Hey all! I’m super excited about this challenge and looking forward to start and learn something new! 
Final submission:
Current WIP:
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I started watching some movie trailers and I found I really love dynamic shots like in Topgun or We Were Soldiers. I did quick blocking and I hope that now I will start playing with EmberGen
Stay tuned for first tests with EmberGen!
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So far my fav reference in terms of explosion on desert
I started working and learning more about emberGen, did few explosion tests, still need a lot of work but I’m super excited of getting something already
For next step I will try to match more refs, clean things and start rendering some of these into flipbooks and work on fx setup in ue4.
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First test in ue4, still working on my flipbooks. This was done pretty fast. This I will try to fix timing and work on particle setup.
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Some updates from today. Decided to learn Niagara and soon I will start adding more elements, shockwaves, debris, trails etc.
This shot is going to be pretty interesting
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Its amazing job, i need help and maybe you can help me, im newbie user unreal engine and i cannot stop a flipbook and i will try inizialize with a model animation but i dont have any idea. You Can help me? Thanks a lot.
Going to be a cool dynamic shot indeed! How did you do the background/level assets?
Thanks! I’m using Houdini for generating a Heightfield terrain with Houdini Engine to load .hda into Unreal and setup everything. Hires rocks, foliage and textures coming from Quixel Megascans. Scatter is pretty random, maybe if I will save some time later when my explosion is ready I add some complexity into it.
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Thank you. If I understand correctly you can do this in many ways. In these two shots I posted I’m triggering explosion in Sequencer. I recommend watching some basic introduction into Sequencer. It’s very easy to create a track for Niagara/Cascade system and then load any component you want to activate.
I’m also pretty new to ue4 there is no end with exploration new things, ideas and concepts.
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Very nice man, thanks for the answer. I just got into using the Quixel assets in Unreal, defo gonna try to generate a height field now too
I was struggling a bit with motion vectors, currently finally moving to work on all aspects of explosion 
this is never going to be that slow
edit: probably I will run another test with reduced flipbook frame range
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BOOM!
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Today I had some time to start working on additional elements like flying barrels and stones, for now just for timing. For next step I will focus on smoke trails and dust maybe even tiny shockwave element.
better quality:
https://youtu.be/jLjaB2YNDZI
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Cut to slow mo.
You are the contender so far in my eyes mate, wicked stuff 
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Haha, thanks! Great idea to try with slow mo!
Currently I was having some issues and still need to work on some issues but slowly I’m trying to get there. Probably this week I will rework on shader and then move to other elements.
Anyway I have so much fun working on it
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Fixed few more issues, later I will start polishing additional elements.
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Today I had some time to fix issues in my project and block trail element.
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Love what you’ve produced already - everything looks great to me, except I think some of the smoke should stick around longer. I always find fireworks smoke stays around at low density for quite some time, maybe settling to earth with yours would be a good end to the explosions. I just think the last half second of smoke vanishing is a bit game-like.
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