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Instructions:

1. Create a snowflake in Illustrator or Photoshop and make it tiny (the sample is 10x11) and white, with an alpha channel (Photoshop). Import this into After Effects.
2. Create a comp any size you want. The sample is 320x240 with a sky blue background.
3. Drag your snowflake into the comp and turn off the layer so that you can't see your snowflake.
4. Create a new solid (the sample is 320x240, the size of the comp). Call it snow.
5. Apply Particle playground to the snow layer. These are the parameters I used (changed from default).
   Cannon
   Position: (160,-120)
   Barrel Radius: -250
   Particles Per Second: 100
   Direction: 180 °
   Velocity: 130
   Color: White
   
   Layer Map Use Layer: 2. snowflake
   
   Gravity
   Force: 120
   Direction: 180°
   
   Keep the rest of the settings as default.