Action Movie Excerpt: Parking Garage Car Explosion

Another short excerpt from my action movie. I know, it's too dark, the shots could have used much more lighting (early mistakes). By the way, the exploding car and the surrounding is a 1:18 miniature with a real flash & smoke explosion effect, digitally enhanced with stock footage explosions.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• action
• movie
• nobudget
• basel
• switzerland
• parking
• car
• explosion
• fire
• burning
• miniature
• model
• afterfx

[nick5183]

cheaply

[Fletch061078]

Mach's besser und wir reden weiter...

[steelrat1]

well im a pyrotechnician by trade .. and seen many explosions.. and nothing looks good as a real one.. best not try something that dont look quite right .. best get someone that can do it for real.. or not include it in your script !

[Fletch061078]

I agree on nothing looking as good as the real deal. But this was a nobudget project. I wanted to see what's possible with creativity and I don't think it looks that bad. Of course it's hard to satisfy a pyrotechnician, but the movie wasn't made for professionals, it was just for fun and not one single viewer out of 200 people (professional film makers included) complained about the car explosion looking too fake. It's not real and noone ever said that.

[steelrat1]

looks CGI to me.. fake looking

[Fletch061078]

It's not that CGI as you may think - it's a real miniature with real smoke and flash effects. There are just some superimposed flames and it looks far better when not heavily compressed as on YouTube. And after all it's nobudget, but obviously you don't read video descriptions...

[PoopFilm]

Ich finde die Explosion sieht enorm geil aus, mit Effekten hätte man das nie und nimmer so hinbekommen. Sehr schöne Szene :)

[pepijn129]

that was the best car explosion I have ever seen!! I think you use after effects.

if you do, can you give me some tips and tricks or maybe even a project file?

very very good job!! amazing

pepijn129

[crackmosh21]

Great work! Its easy to be a critic. I'm working on a no budget short movie right now and know how tough it is to create any effetcts!!!

BRAVO!

[IMightBeJesus69]

this looks good enough stop criticizing the guy!

[OpCzar]

Good riddance - hatchback mercs shouldn't exist.

[imprezaver4]

at 0:17 there should be some yellowish

flamelight coming towards the boy falling

down on the floor. Need to research and

view carefully each FX footage you're about

to shoot. Draft & plan in text, then story-

boarding, shoot footage, post production &

lastly edit (footage, FX footage blend & sound)

If first 2 things are done carefully, there should

be no touchup needed at the end. Good work!

[imprezaver4]

Usually video shots are at 30fps or 25fps

so follow the video fps flow but remember

don't try shrink to 15fps to shorten footage

rendering. 15fps would look very awkward

and fake.

[jeremiahjw]

What framerate did you film the explosion at?

[635574]

the music couldn't be shittier.

[bbikhodi]

damn!!! it was great!!