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Meta Asgard's Wrath II

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Meta and BBDO enlisted Method Studios for the launch of Asgard's Wrath 2: three cinematic game trailers, an NBA broadcast takeover, and a 65ft animated holographic display at The Game Awards.

The films integrate live action footage, traditional VFX and real-time animation in Unreal Engine. The game assets were rebuilt and up-rezzed to feature-film detail so the Unreal team could focus on character animation, lighting, look development and world-building.

My role was to develop the setups for the live-action-talent to game-character transformation — they had to work on extreme close-ups and on wider shots, and leave room to art-direct the transitions.

2023

Meta and BBDO enlisted Method Studios for the launch of Asgard's Wrath 2: three cinematic game trailers, an NBA broadcast takeover, and a 65ft animated holographic display at The Game Awards.

The films integrate live action footage, traditional VFX and real-time animation in Unreal Engine. The game assets were rebuilt and up-rezzed to feature-film detail so the Unreal team could focus on character animation, lighting, look development and world-building.

My role was to develop the setups for the live-action-talent to game-character transformation — they had to work on extreme close-ups and on wider shots, and leave room to art-direct the transitions.

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Director: John Likens Art Director / FX Artist: Danil Krivoruchko Director of Photography: Byron Kopman Live-Action Production: Standard Production Chris Gabello, Sid Kreitzer, David Simpson Agency: BBDO EP: Bruce McDonald Producer: Michael Woodall Account Director: Elliot Falconer Creative Directors: Joe Fox, Ricky Bowry Post Production: Method Studios Executive Creative Director: John Likens VFX Supervisor: Ivan Guerrero FX Supervisor: Tomas Slancik Senior CG Supervisors: Brian Dinoto CG Supervisor: Christina Faraj Technical Supervisor: Michael Ferraro Lighting Supervisor: Claire Chang Flame Lead: Chihcheng Peng Flame Lead: Rob Walker Comp Supervisor: Theodore Wirtz Senior Editor: Ryan Todd Senior Unreal Editor: Marcus McSherry Editor: Kyle Sironen Jr. VFX Editor: India Sonnenfeld FX Artists: Alejandro Echeverry, Pamela Saad, Gregory Ecker, Jason Simmons Senior Lighter: Irene Kim Lighter: Jan Habib CG Generalists: Mark Yagos, Yang Hu Animators: Daniel Patterson, Bradley Morris, Brad Hayes, Isai Calderon Unreal Artists: Mateus Kurzhals, Jeffrey Scott, Seiji Anderson Unreal Generalist: Adam Butler Asset Artist: Cemre Esen Senior Rigger: Rick Fronek Unreal Rigger: Justin Barcellos Unreal Lighters: RJ Draper, Mark Lavania Integration Supervisor: Fabio Zapata Integration Artist: Rachan Chirarattanakornkul Senior Unreal Generalist: Eugene Floramata Storyboard Artists: Keith Morange, Lance Slaton, James Randolph Lead Unreal Animator: Greg Bekken Unreal Animators: Andrew Chranowsky, Andres Asperin, Robert Yau, Stephen Mann Senior Nuke Compositors: Frank Fieser, Dan Giraldo, Ting Hsu Compositors: Rickey Verma, Sam Chen, Tati Bozinovski, Nic Kim Junior Nuke Compositor: Sabrina Chan Designer: David Weinstock Matte Painter: Christopher Sanchez Unreal Technical Director: Warren Wang VFX Assists: Thomas Karras, Trevor Brashich, Sergio Segovia Produced by: Method Studios Managing Director: Jesse Kurnit Executive Producer: Hayley Wallach Executive Producer: Julia Paskert Realtime Executive Producer: Karina Partington Senior Producer: Aiste Akelaityte Senior VFX Producer: Christopher Lewis VFX Producer: Kyle Fader VFX Producer: Joseph Hobaica Realtime Producer: Fan Yu Senior Realtime Coordinator: Tracey Carpenter Senior Production Coordinator: Juliann Barbella Production Coordinator: Olivia Vitagliano, Ethan Samuel Color: Company 3 NY Colorist: Sofie Borup Mocap Studio: Animatrik Stunt Coordinator: Paul Wu Stunt Team: Adam Chase, Ben Van Huis, Milena Brewster, Raymond Chan, Skyler Mowatt Sound: Source Sound Owner, VR Audio Director: Charles Deenen