How to make Slow Motion Rain in After Effects

In this tutorial we take a look at a user submitted video wanting a good tutorial breakdown. After looking at it a figuring out how to do it it was actually quite simple only a couple plugins were used. Using a few simple steps in trapcode particular to create the flow of the rain then adding simple textures to a sprite layer the end effects turned out very nice. There are several ways to create the rain drops in other plugins but this one is probably the easiest.