Old Animation - Explosions
Continuing with old animation because why not. Explosions are like the #1 thing that people like to see from Effects animators, and they are a lot of fun to animate and have a lot of energy. Next to smoke I’ve probably animated more explosions for work than anything else, and probably only done smoke more because invariably smoke follows an explosion. But it is one of the effects I actually animated the least prior to going into production, and I personally prefer doing the slower stuff.
of course within the first month of starting animating effects I wanted to try my hand at an explosion, not really a true explosion, more of a big fireball, but it is still what I have listed as “explosion 1″ this is about a month into my effects journey.
Explosions are VERY forgiving with their timing as long as you don’t build up for more than a few frames
Heres the second one I did, the timing on it is awful
the next one I did was actually on my senior film, most of my FX tests were focused around slower effects, a lot of water and some smoke, explosions are so quick and the aftermath can be very tedious and take a long time, I really didn’t do too many, never would have guessed I would later do them literally all the time
the resolving of the smoke afterwards is my favorite part of animating an explosion, I didn’t quite have the timing down yet. the next 2 are ones I animated between graduation and working doing effects in production, 2012 or early 2013. There may have been others but if there were I can’t find them.
I got better at the timing, especially after doing literally dozens of them for production. I won’t show any of the ones I did for production, one I don’t have many of them and 2 I’m not sure i’m supposed to post them anyways, but I posted an explosion last week (i’m using it as the thumbnail for this post) that I’m pretty happy with nowadays that represents how much I learned in production since these old, static tests.
Next week i’ll post my old smoke animation which will probably be my last old animation post as well as my longest one, but its been fun revisiting some of these older animation tests
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