Hydronix Calibration

About the project

Hydronix creates moisture sensors for the manufacturing industry. Their sensors are used at the processing stage to ensure the moisture levels are kept within the industry standards, meaning no waste.

Planning

Firstly, we need to get an understanding of the process and how the sensors work. We worked closely with the technical team at Hydronix to ensure everything was correct. Then we went to work on planning the product video, which would take place in a concrete processing plant and taking a camera would require some limitations to what we wanted to achieve, so the obvious and only choice for an animation studio was to, well, animate it. This would mean creating the processing plant and any hardware or equipment needed within the narrative. The CAD data was sent to us for each sensor and we went to work on the storyboarding and visual language of the animation.

Production

The first task was to recreate a concrete facility. Working alongside the Hydronix team to ensure all the main buildings of the plant were correct. We then set up creating the testing lab for the samples of sand. 

With the plant build, we then created the placement for the sensor arm below the aggregate bin, so when we simulated the sand falling it hit the sensor at the correct point as it would in the real world.

Now we moved on to the simulation of the sand flowing from the aggregate bin, the simulation was made more complex due to the sheer number of particles over 3 million particles move and interact with each other and the sensor. Once happy the simulation was ready for the materials and lighting.

The next and final task is to show the moisture measuring process in the lab – guiding the user on how to measure the moisture of the sand samples and inputting the results into the Hydronix software.