How to create golden fluid/smoke/particle effect similar to Taylor Swift's willow music video?

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Taylor Swifts music video has these golden particle/fluid/smoke simulation. It is like a glowing pipe which has particles & smoke or fluid or both coming out randomly.

I understand fluid simulation and smoke simulation, but this effect seems to be a mix of those. Any ideas on how to make this effect?

Here are some screenshots from the video:

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Here it looks smoke is emitted.
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Here the golden smoke/particle seem to be mixing into water.
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Here it looks like glowing fluid.

Please help. :sweat_smile:

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Looks like simple smoke and particles, mainly, with the rope working as the emitter (seems like it’s been manually rotoscoped over a real rope/ribbon in the footage)

And yes in the last clip it does look like some sort of fluid sim

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The basic principle is that when flow is more dense that hot, it falls.
To make smoke falls, you just have to give to the emitter a negative temperature.

You can have old particles being influenced by a Fluid Flow force field using smoke simulation.
A Turbulence force field can be used to create turbulence in both flow.

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Also, how does the material work here? More glow towards the center and more glass/water material as it goes further towards the end.