Just trying this style of explosion shading. What do you think guys?

http://www.fileize.com/view/bbd1342e-095/

DAYUM. That looked really good! With the yellow flash and cloud shadings, and then how it fades, I love it. Much, much better than the explosions I could do! Hope to see some fight action from you soon!

it's pretty flat, makeing the bottom have bulges coming out along the ground would make it look 3D, and it seems like it fades out to quickly, explosioon smoke doesn't just dissipate into nothingness in half a second. WOAH, I think I just watched your explosion 500 times, so, wait- first of all, why is your signature not in the same spot as your background while the camera is moving... And, I started watching the arms of smoke that come out, and after looking at them a few times, I mean, just look at them, they should go up so mush higher, like, from the distance the smoke traveled from the base of the explosion to where the arm reaches out, as fast as it did, it should keep going, but it just comes up really fast, stops then starts to fall down, just looks really abrupt. over all I like the shading though, it looks good, it would have so much more effect if the bottom of the thing wasn't flat, possibly, bulgy maybe? oh and the shadow, ummmmmmmmmm... It looks like it should be darker, I'm not entierely sure but, it just, like with the darkness of the darkest shaded part of the smoke, it seems like the shadow made would be darker than it is... I guess, what I mean, is, it shouldn't be lighter than the actual ground... cause it's a shadow... not a lighdow- THERE DONE XD I'm dearly sorry, I'll be waiting to hear everything I was wrong about.

It looks mice but I don't think the smoke rose enough. it just slowly eased out once it grew large enough.
and the shape at the end was a bit too symmetrical. try making it a bit more diverse, and random.

other than that you did really well. I like the shading

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it's pretty flat, makeing the bottom have bulges coming out along the ground would make it look 3D, and it seems like it fades out to quickly, explosioon smoke doesn't just dissipate into nothingness in half a second. WOAH, I think I just watched your explosion 500 times, so, wait- first of all, why is your signature not in the same spot as your background while the camera is moving... And, I started watching the arms of smoke that come out, and after looking at them a few times, I mean, just look at them, they should go up so mush higher, like, from the distance the smoke traveled from the base of the explosion to where the arm reaches out, as fast as it did, it should keep going, but it just comes up really fast, stops then starts to fall down, just looks really abrupt. over all I like the shading though, it looks good, it would have so much more effect if the bottom of the thing wasn't flat, possibly, bulgy maybe? oh and the shadow, ummmmmmmmmm... It looks like it should be darker, I'm not entierely sure but, it just, like with the darkness of the darkest shaded part of the smoke, it seems like the shadow made would be darker than it is... I guess, what I mean, is, it shouldn't be lighter than the actual ground... cause it's a shadow... not a lighdow- THERE DONE XD I'm dearly sorry, I'll be waiting to hear everything I was wrong about.

lmfao Best Cnc ever haha. To justify myself, I actually animated this as a 2D explosion at first but thought it would be nice to throw in a background. Aaannnddd that's all I have defend myself. But you're right. I should make it longer and bigger and 3dier but I got lazy :P Thanks

edit: My signature was not following the camera as it is not in the vcam. It is actually on the floor.