How do you make an explosion with after effects?

Question by camboy8: How do you make an explosion with after effects?
Or do you even use after effects? I see explosions in movies and I know their not real.. So what software, plugins do I need to make a CDI explosion.. Is there any good tutorials online I could check out.. Thank you so much!
Did anyone see the explosion in “Angels and Demons” it was blue.. how do u think they made that?

Best answer:

Answer by Sherman M
the best effect to use is a real explosion, go to
http://detonationfilms.com/…they have lots of free stuff to download..and a couple of tutorials….for the best tutorials on the net ,go to
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/
also have a look at my video..

this uses an explosion from the first site i mentiomed

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