While we were working on the vfx project everyone had to take on a personal research topic of our interest, mine was learning the software called Houdini and how to create special effects in it. Which i used to create the rocket effects and its explosions.

The research topic I chose to do was how to use particles to drive a simulation.

Here is a PDF document explaining how to achieve this result:Using_particles_in_Houdini_to_drive_your_simulation_WG