https://www.zarki.net/work/rwka [www.zarki.net]

Saw this really cool injection molding effect online,
The artist say they used Houdini for the shots.

I've been trying to use maya and phoenix to create this effect with no good results.
I tried to make a mold by making a boolean in a box with the desired model, I then put an emitter inside the mold and ran the sim.

The issue is that I can't get the liquid to form exactly onto the model unless I set the particle size insanely small which is taking forever to sim even on a 32 core machine.

I was wondering how I could achieve this shot in Houdini instead.

Thanks!

I'd probably do it more like this than actually simulating liquid, which as you say will be expensive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8FI008FJXM [www.youtube.com]

Could be worth checking this out: https://youtu.be/lYu6ZYiNgyA?t=423 [youtu.be]

I dont know i think that worked wel becouse the frame is thin.

rendering a bunch of slomo splashes retiming them converting them to vdb and use use them in and AND modifier on the vdb of ur model i think whould more closly resemle the result.