Pyro & Fire FX
Cinematic explosions, muzzle flashes, ember drift and dense volumetric smoke at 4K and slow-motion.
Fluid frames
that flow
like mercury.
Voislav Nikolovski designs Houdini simulations for film and advertising — fire, water, smoke and destruction that move like liquid metal. Eight years bending physics so the camera never sees the seams.
Fluid systems
06 SOLVERSFluid & Water
FLIP oceans, splashes, refractions and viscous pour shots matched to live-action plates.
Destruction
Rigid-body and cloth fracture: buildings, glass, vehicles, terrain breaking with art-directed timing.
Particles & Vellum
Vellum cloth, hair, grains and granular flows — dust trails to character cloth that reads on screen.
Procedural FX Tools
Custom Houdini Digital Assets for studio pipelines — artist-friendly, version-controlled, farm-ready.
Lookdev & Lighting
Karma XPU lookdev, AOVs, light rigging, on-set data matching for seamless composites.
Selected flow
03 CASES
CASE 01 · FEATURE FILM
City Block Collapse
A 14-second hero shot of a downtown block fracturing under stress. 240 million RBD pieces, custom constraint network, art-directed chunking on the camera line.
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CASE 02 · COMMERCIAL
Aurora Pour
Viscous liquid pour hero shot for a global launch. 60-frame slow-mo, refraction-tuned materials, photo-matched studio lighting.
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CASE 03 · EPISODIC
Ashfall Drift
Eight-episode arc of pyroclastic ash plumes drifting across plate photography. Built as a reusable HDA that the studio still ships today.
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04 STAGESBrief & Reference
Brief, plates, references in. Creative FX treatment + shot plan within 48h.
Blockout & R&D
Low-res sims in days, not weeks. Motion, scale, timing locked before caching.
Final Sim & Render
Hero-resolution caches, Karma XPU passes, AOVs for comp. Daily, versioned.
Delivery & Handover
Final EXRs, Houdini scene, HDA you keep. Future shots reuse the setup.
Connected nodes
06 STUDIOS
Northgate
Helios
Carbon
Atlas VFX
Halcyon
Solstice
Have a shot that
shouldn't flow?
Send the brief and the plate. Treatment + timeline within two business days.