Breaking rocks with Houdini and Blender

Another practice for rigid body. I had this idea for a while but I managed to get to work on it only recently.
Highly inspired by the scene from Saint Seiya where the guy uses his cosmos energy to break the stone. I even wanted to recreate the scene but couldn't manage to get a red haired actress lol. So I decided to go for a more grounded/realistic live action scene.
3D model done in blender
Rigid Body simulation done in Houdini.

[@Hitokage]

Wow!!! Man this is just perfect! So real! I thought that only the small stone was CGI :D, then the plot twist came!

[@SamuraiTin]

Thanks! Actually the stones at the beginning were real. Only the broken rock is CG 😉

[@Hitokage]

@@SamuraiTin You see? I can't even tell :D

[@kg4135]

Woah! Loved the ultra slow-mo effect!

[@SamuraiTin]

Thanks!

[@AustinThomasFilms]

Sick man! Very cool. The slow mo explosion kind of reminds me of the cafe scene in Inception

[@SamuraiTin]

Thanks! Ah you're right, I did the slow motion to show off the realism of the effect but yeah looks like from inception 👍