Call of Duty: Warzone - 80s Action Hero Explosions

Frontend background for Warzone - 80s Action Heroes Event.

The theme was inspired and directed based on over-the-top mega explosions frequently used in 1980's Hollywood action movies, such as Die Hard and Rambo.

I teamed up with another VFX artist to build out the initial base explosions, fire, and spark pieces, then expanded everything and refined the visuals and timing for final polish and DLC release. I also created and rendered out two of the explosion and smoke plume texture atlases with emissive maps and optical flow motion vectors to control smoother intensity levels and speeds. Additional work included the burning rolling tire, helicopter flyby, exploding debris, FX lighting, shockwaves, ground fires, atmospherics, background fog, the skybox moon, and moon glow and flare.