One drop, every angle

The whole film turns on a single drop of water. Keeping it the same drop was the hard part.

We built it in Blender as one continuous scene rather than a run of separate shots. A drop lands, the surface rings out, and the water climbs back up and sets into the shape of the bottle.

The trouble is that the camera never stops moving. As we orbit the drop, what reads as up in one moment has to become towards camera in the next, so the X, Y and Z axes are effectively trading places mid-move. Get that handover wrong and the water snaps, or the ripples run the wrong way.

So the simulation, the camera and the bottle all had to share one centre: the drop. Every transition was solved around that single point, then nudged frame by frame until the seams disappeared.

If it looks like one easy movement, that’s the point.