Are you satisfied by this perfect fit?

My latest attempt at trying to make a really pleasing piece of art, which you can find on @CorridorCrew ! And of course, I love loops so it HAD to loop!

A lot went into making this shot. Obviously the sound design was a very important aspect, and is where I began. I found a few sounds I liked and formed and idea around them. I’ve been getting really into layered sound design lately haha. It’s fun!

As for technical visual stuff, that was the real challenge! In theory the idea is simple enough: Cutout a puzzle shape from a preUV’d plane, then extrude that into a block that gets animated into place. Getting everything to actually work was not simple lol.

The animation was a combo of real rigid body physics of it getting tossed across the ground roughly into the right position, then animating the strength of a C4D constraint modifier to get it perfectly into position. The drop and bounce were hand animated.

The last frame of this post is actually my first proof of concept that never made it into the Crew video! What I really love about that shot (that I unfortunately couldn’t replicate later) was the wobbly bounciness the puzzle piece has sliding across the ground. It’s such a realistic looking slide! In the final thing it’s mostly framed out anyway.

A surprising challenge that I’m really proud to have pulled off was getting the ground texture to tile properly. I had to dial in the scale of the texture so that it stretched perfectly across the length of 4 pieces, like within 0.0001cm accuracy haha. I also fully did the animation of the red piece twice so that I could smoothly transition between the end and beginning of the shot in after effects for a smooth loop.