liquidmetal99

I was wondering whats a good starting point for creating an explosion that behaves in this way. Im not looking to build anything massive but more like a simple network to mimic the basic movements that we see here. You can see that the smoke kinda curls up into a ball after the explosion as it goes up and similar movement happens on the floor as well inverted. Any pointers/thoughts on where i should start?

http://www.artbeats.com/clips/RE107/NTSC [artbeats.com]

I have a setup of a couple of planets and its satellites. Im trying to figure out what would be the simplest way to make the satellite revolve around the planets without keyframing anything?

Im loving this place. Thanks everyone for the responses. And thats an interesting approach with the trail sop ill try it out.