Argon HA 1 Product visulistaiconc study Textured and modelled a headphone amplifier

Idea

This short animation was created as a shoe commercial concept, focusing on the interaction between the shoe and a sandy landscape. I wanted to emphasize how the product affects its environment through pressure, motion, deformation, and particle movement.

The setup was built in Houdini, where I modeled the shoe, created the terrain, and projected the shoe animation onto a heightfield to generate deformation. A particle emitter was then driven by the shoe mask, with particle velocity derived from the motion trail of the animated shoe. This allowed the sand to react dynamically to the shoe’s movement.

The final scene was assembled and rendered in Solaris/LOPs using Karma XPU.