I developed a habit that everytime I'm learning to use a specific plugin or a complex VFX scheme, I do a project implementing as much as I can regarding that effect. I'm doing this everytime I stumble upon something interesting.

Since the moment Rowbyte Plexus made its launch on aescripts I wanted to make a project that would involve using as much of it as I could.

The audio track used "Immunity" by Jon Hopkins.

I dare say this is the most demanding (technically speaking) project that I'd done until now.

The idea of the project was to animate the Plexus particles to music. Everything started from the text "IMMUNITY" rendered with points and lines by Plexus.

For enhanced complexity, there were several layers used and each letter was split apart from the main word, to be edited by itself.

The point cluster was then twitched and shuffled. Afterwards there were added a few spherical fields, generated by Plexus, to form the background and the "stars".

Facets and triangles were added inside the plugin for a more complex sight. The camera was animated to rove around the scrambled text. Lights were added for the musical accents inside the song.

Also, for a better depth-of-field perception, I used Trapcode Particular to create a starfield across the video.

And as a detail (because I wanted to text more of the Plexus capabilities) I used a 3D model of a pair of headphones (OBJ file) from the Video Copilot's "Music Pack" (part of the Element 3D suite).

The project took a total of 99 hours to render (and almost 72 hours of work). I've rendered it in six sessions of 15 to 18 hours a day. Every keyframe was done "by hand" because retrieving keyframes from audio was way too hard.

Finish date: 25 March 2014