by Giorgos Chronopoulos | May 21, 2024 | News, Services
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Game Trailer Production
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Talos Creative can work closely with you to execute your vision on how you want to tell the world about your game.
We love to be part of the whole creative process, so even If you need help with coming up with or polishing a draft script for your trailer, we can help.
We can lend our storytelling experience while also advising on how best to deliver the concept within your time or budget constraints in the most efficient way.
With a solid script to start, we can develop storyboards and animatics, taking care of every step all the way to final edit and audio. We can plan a campaign of content with you from an announcement teaser to final launch trailer and beyond, formatted for all social media platforms. We will be by your side every step of the way.
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Stylised 3D to Photoreal Characters
Whether you have Unreal character assets available (which we can convert to our Maya rig system) or you need new high res cinematic characters created, we can take care of design or adaptation for use in a cinematic game trailer. This can be in a various styles to match your game title including stylized 3D to photoreal using photogrammetry scanned actors and assets,
Cinematic Game Trailer Services
Utgard: Viking Game Announcement Trailer
For Lyber’s release of viking-themed mobile game Utgard, we worked with our client to put together this short cinematic teaser announcement trailer for them.
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Apeiron: Logo Design & Key Art
For ER-Studios‘s upcoming third-person RPG fantasy game Apeiron, we were brought in to rebrand the game. With a new title and direction, they needed a new logo and key art for their announcement at various games trade shows and for listing on various on-line stores such as steam.
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by Giorgos Chronopoulos | Jan 19, 2023 | Case Studies, News, Projects
Utgard - Teaser Viking Game Trailer
For Lyber’s release of viking-themed mobile game Utgard, we worked with our client to put together this short cinematic announcement game trailer for them.
Read on for more info on how we created it.
Viking Cinematic Teaser Game Trailer
Our client Lyber needed a short CGI animated teaser trailer to announce their in-development viking themed mobile game Utgard.
A short script was provided hitting some main points they wanted to show, which we took and elaborated upon. As the game itself uses relatively simple and low poly character models, we proceeded to the concept phase to design the higher resolution cinematic character models for the cinematic.
After reviewing the list of character types, we settled on a few to use, mainly focusing on the Berserkr character, but in addition, we came up with an original new character type, a Druidic/Seer female.
We proceeded to create some concept mock-ups of the design for approval.
Initial design as an archer, which then changed to a druid/seer character.
Once a more refined script was agreed upon, we could then proceed to present a storyboard to block out the shots visually. Here is a portion of the storyboard for the game trailer.
With a clear plan for the trailer approved, we proceeded to build all the remaining assets we would need, from the ocean, snowy landscape, drakkar boat and all the character models. We needed two main characters and a collection of background vikings rowing the boat.
Berserker Character Model
One character from the game is a Berseker warrior type. Using an early version of the game model as our reference, we went about recreating the design to a higher detail level suitable for a cinematic game trailer.
Druid / Seer Character Model
This character started as a version of one the client was developng but then we suggested some idea they though would be cool as a new character type that they would then add to the game. So we continued to develope this Druidic Seer character type.
Background Viking Characters
We also needed a small collection of lower resolution background viking characters to row the drakkar boat. These are 3 examples from which we also created more variations though they are barely visible in the final shots, it’s often preferable to make sure everything holds up well in case you want more freedom with your camera movements to get closer.
The main landscape base was created in Gaea. The maps were exported and the scene built in Maya and Redshift before scattering trees and adding the buildings
The final renders from Redshift were first compositing in Fusion Studio, then brought into our Davinchi Resolve timeline to tweak the edit and grading.
We also use some film looks and grain effect to help the CG renders looks less digital. A process we are always refining and pushing with each project to get the look we need.
With our rough edit approved, we also added in the music composed by Marika Schanz. Who is also a talented 3D artist. You can see more of her work here: https://www.marikaschanz.com
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by Giorgos Chronopoulos | Sep 28, 2022 | Case Studies, News, Projects
Apeiron: Logo Design & Key Art
For ER-Studios‘s upcoming third-person RPG fantasy game Apeiron, we were brought in to rebrand the game. With a new title and direction, they needed a new logo and key art for their announcement at various games trade shows and for listing on various on-line stores such as steam.
