If After Effects is a motion designer’s canvas, Particular is their particle brush—and it still paints magic.
To create a solid text effect using the Trapcode Particular plugin After Effects
Product Report: Trapcode Particular for Adobe After Effects Trapcode Particular is an industry-standard 3D particle system plugin used to create organic visual effects like fire, water, smoke, and complex motion graphics. Developed by Red Giant and now part of the
Once you are happy with a complex simulation, render it out as a high-quality ProRes 4444 file with an alpha channel to save CPU/GPU cycles during the rest of your edit.
For more complex 3D text structures that stay stationary, some artists prefer using Trapcode Form, which maps particles to a grid rather than emitting them over time.