About
Bethesda and Rokkan approached Psyop with the task to create 3 prequels to the AAA videogame, Dishonored, to help promote the game prior to it's launch. Each piece was meant to give a bit of backstory to the world of Dishonored, but Rokkan and Bethesda wanted to create a completely unique visual language for these shorts. We took inspiration from Egon Schiele and many stark black and white illustrations for our look and embraced the hand crafted feel for the piece as a whole. We felt the imperfections lent well to the concept of these stories being folk lore for the city of Dunwall. In the end we generated around 3,000 unique frames in photoshop in order to animate this piece.
Awards
ADC 2012 (bronze), Game Marketing Awards (Best Long Format featuring Promotional Content 2013), Clio Gold for ch01, ch02 and ch03, AICP 2013 Shortlist (chapter 1)
Credits
Creative Director: Jon Saunders
Lead Technical Director: Borja Peña
Executive Producer: Lucia Grillo
Producer: Ryan Mack
Associate Producer: Delaney O'Brien
Design: Jon Saunders, Sam Ballardini
Illustration/Animation: Jon Saunders, Borja Peña, Sam Ballardini, Marika Cowen, Blake Patrick, Angelica Alzona, Lizzie Akana, Stephanie Davidson, Stephanie Russell
Storyboard Artist: Robin Nishio
3d Modeling: Sue Jang, Dave Chen, Oliver Castle, Bryan Eck
Rigging: Zed Bennett
3d Animation: Ryan Moran, David Barosin, Michael Shin
Compositing: Borja Peña, Helen Park, Jason Conradt, Danny Kamhaji
Composer: Daniel Licht
Sound Design: Defacto Sound