He's rendered the rotation animation of sweets in Maya, and composited them with the explosion with Particular in AE. He's also been testing and ended up using Turbulent Noise to create the dust type effect.
ENJOY!
As for the rest of us, Sushman, Natasha, Yannis and Kaitlin are finishing up their scenes and Amit and Bimpe are laughing at the monstrous size of our EXR render files.... over 50GB per image.
Good times.
For render-time, sanity and general not breaking when trying to composting, we'll probably now render these out as TIFFs.
Maya is a tricky mistress.
