Below you will find my entry to the X-Particles Challenge 2018. I haven't had much of a chance to use X-Particles through the year and learn and grow with it as much as I had intended, but I decided to jump into the deep end again and come up with an entry. 

I went with the first idea that came to my mind, that of where ice meets fire which then form the X. This was a very fun project as there was a lot of experimenting with this. Different ways to create both the fire and ice simulations, trying multiple emitter and simulation setups. Different shaders, lighting, looks, all which took a few weeks after work hours. There were so many options I wanted to go with but was slowly running out of time, out of time to produce a final result, and simulating, rendering and compositing were the final pieces that were needed otherwise I would have missed the deadline. 

I also got the chance to finally add some sound effects to an animation with this project. 

Even though I didn't win, entering the competition and gaining more experience were the main goals for me and I am looking forward to the next challenge.