I was in the Rivals of Aether Editing Colab organized by CasualScrub and 7Loco and made this with Blender and After Effects, where 11 editors were each assigned a section of a song, and created a mini-montage using combos submitted by the general community. This 11 videos were then stitched back together to give the final result. You can find the full collaboration here.
In making my section, I wanted to experiment a bit with a cardboard aesthetic and work a bit more with having rivals combos "take place in 3D".
I first worked on the camera movement in After Effects, then used the plugin BlenderAE to bring my camera movement into Blender, where I made modeled both of the backgrounds in the video. The 3D scenes were then rendered and brought back into After Effects to be composited with the original clips, as shown:
Compositing breakdown of both scenes from the final video.
Song: "Impressions in D Major" by Brian Green
Side-By-Side Comparisons from original clip to the final video:
Stages were recreated in a "cardboard" aesthetic by cutting out different parts of a full stage sprite and turning them into multiple 3D planes placed at different depths to create a parallax effect.
Stage sprites were turned into cardboard pieces via a Geometry Nodes setup in Blender (adapted from a tutorial from Robbie Tilton, with support for UVs added).
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