Pyro & Fire FX
Cinematic explosions, muzzle flashes, ember drift and dense volumetric smoke at 4K and slow-motion.
SIMULATIONS
FROM THE FUTURE.
// Voislav Nikolovski renders impossible frames with Houdini simulations for film and advertising. Eight years bending physics so the camera never sees the seams.
$ houdini --version
Houdini 20.5.621 (Karma XPU ready)
$ voislav --query capabilities
[OK] pyro_fx_solver · 240fr cache ready
[OK] flip_fluid_solver · 480fr cache ready
[OK] rbd_destruction · 360fr cache ready
[OK] vellum_cloth_hair · 720fr cache ready
[OK] hda_library_v03 · RELEASE
[OK] karma_xpu_lookdev · XPU online
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// CAPABILITIES.SYS
06 MODULES LOADEDFluid & 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.
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03 ENTRIES
[REC_01] · FEATURE FILM · 2024
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.
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[REC_02] · COMMERCIAL · 2024
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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[REC_03] · EPISODIC · 2023
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.
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06 CLIENTS
[01] Northgate
[02] Helios
[03] Carbon
[04] Atlas VFX
[05] Halcyon
[06] Solstice
READY TO RENDER?
// Send the brief and the plate. Treatment + timeline within two business days.