Making of Adam - The VFX

You have certainly seen this short film:

What you may haven't seen this article about the making of the vfx stuff. Quite comprehensive article (I wish I could write things something like this):

Adam – VFX in the real-time short film

Digital Pyrotechnics at Industrial Light & Magic with Plume

I always think about how big studios deal with pyrotechnic (explosion, fire and smoke, usually). Do they use Maya fluid or FumeFx, Phoenix FD, Houdini Pyro FX, or Flowline, or something else (Blender)? And the answer is something else. Of course they probably use a lot of off-the-shelf stuff as it needed but since 2010 ILM has a proprietary solution called Plume. So there is an awesome presentation on youtube.