Unrefined Design is a company creating decorative elements for interiors, made in a very fine type of concrete. One of their founders is a friend and is familiar with 3D work, as he created static renders of the products for their website. He asked if we could collaborate to create some animated content and this sequence is something I came up with, as an exploration on the topic. The work was mostly executed in Houdini, where I set up the scene, the lighting, the shaders and the water simulation. The rendering was then done with Redshift and the editing in Resolve. The bowl model has been supplied by Unrefined Design and the other bathroom accessories were purchased on TurboSquid. While I don't have a lot of experience with lighting and shading specifically, setting up the lights and the materials was fairly easy, just a matter of trying different things and eventually settling for a specific configuration. The water simulation, was certainly more challenging, including the fact that the presence of the water dramatically increased render time - the clips with water took one day for each second to render on my laptop and often generated GPU peak temperatures over 100 Celsius. Ultimately I'm reasonably happy with the results: some things could be better but I'm training myself to let go of -some- perfectionism and I'll be moving onto other projects and goals.