This tutorial started out when my friend MZY showed me a preview of a project he was working on using Trapcode Particular.

His result is a bit different from mine, so hopefully he will make a tutorial about achieving that particular effect, regardless this idea came alive from his work, so definitely check out his portfolio :).

In short, in this tutorial i go through setting up an animation using lights. You can easily create a radial array of lights using Utility-Box. After you animate the lights, I take you through setting up the different settings in Particular to achieve the final result.

Main settings you will work with are Turbulence Field and Aux System. Finally, I go over setting up some nice Depth of Field Blur and some fast Color Correction using Curves.