Hello Guys

I'm currently working on a really short University VFX project, its a introduction into VFX. short film is about a character that fly down from the sky and crash-lands into ground, then hovers above the ground. The MASSIVE problem im having is that i have NO IDEA how to use hounding software, i'm mostly use Maya and zbrush and Nuke. I want to create a ground fracture cause by the impact from my character punching the ground. umm Simple term, I would like to create similar effect used in Hancock 2008, when flys down and ground cracks or breaks apart. Any tips, advice or direction to a good tutorial that will help me out would be very much appreciated

Thank you much

below is video of the scene i would like to incorporate the effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn8BDl3ys5s&feature=youtu.be [youtube.com]