🌆 Cyberpunk 2077
Julien Carlier
3D Renderer
Animator
Video Editor
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Cover picture of the Cyberpunk 2077 Audiovisual Production
Realization of a 3D rendering accompanied by Animations and Visual Effects of a Cyberpunk 2077 wallpaper.
Overview 🔎
Cyberpunk 2077 is an action-RPG video game set in a futuristic world within a society where technology in an integral part of modifying Humans. The title was released in 2020 and was developed and published by CD PROJEKT RED.
The realization of this project was based on an animated rendering of a wallpaper linked to the game, with a "retro" style in its color palette.
Process 🛣
In order to realize this project, I went through several well-defined stages.
Realization of the scenarios (3D, VFX, Animations, Editing) in order to clarify the direction of the project and to know all the elements to be produced.
Creation and configuration of the composition within After Effects: dimensions of the production (1920x1080 px), choice of the number of frames per second (60 FPS), approximate duration (30 sec.).
Cutout of all the elements of the poster through After Effects in order to constitute the plans of the 3D part. Deletion of elements, additional adjustments and retouching were necessary to perfect the plans, using Photoshop.
Insertion of the plans previously cut in the 3D space then configuration of the camera and its path.
Creation of the various animations.
Design of the visual effects (VFX) using plugins.
Editing of the production: Outro, general color correction and details enhancement.
Assembly of the production on Premiere Pro: Insertion of the composition, research, addition and editing of the soundtrack.
Production export (H.264): 1 video file (.Mp4), 2 cover pictures (JPG & PNG).
Audiovisual production details 🎞
🎞 Composition
Dimensions: 1920x1080 px.
Frames per second: 60 Fps.
Duration: 26 seconds.
Composition: 3D editing with a shot by 2-nodes camera.
The dimensions of the cover image were divided by 2 in order to adapt it to the 1920x1080p resolution. Finally, the style of the composition is based on the principle of the "looped video".
🪄 Photo retouching
Noise reduction
Reconstruction of certain parts hidden by elements as part of the realization of the various plans for the completion of the 3D rendering
When making the cutouts in order to obtain the different plans to create the 3D part of the production, it was necessary to proceed retouching to faithfully reconstruct the plans behind each cut element.
✂ Cutouts (from the foreground to the background)
1. The trees and vegetation
2. The characters and the ledge
3. The city
4. The sky
✨ Effects & Elements
Transitions
Color grading
Visual effects (VFX)
All the elements and effects were made in After Effects by hand and using plugins.
⚙ Animations
Camera
Palm leaves and vegetation
Rabbit ear of the woman on the left and hair of the woman on the right
Spaceships in the sky
All the animations were made by hand, some of which required additional cutouts in order to animate a very specific element without hindering other elements (eg: vegetation).
🎚 Sound effects (SFX)
Fireworks
In order that the production appear more immersive, I deliberately added a slight sonority of fireworks explosions.
🎵 Soundtrack
"Outsider No More" from P.T. Adamczyk | Cyberpunk 2077 - Original Score.
Takeaways 📣
Designing this project allowed me to develop a new type of special effect: fireworks. I deliberately left the design of the effect "basic" within this production in order to remain faithful to the wallpaper.
