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Get Blown Away With An Explosive Corridor Blast

by Oliver Koch15 Feb 2010

Difficulty:IntermediateLength:QuickLanguages:

Visual Effects Action Movie Essentials Adobe After Effects

Blowing things up is the only reason why you're reading our tutorials, right?

In this beginner to advanced tutorial I want to give you a good start to create...well...chaos and destruction.

Requirements

Images You can download the photos of the door and the corridor.
Action Movie Essentials The clips used was from the the first volume. But you can download the most recent package here.

Core Training Value: Setting up a 3d corridor from still images. Simulating a flaming explosion by animating the doors, shattering the glass, and creating displacement "heat".
Difficulty: Intermediate