Commissioned by Dublin’s Darklight Festival 4 Day Movie project, this quirky short shows the stark contrast between the real and virtual lives of four online gamers. Mo-cap was used to place the in-game identities within the mundane day to day reality of their real selves. Production: Piranha Bar. Watch “Avatar Days”
Continue reading...Monday, May 31, 2010
Here’s the first official in-game teaser for Limbo, the indie console game developed by Playdead Games in Copenhagen, Denmark. Nominated for awards in both Art and Technical Excellence at the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival, Limbo centers on the story of a young boy passing through a menacing world to save his lost sister. The threatening black and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 27, 2010
By now there is a good chance you’ve had a look at the new live-action trailer from video game publisher and developer Ubisoft for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. It looks incredible, and a lot of gamers are pretty excited to get their hands on it later this year. Asylum VFX handled the post on this one [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 14, 2010
The lavish splendor of Dubai comes crashing down in this long-awaited promotional trailer for Take 2’s Spec Ops multiplayer game. The video was designed, animated and produced by Tronic in collaboration with director Marco Brambilla represented by The Ebeling Group. Unlike most game trailers, the design and modeling of characters was left open to Tronic to create [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 21, 2009
Passion Pictures continues animating The Beatles with this captivating one minute outro sequence for the band’s recently released Rock Band game. Directed by Pete Candeland, the new video picks up where the intro cinematic left off when it premiered back at E3. Passion EP Hugo Sands: “It’s not every day that you’re asked to animate The [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 25, 2009
From director Chris Delaporte of WIZZdesign in Paris, here’s the latest trailer for the Wii video game release Red Steel 2. According to our source at Wizz the CG they created needed to be impressive without betraying the universe of the game and the capacities of the Wii (in other words they were limited to keeping [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Two :30s from Nexus’ dynamic duo Smith & Foulkes for the release of the latest Sims revamp from EA. The majority of the characters and sets were designed using the new in-game software. Co-director Alan Smith: “The idea was simply to bring a bit of epic cinematic silliness into the lives of the Sims as [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
The motion and modeling are exceptional thru most of this trailer from Ubisoft released June 1st at E3, but the real buzz comes during the few fleeting moments of rendering transcendence when your brain flips to reading it as live action. According to Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed 2 is a story of family, vengeance and conspiracy [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Just revealed at the E3 Microsoft press conference, this monumetal game trailer from Passion Pictures for the Beatles version of Rock Band builds seamlessly through a cavalcade of style references including Pete Candeland’s Gorillaz videos, Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python days and Psyop’s Happiness Factory. No doubt serious Beatles fans will be dissecting the HD version [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
Intro animation that runs at the beginning of the game. Same concept as the first one….but…..
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