From the course: Animation for Social Media
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Creating music notes particles
From the course: Animation for Social Media
Creating music notes particles
- [Instructor] Now it's time to spread some notes on screen all coming out of this saxophone. And hinting, of course, that this festival is a musical event. To achieve that, we're going to use the Particle Playground effect. So I'll select the Notes Outline layer and I'll go to Effect this time and under Simulation, I'll apply the Particle Playground effect. Now by default, you will see this stream of red particles but we are going to change them. First, let's go and define our particle layer, and to do it, we'll open up the Layer Map option, and where it says Use Layer, I'll select from the popup menu, layer number 10, the Note Outlines. And this is going to replace the red dots with a bunch of notes. Now, to control those notes, we need to climb to the first floor here, which is the Cannon options. And we need to decide how many particles we want to generate per second. So by trial and error, I came up with…
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