I had the very great privilege to work alongside the Creative Assembly and Games Workshop on announce trailer for the awesome Total War: Warhammer game.
We worked our way through various creative routes in order to arrive at a conceptual and technical approach that could effectively announce the game, while also remaining within the meticulous canon of the IP and Games Workshop's exacting vision of how their world and characters should look and behave.
Fortunately we had our friends at Platige Image to draw on, and in Tomek Baginski, probably one of the most talented Directors working in this field today (remember that name as it will be in Hollywood lights one day IMO), and they provided excellent production abilities and resources for the project.
As the Creative Director, I acted as a focal point for the multiple different departments and stages involved (storyboarding & animatic editing, pre-production, production, post-production, SFX and music, VFX and finishing / delivery), and helped to guide the project and all its contributors and stakeholders to an end result that was consistent with the initial creative and technical ambitions that we had.
If you are interested (and with orcs, wizards and zombie dragons, who wouldn't be), below is a short making of film which gives a bit more detail on what was a highly complex and uniquely rewarding project to be involved in.
N.B It was nice to see that this trailer was nominated as one of the three finalists for best CGI Trailer amongst some very high quality competition at the 2015 Game Connection awards.
