Full Project

3D Design | Simulations | Animation

500 MILLION PARTICLES - MOBILE WALLPAPER

Industry: Electronics
Studio: IM Creative
Role: 3D Design | Simulation | Animation
 

500 million particles. Built in Houdini to create a flowing particle field that evolves into the mobile wallpaper itself. Exploring scale, motion, and emergence through simulation.

STILLS FRAMES:

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THE CHALLENGE

For this piece, the challenge was art directing hundreds of millions of particles to create a seamless flow from the environment into the phone screen, building a surreal, immersive transition between the two.

This was achieved through extensive look development in Houdini, carefully dialing in particle count, motion, and flow with precise control over the simulation.

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UNDER THE HOOD: USING HOUDINI & CINEMA 4D

Houdini is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to achieving this level of precision in simulation and animation. Coupled with Cinema 4D and Redshift, it seamlessly integrates and goes from art direction to render.

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PROJECT

500 Million Particles - Mobile Phone Wallpaper

CREDITS

Design | 3D | CGI: Ian Miller
R&D: Evilise Quijano

PIPELINE

Houdini
Cinema 4D
After Effects
Redshift

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