Had a few hours free a while back and decided to make a new desktop background.
250k sphere particles, white glossy refractive material, some coloured lights and motion blur. Did a bit of photoshop to tidy it up/bring out the colours more too.
Full res - http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs137&d=09122&f=finalg690.jpg
Looks cool!
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Cool image. You used vray motion blur ?
Yeah, it was done in the render settings and with a standard cam though.
Really cool. Can you post a screen shot of the particle path? I’m confused on how this was created. I haven’t played with particles in years. Thanks
I was going to… but I actually cant find the scene 
I think I may have simply not saved it.
It wasnt too complicated though - the camera is loooking straight down, the particles are being emitted at the bottom over time, sucked into a vortex and span around while being pushed up by negative gravity, and then there is a wind affecting it with the turbulence set up to look like a gentle summers breeze.
Looks interesting, there’s a nice quality to the lighting
Great ! - I can’t believe it was as simple to create as you say it’s so elegant, great look and feel :]
if it was so simple to set up do us an animation!
Wow! Would be really great to see this in motion…
The render times were absolutley horrible. haha.
I’m thinking of having another go at something similar. I want to do a few different shots of particles moving like this and edit it to music…
Been playing around linking volumes of audio tracks to expressions, it’s way cool. Especially cutting a track down into just the bass/mid/high and having 3 things do it.
Yeah? How horrible?
dude, i’ll render it for you if you set it up again!
Haha, I’ll give it a shot next week 
