In a previous blog post, I mentioned how almost everyone at Red Giant was creative in their own way, but I have to admit, what you’re about to see goes way beyond what I ever imagined as a creative work for someone who handles our finances. Michael Hunsche, our Controller, set this holiday light show up at his house in Ft. Wayne Indiana:

Mike’s Notes:

My house in Fort Wayne, Indiana for Christmas set to Straight, No Chaser’s Christmas Can Can (http://www.sncmusic.com/).

Lights are controlled with both D-Light and Light-O-Rama controllers for 48 total channels. Movie was shot on a Canon T2i HDSLR camera, intro sequence uses Harry Frank’s Holiday for Particular Guru Pack from Red Giant Software and other effects inside After Effects CS5.

Dude, that was just awesome. Now I hungry for some Chinese.

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…)