The Art of Burning | Fabian Nowak | Paris HIVE 2023

A look into a fully art-directable procedural fire setup that works for pretty much everything if you need to burn things down.
Fabian Nowak is the Head of FX and FX Supervisor at The Yard VFX. He has worked over the last decade in London, at MPC and ILM (Industrial Light & Magic), exclusively on big blockbuster films, such as Guardians of The Galaxy, Jungle Book, Lion King, Jurassic World, Avengers Infinity Wars & End Game, and many others. He was awarded a VES in 2017 for best effects simulations in a photoreal feature for Jungle Book. Back in France a few years ago, he's now driving the FX Department at The Yard, where he's dedicated to delivering the best effects possible on every exciting and challenging show.

[@OhioNPC911]

This video is quite fast-paced and advanced, making it difficult for me to understand as a junior artist, but I really enjoyed the final result. I always get confused about whether to use Axiom or the in-built Pyro, because many people say the in-built Pyro gives you more control than Axiom

[@bondell1840]

so axiom or pyro'? am also confused lol

[@VuPhamRainstorm]

Thank you. Terrific knowledge and planing both are in well organize presenting about the chaos of visual included how to solve daily task in production. Legend.

[@StudioOriented]

Fabian !!! The legend!!!

[@Fabian_Nowak_VFX]

Ah ! 😂 Thanks mate ! 😊

[@daniK3102]

The best so far!!

[@vfxskull6208]

Man, this is insane!!

[@gregorybergot]

Incredible stuff! Thanks for this very interesting showcase and for all the knowledge, very inspiring (Axiom is the future 🤯) 👏

[@pragmaticvfx]

Hell yeah! :P

[@AngelisVFX]

this is awesome stuff

[@sadeghsaem]

👌👌

[@谭梦德]

Axiom

[@abdullaharshak.n7870]

I want to know the pyrobake volume shading setup.

[@Jaredvic]

what was everything rendered with? the render with the 4 views of the yard fire shelf tool looked quite nice. i can never get the attenuation of smoke to look good with mantra

[@Fabian_Nowak_VFX]

all mantra.

[@shivdholakia]

this is great, please could you kindly share the hip files? They will be very helpful.

[@Fabian_Nowak_VFX]

No I can't, sorry. But I share all the usefull information in the talk already, so no need for a hip. You should be able to figure out yourself now that I gave all the keys :)

[@shivdholakia]

@@Fabian_Nowak_VFX I was only referring to the demo file that you created for this talk, not the show or studio’s project file. 😊

[@Fabian_Nowak_VFX]

​@@shivdholakiayeah that "demo file" is all about showing the 'Yard_simple_Fire' setup I've created for the studio, so it's quite obvious that I'm not gonna share it ! 😊 The whole scene is basically a walkthrough a proprietary tool I've made for our studio.

[@shivdholakia]

@@Fabian_Nowak_VFX Ah ok, I understand now. No problem. 😊

[@robinsooran8188]

@@shivdholakia RebelWay has very good tutorial for Pyro that helps you create super realistic fire step by step