Houdini
Xray: Earth
Visualizing Earth's most violent phenomena under the microscope. Had a blast building out the large-scale simulations for X-Ray Earth, including: High-resolution tsunami fluid sims Volcanic eruptions & pyroclastics Large-scale oil depot fire & smoke Procedural building destruction
Scope
Fluids, Pyro, RBD
Client
National Geographic
Year
2019
X-Ray Earth
Stripping back the planet to simulate its most destructive forces. I had an incredible time handling some of the heavy-lifting FX for National Geographic’s X-Ray Earth, focusing on large-scale fluid simulations and massive destruction pipelines. Still to date it's one of my favourite projects and was a huge step up in terms of simulation size, as well as custom solvers I created (especially for those tsunami shots).
From simulating devastating tsunamis and volcanic eruptions to fracturing buildings and handling the intense pyroclastics of an oil depot on fire, this project was an absolute blast for complex sims.
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