Ryse:Son of Rome cinematic|VFX

 

Ryse: Son of Rome is Crytek's new game thats coming out soon on XboxOne. Platige Image (studio responsible for: cinematics for The Witcher game series, blogged about them in this post) was in charge of creating this great cinematic to promote upcoming title. You can read a bit more about this project on Behance.


LEGEND OF DAMOCLES from Platige Image on Vimeo.

Although it's a film module I've decided to talk a bit more about this trailer and making-of video as it contains a lot of valuable informations. At the end of a day, it's still all about production stages and compositing different bits of footage together.



LEGEND OF DAMOCLES Making of from Platige Image on Vimeo.

I'm really glad that Platige Image shared this making-of as well as extensive amount of pre-production drawings, story- and mood- boards, character and scenery designs and notes on modelling/texturing. I've really like the style of this cinematic, colours, textures and a bit less realistic approach (when compared to in game footage and other trailers). Seeing how it was done and the amount of work involved, made me appreciate it even more. Also this a bit more 'comic book like' stylisation supports storytelling, makes it more mysterious.