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Combining live action explosion shots

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Combining live action explosion shots

be taking a look at this explosion shot when the magic ball that Ta'ani makes finally lands, it goes off and has this huge explosion. And this of course, sets up how powerful this magic is, and so hopefully the audience later in the movie when Korda'a makes this gigantic ball of magic we might expect that she has a fighting chance against that big demon Golhotan because we see that that little tiny ball made this huge explosion so we hope the audience will wonder what that gigantic ball of magic can do. Now this chapter's going to be less about tutorials and going through things step by step although we are going to do things step by step when we look at how to create these embers, in Trapcode Particular as well as how to create the camera shake, but most of this chapter is just going to be an overview of this project and some of the challenges that I faced. Initially, there was nothing here. If I go back down to this…

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