Regrowth | Motion Graphics, Sound Design
A personal project where I strove to combine three inspirations: Quixel demo videos, Midsommar, and flora regrowth.
Moodboard
My primary inspiration for this piece was the “Rebirth: Introducing photorealism in UE4” from Quixel. I also incorporated some inspiration I got from the film Midsommar by Ari Aster and some cliche scenes where nature reclaims buildings or barren land.
Development Process
All three scenes were created with Element 3D.
I sketched out a layout for the environment for the first scene in Cinema 4D then imported it into Element 3D and recreated it using the available primitives.
It was then textured within. The vine was created in Illustrator and the paths imported.
I iterated on camera movement and periodically checked the lighting and depth-of-field by switching between the Draft and Full Render modes.
All three scenes were kept as separate projects in order to minimize the amount of crashes After Effects experienced. The resulting outputs were then combined and music was arranged within After Effects using pre-recorded samples.