This campaign succeeded in its marketing and celebratory function garnering over 500k+ views on Instagram, and bringing in quite a few more fans.
Simulation and animations are done in Blender and exported as Alembics. Scenes are composed, lit and rendered in Unreal Engine 5 Lumen with Nanite enabled. I tried to explore all the foliage tools I could for Quixel Megascans plants. I used After Effects and a plugin called Pixel Sort to stretch the pixels.