| Realization of a 3D rendering accompanied by animations and visual effects of a Stranger Things 5 poster.

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

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.

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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.

 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 (1080x1920 px), choice of the number of frames per second (60 FPS), 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 correction 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 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.

  •  Editing: 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

       • Outro in fade to black

   ○ Motion Design

       • Appearance of the logo and the texts

   ○ Color grading

       • Slight color corrections

       • Slight details enhancement

   ○ Visual effects (VFX)

       • Embers (x3)

       • Black smoke (4)

       • Lightning in the background

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).

Julien Carlier Productions

2023