Creating the bomb falling and arms

The climax of the captains run ends as he looks up and sees the Japanese bomb falling towards the USS Arizona.

To animate all I had to do was use the set key to move the bomb towards the camera. This way I had more control on how fast the bomb appears to fall.

Once I had it at the right speed I could animate the arms. Once again using the ALT X freeze method I could make the arms move into the cameras view. I made sure the hands and fingers moved slightly to make it seem more realistic otherwise the arms would just slide up very robotically.

I had a little trouble animating the hands as I tried to rotate them and they went through the sleeves. It was hard to see due to the opaque view using ALT X. This means I had to move the hands into a better position on each keyframe they went through.

I rendered using mental ray and it looks just how I needed it to.