🐯 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Julien Carlier
Animator
Video Editor
Video Producer
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Cover picture of the audiovisual production "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"
Realization of a 3D rendering accompanied by animations and visual effects of the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever poster.
Overview 🔎
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a superhero and science fiction (SF) movie released in 2022 and produced by Marvel Studios.
This project was characterized by the culmination of an audiovisual production from the movie poster. The objective was to elaborate a looped composition, in a vertical format, integrating visual effects, animations, and a 3D effect.
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.
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.
Creation and configuration of the composition within After Effects: dimensions of the production (1080x1920 px), choice of the number of frames per second (60 FPS), duration (30 sec.), addition of the plans previously cut and insertion in 3D space, and configuration of the camera.
Creation of the various animations.
Creation of the visual effects (VFX) using plugins.
Editing of the production: camera path, Intro & Outro.
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 vertical cover pictures (JPG & PNG), 2 horizontal cover pictures (JPG & PNG).
Audiovisual production details 🎞
🎞 Composition
Dimensions: 1080x1920 px.
Frames per second: 60 Fps.
Duration: 30 seconds.
Editing: 3D editing with a shot by 2-nodes camera.
🪄 Photo retouching
Deletion of the titles
Removing foreground characters and their reflection
Removing characters in the reflection
Removing pyramids in the reflection
Reconstruction of certain parts hidden by elements as part of the realization of the various plans for the completion of the 3D rendering
Some minor details have been removed in order to get a better picture.
✂ Cutouts (from the foreground to the background)
1. The sea and the characters at the foreground
2.1. Black Panther and Wakanda Forever Titles
2.2. Marvel Studios Logo
3. The mist above the sea
4.1. Shuri (Letitia Wright)
4.2. (Reflection from the bottom) - The central character (Namor)
5.1. Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) & Ramonda (Angela Bassett)
5.2. (Reflection from the bottom) - The bluish secondary Beings (Attuma & Namora)
6. M'Baku (Winston Duke) & Okoye (Danai Gurira)
7. Black Panther
8.1. The city at the background
8.2. (Reflection from the bottom) - The pyramids
9.1. The sky
9.2. (Reflection from the bottom) - The starry sky
✨ Effects & Elements
Transitions
Colors & Brightness
Visual effects (VFX)
⚙ Animations
Camera
Appearance of the MARVEL STUDIOS logo
Feathers and Leaves of the helmets of the characters visible in the reflection
🎵 Soundtrack
"Wake Up T'Challa" from Ludwig Göransson.
