PC / PS4 / Xbox One
Role: Studio Art Director (Cryptic Studios)
Cryptic Studios partnered with Plastic Wax to create a cinematic trailer for Magic Legends Open Beta launch. This was the follow-up to a teaser trailer we collaborated on a few months prior, and built further from those foundations .
I was the dev-side art director for the trailer project, working with my counterparts at Plastic Wax, stakeholders at Wizards of the Coast and publishing partners at Arc Games to ensure that Cryptic’s character designs, environments, gameplay and audio elements were brought to pre-rendered life flawlessly.
Projects like this take heavy collaboration between the CG house, dev studio and IP holder, and can derail the game’s art staff if not managed properly. My job was to oversee quality, ensure smooth communication between all parties and provide detailed feedback, supplemental animation direction, timing and editing notes, paintovers, concept support and reference assets.
The game wasn’t as successful as we’d hoped it would be, but the trailer was a blast to work on, and still holds up today.