| Realization of a 3D rendering accompanied by animations and visual effects of a Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty screenshot.

🎬 Audiovisual production: https://www.carlierjulien.com/en/gallery/cp77-pl

Overview 🔎

Cyberpunk 2077 is an action-RPG video game set in a futuristic world within a society where technology in an integral part of modifying Humans. The title was released in 2020 and its extension "Phantom Liberty" in 2023. It was developed and published by CD PROJEKT RED.

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The development of this project was based on an animated rendering of a screenshot linked to the game expansion.

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: Outro, 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: 26 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

   ○ 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 (out of 3D)

    2.  The stairs in the foreground

    3.  The statue

    4.  The stairs in the second plan

    5.  The small tower located to the left of the stairs

    6.1.  The stadium rim

    6.2.  The big tower on the left

    7.  The stadium

    8.  The small tower in the background, to the left of the stadium edge

    9.  The dark building in the background on the left and the high advertising billboard in the background

    10.  The advertising panel in the background on the right

    11.  The sky

✨ Effects & Elements

   ○ Transitions

       • Outro in fade to black

   ○ Color grading

       • Color corrections

       • Slight details enhancement

   ○ Visual effects (VFX)

       • Mist crossing light beams

       • Different lights and light beams

       • Brightness of certain stadium elements and panels

   ○ Motion Design

       • Appearance & Animation of the title

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

⚙ Animations

   ○ Camera

   ○ The cables

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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: cables).

🎵 Soundtrack

"I'm a Netrunner" from P.T. Adamczyk | Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Original Score.

Julien Carlier Productions

2023