Professional Emitter Libraries
NEW: Download a sampler library of the Pro Emitters to use in the particleIllusion 3 full and trial versions or particleView:
After downloading, unzip into your "Emitter Libraries" folder or anywhere, then use the "Load Library" function in particleIllusion 3 to load it. In particleView, just load the library as usual.
Note that you can also use the "Check for updates" feature of particleIllusion 3.0 (both full and trial versions) to download and install this library automatically.
The Pro Emitters are a collection of 360 particleIllusion 3.0 emitters arranged into 12 themed libraries.
Each of the 12 individual libraries contains 30 emitters that feature sophisticated, complex and ready-to-use particle effects covering popular themes including real-world effects such as explosions, auroras, and breaking glass; motion graphics and artistic backgrounds; text and abstract effects - a range of effects that every particleIllusion 3.0 user will find immediately useful.
For every particleIllusion artist that always wants a larger emitter collection, wants more complex, realistic, or imaginitive emitters, or just wants to have access to unbelievable professionally-designed particle effects, the Pro Emitters are the answer!
A perfect supplement to the free emitters released by wondertouch every month, the Pro Emitters expand your particle emitter collection with cutting-edge particle effects.
The Libraries
Each Pro Emitters library contains 30 emitters. Remember that every emitter in these libraries can be completely customized, and the included documentiation gives simple instructions for creating interesting variations of many of the emitters. So a library of 30 emitters can easily be turned into a library of 60, 90, or more incredible emitters!
Abstract
This library includes very creative, organic, and beautiful emitters useful in composing backgrounds and adding graphics elements. Most of these emitters involve flowing, wavy, colorful designs that change over a very long period of time. (Created by Phalkanubba Rath)
Logo and Text
In this library, "logo emitters" - some of the most asked-about emitters available for particleIllusion - feature text or a logo that rotates, streams, converges, etc. Note that changing the text requires simple use of a paint application, as there is no text generator in particleIllusion. (Created by Phalkanubba Rath)
Artistic Backgrounds
This library features a wide variety of animated background emitters, covering a range of styles from slow and subtle to wild and wavy which can be used alone or combined for added variety. (Created by Sasha Milica)
Graphics and Distortions
This library shows off the diversity of effects possibilities using particleIllusion and contains "graphics" elements and amazing examples of "distortions" - effects meant to be used on background footage. (Created by Sasha Milica)
Eclectic 01
This library showcases a fantastic collection of real-world effects: fireballs, explosions, and smokes; "space" effects including wormholes and cosmic phenomena; and a few "graphics arts" style emitters that utilize numbers and simple shapes in very complex ways. (Created by Tom Granberg)
Eclectic 02
This is the second library collection of realistic and useful effects including dirt, falling debris, breaking glass, clouds, auroras, and frosts. (Created by Tom Granberg)
Graphics Elements 1
This library contains motion graphics elements including a wide variety of numbers and counters, plus "data gizmos" -- data spinners and other futuristic visions of data indicators. (Created by Tom Granberg)
Graphics Elements 2
This is the second library collection of graphics elements containing of "energy" emitters, including atomizers, pulsars, and warp drives; "readouts and displays", and a few "texture" emitters to be used as backgrounds. (Created by Tom Granberg)
Extreme Graphics
A collection of various styles of high-energy, "in-your-face" emitters including "nightmare" emitters, various x-ray and fingerprint scanners, and super-charged "letters and text" emitters. (Created by Tom Granberg)
Pyro 1
This library contains all sorts of fire and explosions: quick bursts, blasts of fire, slowly building explosion clouds, compound explosions of various styles, and "Sun Fire" fireballs. Amazing, complex, and very realistic. (Created by Phalkunabba Rath)
Pyro 2
This is the second library collection of pyrotechnic effects, including fire and flames, bursts of fire, blooming clouds of smoke & dust (some with explosion bursts), and some very nice gun muzzle effects. As with "Pyro 1", very complex and realistic. (Created by Phalkunabba Rath)
Hearts
A collection of abstract, artistic effects based on "hearts" -- perfect for any romantic-themed project. Flowing, organic, colorful, and very stylish, this library is really quite beautiful, and shows more of the techniques that Rath developed in his "Abstract" and "Text & Logo" libraries. (Created by Phalkunabba Rath)
What makes the Pro Emitters different from the emitters included with particleIllusion 3.0?
