Pearls?

The real name of should be: making the best after making the worst of a good situation. but that is the wrong amount of long and convoluted. Basically I wanted to try a different approach to something someone else made on a project I was working on today and then I got side tracked. This ended up having some potential and I was getting a little psyched about it, then I exported the alembic and realized that it wasn't as cool as I thought. Then I spent some time with light and camera tricks and now it's at least passibly sexy again. I think that there are some cool techincal things that I touched on in the houdini side, but they just didn't turn out looking great this time. Maybe next time it will turn out a little better. I have some ideas, but still taking it a little easy until work slows down again.