Blow stuff up

Ever wanted to animate a convincing explosion of sorts but did not know how it actually looked like? I came across this article on CGsociety called 'The Anatomy of an Explosion' by Kieron Helsdon which documents frame by frame images of various sorts of explosions from the sun to TNT to muzzle flashes. Should be useful when slow mo animation is needed in any of your animations.

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3154&page=