Julien Carlier
Realization of a 3D rendering accompanied by Animations and Visual Effects of a Star Wars Outlaws wallpaper.
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.
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".
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.
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)
All the elements and effects were made in After Effects by hand and using plugins.
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: the characters).
"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.
This production also allowed me to develop a new type of visual effect: the firepower released by a reactor.