The short answer: Complexity, Variety, and The Artists
Complexity and VarietyWhile particleIllusion ships with a huge variety of preset effects that is updated each month (over 1800 emitters are currently included), and customizing the emitters or creating entirely new ones is relatively simple, some artists don't have the time, desire, or ability to experiment with creating new or complex effects.
The free emitters were created primarily by Alan Lorence of wondertouch, and it often takes a new perspective to come up with new ideas. The Pro Emitters were created by three leading particleIllusion artists who exhibit outstanding command of particleIllusion 3.0, have distinctive creative styles, and superior ability to create intricate particle-based effects.
The Artists
Tom Granberg - Tom, creator of the Pro Emitter Libraries "Eclectic 01 & 02", "Graphics Elements 1 & 2", and "Extreme Graphics" is a Norwegian graphic artist now living in Phoenix and working at Rainbow Studios producing some of today's most exciting action game titles including "MX vs. ATV Unleashed," "MX Unleashed," "ATV Offroad Fury 2," and "ATV Offroad Fury." As a particle effects artist, Tom borrows on both his game design and graphic arts influences to create realistic emitters that are often very complex and visually arresting. His particleIllusion explosions are considered among the best available.
Sasha Milica - Sasha, creator of the "Artistic Backgrounds" and Graphics & Distortions" Pro Emitter Libraries lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and has fine arts training in oil painting. Oddly enough, he does not work in the visual effects or motion graphics industries, but instead uses particleIllusion as a creative outlet - it's his hobby now (or "passion" as he puts it). Sasha often spends his evening hours 'playing' with particleIllusion, creating emitter variation after emitter variation. It is this enthusiasm for creating with particleIllusion that has lead to his discovery of some really awe-inspiring techniques.
Phalkunabba Rath - Cambodian born Rath, creator of the "Abstract" and "Text and Logo" Pro Emitter Libraries is presently studying photography in Long Beach, California. In his spare time he provides freelance work in media arts and animation and has also worked for Cambodian broadcasters KBN TV (Khmer Broadcasting Network television) and CAM-TV (Cambodian television). Rath has been using particleIllusion since the software's inception (when it was first released as "Illusion 1.0"). With no formal background in arts or graphic school training to speak of, he is mostly self-taught and uses particleIllusion for "everything". The "Abstract" and "Text and Logo" Pro Emitter Libraries he created represent only a small portion of his work. He has created hundreds of these types of emitters over the years. His recent "Pyro" libraries show that he has an eye for realism too, and his "Hearts" library is a continuation of his earlier abstract work.
Documentation
Included with every Pro Emitters library is complete documentation in html format.
This documentation includes an emitter index that can be viewed as text (emitter names) or thumbnail images, larger thumbnail images for each emitter, a description of the emitter, notes on how to best use the emitter, and instructions for creating interesting variations of the emitter. Not all of this information is included with every emitter since some emitters need little explanation, but there is a lot of information here. Reading through it all while experimenting with the emitters will give you more insight into advanced emitter creation.
What others are saying about the Pro Emitters:
Robert Taylor - executive producer and president - Pendulum Studios
Nathan Shipley - animator - IMS (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) Productions
Mike Shand - VFX supervisor - Frantic Films
Pro Emitters Reviews
Aharon Rabinowitz of CreativeCow.net reviews the Pro Emitters 22 February 2006
Dave Nagel of DMN reviews the Pro Emitters 08 March 2006
NEW: Download a sampler library of the Pro Emitters to use in the particleIllusion 3 full and trial versions or particleView:
After downloading, unzip into your "Emitter Libraries" folder or anywhere, then use the "Load Library" function in particleIllusion 3 to load it. In particleView, just load the library as usual.
Note that you can also use the "Check for updates" feature of particleIllusion 3.0 (both full and trial versions) to download and install this library automatically.
The Libraries - Movies and Images
NEW: Download a sampler library of the Pro Emitters to use in the particleIllusion 3 full and trial versions or particleView:
After downloading, unzip into your "Emitter Libraries" folder or anywhere, then use the "Load Library" function in particleIllusion 3 to load it. In particleView, just load the library as usual.
