The sacred oils must be poured.
This was my first major effort at working with fluid sims. It took over 10hrs of simulation followed by a whopping 400hrs or so of render time to create. This project has taken around six months to bring to completion and has more than filled my hard drive with the sheer amount of simulated cache, so I'm really happy with how well it's turned out.
Finished Composition
Breakdown video on YouTube
FLIP simulation
Fluid surfacing
Texture material performance
Oil render
Pre-composition assemblage
Head render (matt cut-out)
Head render (phantom overlay)
Pyramid render (matt cut-out)
Pyramid render (phantom overlay)
Ground render (matt cut-out)
Ground render (phantom overlay)