This was inspired by a local artist in Colorado, Gravity Glue. He makes these impossible-to-believe Rock Balances around town (and around the world). I thought it’d be a fun challenge to recreate these pieces digitally, except I set this in Japan during Cherry Blossom season instead of Colorado!
I’m still relatively new to Blender so learned a few things along the way to make this possible including: procedural textures, animating water, particles and wind and DOF. It was also my first animation. I actually experimented with a Render Farm too bc my current machine is vastly underpowered. One thing I messed up was the leaves cast shadows on the image plane I used as a background. Whoops! Next time 
Still very inspired and humbled by this community. Every time I ran into an issue or had an idea, someone had posted something that helped me make my vision possible.