When vfx studio, Ingenuity Engine, needed to dissolve dancers into bursts of cg fluid for the Korean based singer BoA in her "I Did It For Love" music video directed by Joseph Kahn, the obvious choice for the cg fluids work was Fusion CI Studios! We had just developed a very high-quality fluid morphing technology for Whole Water - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci6wuvA-z2Y - but this project demanded that we not only morph to complex geometry, but do it to a whole group of dancers in multiple shots, and find a way to explode the fluid from the dancer geo on command. We stepped up by taking a couple of days to adapt our morphing tech, making it more efficient and creating a simplified version that was custom suited to this project's needs. We also added a capability to blast the fluid away from the morphed shape, not just radially from the shape center but normal to the geometry and with an inherited component of the geo's motion, to give it a more dynamic, organic feel -- the de-luxe version! The new system worked really well and let us blast out sims at high speed. Of course, the splashy meshes brought RF4 to its knees so we had to use the beta version of RF5, with its much improved mesher, to get the job done. Fusion handed mesh sequences over to the artists at Ingenuity Engine, who handled the shading/lighting/comping. Great work guys! Credits: Fusion CI Studios Lauren Millar: Executive Producer Mark Stasiuk: CG Supervisor RealFlow Artist: Victor Luba RealFlow Artist: Maxwell Ingenuity Engine David Lebensfeld: Executive Producer Matthew Poliquin: Lead CG Artist

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