The Piano Fountain (Wet Hands - C418) (Patreon)
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It has been 12 days since I posted this on youtube, but I just remembered I forgot to share it here! I noticed comments from people saying that it reminded them of Animusic, which made me feel great because those animations had a big impact on me as a kid, and left me feeling very inspired ever since. It might be fun if I combine all my blender physics sync videos into one big compilation video, similar to how Animusic did it.
I melted my computer to create this fluid simulation. The velocity of each water jet is controlled by the volume of the piano key hit. I made the sound effects by pouring water into a bathtub lol.
The simulation ended up too big for the render farm, so I had to split up the project into 6 parts. Each of the 6 parts took over 3 days to render (432 hours for the whole project). After splitting everything up, the fluid cache used 988GB of storage on my pc. I've learned fluid simulations are no joke... Glad I got it to work with only a few hiccups!