Throughout my journey as a designer, I've always spent my off time playing with the possibilities of CGI, experimenting freely and seeing where it gets me. Inspired by feelings, music & other stimuli, I'm always trying to get presentable results. This is a selection of those freewill moments.
For this experiment, I wanted to use one of the simplest 2D shapes and push its animation to make it as eye-catching as I could.
I started by setting the heart spline as a particle emitter in Realflow for Cinema4D. By tweaking the parameters, I could give the emitter a linear direction and give the birthrate a slow pace so it would emit only once every second approximately (60 pulsations per minute).
I realized I needed two simulations to be composited later, one center part and one outer part. For the center part, I set a positive attractor further from the source so the particles would come closer to the center with the camera facing the ground. For the outer part, I set a negative attractor so it would push the particles away from the source, camera facing downwards. I rendered both of these simulations with a reflective material and a studio HDRi.
For the composit part, I imported the renders in After Effects and applied the "Displacer Pro" plugin from Plugin Everything. At this point, I'm playing intensely with the parameters to find a sweet looking spot. Once it was looking good enough, I animated the displacement offset, map softness and scale parameters to give the animation a start, a middle and an end.
This experiment is a test using fracture voronoi with the sequence put in reverse.
To present it in a nicer way, I rendered it with a transparent material, octane bloom & glare post effect + depth of field.



This boot is a collaboration between MORPH Design and Elena Velez for her SS22 collection show during NYFW.



File characteristics :

Date of production - 2022
Designer - MORPH
Collection - Elena Velez SS22
A historical lamp designed by Gae Aulenti for the brand Martinelli Luce.
Consisting of four adjustable arms and four heads, the combination of the vertical movement of the arms and the lamp heads evokes a scraper, meaning "ruspa" in Italian.



File characteristics :

Date of production - 1967
Designer - Gae Aulenti
Brand - Martinelli Luce
The project is based off a photo taken by Irving Penn for a Vogue 1994 issue, magnifying the beauty of a headdress made by Jean-Paul Gaultier and worn by model Bridget Hall.
This JPG headdress is a mix of cultural references, taking inspiration from Indian ornaments to American-style chains and padlocks. Along with the color theme, hair and ears were silver slicked by Orlando (for Bumble + Bumble) and Brigitte Reiss-Andersen (for Jacques Dessange).



File characteristics :

Photographer - Irving Penn
Publication - Vogue 1994
Headdress - Jean-Paul Gaultier
Hair - Orlando for Bumble + Bumble
Make-up - Brigitte Reiss-Andersen
Model - Bridget Hall
This winedecanter from circa 1880 is decorated with hot-applied blobs of coloured glass and a pewter lid mount. Produced in Germany, it's now resting at the Museum of Applied Arts of Budapest, Hungary.



File characteristics :

Date of production - circa 1880
Place of production - Germany
Materials - Coloured glass; pewter lid
Techniques - Blown; hot-applied prunts
Dimensions
height: 47cm
opening diameter: 9cm
base diameter: 17,5cm
Pierre Cardin Autumn Winter 1997 Sunglasses. Not much information about these sunglasses but there are good chances they were used as an accessory for the show.



File characteristics :

Date of production - 1997
Brand - Pierre Cardin
Collection - AW 1997
The "coiled" corset from The Overlook collection by Alexander McQueen (1999) combines meticulous craftsmanship, radical body adornment and was a unique collaboration between McQueen, Kees van der Graaf and jeweller Shaun Leane.
It was made of 97 handcrafted aluminium coils. The construction is similar to that of the cuirass, the sides are screwed together, with the wearer inside. Kees van der Graaf created a plaster mould of model Laura Morgan’s torso, onto which Leane then fitted the coils.



File characteristics :

Date of production - Fall 1999
Corset - Shaun Leane
Collection "The Overlook" by Alexander McQueen
Plaster mould - Kees van der Graaf
Model - Laura Morgan
The Spaceball 2003 built by Spacetec IMC Ltd in 1991 is a 3D trackball that allows six-degrees-of-freedom to pan, zoom and rotate 3D models quickly and easily as users build, modify and inspect their designs.
It features eight programmable buttons and a hardware zeroing button (button 8). Also has an integrated button into the forward face of the ball. It was later rebranded for several companies (IBM, HP) and replaced by the Spaceball 4000 in June 1999.



File characteristics :

Date of production - 1991
Creator - Spacetec IMC Ltd
Brand - Hewlett Packard