FREE AND EASY-TO-USE PARTICLE GENERATOR

Particle Illusion is an easy-to-use, powerful, high-end particle generator that gives editors and artists instant access to photorealistic particle effects for motion graphics, visual effects, titles, lower thirds, and background graphics. Available as a free standalone application, a paid premium filter, and as part of the Continuum suite of plug-ins, Particle Illusion is the choice anyone looking to quickly and easily add amazing particle effects to any image, animation or video.

FEATURES

REAL-TIME GPU-BASED PARTICLES GENERATION

High-end production value makes clients happy. Real-time particle generation makes users happy. Particle Illusion features a slick user-friendly interface that makes generating motion graphics like sparkles, smoke, fireworks, and explosions simple. Featuring a real-time preview window that automatically displays an animated preview of the selected emitter, users can drag their mouse around the fully interactive Preview Window and the emitter animates to follow. See particles how they were meant to be seen. Bonus-benefit: saving your clients time and money.

EMITTER LIBRARY WITH THOUSANDS OF PRESETS

Particle Illusion comes with thousands of factory-installed preset emitters. An integrated search makes it easy to zero in on the effect you’re looking for, and the real-time preview lets you click and drag to see how it will move. Double-click to add it to the project, then use as-is or adjust the position, shape, life, number size, etc. by scrubbing values in the control panel. Create new presets too by saving any adjusted emitter back into a custom emitter library!

EASY-TO-USE PRESET DRIVEN WORKFLOW

No physics degree? No problem! Particle Illusion makes adding stunning particle animations to your scene as easy as 1-2-3. Select an emitter in the library, double-click, and voila, the emitter is added to the scene. Or chose an emitter, click where you want it on your shot, and the emitter is added to that specific position in space and time.

CONTROL PANEL WITH SPEEDY KEYFRAME NAVIGATION

Many library emitters contain keyframe animation. To make it easy to find and modify these keyframes, parameters with animation are highlighted with a red box in the controls view, and navigation buttons make it easy to move through time keyframe by keyframe. Interpolation can be changed, keys easily added and removed, and adjustments are easy.

FORCES

Particles that move like the wind! The Forces feature makes it easy to add force fields that create complex, organic movement or can attract or repel particles. From swirling chaos to a controlled flow of particles, the result is even more interesting, realistic particles.

DEFLECTORS

Need particles to bounce off a logo? Simulate interaction with your footage or graphics using Deflector objects! Easy to add and use, deflector collisions are just one more way to add something extra to your particle-based projects.

INTERACTIVE STAGE WINDOW WITH ON-SCREEN MOTION PATH

A visible motion path will appear over the composite window when an emitter’s position has been animated over time. The motion path displays the changes to the position and velocity of the emitter source over time. The on-screen path is fully interactive. Control velocity by repositioning points on the visible motion path within the composite window. Modify bezier keyframes with directional handles via on-screen controls.

PRE-RENDER FOR SPEED

Both the plugin and standalone version of Particle Illusion feature the ability to “pre-render” a particle animation to a ProRes QuickTime movie. This will allow you to dramatically speed up your final render when using the plug-in version, or render out a movie for use in a compositing or editing application from the standalone version.

MOCHA MOTION TRACKING (PLUGIN ONLY)

The integration of Mocha’s Academy Award-winning planar tracking and masking tools inside Particle Illusion gives users a unique advantage over other particle plug-ins. Both the particle emitter position and the position of the world camera can be driven independently or together using Mocha’s tracking data. The Mocha Essentials UI makes accomplishing advanced VFX even easier whether you’re a Mocha newbie or an experienced Mocha user. PLEASE NOTE: This feature is currently supported only in the plugin version of Particle Illusion and not yet supported in the standalone application.

STANDALONE VS PLUGIN COMPARISON

Feature	Standalone	Premium filter
Price	Free	$295
Requires Host Application (AE, Premiere, Vegas, Media Composer, etc.)
Unlimited Hardware-Accelerated Particles
Multiple Layers
Unlimited Number of Emitters
Forces and Deflectors
Supports Projects up to 8K
2500+ Presets Included
ProRes Rendering with Alpha
Integrated Motion Blur
Direct Compositing on Source
Mocha Planar Tracking for “World” (Camera)
Mocha Planar Tracking for Emitters
PixelChooser/Mocha Masking
Particle Color/Alpha from Source
Continuum Beat Reactor Audio Driven Particles
Integrated Particle Glow
Email Technical Support
Forum Technical Support

LEARN

Installing Particle Illusion Standalone

Particle Illusion - Quick Start

Particle Illusion - The Basics

Particle Illusion - Understanding The Controls - Emitter Controls

Particle Illusion - Understanding The Controls - Particle Properties

Particle Illusion - Understanding The Controls - Particle Parameters

Particle Illusion - Understanding The Presets

Particle Illusion - Understanding Super Emitters

Particle Illusion - Understanding Forces and Deflectors

Particle Illusion - Understanding the Render Window

Particle Illusion - Building a Preset From Scratch

Particle Illusion - Putting It Together

Particle Illusion - Customizing a Preset

Particle Illusion - Creating Motion Backgrounds Fast

Particle Illusion - Fun with Forces & Deflectors

Particle Illusion - Fun with Fire

Particle Illusion - Let it Rain

Particle Illusion - Differences between Standalone and Plugin

HOSTS

TECH/SPECS

Product:	Particle Illusion 2020.5
OS Requirements:	Mac OSX: 10.12 or higher Windows: Windows 7 or higher
Hardware:	Recommended Hardware: Processor: 64-bit Intel or AMD CPU with four or more cores Memory: 8 GB or more Disk: High-speed disk array or SSD storage Graphics Card: Most modern graphics cards from ATI, Nvidia and Intel are supported. click here for a full listing
Licensing options:	Free Standalone application

SUPPORT

The best way for all Particle Illusion users to ask technical questions or find answers to many common problems is to post in the Particle Illusion Forum, or read the Particle Illusion FAQ. Also, there is a large Particle Illusion library of online training that can help with many common questions.

For more dedicated customer support, any customer that has purchased Particle Illusion as part of the full Continuum suite and has a valid Boris FX Upgrade and Support contract is entitled to full phone and email support. All questions, concerns, and issues can be resolved by filling out a support request here or by calling us at 1-888-77-BORIS.

Any customer who has purchased Particle Illusion as a Premium Filter or as part of the Continuum Particles Unit is entitled to email support only. All questions, concerns, and issues can be resolved by filling out a support request here.

The Particle Illusion standalone application is not eligible for email or phone support, but all technical questions can be posted in the Particle Illusion Forum.