Creating scene one landscape and explosions

I have found a night sky jpeg that I could test the enviroment map with from wikimedia commons

 

Wikimedia Commons, 2006, File:Mountain night sky - West Virginia - ForestWander.jpg, available at : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Mountain_night_sky_-_West_Virginia_-_ForestWander.jpg, Accessed 21/3/2013

By creating a sphere and deleting half, then deleting the bottom part to give a straight line to act as a horizon line, a bitmap sky scene could be assigned to it

The bitmap image automatically shows on the outside for the inside the flip option is required.

For this scene I created some cones to act as a sort of chimney which will have explosion from the top(above)
(below) a spline was created for the vehicle to follow on a path constraint.
This was extremely difficult to draw as a free hand object, but I was able to manipulate the line into a more curved shape.

For the explosions I followed my tutorial notes see explosions and fire.






 


I have added a camera to view the render and add a slightly pan to give more depth to this part of the animation

the bottom two views are on the left camera 1 and on the right perspective.

I have changed the animation to set the speed of the asteroid and added a pan to camera 1.

My output settings  are HDTV 1280 x 720 25 fps