Just Cause 3:
Mech Land Assault

World famous video game publishers Square Enix commissioned us to create a teaser trailer for a new instalment of their PlayStation 4, Xbox one and PC game Just Cause 3. It needed to showcase a brand new Mech Land Assault Vehicle in an Anime inspired animation style promo.

We developed a short story which would demonstrate the powerful abilities of the new Mech character – beginning with a storyboard and colour script.

A challenge was to stay faithful to a traditional 2D Anime animation style while working with a 3D animated mechanical character. To achieve this, we textured and rendered 3D animated elements to appear as 2D with extra hand-drawn detail, such as scratches and highlights. For extra impact, we added a wide range of 2D animated effects animations.

This was a formative project in our development of integrating 3d assets into 2d animated film.