About
Bethesda returned to us with a new trailer after Dishonored; this time they wanted to create the teaser for the reboot of uber-game Wolfenstein. Needless to say I was on board and willing to do anything to win the job! Between us, AKQA, and Bethesda the creative was very clear right from the beginning. We wanted to create a teaser that had more qualities of a car commercial than the over the top game trailers we have all become accustomed to. As a narrative we wanted to create a sense of David vs Goliath purely through vignettes of a Nazi assembly line. As the project rolled on it became an exploration in fake industrial design (the reality of these designs really do fail immensely when you break them down), as well as next level lighting and texturing thanks to the incredibly talented team at Psyop.
Credits
Client Company Bethesda Softworks
Production Company: Psyop
Director: Jon Saunders
Psyop Executive Producer: Lucia Grillo
Producer: Jen Cadic
Designers: Jon Saunders, Edward Laag, Kenesha Sneed, Ram Bhat
Editor: Cass Vanini
Storyboard Artist: Robin Nishio
Lead Technical Director: Eban Byrne
Animation: Pat Porter, Kitty Lin, Eric Chou
Modelling: Dan Fine, Bryan Eck, Jordan Harvey
Rigging: Zed Bennett
VFX: Eban Byrne, Fabio Piparo Lighting: Jonah Friedman, Andy Gilbert, Keith Kim, Oliver Castle, Andy Hara, Brandi Diminio, Michelle Ko
Lead Compositor: Nick Tanner
Compositing: Bo Kim, Tim Regan, Tobey Lindback
Flame Artist: Nick Tanner
Agency: AKQA
Creative Director: Akira Takahashi
Producers: Ed Davis, Paul Chang, Adam Abbruzzese
Sound Design Company: Defacto
Sound Designer: Dallas Taylor, Ken McGill & Samson Neslund
Sound Mix Company: Defacto
Mixer: Dallas Taylor