Something dark and low polygonal is threatening a whole planet's very existence and an interplanetary exodus has begun, overseen by a lonesome hero staying behind. Major drama.
This low poly semi-epic child hood tribute space saga called EXODUS was born when a company called Trapcode asked us to make a short film using their new plugin MIR, based on an image I made while beta testing the plugin.
We accepted the challenge, came up with a way too complex multi part plot, decided to only use the first little incident of that story and went to work, letting the plugin affect our creative, narrative and technical results.
Below are the stills from the film. So you don't have to, you know, pause the video or something.
Ok!
STARS: MIR and Particular
PLANET: Several layers of MIR and some AE lights
SURFACE: Several instances of MIR with custom displacement maps and some AE lights
SURFACE: See above
CITIES: MIR with custom displacement map
DUST: MIR and Particular
CHARACTER: AE shapes and MIR-generated textures
SHIP: MIR and some AE lights
SHIPS: See above
EXHAUST/CHEMTRAILS: Two MIR instances
BG SHIPS: Particular
CHEM TRAILS: Particular
LOWPOLY: MIR
MIR, MIR, MIR, MIR
