe with words, but a few include: explosions, fire, smoke, fog, waterfalls, sparks, sparkles, fireworks, rain, snow, puddle splashes, motion graphics backgrounds, magic effects, space warps, abstract lights, lava, flocks of birds, geometric shapes, aurora, bubbles, waves, rainbows, light beams -- dozens of different types, and hundreds of variations.

This large (and ever-growing) library of effects allows you to create immediately, with no learning curve and almost no effort. You can also customize these effects to create subtle variations or entirely new effects, then save your new presets.

Works with All Video Applications

Since Particle Illusion is a standalone application, you can use it with any video editing or compositing software. Bring your movies or image sequences into Particle Illusion, add the particle effects you want, then save the output movie or image sequence. You can also save just the particles with an alpha channel (transparency) so the rendered output can be loaded back into your compositing software.

  

Add Effects to Video or Images

From feature film to home video, Adding effects to existing footage (movies or images) is the most common use of Particle Illusion. Load your footage, select effects from the existing libraries of over 1500 emitters, adjust any parameters to customize (if needed), then render.

Create Motion Graphics Elements

If you do motion graphics work, Particle Illusion is an amazing source of artistic elements for your compositions. There are literally hundreds of different abstract emitters that you can combine in countless ways, and you can always customize the effects in any way needed, for an endless supply of elements.

Build Custom Animated Backgrounds

If you ever use pre-rendered artistic footage collections for backgrounds, why not use Particle Illusion instead? There are dozens of existing emitters that were designed for backgrounds, and many, many more that can be used that way as well. Each are completely customizable, so you can create fresh looks with very little effort -- no more being stuck with what the footage collection contains.

Distort Video or Images

Particle Illusion particles have the ability to grab colors from background footage, resulting in many different types of effects that typically require other types of applications, filters, or plug-ins. Simulate water ripples, blurs, artistic brushstrokes, mosaics -- even "disintegrate" people and objects (an advanced technique that requires a little more work than other effects). Another great use for the powerful Particle Illusion 3.0 engine!

Particle Illusion has been used in countless TV shows, commercial, feature films, and almost any other type of project you can imagine - all over the world. Here is a list of some of the projects where it has been used.

· Battlestar Galactica
· Smallville
· Star Wars: Clone Wars
· Fantastic Four
· Sin City
· The Italian Job
· Hellboy
· Blade Trinity
· The Chronicles of Riddick
· NBA on TNT