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  recreating tricky explosion

  Posted by Pooledkid on January 26, 2007 at 8:17 am

  HI everyone,

  I am lost. I need to recreate a very tricky explosion. The scene is that in south east asian countries many people use dynamite to blow up coral reefs and trap or kill fishes. So the reality is that we dont have relevant footage. I have been thinking…How can I make an explosion in the sea. All there has to be is a jet of water fuming out of a long shot of the surface of the sea. Please help me….anyone?

  Thanks
  Poke (varun)

  Aharon Rabinowitz replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  January 26, 2007 at 2:17 pm

  I would suggest taking a look at wondertouch particleIllusion 3. There are some fairly realistic water effects of the nature you just descibed. I’m sure you could get similar from trapcode, but not without some work.

  https://www.wondertouch.com

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  Pooledkid

  February 6, 2007 at 5:49 am

  hi aharon.

  thanks a ton. i used particle illusion to get the blast effect that i wanted. I hope you would not mind answering a question for me.

  the thing is (everyone likes it)

  1) i need to put it behind a boat, since the origin of the blast is not looking good. how can i make it look better in front of the boat…?

  2) I made a mask of the moving boat…how can i link the tracking points to the mask so that the masks also move along with the boat.then i can place the blast behind the boat….?

  I am using AE 6.5

  Thanks a lot once again.

  Varun Pooledkid
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  February 9, 2007 at 1:03 pm

  Unfortunately, you can’t. Masks cannlt have track point’s attached to them. you have to rotoscope..

  Here’s a tutorial on that:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/oconnell_pete/roto/index.html

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