Read on for more info on how we created it.
Client: Exiled-Republic LLC
Project: Apeiron Series Identity & Key Art
Art Director: Giorgos Chronopoulos
Rebrand and new logo design
The game was previously titled Tales of the Forgotten Heroes: Alchemist.
Looking at the previous logo design you can see here, it starts to become a problem when viewed on the old website header, the text and overall design is illegible at that size. So with us now on board, and the new provided shorter title, we had the opportunity to create a more fitting design to go with it.
The game was now being re titled Apeiron, from Greek meaning without end, boundless, limitless, infinite. After discussions on the direction on the game featuring a magical crystal and an ancient great tree that was all connected. we began to brainstorm those ideas further.
With the core idea based on the infinite, we wanted to incorporate that idea somehow. I immediately had a pretty clear vision of the infinity symbol created with branches of the trees wrapped around the crystal in the infinity sign in some form.
Discussions on the font started very early on in discussions, so this informed the direction to take. With that in mind, the way the symbol was to be part of the title was always part of the design philosophy. thinking about how that symbol would integrate as part of the full title as well as work by itself in a simpler form.
Once we put forward a few ideas, the client was super happy and things moved a long very quickly with no revisions required. We just proceeded to refine a chosen concept through the stages from initial discussions, sketches, to vector design presentations and then a 3D rendered final details version for cover art/key art.
After some refinement, we came to this design using base of the i to represent the great tree’s trunk, and balancing the leaves on the branches and referencing the crystal with two simple shapes when added to the curves of the ‘branches’.
While the logo design was being developed, we also started working on the key art in parallel.
The brief for the key art, was to depict a garden of Eden styles vista, with the main cast of characters looking out to the horizon. In the center, would be The Great Tress.
Unreal 5 Game Character Models
We took the game character models from Unreal 5, and reshaded them in Redshift in Maya. We also converted the Unreal rig over to one we could modfy in Maya and have more control for posing and potential future animation.
We needed to do some sculpting on the final poses and retouching in post to get them looking how we wanted. As these were also early versions of the characters..
We started a base landscape using Gaea, then brought that base into Maya, where we scattered trees, plants, grass and rocks to build up the scene. The shading and lighting was rendered using Redshift for Maya.
The Great Tree, had one side that was dying, so we have to incorporate that into the design.
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by Giorgos Chronopoulos | Nov 20, 2021 | News, Projects
Halloween: Origins of the Jack O' Lantern
Stingy Jack – also known as Jack the Smith, Drunk Jack or the Jack O’ Lantern is a character that is frequently associated with the festive of Halloween. Tonight, we tell his story…
Above is an edit of some of the artwork we created. To see the video we made for the client, visit their YouTube channel: The Legends Of LIterature
Project: The Legends Of Literature
Directed by: David Ramenah
Art Direction: Gio Chronopoulos
Art & Animation: Gio Chronopoulos
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by Giorgos Chronopoulos | Jun 15, 2021 | Projects, News
UN75 United Nations 75th Anniversary
Talos Creative was commissioned to create an animation to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the forming of the U.N.
You can see more on the U.N website here: https://www.un.org/en/un75/finalreport
We had a fairly short turnaround of <3-4 weeks.
Project: UN75
Client: United Nations
Written and Produced by David Gough
Directed by: Gio Chronopoulos
Animation: Gio Chronopoulos
Tile models and texturing by: Anita Wiatr-Noireaud
In order to try to represent all the peoples of the world as one for one of the sequences, we opted for AI generated faces and morphing them seemlessly. Below you can see one clip using this effect.
“We very much appreciate all the hard work that has clearly gone into this wonderful film – it is truly impressive. I am excited to show it to the world!”
Strategic Communication Consultant, The United Nations
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by Giorgos Chronopoulos | May 19, 2021 | News
2021 Fantasy Animation Reel Teaser
Project: 2021 Fantasy Reel Teaser
Directed by: Gio Chronopoulos
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