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VIZ.NL has recently made a number of explosions for commercials

.Viz does not use explosives. We recreate explosions using compressed air or gas. This is far less dangerous than using explosives and can be done without a licence. It often means that we can work faster than others with explosives.

 

MTV Exploding computers and televisions

.For this MTV leader we made a series of tests outdoors to discover the volume of the explosion we wanted and the amount of debris versus dust that we would be using.


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Telfort Confetti Explosion

Confetti Explosion for Telfort commercial

.As part of the series of Telfort commercials we made a confetti explosion out of a briefcase.


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pepsi explosion

Pepsi Blister Pack Explodes

Exploding Pepsi Blister Pack for Pepsi

.We made these Pepsi Bottles explode for a Papsi Max commercial. PET bottles are extremely resilient so that we needed a very high pressure. Colleague Robert Pachowski decided to go with compressed nitrogen, which is supplied at an initial pressure of 200 atmosphere.


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UPC Exploding Couch

Exploding couch for UPC

.We made the material that was used in these shots for UPC by photographer Edo Kars.


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