Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- This was the first design with minimal bevels and mild textures. It had the most color in the lighting and this went all the way to an 8K ready to finish, when they went with a more simple while look for most of the posters.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- I put the gradient into the brushed metal texture to help with a lighting look especially seen on the Beyond object.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- This 3/4 Bird's eye screen grab show the reflection sphere surrounding the scene, that is set to not render in camera but be seen in all reflections and refraction's. It gives the final render a blend to black in the background.You also can see the green original vector file I place behind the logo build-out to make sure nothing moves in the build.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- This second design was similar to the first with a different font layout using the one file that was only attempted once. you will also see slight distressed textures in the lit surfaces as well.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- In this design I went with a curved extrusion with a back extrusion so the face sits inside with a lip casting a slight shadow on the face. The sides were polished and the face had some DA sanded scratches applied to it.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- Here is the Texture layout with the materials I used in 3DS Max with the GI renderer Cebas Final Render to execute to look.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- Here in this Clay Shader Screen grab image, you can see a much more complex lighting set up with individual light for each letter as well as box lights from Final Render to achieve the brighter edge lighting I wanted for legibility.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- 3/4 Screen grab shows a smaller bevel used here in this design.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- A very rough texture was used in this design with a strong up-lit staging for this Key Art Title Treatment in 3D for the Logo.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- This Clay Shader 3D form Screen grab shows the multiple plates I make for the titles in an exploded view to see them better.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- Here the multi plates are back where they belong in this high tipped angle. The weight is always on the large font below for this concept work with a more delicate "Star Trek" up top.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- Polished sharp machined edges and bevels used here on both Star Trek, and Beyond , with a much rougher face texture on the Title Below.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- I backed out on this Screen grab to show the camera with a longer lens to flatten out the title along with a whole bunch of spot lights and rectangular Box Lighting used.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments-A camera view in Clay Shader showing minimal parallax with the longer lens.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- This last pass had a holding device added to the back of the Beyond type, with this one textured out in a chrome material.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- This last pass ALT, had a holding device added to the back of the Beyond type, with this one textured out in a gold material with a saturated green face texture with deeper roughness added as well.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- Here is a screen grab for that ALT. gold materials and green metal roughed up.
Star Trek Beyond: 3D Key Art Title Treatments- I backed out in the camera view to show all lighting used for this last render.
Project Review
Main Title Treatment Concepts
January 2016
Client: Paramount Pictures via BOND
Creative Direction: Patrick Dillon.
Project Date: December 2016.
Today I'm sharing work I did for Patrick at the
BOND Agency on Key Art 3D Title Treatment concepts for Paramount's 13th film in the franchise; Star Trek Beyond. I built these in January 2016 for the film that was released in theaters later that year. It was a fire drill with a fast turn around.
I have loved the Star Trek franchise since I was a kid, with the original series back in the 60's as my top favorite, so to work on one of current the films Key Art was a true honor for me.
I have some older posts for the franchise where I did Location Based Entertainment work for Star Trek the Experience in Las Vegas where I did two hotel room design visualizations for the Federation, and the Klingon's. I also did custom
DVD packaging work for Home Entertainment TV spots as well
that can be seen at this link here.
I am posting the Key Art Title Treatment concepts I was given to create. For this job the font and title were all laid out, so I had one vector file to work with. I also had to connect back it to the history of titles so as to stay in the same design universe so to speak. Direction was straight forward to make them all metal, to use a warm to cool lighting scheme with a yellow and green hue to the overall palette, and a variety in look and feel withing those guidelines.
For this 13th film, I did some more slick and clean versions as well as some lightly distressed ones as well. No displacement and rough ones were asked for, so it was a texture exercise along with dramatic lighting. They were generally a heavy depth of extrusion for the film name; Beyond, and a lighter and less extruded weight for the Star Trek series ID up top. In the final posters they dropped Star Trek on many of the Key Art pieces to focus on just the name Beyond.
I have posted more
Behind the Art Images in this post than usual, showing the various extrusion types with rounded more polished look with more form and curve to them, as well as sharp edge machined look logos typical in the
X-Men work I have done in the past. I included Clay shader screen grabs in red showing form and camera and light set ups as well as shaded screen grabs showing some material and texture properties in my set up I make.
I tend to build using a multi-plate design method with the title face as a separate object with it's own bevel along with other objects for the extrusion and holding devises. This allows me to create color picker channels easier by object, as well as to exclude some objects from lighting so I have more control over the final design. I started this back when I did more
MGFX; motion graphic animated titles as they would often want me to deconstruct the parts so I started building them out that way.
I am continuing doing freelance now as I hunt for a full-time place to work at, so if you need
a bid for a 3D Illustration or
3D Logo, or a
3D Model feel free to
contact me for a quote. I am open to Hourly gig's, Work Retainers, Part-time, and
Full Time opportunities [
Open to relocation ] would be best. I have been working remote since 2009, so I am ready to go with over a decade working with clients as most were forced to do a few years back.
Cheers, THOM
