I had to do this to a rock when i did a one and a half minute animation for a university a couple years agao now dont know if you can do it with the pupkin, unless you make one and make it into about 20 seperate pieces and then import it to vue as a 3ds Now comes the part you need to do,you have to select each piece then assign a key movement, ie select the piece add say 1 sec the drag that piece way of somewere,then do all that for each piece adding key frames for each piece you want to fly apart. it will take a long time to set up but it does work and looks ok from an explosion point of view. i would let you all see the anims but they are so big is size i cant send then to web as i dotn have a place for them anyway thats the way i did that so hope it helps regards seeklight