Endless Space 2 by Supamonks Studio

[CGMas]

Hi everyone,

My name is Maxime Caron, I'm Supervisor at Supamonks Studio.
If you haven't already seen it yet, I'm proud to present you one of our latest project.
A launch trailer for Endess Sapce 2 by Amplitude Studios and Sega, directed by Niels Prayer.

-->> https://vimeo.com/supamonks/endlessspace2launchtrailer

PRODUCER : ULF, Amar BOUACHERIA
ANIMATION STUDIO : SUPAMONKS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER : Julien "kAst" BAGNOL
LINE PRODUCER : Pierre de CABISSOLE, Quentin JUILLARD
DIRECTOR : Niels PRAYER
SUPERVISOR : Maxime CARON
ART DIRECTOR : S

[vlado]

Looks great! Thanks for sharing

Best regards,
Vlado

[yolov]

Absolute eye candy
What did you use for the smoke / clouds ?

[CGMas]

Thank you very much !

It has been a really challenging project in which we have used a lot different techinques and softwares.
For the smoke and clouds, in the space battle sequence we mainly used 3DSmax.
For the clouds we added a lot of stock-shots to enhance it cause we didn't want to spend to much time simulating and rendering it.

Part of the volumetric effects were directly rendered in 3Ds but we prefer to export VDB and use vray volume grid to render a maximum of elements in the same render/software.
It is not always possible to use VDBs so for this specific project we used a lot of compositing tricks to get rid of antialising edges due to differents renderer or software and smooth.

If you have any question, do not hesitate.
It will be a pleasure to answer it !

Max

[TheRazorsEdge]

Wow, great work!
How long did you guys work on that?

Cheers!