Starfield – Wild Imagination

We are thrilled to share Starfield, our most recent collaboration with our friends at Bethesda Softworks! This was such an…
Starfield "Wild Imagination"
Case Study

We are thrilled to share Starfield, our most recent collaboration with our friends at Bethesda Softworks!

This was such an amazing project to be involved in. Everyone from Director Nicole Ackermann and her amazing production team at Merman, the AKQA crew and of course BSW were all on board from the get go to make something truly memorable. As a keen gamer it was fantastic to have the opportunity to be work on the live action trailer for Starfield, it's not every day that Bethesda releases new IP, we've been waiting 29 years for this!

On the VFX side we really strived to make sure that our work was grounded in reality and that we focused on using VFX to support Nicole's story ideas of exploration and hope and the relationship between the captain and young girl characters. Special shout out to The Mill team for all your creativity and dedication, your hard work paid off with a great trailer.

Creative Director, Jimmy Bullard
Credits
Credits

Client
Client: Bethesda Softworks

Agency
Agency: AKQA

Production Company
Production Company: Merman
Director: Nicole Ackermann
DOP: Adam Joshua Bentel

Editorial
Editorial: Cosmo Street Editorial
Editor: Marlo Caine

VFX
VFX: The Mill
Creative Director: Jimmy Bullard
Executive Producer: Chris Connolly
Producer: Katherine Miccio
Associate Producers: Stephen Dierks, Claire Stiefel
2D Lead: Ruairi Twohig
3D Lead: Ajit Menon, Karim Moussa
2D Team: Vi Nguyen, Varshini Kumar, Renato Carone, Yashvardhan Jain, David Forcada, Felipe Passarini, Ankit Mishra, Shaik Abdul Adil, Camilo Gutierrez, Ben Morse
Concept Artist: Roger Hom
Asset Artists: James Chan, Jemmy Molero, Quinn Thompson
Animators: John Wilson, Sam Crees, Arsen Arzumanyan
Associate Production Manager (Mill India): Anjalika Jain
Animation Lead (Mill India): Aniruddhya Chang
Animation Supervisor (Mill India): Sukanta Chakraborty
Animation Artist (Mill India): Badireddy Sri Charan
FX/Sim Artists: Dave Barosin, Chris Watcher
FX Supervisor (Mill India): Biswajit Tarafder
FX Artists (Mill India): Kamaljeet Singh, M Kannan
Lighting: Arman Matin, Natasha Saenko, Mohammed Sinbaway
Matte Painting: Charles Lee
Matte Painting (Mill India): Gowri Sankar Velusamy D, Winnie Sharma, Mohan Rao, Paresh Kumar Swain
DFX Supervisor (Mill India): Sachin S Kadbane
Project Lead (Mill India): Redin Kumar M K
CG Asset Lead (Mill India): Nishant Kumar
CG Asset Artists (Mill India): Anchal Lahri, Brijul Venugopalan Nair, Dinesh Kanakaraj, Guntur Kamal Kepha, Jagdish Singh Yadav, Joydip Sarkar, Madhusudan Patel, Manukuru Manikanteswara, Prakhar Kulshreshtha, Pritika Sethi, Raj Sandeep Kadam, Ravishankar N, Ritika Das, Sandeep Kumar Yadav, Sandip Dhole, Sarjana Datta, Shahid Hussain, Sudalai Muthu Ramesh Pillai, Surendhar Stalin, Thiyagarajan, Guntur Kamal Kepha, Ram Yogeshwaran, Harsh Chaturvedi, Dinesh Kumar Lakshminarayan, Samir Solomon
Rigging Lead (Mill India): Garlapati Yeswanth
Rigging Artists (Mill India): Vivekkumar Shobhnath Pal, Daishi Takishima
DMP Supervisor (Mill India): Gowri Sankar Velusamy D
DMP Artists (Mill India): Winnie Sharma, Mohan Rao, Paresh Kumar Swain
Compositing Lead (Mill India): Shaik Abdul Adil
Compositing Artist (Mill India): Ankit Mishra
Roto Leads (Mill India): Vikas Vikram, Kiran Jondhale
Roto Supervisor (Mill India): Kunal Bendke
Roto Jr. Supervisor (Mill India): Rohit Charde
Roto Artists (Mill India): Amit Chavan, Dayanand Sinha, Deepak Gupta, Harshad Rane, Imrojul Khan, Hrushikesh Tarade, Kamlesh Chauhan, Jegadeesan Velayutham, Pratik Prakash Sawant, Radha Kumari, Reddy Battula Durgarajesh Reddy, Sagar Adivarekar, Shaik Ravoof Basha, Shamim Zamir Khan, Shashi Sundarraj, Suhas Sitaram Jadhav, Tushar Suresh Bhat
Prep Leads (Mill India): Devappa Hadpad, Guthikonda Venkateswara Rao
Prep Supervisor (Mill India): Sugumar Selvaraj
Prep Artists (Mill India): Alex Johnsundaram, Anand Balvant Khawaskhane, Baljinder Singh, Dixit Kumar, Ritesh Patil, Prajakta Rajendra Nagarkar, Sagar Paswan, Tushar Tulsidas Burse, Shubham Pawar, Laxman Janardhan Pawar
Matchmove Leads (Mill India): Elangovan Ganeshan, Smijumon Viswanathan, Manoj Ravi
Matchmove Artists (Mill India): Asif Mohammad, Avaneetharan Karuppasamy, Bhushan Ghurade, Chetan Balasaheb Kadam, Dongili Varaprasad, Mubin Munaf Qureshi, Nallur Suhas Bhat, Nirgun Gawade, Paras Pareshkumar Shah, Sushant Lavhande, Tirupati Bhavani Shankar Derangula, Upasana Choudhary, Vedant Jagdish Mutrak, Verru Ramesh, Vijay Bapu Chavan, Vivek Yogesh Kamble, Vurukuti Siva Sarweswar

Sound: Brian Emrich, Sonic Union

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