… Strangelove Bomb Drop …

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In the opening sequence of the “Combat” music video for my upcoming record “Bits”, a bomb is dropped from a model of a B-24, falls through the clouds and hits a bunker.

I spent some time today working out how to pull this shot off. I’m using multiple layers of fractal noise to generate the cloud effects and key-framing the opacity of the layers as the camera falls through them.

It’s not perfect … but it’s getting close to what I want. I still need to composite the bomb into the shot as well. I’m thinking of throwing in some bomb bay doors as well. I’ve got some ideas on those…