[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

I suppose what he did (or at least what he could have done) is painting inside Photoshop the building with holes in it, and then, inside After Effects, when the explosion occurred, he would overlay the destroyed image to th eoriginal skyscraper.

And for the particles flying, I believe he used Maya (3D)

Check Andrew K’s tutorial on setting extensions so you understand this correctly.

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

Also, Windows Vista comes with a decent Dvd authoring prog. (haven’t played much with it though). Maybe Encore works also good.

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

You should make first a Digital Master of your work, and then importing it in Premiere, or maaaaybe Adobe Encore (haven’t tryed it) you can author your DVD intuitively.

But no way by just using After Effects

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

Well, with wiggle, you can control how quick it changes and how abruptly it does :S

And, I don’t know how to do it through expressions, but by using The Wiggle window, if you set keyframes to Irregular rather than smooth, it will seem more abrupt, maybe helping you to achieve the look you’re after…

🙂

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

For an example of this, watch through the middle of the just published Aharon Rabinowitz tutorial 😉

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

Thanks

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

try enabling motion blur

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

Just check my last post, for making easily a stop mo effect (after blood has been filmed or digitally created).

Also, I saw at a tut page (digital grey or something like that, it was called) a tutorial on transforming titles into particular particles. By using that, maybe you could make the particles simulate blood, and go from one word to another 🙂

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

OK, thanks for your answers. I also found an August post with similar info.

Finally, what I’ve found to work similarly, is importing the footage into a 8 fps comp, and then time remapping it inside.

Thanks

[Alfonso Gamez jordano]

Use proxies