Beautiful 3D Explosion Created with Gaussian Splats & EmberGen

Jason Key showed an interesting frozen effect.

Jason Key, a master of stunning VFX made in JangaFX's software, showcased a new effect: a "frozen" explosion created in Jawset Postshot, a program that makes 3D models from photos, using Gaussian splats.

3D Gaussian Splatting is a rendering technique that leverages 3D Gaussians to represent the scene, thus allowing one to synthesize 3D scenes out of 2D footage. Simply put, it takes samples of images and turns them into 3D scenes without creating meshes by converting a point cloud to Gaussians using machine learning. You can learn more about it here.

The input was a 360-degree turntable video, which was simulated and rendered in EmberGen, as the artist shared on LinkedIn.

If you want to see EmberGen and LiquiGen in action, you must follow Key on X/Twitter and LinkedIn. Check out his real-time zero gravity surface tension simulation, cloud evolution, this syrup simulation in LiquiGen, realistic wildfire, and path-traced caustics for inspiration.