How I made this plane crash in Blender 

The Dynamic vegetation was really genius

I love this style of tutorial. Quick and to the point but still detailed.

Dude, thank you for taking the time to make such an in-depth making of and breakdown of this awesome scene and sharing with us! Very inspiring :)

I was pretty skeptical clicking on this video but honestly, you did an amazing work and it turned out to be way beyond my expectations, keep it up!

Im really happy watching how young people like you can take huge advantage of CGI and VFX software nowadays. 15 years ago we throw some Video Copilot assets over some low res video and that was it, VFX. Not to mention rendering animated assets in 3D programs was just a dream. Great job.

the instant drop into the video without an intro really got me interested immediately for some reason

Loved the secondary animations and environment interactions. That alone makes it pretty realistic.

Amazing breakdown and the final results are just so great, the camera movement is so good and made the shot more grounded and realistic. Great job and thanks for sharing!

as a pilot the way this cessa crashes is so funny to me it looks like a mini rc plane crash just a more weight and heft and it would look much more real

Dude your channel is pure gold

Breathtaking. I've only recently started animating with Blender but this content is so motivating.

What an amazing video. A+. Amazing job at getting it straight to the point, Amazing job at keeping the viewers focus, Amazing all around. Loved to hear your thought process through things. Thanks for the great video.

R.I.P. To the 77 people who didn't get thanked for subscribing. They will be missed.

Absolutely incredible breakdown from start to finish! I love your approach to these kind of projects really hope to see more of you in the future :) I just startet blender a month ago and it really inspires me to see creatives like you going nuts :D

Massive work! Congratulations!

hoooly. you took blender really far! in 2011 I made the pixar lamp jump and thought I'm a genius. love all the detailed thoughts and little big tricks

The fabric simulation added to the structure of the aircraft definitely sold the effect way more and made up for the physics inconsistencies. If I look at this from a "game cutscene" POV (which are often quite inaccurate tbf) and not a "crash simulation" POV it looks amazing!

I just found you and I love how you go straight to the video

You have so many great details and creative solutions in this animation. Thank you for sharing your process!

Incredible! Thank you for making this tutorial!

This is amazing! Really good job 👏

Dude thats amazing! Are you planning on making a patreon with full tutorials?

Amazing content and a beautiful scene! You keep doing better and better stuff! Just keep at it! 🎉

Wow!, That's really is a breathtaking

Really amazing work. Thank you.

The dynamic vegetation is really clever. Nice work!

So underrated dude.

This channel deserves more subscribers

The final animation looks super nice!!

This was really awesome to watch!

better then some movie productions i‘ve seen

Great work, love your rbd techniques that compentsate for one of(in my opinion) Blender's biggest weaknesses at this point

such an in depth breakdown,. right to the point and covered all the major parts. this video was awesome!

My Goodness this is a master at work.

Wow this is really cool, learned a lot of cool features while watching

i love how you're just casually talking about how you made a plane crash scene thats better than most feature films

looks nice!

That's pretty damn amazing! Fantastic job!

Bro this is movie level stuff. AMAZING!

This is amazing work! Really!

i LOVE your vids they help me so much with my 3d editing I am currently working on a movie with my friend and your plane/plane crash tutorials are really helpful love your work!

Duuuuuuuude thank you so much, this looks amazing!!

This is amazing! Such an underrated channel!

I love how it didn’t explode immediately. It made it so much more realistic

the result are amazing brow

Bro just dropped a AAA game cutscene like it was nothing. The physics do feel off but the animation is amazing, I suggest taking a look into supersonic airplane models because since both supercritical and supersonic airfoils have much worse efficiency at subsonic speeds, they could stall and fall much faster. They could even desintegrate while still in the air.

Great work. The dynamic paint on the ground is a very cool detail. Also i think the wing hitting the tree and breaking on the ground works fine. The tree weakened it and the ground rocked it off the frame

Damn! thats way too good🔥🔥🔥

Respect ! I had no clue how I should start doing this !

Simply mind bending 😮😮

Wow, you're really talented.

im not a very experienced blender user but I enjoyed this video a lot and I am better understanding what you were doing throughout the video. sick man

Love your content man, keep it up :)

This is so realistic ! 👏 very impressive

What a incredible tutorial and final result. If I had to nitpick maybe an upscale of the video to 1440p or 4k would be handy as youtube can't seem to afford enough bitrate for the final scene at 1080p. I think there are scripts for ffmpeg that can do a basic bicubic upscaling without needing to re-render your final edit giving you access to vp9 on yt. Other than that, great work!

