Simon Pagaciauskas

Project: Slime

MA VFX, Bournemouth

— UNIVERSITY PROJECT

Slime


— ROLE

All Aspects


— SOFTWARE

Houdini

Nuke

PfTrack



— DATE

2022

This Signature Shot is focused on creating a Alien type of creature that is based on real life looking slime mould Fungi. The Slime mould is a eukaryotic organism that lives as a single cell.

This FX consists of VDB simulations created using Houdini Hair Guide tools and find shortest path technique.

Slime mould is quite hard to achieve due to its solving capabilities. This makes it hard to achieve as it requires extensive simulations to get the final result.

The shot is focused on a scientist that get amazed and shocked by slime mould creature that stars spreading through the environment.

Slime Layer