X-Wing strike over Porto Cesareo|

Hello everyone :), this is my last shot , developed into last week, blending CGi and Live Action Footage, recorded with a UAV Drone in the surroundings of Porto Cesareo.
I spent most of the time into the explosion developing, since the R&D , to the layout phases, merging the tracked footage with the X-wing animation, all made into Houdini.
Explosions' particles counts around 40 to 50 milion each one, for this , avoiding crashes and slowless phases, I use an awesome gizmo to instance the geos and save times also datas during the work into houdini(link bottom)!
The 3 layers, was rendered with Karma XPU, and composited into Nuke, such as the track, originally, was made into Nuke
Special thanks to:
-Drone Operator : Alfredo Mugo , for giving me the opportunity to use this beautiful footagee, shot over the seaside
- X-wing model : Alessandro Luppino
- FX tips and tecnhical supervision : Sharan Vaswani , this his tool, very very powerful , to get , an 'artistic drection' to your sim, after you made the setup, to generate istances and proxy, also, I used for my Shot.
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Thanks everyone, every piece was fundamental in bringing home this result, which could be even better, by the way x-wings animation looks like a bit weird, also explosion, a bit 'stepped', by the way using massive retimes, since fx to comp.
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