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title: "Kaboom Box"
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## Overview

This Houdini Digital Asset will greatly speed up pyro and volume workflows by giving artists a toolkit to render explosions, fire, candles, and anything else in between. The HDA offers both basic and advanced pyro lookdev controls plus a few presets to get you going quickly and easily.

Developed at Pixar by FX TD Hope Schroers, this HDA is a robust shading network developed using native RenderMan nodes and the best practices for rendering volumes at Pixar Animation Studios.

![RenderMan_KaBoomBox_title.jpg](media://3aa26320-7234-4f92-8ca7-19991d22e55d)

## Installation

This Pyro HDA is simple to install:

- Download the Kaboom Box HDA
- Open Houdini’s Asset Menu
- Choose Install Asset Library
- Select rman_kaboom_box.hda
- Press install

For more in depth information about using The Kaboom Box, please visit the [RenderMan documentation](https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/RFH/Kaboom+Box+HDA).

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### About the Artist

![hope-schroers-headshot.png](media://38ae99ce-e306-4a6c-bcb3-fde83ca1f3de)

Hope Schroers is an FX technical director who’s worked at Pixar on films such as *Elemental*, *Lightyear*, and *Luca*. She loves merging her technical skills with her passion for photography and illustration.

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This project is available with an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. This allows you to share and redistribute for non-commercial purposes, provided that you credit the original author.

> ℹ️ ### Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)