Explosions

Whilst looking for a billowing wind tutorial i found a tutorial called a Matrix bullet-time tutorial. This tutorial freeze a complicated animation ( in this turtorial an exploading teapot ) but the camera must move aroud the frozen explosion. The main problem doing this in 3D Studio Max is knowing how to freeze the explosion, but I've found the solution in this tutorial. This tutorial uses cameras around the animation and then creates one image of each wanted frame from each camera.

Whilst using this tutorial I will need to learn about studio max vido post, from which i have found out is under rendering > environments.

This technique can be tried on our exploding barrel as when the barrel explodes it happens so quickly it is a bit difficult to see the full effect. This technique will pause the animation but still take frames from moving cameras.