Durex “May the Fourth...”

My Role

Durex wanted to time an Instagram post to coincide with May 4th in order to target the Star Wars fan demographic among their users (“May the 4th be with you,” get it?) While May 4th is not an actual holiday, it is a recognizable enough event among the demographic that the post was able to boost engagement during that weekend. My job was to work with the copywriting team to come up with a strong visual idea for the post, and once we had a plan I was to do all the animation.

I used After Effects for the animation and Photoshop to edit and prep all the textures.

The Process

Conceptualization

The idea for this Instagram post was meant to mimic an opening scene from a Star Wars movie but also avoid being similar enough to warrant any copyright problems. The first step in finalizing the ideas was storyboarding.

Sourcing assets

I sourced some hi-res photos of the night sky in our galaxy (not one far, far away...), as well as some actual planetary textures. I also used one of the real opening crawl messages from a Star Wars movie for reference.

Production

For not being a true piece of 3D software, After Effects has a pretty strong amount of 3D capability. I used a plugin called "Orb" to create and texture my planet and background, and I animated the camera through to discover the Durex galaxy.

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