In nuce: French visual effects service provider The Yard VFX has released an almost three-and-a-half-minute VFX showreel; the video shows the work of the VFX artists très français on the Netflix drama series Notre-Dame – the focus is primarily on set extensions, particle and fire simulation.

In toto: The film revolves around Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, which is on fire in 2019, surrounded by a crew of firefighters. The miniseries is based on the experiences of the firefighters who were on duty during the fire. The Netflix series, with a total length of around five hours, was released on the streaming provider Netflix in 2022. The Yard VFX has been (The Gray Man, Enola Holmes 2, Wanda Vision) and will be (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, John Wick 4) involved in many visual effects blockbusters.

Click further: Digital Production has repeatedly reported on how realistic fire effects can be achieved – not least in the following news items.

• 16.09.2020: After-effects tutorial: Playing with fire makes the forest sizzle. All-clear: It’s all virtual!
• 7.04.2022: Here JangaFX demonstrates its fire effects! In this video, developer EmberGen ignites enthusiasm for particle simulation tools. Get infected now!

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In nuce: Software developer EmberGen recently used a Twitter video to demonstrate the realistic flames that the volumetric simulation tool JangaFX is capable of. EmberGen is a real-time GPU-based tool with which you can simulate fire, explosions, smoke and other particle effects.

What does the Twitter post show? The Twitter post shows you what spectacularly realistic fire simulations EmberGen is capable of. Both fire and particle effects are simulated in the demonstration.

We reported last: We last reported on EmberGen in October 2021, when version 0.7.5 went into pre-release. The pre-release at that time was accompanied by various attractive features – including an improved export function, a revamped user interface, a new renderer and twenty new presets.

Click further: If you want to find outall about JangaFX, you can literally go up in flames by clicking over to jangafx.com . The following video will amaze you, because the release trailer for version 0.7.5 is on fire – and so is the pipeline!

EmberGen 0.7.5 release trailer

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In nuce: Matt Puchala, former Technical Director at ILM, releases Axiom 2.1, the latest version of his Fluid Solver, which allows you to simulate smoke, fire or pyrotechnic effects within Houdini.

What can Axiom 2.1 do? The following feature delights are behind the latest release:

• Simulates between 10 and 25 per cent faster than the previous version Axiom 2.0
• Can simulate up to two billion voxels
• Support for 16-bit float memory downloads
• Option for source shapes, world & object space noise and noise offsets
• Various bug fixes

For a complete list of the freshly baked features, we have photographed Matt Puchala’s Facebook post below:

What’s behind Axiom? Axiom was designed as a faster alternative to Houdini’s Sparse Pyro Solver. In contrast to Sparse Pyro, Axiom operates with GPU acceleration – whereby the CPU is used if necessary, should you exhaust the GPU memory.

Minimum requirement: Axiom 2.1 requires Houdini 18.0 or higher. Axiom works with Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. The Fluid Solver requires at least 16 gigabytes of RAM.

Availability: Axiom is available as a free version for non-commercial projects, but also in three paid versions (prices range from 99 US dollars to 499 US dollars). To find the right offer for you, click through to Axiom’s website .

Click further: Get the new Axiom online. By the way: On 18 October 2021, we told you about the release of Axiom 2, when the Fluid Solver unleashed explosive forces.

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9-1-1: Emergency call L.A.

In the VFX breakdown entitled “Wildfire”, FuseFX shows how a forest fire can be virtually ignited. So much for the visual focus. At the narrative centre of the series are emergency first responders from Los Angeles – police officers, firefighters, paramedics and similar everyday heroes – who extinguish private fires when they are not fighting the annual Californian forest fires.

9-1-1: Emergency Call L.A.: the latest soap opera – with a risk of explosion!

FuseFX: 9-1-1 Lone Star Wildfire (B&As)

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