Great stuff.

Keep up the good work

Freaking amazing!

It looks fantastic! If I saw this without context I would have said that it was done in Houdini and not Blender, but you made it work so nicely!

Awesome work dude. Amazing. Sub.

Really nice work

its rly cool too watch

Very interesting!

Amazing!

Incredible video! Also that front wheel is strong lol

absolutely incredible

Underrated video

Great one🔥

Definitely worth a subscribe!

Great great stuff buddy, keep at it :)))

No wonder the plane crashed, there was no pilot! Really interesting methods. I liked this.

this is incredible litterally looks like a scene out of a movie

Great job, visually stunning. Aircraft wouldn't behave like that but awesome none the less.

As subscriber 20,276 I felt very unappreciated! Lol. Brilliant balance between high level and detailed explanation.

Ge this is DOPE!

wow, amazing intro

ok..this is one of the best tut and breakdown (incredible) that i've ever seen. +sub +all notif :) tnks for sharing. good job and GL. waiting for new video ;)

As an AvGeek, you got the entire crash *almost* perfect! The only part left out was that fuel is stored in the wings of an aircraft like the one that crashed in your animation, which would result in a large fireball upon both wings being ripped apart.

Such a good video and an overview on how you made this.

Riktigt bra 👌

Bro, I don't know man.. but I'm learning in your videos! It's so great, Keep it up!!!

pretty nice dude

This is great, one of the best and most realistic complex destruction I have ever seen done in blender, the way the plane is falling doesn't bother me at all, and I doubt it bothers most people. My only complaint is the camera movement. I think it should have cut to another angle 4/6ths of the way through the animation. The camera continuing for that long gives a video game-esk feel after that point, I think cutting it to a low-to-the-ground tripod shot and letting the plane come to the halt, not too far from the camera would give it a much more realistic grounded feel. Or maybe a still overhead shot of the plane coming into frame and then halting, you could also hide a lot of the minor issues that way. Currently, It switches from a drone to a crane to handheld shot, and you can't do that Irl. Also YES PLEASE for 5:15!!! Are you kidding?! that's absolutely genius, I have been looking for a way to create plant collisions like that for the longest time, never have I found a video mentioning anything like that. I'd pay for a video on that

GG WP. Thats the only thing I can say Saludos desde España, gonna keep an eye on you!

Thanks Great Guy🙏

Amazing

7:50 The plane itself looks very detailed and cool.

ONLY 20K COME ON THIS IS AMASING

Looks really good. Suggestion: it would help if you respected how aircraft structure really deforms and fails. Show how the strongest parts survive such as the landing gear and the struts. Sheet metal (aluminum) crinkles and tears in larger pieces not little particles. Plastic windshields often pop out of the frame in one piece. Horizontal tails sometimes get ripped off in one piece. Control cables try to hold the wings on but rip through the sheet metal skins. Control surfaces often get ripped off their hinges. Again, without detailed subassembly modeling, your sim looks good!

I would absolutely love a more in depth video. I started Blender last September because I wanted to create animated films for Mecha Scifi like Battletech. This would really break the mystery of okay how do I make this robot smash through a bunch of buildings and break stuff. Not really having a clue of how to go about it but this video is some thing that I will be using in every project. You can't have giant robots with out every thing violently smashing to pieces. I expect my PC to melt to but I still got to learn it, can always but the better PC later.

That was nuts

hollywood class vfx👍

Thankyou, I'm sure I'll need to rewatch this at some point. Saved and subscribed, many thanks. Just wondered why you didnt use a mist pass to keep render times down ?

Now for the follow-up: How I made a plane that crashed Blender.

sick!

I absolutely love this animation, and i would love to learn how to make things like that. I have to nit-pick ONLY ONE THING though. The propeller was completely undamaged. because the aircraft went into a head-on collision with a tree, and the propeller wasn't even bent. This is alright though, because i know you spent a lot of time on this and i don't want to ruin your day.

Please for the love of god an everything good make a full step by step tutorial on this. I’d pay good money for it. This is by far the best destruction sequence I’ve seen.

I disagree with the wing only breaking off at the ground and not at the first impact on the tree. I think it works really well like you did it!

5:39 Some games and vfx use softbody simulations for this type of stuff too, it generally gives a more reliable result

I think the breaking of the plane in 1000s jagged pieces gives it away. I think it would look better if it stayed more in one piece but with more mangled edges and some metal tearing here and there. But it looks quite impressive, well done!