I am always tinkering around with this project, every year I try to implement a new idea or evolve the original project (https://www.behance.net/gallery/70862691/Coral-Cities-An-Ito-Design-Lab-Concept). Check out the above link for more information on the project and what these corals show.

This year I managed to port the workflows for these "drive-time" corals to Houdini which meant I could take advantage of a better render engine. The end results had a much more organic feel to them thanks to Octane!

I also managed to implement a nice routing engine into the branches which meant I could spawn particles down the tendrils to create some lovely looking flow animations. I did want to update all the cities I produced in the first project (https://mapzilla.co.uk/work/the-coral-cities) but the process is quite lengthy to port everything. 

The below animations and images showcase the updated workflow.