Explode test 1

For our final scene me and ash decided on having the fish tank shatter as a result of the bomb like bubble. I have already had a go at maya shatter which works perfectly for what we are trying to achive, but the only problem with this method was that in order for the sahtter to take place we would need to add gravity to the tank and drop it to create a shatter collision. Researching more into this method i came across away round the problem, buy placing particles inside the the actual object i was able to get an explode effect which send the shards from the object flying. Here is a quick test i done