It’s time for another update on the explosion. It’s been silent for a while now, as I’ve been working on some other stuff while running simulations and renders in the background.

As a side note: I’m really pleased with the way HQueue is working on my little farm. It makes simulations and renders much easier to schedule and manage, so its was well worth a little investment in time to set it up. I’m thinking of writing a little post on my experiences with HQueue so far some day soon.

Anyway, on with the fragments and fluids. I’ll start with a render as usual:

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This is a render of the latest simulation that I have run on both the ‘faces’ and ‘energy fluid’, it also includes the ‘sparks’ particle sim. As with the previous renders, I ran the render passes through my very basic multi pass setup to tune it a little and add some glows. (more…)

Now the exhaust wall stuff is done and made into a tool, attention has shifted back to the explosion animation and simulation. By now all the major systems for animating and hand-over to simulation are in place.

Let me start by showing you a test animation for that I’ve rendered out. I did a very quick multi-pass comp on the render to attenuate reflections a bit and add some glows. The animation is rendered at 8 times slow motion.

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Hi,

I’m proud to be able to say now that SideFX‘s Jeff Wagner will be demoing my wave tools as part of his ‘Advanced VFX In Houdini’ master classes at FMX this year!

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