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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes - The Krayt Dragon Hunt Trailer

Back in March '23, AdLiven and Electronic Arts (EA) teamed up to create a trailer for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes "Krayt Dragon Hunt". It was a wonderful experience between EA's marketing team and a lot of talented artists that joined me in production. Timeline was done in 2 months for a May 4th "Star Wars Day" launch. Assembly and animation were handled in Maya, using Redshift for lighting and lookdev. A lot of the assets needed to be prepped, including re-rigging all characters, topology clean-up and texture upscaling. 3D FX were created in Houdini, with 2D FX and final compositing done in AE.
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All work was made possible by the team below:
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Brendan Keane - Partner Relations Manager
Nathan Peyton - Director | Producer
David Phipps - 3D Generalist
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Rodrigo Henrique - Assembly | LookDev | Lighting | Rendering
François Puren - Assembly | LookDev | Animation | VFX | Lighting | Rendering
Eric Vanucci - Storyboard Artist
Glauber Belo - Senior Rigging Artist
Rodrigo Mendes - Senior Character Animator
Jeremy Johnson - Senior Character Animator
Leo Uehara - Compositor
Tom Stewart - Sound Design
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Opposite Visuals:
Joaquin Romero - Associate FX Supervisor
Nicolas Agarzua - Associate Coordinator
Santiago Rey - Associate Producer
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Juan Miguel Tomalá - FX Artist
Aaron Ramirez Sanchez - FX Artist
Jamie orlando Porta Carrion - FX Artist
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Alfredo Meana - Lead Rigging Artist
Jesús Gómez Díaz - Senior Character Animator

Final approved cut for the raid launch trailer.

Shot progression of the 1st Geonosis shot with General Grievous. Rodrigo Mendes did a terrific job handling all the character animation in a short time frame.

Progression of the 2nd Mandalorian shot. Except for the storyboard, this was handled completely by Francois Puren, who did an amazing job.

Progression of the 2nd Mandalorian shot. Except for the storyboard, this was handled completely by Francois Puren, who did an amazing job.

Progression of Luke's reaction shot, right before the Rancor is revealed. Luke's lightsaber FX is a 2D composite, to achieve the punchy look of the movies.

Progression of Luke's reaction shot, right before the Rancor is revealed. Luke's lightsaber FX is a 2D composite, to achieve the punchy look of the movies.

This shot was a late addition to the Sith Triumvirate scene, but works well to establish the trio. We all need more KOTOR 2 in our lives.

This shot was a late addition to the Sith Triumvirate scene, but works well to establish the trio. We all need more KOTOR 2 in our lives.

Full Animation pass. Characters were handled expertly by Francois Puren, Rodrigo Mendes, Jeremy Johnson, and Jesus Diaz.

Animatic and 3D Blockout comparison. Camera previz doing the heavy lifting making sure we were heading in the right direction.

The full trailer, before I needed to cut some shots to make room for headline splash screens.

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