FIRE!
		A critical part to the fire jump was fire, obviously. But how did we do it? We toyed with the idea of blowing various things up, but quickly discarded those ideas. We turned instead to digital fire, none of which would have been possible without AlamDV 2. If you have any interest in awesome effects for an amateur budget, check out fxhome.com for more details on AlamDV, as well as their line up of other programs.
		Back to business. For this movie, here's what we did. First, we rendered the individual explosion effects that are available through FXhome.com's site. Each explosion was rendered against a black background, then layered together during video editing. Each layer had the black either keyed out or made neutral.
	A single explosion, before being layered.			Another single explosion
	And finally another single explosion			After many singles were composited together, they were rendered as a single element, which can be seen as part of the final compositing used in the overall Fire Jump.
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