Note that you can also use the "Check for updates" feature of particleIllusion 3.0 (both full and trial versions) to download and install this library automatically.
Abstract
This library includes very creative, organic, and beautiful emitters useful in composing backgrounds and adding graphics elements. Most of these emitters involve flowing, wavy, colorful designs that change over a very long period of time. (Created by Phalkanubba Rath)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Abstract" (9.7 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (930 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (5.1 MB ZIP)
Logo and Text
In this library, "logo emitters" - some of the most asked-about emitters available for particleIllusion - feature text or a logo that rotates, streams, converges, etc. Note that changing the text requires simple use of a paint application, as there is no text generator in particleIllusion. (Created by Phalkanubba Rath)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Logo and Text" (8.9 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (711 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (4.2 MB ZIP)
Artistic Backgrounds
This library features a wide variety of animated background emitters, covering a range of styles from slow and subtle to wild and wavy which can be used alone or combined for added variety. (Created by Sasha Milica)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Artistic Backgrounds" (14.9 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (1.6 MB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (7.9 MB ZIP)
Graphics and Distortions
This library shows off the diversity of effects possibilities using particleIllusion and contains "graphics" elements and amazing examples of "distortions" - effects meant to be used on background footage. (Created by Sasha Milica)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Graphics and Distortions" (9.5 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (1.1 MB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (7.7 MB ZIP)
Eclectic 01
This library showcases a fantastic collection of real-world effects: fireballs, explosions, and smokes; "space" effects including wormholes and cosmic phenomena; and a few "graphics arts" style emitters that utilize numbers and simple shapes in very complex ways. (Created by Tom Granberg)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Eclectic 01" (7.5 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (522 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (2.7 MB ZIP)
Eclectic 02
This is the second library collection of realistic and useful effects including dirt, falling debris, breaking glass, clouds, auroras, and frosts. (Created by Tom Granberg)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Eclectic 02" (4.0 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (473 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (3.9 MB ZIP)
Graphics Elements 1
This library contains motion graphics elements including a wide variety of numbers and counters, plus "data gizmos" -- data spinners and other futuristic visions of data indicators. (Created by Tom Granberg)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Graphics Elements 1" (6.1 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (288 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (743 KB ZIP)
Graphics Elements 2
This is the second library collection of graphics elements containing of "energy" emitters, including atomizers, pulsars, and warp drives; "readouts and displays", and a few "texture" emitters to be used as backgrounds. (Created by Tom Granberg)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Graphics Elements 2" (8.1 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (714 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (2.9 MB ZIP)
Extreme Graphics
A collection of various styles of high-energy, "in-your-face" emitters including "nightmare" emitters, various x-ray and fingerprint scanners, and super-charged "letters and text" emitters. (Created by Tom Granberg)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Extreme Graphics" (12.3 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (773 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (2.6 MB ZIP)
Pyro 1
This library contains all sorts of fire and explosions: quick bursts, blasts of fire, slowly building explosion clouds, compound explosions of various styles, and "Sun Fire" fireballs. Amazing, complex, and very realistic. (Created by Phalkunabba Rath)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Pyro 1" (6.5 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (396 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (2.5 MB ZIP)
Pyro 2
This is the second library collection of pyrotechnic effects, including fire and flames, bursts of fire, blooming clouds of smoke & dust (some with explosion bursts), and some very nice gun muzzle effects. As with "Pyro 1", very complex and realistic. (Created by Phalkunabba Rath)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Pyro 2" (6.3 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (217 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (1.4 MB ZIP)
Hearts
A collection of abstract, artistic effects based on "hearts" -- perfect for any romantic-themed project. Flowing, organic, colorful, and very stylish, this library is really quite beautiful, and shows more of the techniques that Rath developed in his "Abstract" and "Text & Logo" libraries. (Created by Phalkunabba Rath)View Movie of all 30 emitters in "Hearts" (6.0 MB MPG)
You can also download high-quality JPG images of each emitter:
SD (640x480) (271 KB ZIP) HD (1920x1080) (1.3 MB ZIP)