👾 Stranger Things 5
Julien Carlier
Animator
Motion Designer
Video Editor
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Cover picture of the Stranger Things 5 Audiovisual Production
Realization of a 3D rendering accompanied by animations and visual effects of a Stranger Things 5 poster.
Overview 🔎
Stranger Things is a 5-season Netflix Science fiction / horror series, set in a fictional American town named "Hawkins", witness to supernatural phenomena and characters with extraordinary abilities.
The purpose of this project was to create an animation of one of the posters for the Stranger Things season 5 in the form of an "infinite loop" audiovisual production.
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 (1080x1920 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 different 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 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.
Composition: 3D editing with a shot by 2-nodes camera.
The original dimensions of the poster have been readjusted in order to correspond to the 1080x1920p resolution. On the other hand, the style of the composition is based on the principle of the "looped video".
🪄 Photo retouching
Removal of the visual effects
Deletion of Will and the flying creatures
Deletion of texts and logo
Reconstruction of certain parts hidden by elements in the process of creating 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. Title and texts (out of 3D)
2. Volcanic rock at the foreground
3. Will and the flying creatures
4. The characters and the smoke on the sides, at the second plan
5. The light column in the center
6. Vecna and Eleven
7. The sky
✨ Effects & Elements
Transitions
Motion Design
Color grading
Visual effects (VFX)
All the elements and effects were made in After Effects by hand and using plugins.
⚙ Animations
Camera
Will
All of the flying creatures
All the animations were made by hand.
🎵 Soundtrack
"Gates of Kamchatka" from Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein | Stranger Things 4 (Original Score From The Netflix Series).
