exploding balloon

exploding balloon - student project

you'll notice, when watching the video, that the pieces of the balloon, after exploding, pass straight through the floor and the pipe. this is of course because I forgot to enable collision for either of them. a mistake I only realized when I was watching the animation after it rendered. I would have done the render again if the graphics card on my laptop wasn't so slow. it took hours to render.there is also a bright flash of light right before the balloon explodes. I haven't gotten to the bottom of that yet (I suspect that I might have accidentally added an extra keyframe for the lamp). other than that I think that it is a pretty good replica of the one shown in the class. I enjoyed making it and I think that this was a good class that demonstrated the use of the cloth sim quite well.