Paint Splosion

Here is a project we interns helped out with over the summer at our internship at Mografi with Thornberg & Forester. It is an ident for the Vicek foundation that involves a paint 'spolsion! 

Above is an image of a ball from walmart covered in house paint poured over it with turkey basters (LOL). Basically Joe had to create the effect of a "big bang"with paint. At first he tried creating it entirely in after effects and C4D but nothing looked quite right or real or cool. We interns decided the best way to make a paint explosion was to use paint (genius right?), so we spent the day getting supplies and figuring out the best way to do this. We ended up pointing the camera straight downwards at a green ball that we threw paint on and recorded the whole process. Joe then took the footage shot and messed with it in after effects and used some other techniques and effects to push it further.