I've always wanted to create my own version of the Bad Apple!! music video originally created in 2012, which has now become a popular challenge to avid programmers and artists. There are hundreds of videos out there displaying the original black and white video in various mediums such as Minecraft sheep, File Explorer, fluid simulations, and more!

I wanted to create a carved apple look, and so I used Houdini to generate a set of displacement maps automatically sourced from the black and white images in the original music video, then projected it onto a series of randomized apples to give a stop motion look.

FX Animation and source images for texturing generated in Houdini. Texturing, lighting, and rendering done in Blender Cycles.