SELF Booster was the first solution offered by Zeleros to the ports to move containers within the port in a more efficient way. It would use some of the components that were being developed for hyperloop (Zeleros’ true endgame) but in a more practicar, smaller scale; and also much cheaper.
When I was given the first text I came up with a couple of ideas and a few suggestions to make it more “script-y” (just to make my own life easier), then I came up with the storyboard shown below which was the very first approach to this whole imaginarium. Half of my frames were rejected (click here to see the previs of the different intro environments) and there were a few more changes done to the script but I was already working on the 3D environments and playing around in a program I hadn’t heard before: Twinmotion. It had quite an user-friendly UI so I caught up with the whole functionality really fast; I also figured a lot of problems with the workflow by myself because there were no people in the forums working with these programs in such ways. I’m not saying I’m super advanced or smart or so, but there was really nobody else trying to work on such an environment and program-communications like I was.
The technological 3D models were given to me by the Tech Department, I modeled the rest based on some CAD plans and whatever was needed, most of the models from the port were found online (I edited the textures and some of the models), then everything was put together inside of Twinmotion where I added custom shaders to everything + animated the cameras (quite limited in this ArchViz softwares) + fixed lighting and all those post-processes, the composed everything in After Effects because by that time there was a problem with Premiere (which was no problem at all).
After everything was set I made the remaining motion design like the into/outro/texts/map/arrows/tracking inside of After as well + added subtitles and a fitting song of my liking.
I also came up with those 2 logos for “future use, just in case. To have a starting point” and while the squared one was instantly rejected the blue one ended un being printed in XL for our base of development in the port of Sagunto.