Keying, tracking, cleanup, and visual effects compositing, right inside of After Effects We wanted to take a journey into the beauty and atmosphere of the game, but also capture its strangeness, and deliver those ‘hit you over the head and drown you in black tar’ action sequences that would grab attention on social.Title: Red Giant VFX Suite v1.5.1 Win/Mac We were looking for those killer moments that would become our hidden cut-points, eye-popping colour matches, and seamless camera moves. ''KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS supplied us with 50+ hours(!) of game footage and we built that into a master shotlist that covered every kind of game moment - landscapes, flora, fauna, characters, weapons, giant flying whales… the usual stuff. KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS wanted to showcase their incredible game footage in a way that felt fresh, attention-grabbing, and really landed the message that it was coming to PC. How our Creative Production and VFX team crafted a seamless game trailer for Hideo Kojima’s DEATH STRANDING #TheMill #WeCreate #CreativeProduction #Experience #VFX #2D #3D #GSTAR #CaraDelevingne #CreativeAdvertising #Fashion #Beauty #ExtraordinaryEntertainment Once this was complete we pre-vis’d scaled camera moves that would enable us to shoot motion controlled plates in the studio, with the required forced perspective to match our giants into their backgrounds” – Thomas Luff, VFX Supervisor Then whilst he went away to start composing an edit, we started the process of hunting down every global location, extracting city geometry data and carefully tracking every shot. Working with Felix we helped source stock we thought would work most effectively.

“The catch was, the background imagery was all to be sourced from stock. Working with regular collaborator, director Felix Brady, and the creative team at The Family Amsterdam, we were tasked with a deceptively simple creative idea for G-Star RAW to fill city locations with giant models stalking the landscape, playing with the gravity of elements that were to make up our final compositions.

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