In nuce: As part of our weekly recurring series “Animago Afternoon”, we present pearls, gems and other splendours from last year’s Animago film festivals at the best time of the afternoon. This time we are showing you the award-winning launch cinematic “Wild Hunt” for the video game “The Witcher 3”, salvaged from the Animago archives in 2015.
What is Wild Hunt? The launch cinematic, which is well worth seeing, was created by the VFX artists at Digic Pictures. In the cinematic, Geralt of Riva wanders through a Nordic kingdom on the hunt for monsters. Business as usual for the alpha anti-hero with a flat-rate subscription to the medieval McFit, right? Not quite. Because Geralt soon meets a red-haired woman who turns into a socially intolerable vampire, which causes problems for Geralt, the vampire-phobic. Just an occupational hazard for Geralt, but is it just a mundane everyday life in the fantasy cosmos?
Did you know? Digic Pictures from Budapest is an old animago acquaintance: The studio won its seventh animago trophy with “Wild Hunt”. The team created the extremely elaborate trailer using Maya, ZBrush, BodyPaint, Modo, Mari, Nuke, Houdini, Final Cut Pro and the in-house software dProject.
Click further: In the print issue 06 : 2012 of Digital Production, Mirja Fürst conducted an interview with the two creative minds Tomek Baginski and Maciej Jackiewiscz from the Polish studio Platige Image, who have taken on a cinematic of the predecessor title “The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings”. Read the interview in full in our retro article from 05.01.2022 . You can find the launch cinematic for the third Witcher game linked below. We say: Roll the film!
“The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” launch cinematic
