kageryu

Wow...I never seem to be able to get my stuff to look that good. I especially liked that lava planet in the begining. I have been trying to achieve a similar effect, with the surface explosions, but have not been happy yet. By any chance, do you know of, or could I convince you to write maybe, a good tutorial for creating and compositing the layers to achieve that effect?
Were those explosion rings on that planet stock footage, or effects? They were really nice.