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.

pIAE allows you to load most of the over 2800 existing particleIllusion 3.0 emitters in After Effects, including the Pro Emitters. It also includes the emitter search engine that is found in particleView. You have access to all of the "top-level" parameters: size, life, number, velocity, etc. (almost everything that shows in the particleIllusion hierarchy window), so you are able to do quite a bit of customization at both the top emitter level and the individual particle type level (and free emitter type level for super emitters).