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For this animation I used the "Network From Particles"-Template of the Animation-Node-Addon to add splines between clusters of particles

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For this animation I combined a volumetric material and a particle system

To achieve the light effect I placed the particle system in a box with a that only uses a "Volume Scatter"-node in the material with a Density of 0.2

Then I used a Spot-Light with a linear light falloff, by plugging the "Linear" output of a "Light Falloff"-node into the strength input of the Emission-node.

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For this animation I played again with the particle cluster template from the animation node addon To blur the lines I rendered them on a different render-layer and combined them in the compositor

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I recenly started experimenting with the animation nodes addon by Jacques Lucke. It´s really nice and as Nicolas Priniotakis from blender nation said in his review - If you install this addon you're hooked.

For this animation I used the particle cluster nodes from the animation nodes addon

you can download the blend file here

for this animation I modeled an umbrella and animated the opening effect using shapekeys. Then I used this umbrella as a particle in a particle system on a plane. I wanted to render the animation from multiple camera angles and ended up copying everything to 4 different scenes - which is far more complicated than I wanted - I have to do a bit more research on this

you can download the blend file here

for this animation I used 2 particle systems. A newton system for the smaller bubbles and fluid system with an iso-surface for the large bubbles

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for this experiment I used a driver expression to animate the particle emission speed

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for this animation I used small cubes with an emission shader as particles

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for this animation I used the btrace-addon to trace the vertices of a randomly moved and scaled ico-sphere

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For this animation I used an ico-sphere as a dynamic paint canvas in displace mode to move some cube particles

you can download the blend file here