A look in to the special effects world of ILM back in the times of "Star Wars III - Return of the Jedi" and "Indiana Jones and the temple of doom".
It shows how much work goes into VFX when you have to do everything by hand.
Amazing to watch.

Two really great particle tests by Matthias Mueller.
He used 3D Studio Max and Particle Flow to achieve this effects. More information on his vimeo site.

I am working on a tutorial which deals with particles and the dynamics system in Cinema 4D 11.5 and was inspired by this videos.
I'll give you more information when it's done.

Edit: The tutorial is recorded: Click here.

http://www.cybergooch.com/pages/c4d/noise/c4d_noise.htm

A really nice overview over the different noise styles in Cinema4D.
If you can't remember how to achieve that specific noisy look.... just click through the gallery.

A small test I did in Cinema4D. Just to fill my evening with something productive.
Probably I'll work on that again in the next few days.

http://shinichiromatsuda.com/2009/07/07/53-essential-trapcode-particular-tutorials-for-after-effects-users/#

I know some of these tutorials, not all of them.
Have to check it out.

Click here to download:

Cubes.mov (608 KB)

Here is my first real thinking particle test.
I'm aiming for another result but I'm quite happy with the result for now.