Pyro & Fire FX
Cinematic explosions, muzzle flashes, ember drift and dense volumetric smoke at 4K and slow-motion.
The art of
impossible frames.
A portfolio of Houdini simulations for film and advertising — edited, art-directed, and delivered by Voislav Nikolovski.
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Editor's Pick · Cover Story
City Block Collapse
A 14-second hero shot of a downtown block fracturing under stress. 240 million rigid-body pieces, custom constraint network, art-directed chunking on the camera line.
Photographed in Houdini · Rendered in Karma XPU · 0336 frames
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In this issue
06 FEATURESFluid & 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.
The edit
04 STAGESBrief & Reference
Brief, plates, references in. Creative FX treatment + shot plan within 48 hours.
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.
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06 STUDIOS
Northgate
Helios
Carbon
Atlas VFX
Halcyon
Solstice
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