I finished this video a few days ago but held it for a bit, I started schooling again. so I am back to being a broke college student.
This explosion took some thinking as I barely watched the video that inspired me to make this. I would lay in my bed then imagine every procedural node I could use to improve this.
I should've made better use of the shape keys rather than animating the beam going down, you can animate the shape going down and it wont interfere with x/y/z axis. afterwards you can move it freely while preserving the vfx
one final note i made the sfx in the beginning and that is in the gumroad link below \/\/\/
here is the other ytubers channel - https://www.youtube.com/@bottbrothers
gumroad blende file with sfx - https://tiszeeg.gumroad.com/l/criumn