A Glass of Coca Cola with Foam & Bubbles. Understand foam simulation settings in-depth, including foam patterns, interaction of bubbles, rendering modes and much more

Take a deep dive into ALL foam settings. Learn how to make foam rise faster or stick to the glass. Understand settings like B2B to create realistic thick foam on top of the liquid. Add more foam AFTER simulation is already done. Use resimulation to only simulate foam again without the need to sim main liquid again, and much more.

Learn all of my best tips & tricks for getting realistic looking close-ups of water splashes

Use the particle tuner to create various melting effects, such as pouring a “hot” liquid that melts a solid object. Understand Variable Viscosity and RGB Diffusion

Learn how to add more foam where needed. Emit from from objects. Explore the Particle Shader to make bubbles smaller or larger, or how bright they appear.

Go deeper on settings like “steps per frame” and scale of your scene to understand how they affect the behavior of your simulations

On top of all of the other ways of mixing liquids that we’re covering inside this course, I’ll also show you a bit more advanced setup of mixing transparent liquids with opaque ones (e.g. water & paint).

Create viscous liquids like creams, gels, oils, soap, caramel, chocolate and more. Learn how to tweak the settings so they fold or coil like they would in real life. Understand settings like “Non-Newtonian” to add realism to your sims!

At one point this was a popular effect all over Instagram. Use a few tricks inside Phoenix to have the simulation run only inside the sphere. Make it spin with a vortex force. Troubleshoot edge touch points issues. And of course, we’re adding some sweet foam on top.

Set up interaction between tyFlow and Phoenix and drop ice cubes into water. Learn how to make them float using either Active Bodies or tyFlow PhysX Fluid.

Learn how to achieve the “Coiling” or “Folding” effect with liquids (3 main settings need to be tweaked for the magic to happen 🙂

Use various forces for more abstract liquid sims

Liquid Morphing from one object to another! What more to say, this is super fun.

Take an in-depth look into the Particle Tuner. Go beyond simple conditions and setup more complex effects with multiple particle tuners. Make liquids freeze, melt, change viscosity, speed, or remove shooting foam particles. Set up “2-level” conditions and enable force if they are met (e.g. only IF the liquid is older than 1 second and closer than 5cm to an object, THEN affect it by a path follow force). This is one of the most powerful, yet overlooked features of Phoenix that will allow you to make unique and very cool effects.

Here’s a short making-of video full of breakdowns of the various simulations

Bonus Lesson #1: Liquid on fire!

Learn the basics of how to use the other half of Phoenix – fire simulations – to set our liquid on fire. Use the volumetric shader to color the fire from hues of blue to fire orange. Adjust settings like vorticity, cooling, and temperature to achieve this particular look of flames.

Bonus Lesson #4: Emit Bubbles from Models

For example you can imply that objects (medication, pills, active agents, dirt, stains, rust etc. dissolve in water). You can also make a pretty cool “dissolve in acid” shot with this setup, too.

Bonus Lesson #5: Dynamic Rain!

Use tyFlow particles as a liquid source for Phoenix to create an actual liquid simulation of rain – with drops combining and separating, interacting with the surface dynamically, just like in real life.