For the core of my artifact, I wanted to create an abstract shape that feels dense and unstable, like the center of an organic bomb from another world. I built a Geometry Nodes modifier and distributed points inside a spherical volume. Then I animated them using a noise node, driven by the progress of each frame, to give the core a living and unpredictable motion.

For this part, I created rotating rings around the artifact, to represent particles that escaped from its core. I used the same idea as for the core, based on points inside a volume, but this time applied to torus shapes. This helped me keep an organic and procedural look while making the motion feel like it’s orbiting the artifact.

In this part of the project, I made a glass sphere explode into pieces, like a balloon bursting from pressure inside. But instead of flying away, the fragments stay frozen in space, spreading extremely slowly, held back by a mysterious force. I created the shards using the Cell Fracture tool, then built a Geometry Nodes modifier to control the scale and rotation of each piece, so I could shape the explosion exactly the way I wanted.