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Trails and Tribulations

Dec. 1st, 2025
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The team focuses on giving our space creatures painterly motion trails and designing the effects for the the epic sun destruction scene!

Vivien Lulkowski
Vivien Lulkowski Art Director

For the most part I'm done with the planets, so I finally moved to paintovers and some leftover fx concepting again :)

Paintover - One turning
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Paintover - One turning

Some more sun fx
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Some more sun fx

Swarm FX - paintover
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Swarm FX - paintover

Paintover - One under Ice
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Paintover - One under Ice

Sun Fx - concept
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WIP Paintover - Towards One
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Paintover - Critter intro
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Paintover - Critter intro

Stage 2 adjusted
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Stage 2 adjusted

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes Technical Artist

This week I wrapped up the energy blob for now, created a setup to add energy trails to all (!) creatures in the film and started work on the FX for the star being sucked into the black hole, which will continue in the next week.

Trail Integration UI
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Trail Integration UI

Creature Trails FX
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Creature Trails FX

Sun Slurp FX - Initial Setup
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Sun Slurp FX - Initial Setup

Andy Goralczyk
Andy Goralczyk Director
Vivien Lulkowski
Simon Thommes
Hjalti Hjalmarsson

These days I'm mostly helping to integrate the effects setups into all the shots of the entire movie, fixing continuity issues and enhancing lighting and composition in certain shots. I've also uploaded a long overdue update of the edit here, which finally contains music and (WIP) sound effects! Beware of Spoilers!!

100_blue - lighting 005
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100_blue - lighting 005

060_dance - Lighting 007
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060_dance - Lighting 007

050_contact - Lighting 009
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050_contact - Lighting 009

040_edge - Lighting 007
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040_edge - Lighting 007

030_panic - Lighting 007
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030_panic - Lighting 007

020_ice - Lighting 008
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020_ice - Lighting 008

Singularity Edit v036
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Singularity Edit v036


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