gonzalo set us up with a shot dealing with London destroying the city of London, firstly I needed to download some footage of explosions and smoke to create the feeling of destroying the city.

I tried to match the explosion to the window and make some black burnt marks. But not knowing how to delay the appearance of black when the flame explodes, gonzalo taught me to use the node “erode fast” which can turn the material into pixelation to add blur and change the colour.

The basic logic is: first create a noise and add a roto, then merge it with “erode fast”, and finally add a “copy” and an “idistort” to create a distortion effect.

On top of that, I need to create the ambient light around the explosion. Initially I used “curvetool” to do this, but the effect was very small and fake looking, so I also asked gonzalo and he taught me to use cornerpin instead, which was a very useful solution!