I went for two different styles and concepts for my X and Y extrusion of the Cactus Model. The core concept of my Exp 1 was about extreme explosion. And i have adapted that idea again both X and Y models.
In X% Model, I simulated the explosion ofExtreme Explosion are those explosions beyond our imagination such as Nuke or Planet Explosions. In Exp 1, i used multiple impacts to show extreme explosion. The blast of a explosive barrel in Gmod would trig multiple explosions around it with a smaller blast range. Again in Exp 2, i have used the concept of multiple impact and extreme explosion (planet explosion) to remove percentage part of the Cactus Building. Multiple impact demonstrated in Exp 1 which was a explosive barrel dropping from high altitude; explode inside a stack of plastic barrels and triggs another explosion above. In X%, this are shown by the huge epicentre located at the bottom of the Cactus Building when the explosion occurs. In order to show its extreme side, i have made the the epicentre hole and cavities similar to a planet explosion showing below.
I mainly used lofted cut for simulating holes and marks penetrated bythe blast. The loft cuts are cone shapeded as the blast photo show below.
For Y% Model, I used the flamable explosive barrels of Gmod as the key concept of extrusion in the Cactus Model. It is a quite different approach comparing to the X% because all the loft cuts are curving inside the building instead of straight cone shaped in Y%. The epicentre is located at the very centre of the building. The scale of the epicentre is very small since i want to convey the concept of extreme flamable explosion where the epicentre doesn't produce as much energy as the flame blasted outwards.
These Videos are found on Youtube for my studies on the extreme explosion
"Crysis Physics Extreme Explosions" By nizlive
"Crysis Extreme Physics and Graphics!" By divalado
"Crysis - Mass Physics" By ABadFeeling
Music "Elevation" By U2
Video 1 (Documentary)
Experiment 1: Theory Work
Documentary Type:
The mode of the machinima explosion documentary film I created is a typical expository documentary with sense of reflection towards my hypothesis stated in week2 which conveys the idea of boundary of spaces created during explosion by different porosity effects. The documentary film was created by compiling videos of Gmod in Sony Vegas. I used captions to show expository of this documentary film. And the benefit of expository film is not to inform by description or captions but to argue a point of view in order to convey a stronger message.
Hypothesis:
I have used combinations of videos, background music and texts to convey and clarify my idea of 3D spaces created by explosion. This documentary film has compiled different videos to clearly convey the idea of spaces within spaces and boundary that separates them apart.
Space boundaries are created by exploding materials of different sizes, weights, amounts, and constraints. Explosions of different power and method are also used to define the difference of spaces by different porosity effects.