This course offers an overview of the Bifröst implementation in Autodesk Maya. Using emitter, collider, accelerator, and liquid property nodes, Aaron F. Ross simulates a medium-scale liquid effect and stores it to disk as a cache. Rendering the surface at full quality requires generating an animated polygon mesh; for a convincing layered material, he shows how to extract Bifröst channel data such as Vorticity and apply it in a shading network. The course concludes with a look at the Aero Solver for atmospheric effects.

Topics include:
* Understanding Bifröst
* Analyzing the node structure
* Emitting from a polygon mesh
* Colliding with objects
* Pushing and damping fluid motion with accelerators
* Caching Bifröst simulations
* Meshing liquid and exporting to Alembic
* Shading with the Bifröst liquid material
* Designing mental ray materials
* Layering shaders with Bifröst channel data
* Adding mist with an Aero simulation
* Texturing an Aero material