explosion

[Sylvain Desjardins]

I should say that it’s for AE7

[Nicholas Toth]

Sly

Be more specific. What kind of explosion? Fire is generally fractally in AE.

https://theanvel.com/

Used to have some really sweet fire tutorials for AE. Now they’re retired!

[Sylvain Desjardins]

Actualy i’m doing a little movie and i have guys shooting lasers and i want impact explosion let say he shoots on concret i want a little ball of fire. i dont realy need concret to fly around. is that possible with AE?

[Nicholas Toth]

Yup. I’d try animating some masks with some fractal noise, and add some distortion. Don’t forget about a heat warp!

Try stock footage too. DETONATIONFILMS.com is GREAT for that sort of thing.
https://www.detonationfilms.com/missionstatement.htm
EXCEEDINGLY USEFUL EXPLOSIONS!

[Sylvain Desjardins]

thanks i’ll try that.
Regards

[Todd Kopriva]

I’ll second that recommendation for detonationfilms.com.

To drive the point home: In general, don’t try to simulate something with CGI when you can just shoot the real thing—or, even better, when someone else has shot the real thing and is providing you the footage for free (or cheap).