One of my favorite and also my first project at The Mill, I got to work with the AirPods Team at Apple and with Creative Director James Allen. There were two versions of this spot. One of them was for the Apple September Event 2022 and the other one for Youtube. The Youtube version was a collaboration between The Mill and FutureDeluxe. I worked on the particles setups throughout the spot and also the speaker particles in the beginning. I also developed a tool that made it easier to render layers of particles so that it could be comped easily. As we initially had a lot of shots so that tool came in handy.

The particles are also being controlled by the Stems of the music, it was my first time using CHOPs in Houdini to control particles. The R&D phase was so much fun!

We spent a lot of late nights on this one as every week there were so many changes but in the end it was all so worth it. We still bond over this project to this day and talk about all the late hours we had to do.

Youtube Version:

Apple Event Version: