| Realization of a 3D rendering accompanied by animations and visual effects of a Immortals of Aveum wallpaper.

🎬 Audiovisual production: https://www.carlierjulien.com/en/gallery/immortalsofaveum

Overview 🔎

Immortals of Aveum is a video game published by Electronic Arts and developed by Ascendant Studios, published in august 2023. The game offers played to explore in subjective view a narrative campaign through the character Jak, combining magic, combat, stories and mythical creatures.

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The idea behind the development of this project was to render animated a cover image of the game including the main character, and by integrating an emblematic element of the Blue Magic.

Process 🛣

In order to realize this project, I went through several well-defined stages.

 1. 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.

 2. 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.).

 3. 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.

 4. Insertion of the plans previously cut in the 3D space, and configuration of the camera and its path.

 5. Creation of the various animations.

 6. Design of the visual effects (VFX) using plugins.

 7. Editing of the production: General color corrections and details enhancement.

 8. Assembly of the production on Premiere Pro: Insertion of the composition, research, addition and editing of the soundtrack.

 9. 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: 21 seconds.

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

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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

   ○ Deletion of the title

   ○ Deletion of some parts of the character

   ○ 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 title of the game

    2.  The character

    3.  The runic circle

    4.  The background

✨ Effects & Elements

   ○ Color grading

       • Color corrections

       • Slight details enhancement

   ○ Visual effects (VFX)

       • The runic circle and its runes

       • The character's mark

       • The magic released by the character's eyes

       • The magic released by the character's shoulders

       • Flickering of the character's eyes

       • The grid inside the runic circle

       • Illumination of some parts of the background

   ○ Motion Design

       • The appearance of the runic circle and its runes

       • The appearance of the character's mark

All the elements and effects were made in After Effects by hand and using plugins.

⚙ Animations

   ○ Camera

   ○ The character's coat collar

   ○ The character's hair

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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 coat collar).

🎵 Soundtrack

"The End" from Tom Hawk and Aubrey Hodges | Immortals of Aveum Original Soundtrack.

Takeaways 📣

The realization of this production allowed me to develop in more depth and perfect 3 special effects that I had developed in some of my previous productions, namely: the magical effects released by the character's eyes and shoulders as well as the effect of random appearance of different parts of a static element (here, the grid inside the runic circle).

Julien Carlier Productions

2023