A Drill Destroyed My Street!

http://uni3d.com - This is an animated composite of a small tunneling drill digging up through the street in front of my house. It was animated and tracked in Maya, with the rendering being done through Mental Ray. There are over 25,000 pieces of debris, most controlled by particles, though a few hundred larger bits are calculated rigid body objects. This took about a week, including tests/rendering, the later of which took about 2 and a half days. Full resolution versions at my site above.
-All sounds are from the Free Sound Project-
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/