Missile Launch

[fracturedray]

Being goofy. Made this missile trail and explosion.
http://www.vimeo.com/13903009

Some brief notes...

Problem
Wanted to make the trail pass in front of and the behind part of the land scape.
Solution
Simply make a mask for the part that the trail needs to go behind.
Had considered key framing layer order but I think this would have made the trail disappear in a bad way.

Problem
When I moved the emitter around quickly and this caused the smoke trail to move along a bit with the emitter creating a strange moving trail.
Solution
I increased the dampening settings. This made it so the smoke wouldn't move very much so I also had to increase the velocity to get a little movement of the smoke drifting downward.

Problem
Needed a simple way to indicate dust was coming from the explosion.
Solution
Simply added a haze layer for each hill layer and animated the opacity. Then added some tiny particles to sell the impact of the dust reaching the camera.

[Genete]

Perfect!
-G

[gregino]

Nice work!
just one suggest, the dust of the explosion elevate a little quikly to me.
This link got crazy examples, i'm sure it would help you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qKYYo2H ... re=related

[fracturedray]

thanks guys.

Good point gregino. I'll try and tweak it a little.

[Tagirijus]

I liked the camera-shake at the end, hehe. Great work again. Moreover it's great (again) that you completely share your work! Thanks for this.