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particleIllusion 3.05

particleIllusion is a standalone application that allows you to quickly and easily create
amazing effects: explosions, smoke, fire, sparkles, motion graphics backgrounds, space
effects, creatures, and abstract artistic effects -- literally hundreds of different types of
effects.

particleIllusion 3.0 is our fully-featured professional version. It uses the latest version of
our particle engine, and can create the largest number of effects, with amazing realism
and complexity.

The Interface

particleIllusion's interface has been highly praised as easy to learn, work with, and
master.

"...the wondertouch team have done an excellent job of creating a novice-friendly user
interface and workflow for their powerful flagship app."

Walter Schoneknecht - TV Technology - Feb. 2006

We've done our best to create an interface that will be easy for an artist to use, yet not be
so "artistic" that it is completely different from anything you've seen before. Our
customers seem to feel that we've gotten it right.

Fast, Easy, and Powerful

 • Fast: particleIllusion uses OpenGL for real-time (or near real-time) previews of all
effects, and ultra-fast rendering. Render times are always in Frames per second,
not seconds (or minutes, or hours) per frame.
• Easy: You can add an effect to your project with a single click of the mouse, or
you can customize the effect by changing some of the easy-to-understand
parameters (such as "size").
• Powerful: The number of parameters that you can change, coupled with some of
the advanced features such as "Super Emitters" (particle emitters that create other
particle emitters automatically), allow some of the most complex and realistic
effects available anywhere.

"ParticleIllusion is the ultimate 2D particle generation system. In power, depth and

performance, it just can't be matched."

Dave Nagel - Digital Media Net - Nov. 2005

Out-of-the-Box Effects

One of the great strengths of particleIllusion is the huge library of effects that is
included. Over 1500 particle emitters ("effects") are currently available, with a new free
library released every month.

What types of effects are included? Too many to list, and many that would be nearly
impossible to describe with words, but a few include: explosions, fire, smoke, fog,
waterfalls, sparks, sparkles, fireworks, rain, snow, puddle splashes, motion graphics
backgrounds, magic effects, space warps, abstract lights, lava, flocks of birds, geometric
shapes, aurora, bubbles, waves, rainbows, light beams -- dozens of different types, and
hundreds of variations.
This large (and ever-growing) library of effects allows you to create immediately, with no
learning curve and almost no effort. You can also customize these effects to create subtle
variations or entirely new effects, then save your new presets.

Works with All Video Applications

Since particleIllusion is a standalone application, you can use it with any video editing or
compositing software. Bring your movies or image sequences into particleIllusion, add
the particle effects you want, then save the output movie or image sequence. You can also
save just the particles with an alpha channel (transparency) so the rendered output can be
loaded back into your compositing software.