Claniel Le | Fx Artist

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fx fire (pyro solver)

60% of my time at Animal logic academy 2025 was spent working on fire and smoke FX — both realistic and stylised
From left to right are Pyro simulations driven by Fuel, Flame, Density, Temperature, and Divergence fields in Houdini 20.5. I found that sourcing from the Fuel field and converting it to Burn provides the most physically accurate fire behavior and sharper flame detail compared to sourcing directly from other fields
Fire experiment I did to better understand fire motion. I found that achieving realistic fire FX depends heavily on the scale of the source — even small changes in source size can dramatically affect how the fire behaves and evolves.