Reaction: An Experimental Particle Animation

Here’s a lovely bit of experimental visual goodness from Swedish motion designer Anton Woll Söder in collaboration with CypherAudio. Söder shares that the animation began as an exercise to learn more about VFX software Houdini and slowly evolved into the clip you see here:

The artist uses particle animation, a technique of computer graphics that uses a large amount (in this case) of 3D models to simulate certain types of phenomena that would be difficult to reproduce with conventional rendering techniques.