For a little short while I got to put this little Apex Legends project for their Stories from the Outlands – Northstar. One of the coolest looking things in my project bucket – easily some of my proudest work.

I did the opening matte painting minus the red glow, some other beautiful painterly matte paintings across the whole short film. The other environment work was done by Surendra Rajawat and Mathias Zemecki both of whom I incredibly admire and felt like an impostor among.

The project was led by VFX supervisor Piotr Karwas from Digital Domain and directed by Evan Viera.

I made the base for the planet in Houdini – using its capabilities at destroying things quickly and efficiently, also created some procedural texture maps to underline the painting. For simpler paintings, I didn’t go into such lengths and painted them from scratch!