OVERKILL'S THE WALKING DEAD - GRANT

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TitleOVERKILL'S THE WALKING DEAD - GRANT
BrandSTARBREEZE
Product/ServiceCINEMATIC GAME TRAILER
Category A10. Animation
Entrant GOODBYE KANSAS STUDIOS Stockholm, SWEDEN
Idea Creation GOODBYE KANSAS STUDIOS Stockholm, SWEDEN
Production GOODBYE KANSAS STUDIOS Stockholm, SWEDEN
Credits
Name Company Position
Fredrik Löfberg Goodbye Kansas Studios Director
Thomas Oger Goodbye Kansas Studios Producer
Hampus Gross Starbreeze Studios Producer
Jörgen Lilja Goodbye Kansas Studios Executive Producer
Saul Gascon Starbreeze Studios Executive Producer
Jonas Ekman Goodbye Kansas Studios Animation Director
Daniel Bystedt Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Character Artist
Henrik Eklundh Goodbye Kansas Studios VFX Supervisor
Gustaf Holmsten Goodbye Kansas Studios Art Director
Joakim Ericson Starbreeze Studios Art Director
Thomas Conroy Starbreeze Studios Writer
Sandra Isaksson Goodbye Kansas Studios Character Modeling
Jonas Skoog Goodbye Kansas Studios Character Modeling
Adam Sacco Goodbye Kansas Studios Character Modeling
Mario Baldi Goodbye Kansas Studios Character Modeling
Jonas Törnqvist Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Facial Modeler
Anneli Larsson Goodbye Kansas Studios Facial Modeler
Jonas Skoog Goodbye Kansas Studios Facial Modeler
Henrik Eklundh Goodbye Kansas Studios Character Look Development
Jonas Skoog Goodbye Kansas Studios Character Look Development
Daniel Bystedt Goodbye Kansas Studios Character Look Development
Sandra Isaksson Goodbye Kansas Studios Character Look Development
Gustav Alexandersson Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Environment Artist
Magnus Andersson Goodbye Kansas Studios Assets Modeler
Philip Sandström Goodbye Kansas Studios Assets Modeler
Erik Hallberg Goodbye Kansas Studios Assets Modeler
Frans Åkerman Goodbye Kansas Studios Assets Modeler
Jesper Bardhamre Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Environment Look Development
Hannes Drossel Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Environment Look Development
Jesper Bardhamre Goodbye Kansas Studios Look Development Artist
Kristian Zarins Goodbye Kansas Studios Look Development Artist
Magnus Andersson Goodbye Kansas Studios Look Development Artist
Philip Sandström Goodbye Kansas Studios Look Development Artist
Frans Åkerman Goodbye Kansas Studios Look Development Artist
Kristian Zarins Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Lighting Artist
Hannes Drossel Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Lighting Artist
Erika Johansson Goodbye Kansas Studios Lighting and Rendering
Hannes Drossel Goodbye Kansas Studios Lighting and Rendering
Sandra Scholz Goodbye Kansas Studios Lighting and Rendering
Peter Jemstedt Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Rigging
Nils Lerin Goodbye Kansas Studios Facial Rigging
Ludvig Eliasson Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Character FX
Jonas Ekman Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Animator
Goran Milic Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Facial Animator
Jonas Forsman Goodbye Kansas Studios Animator
Mattias Lindkvist Goodbye Kansas Studios Motion Editor
Max Öberg Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead FX
Ludvig Jonsson Goodbye Kansas Studios FX Artist
Simon Rainerson Goodbye Kansas Studios Technical Director
Mikael Widegren Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Matte Painter and Concept Artist
Teo Mathlein Goodbye Kansas Studios Concept Artist
Calle Granström Goodbye Kansas Studios Lead Compositing
Peter Blomstrand Goodbye Kansas Studios Compositing Artist
Peter Blomstrand Goodbye Kansas Studios Editor
Erik Johansson Goodbye Kansas Studios Pipeline
Emil Ferdinandsson Goodbye Kansas Studios Pipeline
Red Pipe Sound Design
Joakim Kristensen Red Pipe Sound Designer
Martin Steinberg Goodbye Kansas Studios Grading
Anton Söderhall Goodbye Kansas Studios Head of Mocap Studio
Samuel Tyskling Goodbye Kansas Studios Motion Capture Specialist
David Grice Goodbye Kansas Studios Motion Capture Specialist
Nils Aulin Goodbye Kansas Studios Motion Capture Specialist
Marko Marinkovic Goodbye Kansas Studios Motion Capture Specialist
Sigtor Kildal Goodbye Kansas Studios HMC Operator
Roger Sundberg Goodbye Kansas Studios Scan Operator
William Hope Performance Actor: Grant
Seth Ericson Performance Actor: Hero Walker
Nicklas Hansson Performance Actor: Walkers

Tell the jury about type(s) of animation used and summarise any relevant challenges or techniques.

The film is directed by Fredrik Löfberg and our teams in Uppsala and Stockholm worked closely with Starbreeze to create it – from script to finished film – and utilized every tool in the tool box to push the boundaries both technically and artistically, including State of the art 3D Scanning for the creation of the characters, full Performance Capture combined with meticulous Key Animation and lots of FX. What makes it stand out? Extremely realistic pictures, attention paid to every detail, incredible processing of the motion capture data for absolute believable acting shifting away from the classic gameplay look. Also the in depth development of the characters so we already get an impression of their personalities before the game even started. The software used for this piece was: Maya, ZBrush, VRay, Houdini, Mari, Substance painter, Nuke.

Write a short summary of what happens in the film

It’s time for the third character trailer for Starbreeze’s game “Overkill’s The Walking Dead”. This time we meet Grant: A determined man with true grit. Set in a grim and dire situation Grant finds refuge in the one and only abandon car in the middle of nowhere. A full CG monologue where he has time to ponder about his past.