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Hi Simon,

That's the best use of Plexus I've seen for a long time. Very un-plexusy if you see what I mean. I notice plexus on TV ads and graphics all the time, but usually it's just slapped on to make something look a bit more "hi-tech" - your use of it enhances the atmosphere already created by the texturing and soundtrack. Thanks for sharing :)

Great piece. LOVE the music.

Hey Simon,

Thanks for the explainer! Much appreciated. Great work.

I created my C4d scenes with 10 - 20 additional lights distributed in random depths with their opacity at 0.
The majority of these were at the ground plane, with only a few floating in the sky.

I used the World Machine texture maps in a displacer effector to create the big mountain geo.

As well as beauty and depth passes I output the camera & lights via old school .aec files, I would have used cineware although, as yet, the motion camera ( the wobbly steady cam look ) wasn't supported directly.

Within Ae I imported camera and light data and used this for plexus primarily the Triangulation renderer for the large shaded areas experimenting the the distance slider to get the tones I wanted.
Once I'd graded my beauty pass I used a set matte in luminance mode to effectively luma matte my render through my BW plexus layer.
Depending on the shot I manually adjusted not only the depth of field distance but the quality slider, the last shots triangle wipe is only on 1X.

I hope that helps.

Beautiful piece. Anyway you can share some insights into how you did it? Is that Plexus being used with blending layers? I see you used the above texture map. I'm most interested in how you incorporated Plexus. Nice work!