Paper Money Explosion

[soupman99]

The shot I'm working on calls for an explosion of dollar bills out of an object. I was thinking of using particles to instance a money object I have, but I'm a little foggy on how to make it look convincing.

I was thinking of using bend and twist deformers on the object being instanced...but I need the money to become flat as it's about to hit the floor.

Any ideas on how go about making this?

[gmask]

it'd look better if you made it a cloth simulation..

it's possible to do it with particle instancing but it'd require custom expression for it to rotate into correct position based on it's proximity to the floor and then step through the index of shapes to flatten out

[uggalepih]

I agree with gMask, what you best bet is to give the dollar bill geometry nCloth dynamic property, and either simulate it solely on the nCloth engine, or use a rigid body system to simulate it, and have the dynamic cloth bend and fold as it falls.