Gourdon is a short film created to test out a couple mograph and simulation techniques inside Cinema 4D and  X-Particles, as well as lighting tests on materials where subsurface scattering is involved. Navigating new methodologies while attempting to tell a story in an actual project, I find, is always the best way to put these things to the test. 

The pulsating bubble skin on the gourd uses a combination of several Mograph tools, and the smoke released near the end comes from the X-Particles Explosia toolset.