We’ve already started seeing ads for pre-holiday shopping, which means that pretty soon, clients are going to be asking for that stuff from you too. To make it easier, we’ve just released a MAJOR update to Harry Frank’s Holidays for Particular, our Guru Preset Pack focused on that holly jolly video vibe – and we’re giving you 25% OFF, to boot.

There are now 175 templates and presets in the pack – it has literally doubled in size!

• Learn more about the Holidays Guru Preset Pack
• Watch our Preset example videos
• Buy now at 25% discount
• Try out the Particular plug-in

5 Day Sale: This 25% OFF sale runs through Monday, November 15, 2010 at 11:59 PM PST (California). To find out when the sale ends in your time zone, visit the World Clock site.

How To Buy: Go to our store. Enter Coupon Code Holiday25 during checkout to redeem your discount on the page titled Review and Submit Your Order. (Note: The coupon code field appears after you have entered your credit card information and hit Continue.)

Get it Free: Do you already own Holidays for Particular? Then you get this new release for free! Go here to download version 1.1 of the Guru Preset Pack. This 1.1 update requires the same serial number as your version 1.0 purchase.

Got a new tutorial for you, folks – Creating a Looping Particle System.

OK, some of you have probably been following my work for a while and know that I already did a looping particles tutorial at Creative Cow. But this is much more in depth and covers both creating looping particle systems and creating looping particle shapes using Trapcode Particular’s custom settings. You can find that tutorial here.

We’ll also use some of these techniques in a later tutorial… (more…)