This is my first go and the particles are taken from a youtube tutorial (more or less). The package seems to be very powerful and has been totally stable and the learning curve - although steep - isn't unreasonable.
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I'm genuinely surprised how little the paid for version gives you - apart from "plugin support" everything else is what you need for a studio rather than personal use (render farms, shared workloads, 8K support, 3d). The node based interface is interesting. Here's the nodes for the above effect:
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Yes - just delete/remove the background (I added it specifically for the shadow) and the export can contain transparent layers (if the format's right).
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