TERROR Promo Animation for AXEN X Wraith

TERROR - @axenofficial X @wraithdubs keyframes.

I LOVE working on the droid universe my homie @axenofficial has created. The narrative, the aesthetics and the absolute 'no holding back' mind-blowing level of production @axenofficial & @wraithdubs music bring to the table.

Having worked with @axenofficial as my day 1 in this pursuit of everything sci-fi life, I had all the assets ready to go for this one. I wanted the visuals to match the terror-ific hyper adrenaline driven master track that is TERROR.

Such challenging scenes that I had in mind to match the track but once the textures were done, I knew exactly what to do for the rest of the workflow such as storyboarding(prior), Camera angles/movement, lighting, editing, colour-grading, pacing in the cuts, render settings.

The biggest challenge was authoring a texture that outlined and object with emission to get a scanning effect. After rigorous trial and error, I found that the dirt node in octane could be used as an alpha as well as a dynamic texture with added noise when channelled through the BBE node and the opacity(inverted) of the diffuse material. Added a random seed and keyframed them in the noise which was also plugged into the dirt node to get this fiery ash effect which outlined an object when the surface of the plain made contact. Along with some mograph plain effectors using fields and geometry polyfx, bingo bongo you get this effect.

I really had to optimize the scene and the 3D objects as well as lowering the samples to even render one frame. The axen droid itself had to be retopologised due to the frequent crashes from the limited Vram headroom. I wasn't too happy with how the droid looked at the end but I was really pushed for time on this one.

This took a few all-nighters and loved every second of it. Feel very happy and accomplished with this piece.

MORE TO COME STAY TUNED.

The droid and the mechanical arm was modelled in Zbrush and fusion360
The animation was rendered in Cinema 4D with octane renderer
Full animation composited in Premiere Pro and After Effects