After thinking about a process like this for a couple years in the back of my mind, I finally came across the perfect inspiration to test it out - While on vacation (and under a deadline), there was a statue in our pool that I really loved. So I used a 3D scanning app on my phone to sample the statue from real life, exported & reduced down the .obj to a manageable size, then used a ton of AE trickery, particle systems, audio syncing, and more to create this beautiful atmospheric album artwork, and a whole music video out of it too.