ABSTRACT

The Simulation effects are pound for pound the most powerful effects in After Effects. They attempt to create real-world circumstances and behaviors, such as explosions, caustics, and other particle effects. The Card Dance effect turns a layer in a bunch of cards. This may seem simplistic or even pointless, but there are such powerful parameters here, that this effect should not be ignored. Card Dance is capable of creating some really spectacular visual effects. As with Card Wipe, we can create a grid of images, and then use the same number of rows and columns to distribute each image on a separate card. The Particle Playground effect is probably the single most powerful and confusing effect in all of After Effects. Like the Foam effect, the Particle Playground effect produces particles that the readers control through particle generating systems.