S1E01 “Pilot” : Plane Crash

How do you show a plane traveling around 115 mpg hit a wall? Lots of smoke, fire and debris all while pleasing the TV censors. You can only be so violent for prime time. The plane was designed to crack, break and rip apart in certain areas. In addition a bunch of parts like the engine were created as extra debris. The whole sequence again was a Thinking Particle simulation.

That’s a lot of aluminum going nowhere fast”. We created the effect by slowing the whole timing down. This allowed the system to crunch the plane and distribute debris without going crazy at sim time.