As a medical animator, one of the things I do often in Softimage is make villi which sway in reaction to forces and bounce off each other. Here’s an example in one of my clips at 13 seconds.
[https://vimeo.com/manage/308481555/general]
In Softimage I create a rigid body tower which reacts to wind objects at different positions and duplicate it all over the scene. All of the villi react to each other and the forces. I didn’t have any luck with that method in Blender. Any ideas?