This week I'm working on a series of tutorials about explosions. In fact, by the end, I will have blown up a gas station in a huge fireball, and ignited the two gas pumps after taking them out with the debris field/shock wave. I absolutely love this!!! Building an explosion is an extension of creating fire in Maya, it uses the same principles of fuel and temperature and incandescence and such but in different combinations. There a lots of very subtle variations that have to be tweaked to get it to look just right – other wise you just have a big blob of mushy looking stuff that really doesn't look like an explosion at all. It's tough, but I'm enjoying it. In fact I might just use this as the basis for my final project. We'll see. In the meantime, I am reminded of famous words of John Candy from Second City TV: “She blowed up! She blowed up real good!”
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