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For my up and comming 'James Bond Rippoff', I need a pen to explode or create a lot of smoke when the top is pressed down whilst James Bond and an evil guy are talking at a table. Any ideas on what type of explosives etc could be used?
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is the pen being held?
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Post by Twabi2 »

this can be easly done using AE
just use particle playground to create the smoke, make your actor throw the pen away, CUT,
see the room getting filled with smoke (use a fog/smoke-machine or something else)
is that what you want?
An example can be found here:
http://www.blueiceproductions.nl/rook-pen.avi (rook = smoke) (609Kb DivX)
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Yes, prehaps I should have explaned myself more clearly. The evil guy will be handed the pen, and when he presses the top down to write, thats when the explosion is to occur.
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Twabi2 wrote:this can be easly done using AE
just use particle playground to create the smoke
Particle Playground? Yes, I want him to click the pen and make it explode with much smoke.
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Post by Famous »

I've seen that on a show.
It's like a Christmas craker just set up an empty pen and it will trigger the cap ,but I can't help you with smoke.
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combine mine and famous's effect!
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Post by rhprogeek »

hey umm this is how you do it...
1. get a pen
2. open it up
3.put some smoke bomb power in it.
4. tape a match to the skinny thing inside and around the match take sand paper and wrap it in it andf then close up the pen.
5.when you push the pen down the match will light which will light the powder but this is extremely dangerous so take much caution when you do this and sorry I put this in my own words so its kinda vague but I read it in some article online. and also it will get extremely hot and will most likely burn your fingers off so
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Post by Grant »

how about

1)shot of finger clicking pen
2) shot in front showing desk and victim etc with a pryor going off in front of them on the table?
giving the impression that the pen exploded
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