VFX Reference Vault: Explosions
Explore our VFX team's favorite reference material as we open our vault of inspiration for a peek into our stash.
Welcome back to the Beyond-FX Reference Vault
Our secret stash of VFX reference materials remains open and ready for sharing! Join us as we showcase some of our favorite materials for some of the most needed real-time VFX. Who knows, these might be just the thing your own real-time VFX reference vault needs…
Explosions
You can’t go wrong with a well-timed, well-placed, and stunning ka-boom in your work! There’s never a shortage of tasks asking for explosions, so when we huddled our resources to come up with the list below, we had to pick and choose our favorites carefully.
Ready for some explosive inspiration? Check out the following references:
The Slow Mo Guys’ 4K Slow Motion Backdraft
Mad Max: Fury Road Featurette - Tanker Explosion
10 Best Explosive Movie Scenes
Independence Day - “Time’s Up” Scene
Godzilla (2014) - Airport Scene
HBO’s Chernobyl - Nuclear Reactor Explosion Scene
The Slow Mo Guys’ Catching an Explosion in Water at 5 Million FPS
The Explosion Show’s Blowing Things Up With FBI Experts
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - “Want to See My Lease?” Scene
Backdraft - “That’s My Brother” Scene
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