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Paris CG and VFX studio Unit Motion Design conjures a symphony of stained glass and textured light in this dramatic trailer for the Magic: The Gathering Reality Fracture expansion.
Eva Le Bourg, head of production at UMD: Wizards of the Coast approached us to create a cinematic film built around the idea of mural storytelling. The brief was to tell Jace Beleren’s story through a series of iconic frescos.
The biggest creative challenge was designing the stained glass compositions themselves. We had to reinterpret existing, often iconic Magic card artwork within a completely new graphic language, redrawing characters and scenes through the constraints of stained glass lead lines.
“A significant part of the production was dedicated to concept art, R&D, art direction, and look development, including complex shaders to give the glass richness and depth.”
The film is structured around four large and complex frescos, each representing a major chapter of the story: Jace’s past, his evolution, his rise to control, and finally the confrontation between the two opposing sides.
A significant part of the production was dedicated to concept art, R&D, art direction, and look development, including complex shaders to give the glass richness and depth while preserving the clarity of each composition.
Using Houdini, we developed a procedural system to generate and process the individual glass pieces, allowing us to efficiently control and refine the complex stained-glass structures.
Client: Wizards of the Coast
Production: Unit Motion Design
CD: François Côme du Boistesselin
Head of Production: Lauréline Lorion
Storyboard: Victorien Aubineau
Concept Artist: Bastien Grivet, Igor Kieryluk, Moein Kahrizi
Modeler: Lucas Lefort, Romane Rambaud
Character Modeler: Antonio Esparza
Layout artist: Rémi Loger
Animator: Milo Hustache-Mathieu, Alexandre Daumail
FX artist: Maxime Peyrondet, Vladimir Marychev
Renderer: Simone Vezzani, Timo Noack, Thibault Zeller, Olivier Carru, Margot de Susanne d’Epinay, Mert Ercin, Patrice Louise, Clément Le Bouc, Romane Rambaud, Lyes Bouhadjila, Lucas Lefort
Music: Magic: The Gathering
Sound Design: YellowCab Studios
Sound designer: Olivier Ranquet
