Mysterious Ways (Studio Smack)

Description

Mysterious Ways is a video clip for the french band Shaka Ponk created by Studio Smack. I was hired for this project to work on the Unreal part. My job was mostly Unreal Pipeline, Rendering, Lighting, Compositing and helping out to fix models/uv’s whenever something wouldn’t import. I also created a blueprint to load in all the image sequences of all the band members so we could render them out in realtime.

Video Clip

Click here to view the final version of the videoclip in color
Click here to view the final version in black and white

Credits:

Directors & Art Direction : Studio Smack
Production Company : Partizan
Executive Producer : Stan Bertin

Concept : Studio Smack
Storyboard : Béla Zsigmond
Animatic : Ton Meijdam
Character Design : Studio Smack
Background Design : Studio Smack
Unreal Programming and Compositing : Marco Jongenelis
Unreal Lighting : Danny Plinck
3D Modeling and Texturing : Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels & Nona Weltevrede
3D Animation : Ton Meijdam & Thom Snels
Chroma Keying and Masking : Thom Snels & Ton Meijdam & Nona Weltevrede
3D Scan Photography : Thom Snels & Allard Timmermans
Colorgrading : Thibaut Petillon for Royal Post
Compositing : Ton Meijdam & Thom Snels
Compositing side team : Royal Post

BREDA TEAM
Camera and Light Operator : Reinier van Dijk
Set Building and Design : Bas Kuypers
Green Screen Set Operators : Nona Weltevrede & Danny Plinck
Make Up Artist : Patricia Steiginga
Catering : Mestrini Culinario

PARIS TEAM
Producer : Dimitri Lykavieris
DOP : Alexandre Szabo-Fresnais
Gaffer : Jean Michel Pitois
Manuel Cam Studio : Jean-Louis Padis
Make up Artist : Cindy Bohnn
Runner : Gregory Perez

All rights of this project go to Studio Smack

Detailed information

Studio Work:

Project Duration:

  • 5 weeks

Video Link:

Tasks:

  • Unreal Logics for image planes
  • Unreal Scene/Set Building
  • Unreal Compositing/Rendering
  • Shaders
  • UV Fixing
  • Unreal Light Fixing

Software Used:

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Autodesk Maya
  • Substance Painter
  • Substance Designer
  • Headus UV Layout
  • Unreal Engine 4