Advanced Particle VFX in Unity and After Effects

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About This Course

Learn advanced texture creation and particle behaviors by creating your own custom AAA quality particle effects

Get up to speed with the techniques and pipelines for creating complex, high quality, AAA ready particle effects for your games!

This course will teach you how to create advanced particle systems using PRACTICAL REAL WORLD projects!

Particle systems and visual effects for games is a deep and complicated subject, and once you learn the fundamentals of the tools, it can be hard and frustrating to take your effects up that extra level to something that looks like it belongs in a new best selling game. 

This course will teach you that extra step.

Good particle systems are not just derived from the behavior of the particles themselves. Their look comes primarily from their textures. Being able to create high quality, believable textures is a vital skill for creating effects, and this course will teach you how to do just that.

Learn by DOING

This course is divided into 4 projects, each intended to cover a different key facet of creating particle systems. In addition to this, we will have a final project that will combine all of these lessons into one complex, unique, and truly impression effect that YOU will make! For each project, we'll go step by step over not only the particle behavior, but creating their textures as well.

Downloadable project files to help you follow along and learn!

This course includes several .zip files that contain the Unity project for you to use, After Effects project files, and the finished textures so you can follow along with any portion of the curriculum!

This course will cover:

  1. The fundamentals of Unity's particle system

  2. The fundamentals of using After Effects

  3. How to combine custom made textures and particle behavior

  4. How to animate in After Effects to create more advanced textures

  5. How to animate in Unity to change our particle effects over time and add more depth

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  • Create practical, real world particle effects for use in your games

  • Learn the techniques for creating your own complex AAA quality effects with leading game development and motion graphics software

  • Understand how to break down complicated effects into simpler components, allowing you to adapt these techniques to any effect imaginable

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Timothy Trankle

Hello, my name is Tim. The simplest way to put this is that I like making games. So much so that I've delved into every aspect of their creation from art and animation to programming and sound. If I had to narrow it down though, my biggest passions within this field are 3d modeling and FX animation.I studied Digital Arts...

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4.9 course rating
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Mi'chael N.
5.0
9 months ago

Actually it assumes a lot of prior knowledge of Unity, it’s 5 years old now the recommended version 2017.2 . Not sure about After Effects . Really needs an update . Potentially great course .Anyway carrying on . I bought it in 2018, and 6 years later actually doing it .Because I’ve taught myself Blender to beginner level and almost Intermediate/Expert level in AE hoping it will be ok

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Filippo C. C.
4.5
1 year ago

Very nice course, now that's over I would really enjoy a second part to approach more complex VFX! The only thing I feel I could point out (by an amateur pov) is that in a couple of part the explanation was too fast (or again, a few times there were changes added to a particle system without saying anything).

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Gal T.
5.0
2 years ago

Learned valuable information regarding the creation of VFX
I never considered after effects as relevant software, but I learned otherwise quickly!

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Michael D.
5.0
2 years ago

Excellent explanations of techniques. Logical progression of concepts.

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Robert G.
4.0
2 years ago

I enjoyed this course. While the details are a bit dated, I was able to learn several interesting things about particle systems, which I was not aware. Also, I appreciated the author's use of After Effects to make the textures for the particle system renderers and sprite sheets. I really liked Section 8: Final Project: RedSuperCharge, where he brought everything together to create a complex combination of particle systems that used Unity animations to achieve an interesting result. Nice work.

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Scott M.
4.5
2 years ago

Overall it's been really great, the only criticism I really have is that the lecturer isn't always vocalizing what they are doing. So there have been times where I'll be trying to follow along and he will have made a quick adjustment on something without mentioning what he was doing, and I would miss it. Then have to slowly go back through the last few seconds to figure out exactly what it was. That speaks more to my own method of following a tutorial more than anything, I should be watching what he does, pausing the video, then implementing it before going back to the video. However, the techniques and tricks I've learned through this have been really great, I've definitely learned a lot!

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Greggory F.
4.5
2 years ago

I really enjoyed this course! The course is really well structured and a variety of workflows/methods are covered. I definitely did, as the instructor states, take my skills to the next level. I would, however, recommend having prior skills in making VFX. This course covers the basics very briefly. There are courses that cover the basics much slower and in more depth. This course is more than worth it when you're ready for the next step.

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Husham Z.
5.0
3 years ago

I was struggling to learn VFX for unity before coming across this course. Now I feel like I have a strong foundational understanding of the unity Particle System

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Brandon B.
5.0
3 years ago

Very informative course!

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Robert K. M.
5.0
3 years ago

Great explanation of all details of particle system in Unity!

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