Rendered Animations - Bomb Explosion

This scene was one of the more difficult to animate and took the most time to render because of every animation in the scene.

I wanted the Jeep to drive past the camera that was placed in the scene and for a bomb to drop behind it to then explode, producing debris, fire and a crater in the ground. I first began by creating the path for the Jeep to follow and individually animated the wheels so that the Jeep was animated.

I then began to tackle the explosion of the bomb.

I firstly started by using 'ProBoolean' on the ground to create a crater the same way I did in previous scenes. Once I had done this I also created a plane that would sit over the crater to cover it up until the bomb would make contact. Adding 'PArray' allowed me to create an explosion effect on this plane so that when the bomb was animated to hit the plane it would look like an explosion.

All that was left to do was add in the fire and smoke at the right keyframe, and the scene was complete.

I am really happy with the outcome as it is exactly as I imagined.