The familiar but bloodied landmarks of Los Angeles – from the Santa Monica Pier to Hollywood Blvd. – are featured in Elastic and Feed Me Light’s cinematic trailer for video game Dead Island 2, coming in April.
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Without showing one single zombie or zombie killer, the trailer makes clear exactly what’s happened as blood and gore spatter the endlessly sunny and colorful Southern California locales. The sequence is scored with “Drown,” by Karen O and Danger Mouse with a bespoke arrangement by Ben Sumner and Glenn Herweijer at Feel for Music.
Dead Island 2, produced by Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios, comes out April 21, 2023 for PC, Playstation and Xbox.
CREDITS
Client: Deep Silver, Dambuster Studios
Design Studios: Elastic, Feed Me Light
Executive Creative Directors: Andy Hall, Denis Bodart
Director: Denis Bodart
Design Director: Nadia Tzuo
Designers: Min Shi, Carlo Sa, Kaya Thomas, Fred Colin, Cian McKenna
Storyboarding: Simon Duclos, Maxence Henry, Denis Bodar
Previs / Animatic: Simon Duclos
CG Supervisor: Olivier Pirard
Lead CG Artist: Fred Colin
CG team: David Calvet, Olivier Pirard, Simon Duclos
Animators: Julien Becquer, Frederic Colin
Compositors: Florent Bizec, Chris Sayer, David Calvet, Olivier Pirard
Additional Compositing Support: Andrew Young
Editors: Simon Duclos, Denis Bodart
Elastic Senior Producer: Paul Makowski
Feed Me Light Executive Producer: Ryan Goodwin-Smith
Feed Me Light Creative Producers: Daniela Hornksov Sun, Dai Davison
Feed Me Light Assistant Producer: David Botchey
Elastic Head of Production: Paul Makowski
Elastic Executive Producer: Luke Colson
Elastic Executive Producer: Kate Berry
Elastic Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall
Feed Me Light Managing Director: Kiri Haggart
Music: Ben Sumner and Glenn Herweijer at Feel for Music, featuring “Drown” by Danger Mouse & Karen O.
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