A high-angle, cinematic UI style frame concept for Battlefield 2042 showcasing a dark blue satellite or digital weather map display, overlaid with an analytical grid and vibrant red, halftoned heat mapping textures across the terrain.

Battlefield 2042

Background Movies

Disciplines

Design
3D Production

Credits

EA
DICE
Criterion Games

Credits

UI Design – UI / UX Team at DICE
Art Direction – Viktor Blanke and Pascal Eggert
Background Conceptuals, Design, and Motion Graphics – Baz Pringle

Information

Tasked with creating four 4K background movies that would play behind the various UI screens in the game, the following are style frame concepts and final movies for DICE’s Battlefield 2042.

A user interface mockup for the Battlefield 2042 crossplay setup screen, featuring central prompt text and selection buttons overlaid on top of a swirling teal data particle background.
A menu interface design concept for the Battlefield 2042 end user license agreement screen, showing blocks of technical legal text aligned next to a bright teal particle stream.
An abstract user interface style frame for Battlefield 2042 featuring glowing teal data streams and particle waves curving across a dark blue background.
A dynamic motion graphics concept showing a swirling vortex of luminous teal particle data lines spiralling inward toward a central point on a dark interface background.
A user interface design concept for the Battlefield 2042 accessibility settings menu, featuring teal menu text toggles on the left overlaid on top of a dark blue and red heat-mapped satellite terrain background.
A game interface mockup displaying location coordinates and temperature data inside a bright teal panel block, positioned next to a satellite view map with sweeping, vibrant orange heat map tracks.
A high-angle look-development style frame showing a dark, low-lit tactical map grid system with subtle orange hotspots dotting a craggy dark blue landscape under a shallow depth of field.
A user interface design layout for the "CONFIGURE SOUND SYSTEM" menu screen, featuring a translucent option box with "HEADPHONES" selected in bright teal, split across a background of flowing, animated audio wave particle streams.
A user interface design concept for the "CONFIGURE SOUND SYSTEM" menu layout, featuring a central dark menu block with "HEADPHONES" selected in vibrant teal, flanked by intricate blue audio wave particle rings.
An abstract motion graphics style frame displaying horizontal blue data or sound streams rippling across a dark interface grid with a soft focus.
A look-development concept frame showing a complex, circular vortex of glowing blue audio particle lines curving inward against a dark blue background field.
A motion graphics style frame showing an abstract blue particle wave ring tightening and expanding over a dark interface field.
A sequential concept frame showing a complex blue audio wave particle ring curving into a wide circular disk array on a dark grid.
A subsequent animation frame capturing the glowing blue sound wave particle ring rippling and flattening outward across the user interface layout.
A final look-development frame showing the blue audio particle wave dispersing into a faint, minimalist circular grid structure.
An abstract user interface style frame featuring hundreds of glowing teal geometric triangles floating and rippling like a wave over a dark blue data mesh grid.
A user interface design concept for the "CONFIGURE SOUND SYSTEM" menu screen, displaying a central dark text overlay panel with "HEADPHONES" highlighted in bright teal, flanked by a background of floating teal geometric triangles.
A wide user interface design frame showing a high-angle view of a 3D globe with a bright teal radar particle spiral pulsing outwards across a grey digital landmass and grid network.
A low-angle look-development style frame showing a dark, gridded topographic map terrain overlaid with glowing, flowing teal ribbon data paths and subtle anchor points.
An abstract motion graphics concept frame displaying a shallow depth of field shot of a grey 3D digital globe, tracking fine black and grey vector lines simulating atmospheric wind or weather currents.
An abstract look-development frame showing glowing teal topographic contour lines stretching across a dark grid, intersected by vibrant orange particle data streams with illuminated nodes.
A user interface design layout for the "CONFIGURE SOUND SYSTEM" menu screen, displaying a central dark text overlay panel over a background of teal contour lines and flowing orange data streams.
A cinematic style frame showcasing a 3D digital landscape hologram with a teal particle mesh terrain, wireframe architectural structures, and sweeping orange data waves.
A high-angle, bright look-development frame capturing a complex holographic user interface with a luminous blue particle grid landscape and dynamic orange light trails tracking across the terrain.
An abstract user interface design concept featuring a luminous blue particle grid landscape and wireframe tactical structures, intersected by dynamic orange data paths.
A look-development concept frame capturing a complex holographic 3D terrain map with glowing teal vector grid structures and sweeping orange light tracking bands.
A user interface design layout for the sound configuration menu screen, showing a central option block overlaid on a dark background of glowing teal contour map layers.
A wide-format user interface look-development frame showing an abstract 3D globe under a bright horizon light, tracking a glowing teal data spiral across the terrain.

Battlefield 2042

Background Movies

Once going through the intial concept and style frame design stage, four individual concepts were chosen for further video development.

Various tests were done to determine speed, colour-grading, composition, zoom level, etc.  These were short videos, only a few seconds in length, but were enough to gauge the overall quality before final production was started.

The final 4 videos were produced in Cinema 4D and After Effects at 4K.