Get Blown Away With An Explosive Corridor Blast

on Feb 15th 2010 with 38 comments
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BOOM !!!… seriously guys, blowing things up is the only reason why you all are watching these sites, right? =D
Anyway, in this beginner to advanced tutorial I want to give you a good start to create…well…chaos and destruction, muharr harr…just kidding, have fun guys! =D

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.

Overview

  • 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

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Tutorial

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I am a media designer based in Germany. I've been into motion graphics and vfx since 2007 and I hope you can learn something from the things I put together for you. You can follow me on twitter @oliverkochvfx, visit my vimeo channel or invite me for a drink! Cheers! =D  

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  • DaveVegas

    Very very good tutoria!

    • Oliver Koch
      Author

      Cheers!

      • DaveVegas

        Du redest gut Englisch für einen Deutschen :P

      • franKeyframe

        tja gäb’s ein ae.tuts.de …wäre deutsch ne gute idee

  • Emin

    Looks really great nice slow motion effect.

    I’ll definitly give it a try, without explosion. :P

    • Oliver Koch
      Author

      Great, but I highly recommend purchasing Andrew’s great products, those shouldn’t be missing in your collection.

  • http://www.lovehatedesign.co.uk freed

    Nuts! looks really brill

    • Oliver Koch
      Author

      Thank you very much, freed!

  • Billy

    I know….here goes the Maestro of negativity (and the obvious)….but wouldn’t a blast that rips the doors off and sends them flying down the hallway have damaged the doors? I think they would be bent and crumpled significantly. For this effect to work you’d have to create the door in C4D or 3dsmax and then show damaged doors in slowmo. Also, as was already said by someone else, VCP’s stuff would add an element of realism to the blast and fire that is missing here.

    • Oliver Koch
      Author

      Hi Billy,

      thanks for your comment. You’re actually right which what yiu’re saying, but this tutorial is created to give people a start to create such type of animation and how to solve some issues that my occur. Of course, the doors can be built in a 3d application (which they should be for a high quality animation), but what people make out of the tutorials is left to everyone themselves.
      I don’t understand tutorials in way like “Cool, I just copied an effect”, for me it is to give ideas and leave a good space for your very own creativity and ways of doing some cool stuff. I would be happy to see what you might create from this, maybe even with some 3D integration.

      Cheers!

    • Ben

      You can easily bend/crumple the door with DigiEffects Freeform AE, no need for C4D, 3DSmax or any other 3d software.

  • Luka

    Great tutorial man. I loved it. :)

    Luka

  • Lyndon

    Yeah dude, thas cool B)

  • f1a5h84ck

    http://videocopilot.net/products/seriousfx/
    06. Blown Away (25:30 min)
    • Composite actors in front of a large explosion
    • Create camera shake
    • Add a nice displacement scene effect
    • Use parenting, null objects, and transfer modes

    • Lyndon

      Thas cool man, you’ve managed to find a tutorial you can pay for :)

      • f1a5h84ck

        I’ve managed to find the tutorial that is too way similar to the Mr. Kramer’s tutorial. I thought there is a rule here not to post the tutorials that are similar to the tutorials posted on the other sites. Am I wrong? Then I’m sorry…

    • Oliver Koch
      Author

      flashback, why so unthankful?

      • f1a5h84ck

        Thanks Oliver.Thanks for your time man. )

    • Kai Indvik

      I think these tutorials achieve a similar effect, but they are still different tutorials. This one focuses on different things.

      Awesome tutorial, Oliver.

    • Oliver Koch
      Author

      You’re right, there actually is such a rule. Fortunately, the site editor shares my opinion that the tut is all fine.
      Sometimes you can’t help overlapping technical content (it’s technical stuff you referred to). Arguing your way, there wouldn’t be any new tutorials out there, since nearly all things were shown in a way before. But I would be happy to see such a mindblowing tutorial, maybe from you?!

  • ivan

    muy bue tutorial

  • Julio Mesa

    What an awesome birthday gift;)

  • http://www.youtube.com/wrenthereaper Wren Weichman

    i feel like ive seen this tutorial before elsewhere before, maybe on youtube.

    • Cameraguy

      You sir, are right. This is on youtube:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1RWPUJL-4
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRdOBg7EzMM&feature=related

      and one author states: “Testing something learnt from a tutorial”

      There is also a tutorial that teaches almost the exact same techniques…I’ll try to find the link. Now to the credit of the author of this tutorial, it appears one of the youtube videos is his from about 2 years ago…so he may have just refined his techniques before posting it.

      • Oliver Koch
        Author

        Seriously guys, you should hear yourselves talking…

  • http://www.youtube.com/v4vfx ramesh

    very fluid animation well done !!

  • Joe Ash

    Awesome work.

    Two things though, watch the length and really try to slam things way less, it does gets annoying when you slam the keys or the mouse around.

    Amazing job anyway.
    Keep it up!

    • Oliver Koch
      Author

      I’m sorry, I tried to work in some kind of a dynamic way =P

      Thanks for your comment!

  • http://lazaac.com/blog lazaac

    bro, awesome vid.. cool! U ROCKS!

  • Adam

    Not bad but the outcome is imo not so satisfing. I can clearly see some kind of a CUT between normal footage and explosion.

    Good job anyway

  • http://www.youtube.com.br/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    Holy S*** !

    nice!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/eternalninja0 Ben Stanley

    Great work Oliver… the end result looks awesome….

    Thanks!

    The slow motion effect and the whole explosion looks amazing…. keep up the great work!

    • Oliver Koch
      Author

      Cheers Ben, you’re welcome!

  • Kirey

    Nothing special

  • eldad bareli

    hi there is problem with the Download Source Files in Premium members.
    please fix it

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller

      It’s fixed, thanks for letting me know!

  • Aditya
  • pwadura

    hey man do u fink u could do some tutorials on eminems fast lane video?