Making an explosion

[massimou]

I want to make an explosion in a movie.. How do I do that?

[canadateck]

What do you want to do? Make a Car Blow up? Overlay an Explosion clip? Fake Explosion?Real Explosion?

[massimou]

well.. Car exploding looks like the right one

[canadateck]

Real? Fake? You can find many explosion Clips on line,Also take a Look at www.artbeats.com

[massimou]

hehe.. well I'm not sure I want to make a real explosion. A computer generated one will do

[guns1inger]

artbeats would be the easiest. Otherwise you could look at a 3d program like Houdini (great particle effects) or even 3D studio max with afterburn.

A lost cost alternative would be alamdv. You can download a lot of explosions for it.

[Safesurfer]

Also consider Wax 2, it has a fire preset that you could probably tweak.

[Shadow57]

Hollywood can take a tiny explosion and make it look huge.
Be creative.

Here are a few animated explosions to look at...

http://bestanimations.com/Military/Explosions/Explosions.html

I didn't answer your question. Just giving you some ideas!

edit... Check this out

http://www.vikingdan.com/Programming/ParticleX/

Here are 2 tutorials. I didn't read them completely so
you'll have to see if they help you or not.

http://www.majesticimaging.com/html/lw_explotut/
http://www.wondertouch.com/tutorials/explode/explode.htm

[madvideos]

In Premiere The Apple fire plug in shows under video and then the quicktime tab. This may help some but prolly not much.

[massimou]

thanks guys! this is great!