This page is about my entry in the Nov. 2002 CGTalk Earthquake VFX challenge.
It won third place in the contest!

(Click the image to see the animation)

The challenge was to create a 5 second effects shot of an earthquake tearing up a road, incorporating live action.
For full rules, follow this link: CGTalk Earthquake VFX challenge

My Submission

You can view my challenge thread on CGTalk here. (Lots of information in there).

My storyboard is here

The original footage is here (no effects here - just traffic...)

My final effects clip is here (same as clicking on image above)

The two clips are both 320x240 Sorensen(2) encoded. Approx 1MB download each.
This is low resolution, but was specified in the contest rules to keep the file sizes down.

How it was done

A lot of discussion and information can be found in my thread.

In addition, there are the following two sections:

Compositing

This section provides examples of the various layers that went into the final composite, and what they were for. Examples are also provided of several of the intermediate composites.