Jet Breaking Off

So i get to play around with the breaking-apart shoot of the jet to the pencil. I just simply use After Effects to mock up a rough cut of the scene. This is still in a very rough stage, but its still a good experience. I'm probably be working on that part in Maya as the final version.
Here is the rough cut of the breaking apart shot

Tutorial of Dynamic

-Here is a link to one of the tutorial that i found online which is pretty helpful for creating a dynamic explosion.


-Here is a Digital Tutor tutorial of shattering an object


-Here is a tutorial from Skymedias of how to break a wall with some particle effects

Here at CGTutorials have a lot of tutorials of dynamic beside shattering effects.