du ich

that first video gets all the detail through actual geometry. if you check the description, you end up with that video https://vimeo.com/69607254 [vimeo.com] as a base for the one you posted. read the comments but to summarize it's done with vdb and about 2 million polygons. that works if you need like one hero wood fracture that covers large screen space but is totally overkill for any other scenario