Right before the 2022 World Cup kicked off in Qatar, I used the energy of the moment to push myself on two things I'd been wanting to crack for a while: simulations and photorealistic grass. No brief, no client, no contraints, just create for the love of the game and my passion for 3D. The two pieces each took a different direction creatively, but the throughline was the same: get the materials and physics to feel genuinely real. The grass version got some beautiful sound design treatment from Stefan Kostaras of Pelican Sound, which really brought it to life.