PROJECT STYX Reveal Video

This is a concept video made for our table to be shown at the SEA LIFE TRUST event. Marcus and I would host the table, and reveal this trailer to get some attention to the project.

I was already learning the Blender software by the time that we’d decided a concept trailer was feasible to make for the event, which was honestly last minute, because it was a week before the event when I started on this trailer. Luckily, I’d already made the character model for the protagonist, Morgan. I’d made this model in the span of a week and a half while I was teaching a friend how to use Blender to make a character model some time before I’d start working on this trailer.

I was also in the process of designing other characters aside from Morgan to be featured in the game. Thing is, they weren’t entirely completely finished, so I opted to have the ones that were unfinished be only partially revealed, and then to be mostly a silhouette for the dolly shot in the trailer.

Learning to animate in Blender for this project was very fun, but what I think took the most time could be tied between two parts of the process. One of them was making all the 2D graphics for the characters and objects to be shown. The other was making the teal fire visual effects that would flutter around Morgan in the later half of the trailer. I’d practically finished the trailer the afternoon of the event where Marcus and I were supposed to hold a table there. XD