Synthetic Shoot

Surface Tension

A synthetic product shoot for Odd Palette. Liquid, pigment and slow-motion collision, all generated.

Client

Odd Palette

Year

2025

Location

Synthetic · Studio

Runtime

00:30

Services

Art Direction, Synthetic Product, Simulation Look-Dev, Edit, Color

Odd Palette makes pigment. We made a thirty-second film where the product is the performance. No set, no tank, no cleanup.

Challenge

A practical liquid shoot at this scale meant a rig, a tank and a week of resets for thirty usable seconds.

Approach

We look-developed the fluid in-engine, art-directed each collision, and graded for a high-speed, high-contrast finish that stays legible at social speed.

Outcome

A campaign master and six vertical cutdowns, produced in eight days. Zero physical cleanup.

Stills

Collision frame, 1000fps look · Pigment study · Final master

“It looks like we rented a high-speed stage for a week. We didn’t leave the studio.”

Marco Vidal · Founder, Odd Palette

Credits

Art Direction

Iris Tanaka

Simulation

Jonas Keller

Edit & Grade

Sofia Lindqvist

Sound

Theo Almeida

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