How to make massive explosions with V-Ray

Creating and compositing 3D explosions is usually a task for two different artists or studio departments, but here we'll blur that line by using the V-Ray for Nuke plugin. Instead of working with rendered explosions from a VFX application, we’ll instead show you how to use .vbd files exported from Houdini.

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Paul is a VFX/3D instructor and freelance artist, writer and technical editor, who enjoys collecting film posters and urban art in his free time.
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