I Don't Want To Swim Forever

Details

Nightmare strikes when a boy loses his teddy. An experimental film using a combination of Blender for the render and Houdini FX for the smoke and fire simulations. The simulations were exported as VDBs, and in Blender we textured them.

The Challenge

The corridor flood scene was extremely heavy on our machines. We couldn't even play back the simulation in Blender, as the software would crash.

Our Solution

We used efficient OpenVDB compression to reduce the size of the simulations with minimal loss in quality.

Behind the Scenes

• Custom clothing for the Boy and simulation was done using Marvelous Designer.
• The project required 100s of GB just for the water and smoke simulations which took days to calculate.
• Animation was done using mocap as base, then tweaked for each scene.

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