Hades II / Launch Trailer

We follow a witch ritual of Melinoë, a young witch and moon goddess, with her Headmistress, Hecate.

/ Behind the line

Director
Louve Karnas
Client
Supergiant Games

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/ OVERVIEW

Our first collaboration with Supergiant Games is one we’ll always hold dear to our hearts and it certainly created huge hype around the studio - we’re massive fans of the game. We wanted the visuals to have a distinct, graphic style, with lots of texture on both the backgrounds and the characters. That kind of look is pretty easy to pull off in a still frame, but once everything starts moving, it gets trickier. To make it work, we applied pre-rendered textures to the characters (using the Van Gogh plug-in in After Effects) so they would blend with the heavily textured environments. Another key part of the process was nailing the character performance. The witch ritual in Hades has a very specific feel, and we wanted the character movements to be as authentic and precise as possible. To achieve this we choreographed and filmed a sequence which we used as an animation reference.

/ Modelsheets

/ BEHIND THE LINE

The Crew

● Director / Louve Sarfati Karnas ● Producer / Kateřina Grecová ● Producer cover / Laura Hancock / Macarena Gaset ● Art Director / Meryl Franck ● Animation Lead / Amanda Jespersen Holm ● Clean up Lead / Eleonora Quario ● Lead Character Designer / Amanda Jespersen Holm ● Compositing Lead / Clarisse Valeix ● Production Manager / Michaela Dede ● Production Assistant / Ed Farish ● Production Assistant Support / Daisy Link ● Edit Assistant / Ed Farish ● Managing Director | Commercials & Branded Content / Laura Breaden ● Executive Creative Director / Tim McCourt ● Executive Producer / Tan Baptista ● Head of Production / Nick Miller ● Head of Animation / Kwok Fung Lam ● Head of Compositing / Freddie Lewis-Wall ● Head of Art / Juancho Crespo ● Head of CG / Pete Addington ● Head of Operations / Anna Degenaar ● Talent & Scheduling Coordinator / Jesus Ovejero ● Studio Coordinator / Sophia Owen-Moulding ● Marketing Manager / Ella Johnston ● IT Support / Rob Riley (Gal Consultancy) ● Pipeline Developer / Ynput ● Storyboard / Zhuhuang Dong / Neil Dieu ● Music / Darren Korb / Supergiant ● Audio / Box Of Toys Audio ● Sound Design & Mix / Box Of Toys Audio ● Editor / Louve Sarfati Karnas ● Concepts / Meryl Franck / Sébastien Iglesias ● Beatboards / Djibril Morisette-Phan ● Colour Script / Agathe Leroux / Meryl Franck ● Styleframe Background / Meryl Franck ● Styleframe Character layout and Clean up / Amanda Jespersen Holm ● Styleframe Compositing / Clarisse Valeix ● Character Design / Amanda Jespersen Holm / Lucien / Léa Rey-Mauzaize ● Modelsheets & Cleanup / Léa Rey-Mauzaize / Amanda Jespersen Holm ● 3D Modelling – Weapons / Sarah Barets ● Character Layout / Léa Rey-Mauzaize / Amanda Jespersen Holm / Francisco Magalhães / Kat Layno ● Animation / Amanda Jespersen Holm / Francisco Magalhães / Allan Michaut / Florian de Chelle / Suzon Heron / Ricard Ubach / Mandimby Lebon / Angele Legras ● FX Animation / Paul Bouchart / Kerim Tumer / Nicola Nikolaos Finizio / Louve Sarfati Karnas ● Animation Assistant / Eleonora Quario / Paola Costigliola / Kamila Konczewska / Hannah Judd ● Cleanup and Colour Outsource / AMiX ● Background Layout / Meryl Franck / Daniel Converio / Pauline Mauviére / Sébastien Iglesias ● Background Paint / Meryl Franck / Daniel Converio / Pauline Mauviére / Sébastien Iglesias ● Compositing / Clarisse Valeix / Skye van der Walt / Natasha Z Francis / Florian Ojeda Diop / Marco Antonio Silva / Lucile Arnaud / Gabrielle Locre / Freddie Lewis-Wall / Patricia Andrades / Abel Kohen ● Colour Grade / Natasha Z Francis