Reflections

"If you ask me, who's ever in charge of this place should be transferred to Hoth."

- Stormtrooper

Reflections is a Star Wars themed tech demonstration of new ray tracing techniques in Unreal Engine 4. It involves two Stormtroopers complaining about their assignment who are overheard by Captain Phasma.

Synopsis
Two First Order Stormtroopers are waiting for an elevator and begin complaining that many of them offline, with one being destroyed by Kylo Ren. One of them says that "who's ever in charge of this place should be transferred to Hoth", only to turn around to find that the door had opened revealing Captain Phasma. The two enter the elevator and awkwardly stand around until it arrives at Phasma's destination. When Phasma exits the elevator, one of the Stormtrooper asks "Do you think she heard us?" The video cuts to the Stormtroopers standing in snow where the other Stormtrooper quips, "Yeah, I think she heard us".

Development and release
The short film was developed by Epic Games for the 2018 Game Developers Conference keynote presentation to demonstrate new real-time ray tracing graphical capabilities in video games. It was created in partnership with ILM Experience Lab and graphics card manufacturer Nvidia and used experimental code for the Unreal engine. The film is entirely computer generated in real-time at 24 frames per second and ran on a four-GPU DGX Station from Nvidia valued at $60,000 USD.