Behind the scenes

The biggest challenge in this production was keeping the camera moving. The brief was “blink and you miss it,” so we needed to inject fast-paced movement and non-stop action throughout. The tricky part? Making sure the viewer could actually follow what was happening!

We choreographed and planned the sequence using simple cubes and spheres to get a sense of timing and speed. Once we were happy with how objects moved in and out of frame, we replaced the geometry with characters. It was a confusing process at first, but we quickly learned to let the action lead the camera, so the viewer is always playing catch-up.

The whole sequence was set inside a 360° farm that we modeled and textured to mirror the in-game version. Wrapped around that was a beautiful matte painting and sky dome to keep everything contained - meaning our camera could point in any direction and the set would still work.

The characters themselves were given super-flexible rigs, allowing us to pull off extreme poses and rubber-hose style animation - something that wouldn’t have been possible with the low-poly game assets!