Making Of The Image: Going Down

This is the second image I have made for a college brief. This one is based on a B-29 Bomber been shot down by a German Fighter.

This image was a lot less work and somehow I feel the result is a lot better than my Red Coat Soldiers Image.

I started last night by setting up the scene in 3DS Max. I detached part of the wing to look like it was falling off the plane. I then added a Pflow system to emit Debris of the wing which I fractured with Rayfire. The Explosion was done in Fume FX at a pretty low res but i knew it was going to be blurred out.

I also set up some Global Illumination with V-Ray to make the fire from the explosion illuminate the plane (it looks so much better with GI, Fume and GI together look super amazing!).

I then did comp in AE getting the explosion to look nice and have a cool glow.Also making sure all the motion blurs look realistic and consistent. The Clouds are just 2D layers with some Turbulent Noise on and lower opacity.  I added several layers of 2D Fog to create depth to the scene as well as trying to make it look more real.

The Final Output was a 2K Resolution. Turnaround was: 3.3 Hours. The Image is currently showcasing on 3D Aritst's Magazines website.

It was great fun to create this image. It was a blast!!!


As Always Thanks For Looking!