Swizzels
A billion reasons to savour the moment
VFX / Houdini simulation
A factory-scale celebration, with sweets spilling into a moving river and interacting with the water around them.
- My contribution
- Houdini simulation: coupled sweets and river FLIP solve, two-way fluid and rigid-body interaction, foreground effects
- Created at
- One Agency
- Collaboration
- With One Agency. Videography: Cary Au. Project management: Maisie Hambleton. VFX assistance and initial burst: Nicole Menzies.
- Campaign context
- One Agency case study
Make the milestone physical.
Swizzels wanted to celebrate one billion bags of Variety Sweets. The film turns the factory setting into a playful spectacle, moving from the chimney burst into a river full of recognisable sweets.
One solve. Two-way interaction.
My focus was the heavy simulation, foreground effects and river FLIP simulation. The difficult part was getting the sweets and water to communicate within a single solve: the sweets needed to disturb the river, while the moving water influenced them in return. That interaction gives the final shot its weight and complexity.
