Pls check the credits to see all the wonderful creative humans on this project! Giant shout outs to @vixento_ for handling my last minute renders & stitching the edit perfectly, and @pchalTV for believing in us every step of the way! Together, let's push that boulder to the top✌️

I really wanted to make it feel like Mt. Chimney had been raised from the 2D plane of ORAS into the 3D world. I hope y'all appreciated the vision and all the work that went into this. This project was a testament to everyone's strengths and creativity on the team.

Once we had the framework set up and ref/inspo aligned, I set to work trying my best to make it like what we saw above! In hindsight, I wish I played with scale SO much more. I used tricks to help, but I think having the mountain at 10x scale would've helped a lot for intensity.

We wanted to play with space a lot; to give innate direction of the character always looking up at the summit, or the camera looking down waiting for him to fall. Something that After Effects 2D explainers didn't really give room for. So we thought, why not 3D??

BobbyBroccoli's MoGraph work was also a great reference, but the idea focused too much on zooming out/zooming in, and we wanted to give moments that kept people in the emotional space. That's when I went digging and pitched something I thought would be real cool

Originally, we went through a couple different framings! At first we thought of the run as a house of cards, and I played with the idea of "trying to pull 331 correct cards in a row" like the 331 battles we had to face.

Happy 2025!

I’ve got a lot of goals this year, but I’m trying my best to keep them attainable and help build some good habits.
Also a fun excuse to make this NieR inspired menu!