“Particle Illusion now supports the latest OS versions, has a modern UI, is faster and more usable than ever, and will continue to be developed and released in future free updates. It’s a huge win-win for editors, artists, and anyone new to particles,” states Alan Lorence, former Wondertouch Founder and Particle Illusion Product Manager. “The free Particle Illusion Standalone democratizes particle creation. In addition, Particle Illusion’s saved emitter libraries and projects can be freely shared among users of the plugin and the free Particle Illusion Standalone application.”
“To facilitate this new standalone workflow, we’ve introduced export to ProRes, an industry-standard intermediate codec.
We decided to release the fantastic standalone application free-of-charge to help out the many artists who might not otherwise be able to afford new software due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Boris Yamnitsky, Boris FX, Founder and CEO. “Particle Illusion’s preset-based particle system will come in handy in every editor’s and compositor’s toolbox. In addition, projects saved in the Particle Illusion Standalone can be used inside the Continuum plugin to render in any host.īoris FX Particle Illusion Standalone ( download the image) Exported movies can be added to any NLE or compositing project for real-time playback. The new ProRes export makes rendering complex particle animations directly inside the Particle Illusion Standalone or plugin much faster than rendering within a host application. The Particle Illusion 2020.5.1 release adds the ability to “pre-render” particle effects as exported ProRes movies on Windows and Mac platforms. Users can choose to render out a preset as is or tweak parameters to create custom animations. Particle Illusion’s massive Emitter Library features photorealistic effects to easily add explosions, fire, smoke, dust, snow, fireworks, abstract organic elements, and even retro video game-inspired graphics to titles, lower thirds, and motion backgrounds. The new product release gives motion graphics designers, visual effects artists, and video editors access to thousands of professionally-designed, drag-and-drop particle emitters. The plugin version, which supports Adobe, Avid, and OFX hosts, remains part of the Boris FX Continuum package.
Particle Illusion delivers easy-to-use motion graphics and particles that render at lightning speedsīoston, Massachusetts, U.S.A - JBoris FX’s popular real-time GPU-based particle generator is now available as a free Particle Illusion Standalone application.