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Trails & Tales Update: Official Launch Trailer

Trails & Tales Update: Official Launch Trailer is a trailer made to promote the Trails & Tales update, showing four stories of the game's heroes going on different adventures.

Steve is reading a book on a lectern, before leaping off to adventure and putting on trimmed armor. Meanwhile, Ari is walking in a desert with a brush, Alex is wearing a different set of trimmed armor in a desert cave, and Zuri is escorting a sniffer egg through a cherry grove. Steve opens a hidden door from a chiseled bookshelf, rushing off into a waterfall with a trident. They consider riding a camel, before venturing out to an Ocean monument and slaying an elder guardian for its tide armor trim.

Ari is then shown brushing suspicious sand and almost excavating a skull pottery sherd, but a horde of monsters emerge from the sand from behind. As Ari runs away, Alex emerges along with them and runs off to their camel. Luckily for Ari, the monsters burn in daylight. In a cherry grove, Zuri has hatched a number of sniffers, and is busy working on a house. Alex then arrives and is greeted by Zuri from the roof of the build, while a calf and snifflet become acquainted. Hard cut to Steve on a cliff in a storm, almost falling off as a creeper creeps behind them. As Steve is creeped out and inches closer to the edge, the creeper becomes charged. In the nick of time, Alex arrives riding the camel, and saves them by dashing off the cliff. Safe and sound, Steve and Alex return to the beach where Steve was based, petting the camel calf. Meanwhile, Ari returns to a desert base with the sherd and crafts a pot, Zuri hangs a hanging sign, and Alex places a skull on a note block.

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Trails & Tales Update: Official Launch Trailer
Type Mojang cinematic
Subjects Trails & Tales
Directed by
Screenplay by
Produced by
Starring
Edited by
Music by
Production
companies 		Brikk Animation
Date June 7, 2023
Length 1:57

Trails & Tales Update: Official Launch Trailer is a trailer made to promote the Trails & Tales update, showing four stories of the game's heroes going on different adventures.

Summary

Steve is reading a book on a lectern, before leaping off to adventure and putting on trimmed armor. Meanwhile, Ari is walking in a desert with a brush, Alex is wearing a different set of trimmed armor in a desert cave, and Zuri is escorting a sniffer egg through a cherry grove. Steve opens a hidden door from a chiseled bookshelf, rushing off into a waterfall with a trident. They consider riding a camel, before venturing out to an Ocean monument and slaying an elder guardian for its tide armor trim.

Ari is then shown brushing suspicious sand and almost excavating a skull pottery sherd, but a horde of monsters emerge from the sand from behind. As Ari runs away, Alex emerges along with them and runs off to their camel. Luckily for Ari, the monsters burn in daylight. In a cherry grove, Zuri has hatched a number of sniffers, and is busy working on a house. Alex then arrives and is greeted by Zuri from the roof of the build, while a calf and snifflet become acquainted. Hard cut to Steve on a cliff in a storm, almost falling off as a creeper creeps behind them. As Steve is creeped out and inches closer to the edge, the creeper becomes charged. In the nick of time, Alex arrives riding the camel, and saves them by dashing off the cliff. Safe and sound, Steve and Alex return to the beach where Steve was based, petting the camel calf. Meanwhile, Ari returns to a desert base with the sherd and crafts a pot, Zuri hangs a hanging sign, and Alex places a skull on a note block.

Steve pulls a book out of another chiseled bookshelf, before pulling out another, opening a door into a dripstone cave. Rushing in they pull out their sword and start battling with the monsters in the cave.

Characters

Settings

Quotes

The Trails & Tales Update brings your stories to life! Ride a camel with a companion to find archeological sites or a cherry grove. Hatch a sniffer egg to bring it back from extinction. Create playable mob sounds, craft with bamboo, trim your armor, and hang your signs. Write and store your books in the chiseled bookshelf, because every story matters!

— YouTube description

In this trailer we get to follow four individual characters on four different journeys in the Minecraft world, showcasing how Minecraft can be played in a multitude of ways. Steve is on a never-ending search for action, sometimes biting off more than he can chew. Ari is role-playing an archaeologist on the look-out for ancient pottery shards in the desert. Zuri has settled down in a quiet cherry grove and built a magnificent sniffer sanctuary, whilst Alex acts like the explorer binding the individuals trails together. On her quest collecting mob heads, she travels vast distances, bumping into the other players along the road.

— Behance description[1]

Credits

Trivia

  • During production, there was an added section of Zuri's Sniffer Sanctuary, referred to by as a "Sniffer Spa." However, it ended up not being visible in the trailer itself.[2]
  • While animating the trailer, Brikk Animation had to put a considerable effort into the position of the sun, specifically mentioning wanting Ari to be "nicely lit in each shot," and undead mobs burning in sunlight.[3]

Screenshots

Animations

  • Steve activating the chiseled bookshelves.
    Steve activating the chiseled bookshelves.
  • Steve swimming.
    Steve swimming.
  • Ari brushing suspicious sand.
    Ari brushing suspicious sand.
  • Ari hiding behind a chest.
    Ari hiding behind a chest.
  • Zuri placing a stair and waving.
    Zuri placing a stair and waving.

Development images

  • Storyboards of the Trails & Tales trailer.[1]
    Storyboards of the Trails & Tales trailer.[1]
  • Second batch of storyboards for the same trailer.
    Second batch of storyboards for the same trailer.
  • Third batch of storyboards for the trailer.
    Third batch of storyboards for the trailer.
  • Post-it note storyboard.
    Post-it note storyboard.
  • Animatic of the opening to the Trails & Tales trailer.
  • Animatic of Steve fighting the Elder Guardian.
  • Animatic of Ari recovering a sherd.
  • The many steps taken to animate the climatic scene of Steve, Alex, and a camel.
  • A timelapse of the construction of the Sniffer Sanctuary in the Trails & Tales trailer.

References

  1. ↑ a b https://www.behance.net/gallery/176743459/Minecraft-Trails-Tales
  2. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samuelfast_minecraft-behindthescenes-gametrailers-activity-7093205339893841921-dr5C?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
  3. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/brikk.se/posts/pfbid02UjiLR3rbnALJJnaQ55HvLwwkcVTjyAQvKk2KgSq1TDReM52RtjKbFGoBd7RPU8MNl
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