Star Wars Outlaws is the first open world video game relating to the univers of Star Wars, scheduled for release in 2024. It is published by Ubisoft and developed by Massive Entertainment studio in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games and Disney. Players will experience a story across the galaxy as the character Kay Vess, whose time window is set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (episodes 5 and 6 of Star Wars, respectively).

The intention behind making this project was to render the official poster of the Star Wars Outlaws video game come alive and animated using visual effects and animations

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), 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: 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).

Dimensions: 1920x1080 px.

Frames per second: 60 Fps.

Duration: 30 seconds.

Composition: 3D editing with a shot by 2-nodes camera.

A division by 2 of the poster’s dimensions was carried out in order to adapt it to the 1920x1080p resolution. Finally, the style of the composition is based on the principle of the "looped video".

Noise reduction

Deletion of the title

Deletion of the snow

Deletion of the flying entities (spaceships and creatures)

Reconstruction of certain parts hidden by elements as part of the realization of the various plans for the completion of the 3D rendering

On the other hand, the removal of snowflakes had to be carried out in order to add it as a visual effect in the audiovisual production and thus avoid perceiving the aspect of an image when viewing it.

1. The title of the game

2. The levitating motorcycle

3. The two characters

4. The rounded space in the foreground

5. The closest parts of the middle plane

6. The furthest parts of the middle pane

7. The set of spaceships split between the foreground and the background

8. The creatures in front of the sun

9. The moon

10. The background (sky and planet)

Camera

The robot and his coat

Kay Vess and her creature

The moon

The flying creatures in the background

The levitating motorcycle

The Empire destroyer (spaceship)

The TIE Fighters (spaceship)

The X-Wing T-65 (spaceship)

The spaceship on the right

 

"Star Wars Outlaws - EPIC Trailer Music Cover" from Jeremy Brauns.

Unlike all of my previous projects, the realization of this one asked me to move objects along the Z axis (depth) taking into account the increase of speed and size of them as they get closer to the camera. Thus, this is an aspect that I was able to perfect and to understand the settings to assign within After Effects to obtain suitable results from a physical and realistic point of view.

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This production also allowed me to develop a new type of visual effect: the firepower released by a reactor.