GridMarkets Blog

Interview with Marcelo Cermak, award-winning FX Technical Director and Visual Effects Artist. Fluid dynamics has become his specialty.

From paper sculptures in high school to fluid simulations in Houdini, VFX artist Travis Rainford has carved a unique path into the world of dynamic effects. In this interview, he shares how he found his passion, the projects that shaped him, and how GridMarkets helped him render complex shots in minutes instead of days.

Gianni Ritschard is a freelance 3D artist and 2D character designer based in Winterthur, Switzerland, with over nine years of professional experience in both studio and freelance environments.

This case study explores the creation of a realistic snow environment using Houdini 20.5 and the Material Point Method (MPM) solver, enhanced by character animation and cloth simulation, and rendered through GridMarkets Renderfarm. The project tells the story of a medieval soldier’s returning home from the battlefield, walking across a snow-covered landscape under a hopeful morning sun.