http://www.animationsforvideo.com/html/hotcakes_vol5.htm If you have a video editing program, you can take any of these animations and make them an alpha-plane in view (it says "multiple file formats" so that might be new - when I bought the CD they were only TARGA files). As for the object actually "exploding" and breaking apart into many piece and being flung outward... Yeah, you would need a more complicated program than Vue (like C4D, which sounds like you already have). You would also want a dedicated compositing program (like Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Combustion, Apple Shake or Motion, etc.) to add debris, clouds, lighting effects - things to sell the illusion aside from a ball of fire and an object coming apart. Hope that helps- -Lew ;-)