A pawn… with a knife?!
PixieChess.xyz
Incredible side quest: creating this high-fantasy piece-de-theatre trailer for Pixie, the new online chess platform where players use magical pieces to compete for real money.
Project: Chess Never Changes
Client: Pixie Chess
Creative Direction: Dark Igloo
@darkigloo
Art Director: Dave Franzese
@davezfranzese
Production & Animation Company: WIZZ
@wizzdesign
Directors: CRCR
@crcr_studio
Art Direction: Paul Lacolley, Jérémy Pires
Producers: Claire Madigan, Amanda Stubbs
Production Coordinator: Sara Burgio
Assistant director: Anne Pulce
3D Director and Supervisor: Hugo Garnier
Storyboard: Benjamin Delabays
3D Previs and Layout, rigging: Pierrick Picaut, Ruben Cohen
Colorscript: Sebastien Iglesias
Backgrounds/Matte Painting Supervisor: Sebastien Iglesias
Backgrounds/Matte Painting: Sebastien Iglesias, Luc Courtois
3d Environments: Thomas Lagana, Maxime Gerardin
Character and Props Modeling/Texturing: Swann Valenza, Thomas Lagana
Character Animation: Ruben Cohen, David Thomas
2D FX: animation Lucas Ponzio, Mehdi Tebbakh
CFX: Hugo Garnier
Lighting and Compositing supervisor: Lucas Germain
Lighting and Compositing: Lucas Germain, Francois Mancone, Eléonore Rolewski
Talent Manager: Julie Bellemare
Technical Director: Hadrien Farre
Pipeline Developer: Guilhem Compain, Lucas Germain (consultant)
Music & SFX: Antfood
@antfood.music
IT: Nicolas Biardeau, Emmanuel Zangzang