Explosive Building (semi-3D animation in After Effects)

Extended edition of the 'Mysterious Building' semi-3D animation, created with Adobe After Effects.

This animation with an exploding building has been created using (2D) photos, which are converted into 3D layers in After Effects (see also my previous animations).

Ingredients:
-3D Layers (from Photoshop layers)
-Motion blur effect
-Wiggler effect (camera shake)
-Shatter effect (exploding windows)
-Ripple effect (deformation of building)
-Light effects (using multiple light sources)
-Depth of Field
-Chroma Key explosion footage (mix of different effects)
-Video backgrounds
-Video masks
-Fog

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• explosion
• after
• effects
• 3d
• photo
• animation
• semi-3d
• how
• to
• forest
• fog
• camera
• ripple
• wiggler
• shatter

[diner822]

How did you do the fog effect. I'm using AE cs4 and I'm getting stumped on this effect, which should be really simple.

[TimelessFuture]

By adding a new solid layer, and using the 'fractal noise' effect. By adjusting the settings, it can resemble fog. Then you can add a mask and make it transparent.

[derfliegerfreak]

from where u got that explosion footage?

[TimelessFuture]

from a site called 'royaltyfreestockvideofootage' (search it via Google, couldn't post the direct link here).. it was a mix of different footage of explosions in their 'free stock footage' section..

[MrJohanmyst]

why does this have so many dislikes? :O Probally people are like: omfg don't make stuff about buildings and explossions due to 9/11... :/

[disturbedsengi]

Really good bro!

[pombo22]

the explosion looks good but yeah, the building should be damaged after to look realistic

[Darisha123]

tobad the building dosen't get damaged.

[MoonPhaseHazuki]

the building is not damages

[theVINTAGEfilms]

go to detenationfilms(.)com

very very very good stock footage. mostly free

[derfliegerfreak]

thx a lot!