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Creating a Magic Wand Particle Effect – part 3
June 6, 2009  |  by Kernon Dillon  |  FX, Intermediate, Kernon Dillon, Particles, Tutorials

This 3-part video tutorial series will show you how to create a magic wand particles effect, the sort of visual effect you might see when a “magic wand” is waved. This will be similar to a “pixie” dust effect, although not so complicated. In Part 3, we’ll take a look at combining the sprite graphics with our particle system, and then tweaking things, including a little bit of post production, to achieve our final results.

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  • 5 Comments


    1. Great tut. I was wondering how to do a scene with snow being kicked up in the air by a horse and sled.. now I know!

    2. Hi Kernon,

      Excellent 3 part tutorial with excellent narrative.

      Will be checking out other tutorials of yours present or future.

    3. Wow Kernon, very great COMPLETE tutorial :)
      I’ve learn so much in this series, it helps me a lot to improve my knowledge of Blender
      on how to do it and what it can do.

    4. well I had no problem with this tutorial thanx for sharing but I’m having a question…when you add the Render Layer in compositing nodes window you have a joint called “Speed” and when I add Reder Layer I don’t see it…Why?

    5. thanks alot for your time, great tutorials

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