Particles

Fireworks from Jenn K on Vimeo.

this was tough to come with an idea for. i thought fire, maybe teleport someone, then i decided to go with a simple fireworks display. I started off with a solid black layer for my background. Then i brought in the particle systems effect and began to mess with it by decreasing the rate and longevity. I set my particle type to line, because fireworks kind of shoot off in lines, so that was my logic. it looked pretty fine to me compared to some of the other presets. once i got it the way i wanted, i duplicated it several times, spatially moved them around and resized a few to be smaller and larger, then added a saturation/hue effect to color correct them -- magenta, blue and green.