Pyro & Fire FX
Cinematic explosions, muzzle flashes, ember drift and dense volumetric smoke at 4K and slow-motion.
DEVELOPING
IMPOSSIBLE
FRAMES.
Voislav Nikolovski exposes, develops and fixes Houdini simulations for film and advertising — eight years bending physics so the camera never sees the seams.
FRAME 0001 / 0240
EXP 1/30s
ISO 400
SAFE #C13
CHEMICAL PROCESSES
6 DEVELOPERS · ALL ACTIVEFluid & 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.
CONTACT SHEET
3 NEGATIVES · ARCHIVE
01
City Block Collapse
A 14-second hero shot of a downtown block fracturing under stress. 240M RBD pieces, custom constraint network, art-directed chunking on the camera line.
Develop →
02
Aurora Pour
Viscous liquid pour hero shot for a global launch. 60-frame slow-mo, refraction-tuned materials, photo-matched studio lighting.
Develop →
03
Ashfall Drift
Eight-episode arc of pyroclastic ash plumes drifting across plate photography. Built as a reusable HDA that the studio still ships today.
Develop →THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
5 BATHS · TIMEDExpose
Brief, plates, references in. Creative FX treatment + shot plan within 48 hours.
Develop
Low-res sims in days, not weeks. Motion, scale, timing locked before caching.
Stop
Direction approved. Final sim parameters locked, render configs committed.
Fix
Hero-resolution caches, Karma XPU passes, AOVs prepared for your comp team.
Wash
Final EXRs, Houdini scene files, HDA you keep. Future shots reuse the setup.
PROCESSED FOR
6 STUDIOS · 2017-2025
Northgate
Helios
Carbon
Atlas VFX
Halcyon
Solstice
SUBMIT A PLATE.
Send the brief and the plate. Treatment + timeline within two business days.