Warhammer Chess Pieces
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The chess pieces are the undepreciated heroes of the Warhammer Vermintide II's intro. The cut-scene opens with the narrator, a soldier veteran, fidgeting with Sigmar in his hands. The statuette is his lucky charm. The Chaos and the Skaven Statuettes appear later throughout the cut-scene, standing on military maps of Reikland and indicating the enemy marching towards Helmgart.
Rascals CG team
Co-Directors: Tom Roller & Janos Hunyadi
Script: Tereza Dosek
Art: Jiri Svetinsky, Roman Mindek, Simon Gocal, John Silva, Fariba Khamseh, Arash Radkia
Animation: Guillermo Dupinet
Rigs: Jakub Krompolc
Client: Fatshark
Direction: Anders De Geer, Mattias Rousk
Management: Cecilia Larsson
Audio: Fatshark
Music: Jesper Kyd
Turnaround of the Chaos Chesspiece, one of the 3 stylized assets we did for Warhammer Vermintide II intro cut-scene.
Our inspiration came from the medieval ivory pieces.
Giving cartoony spin to characters from a realistic project was fun.
For the final statuettes we decided to go after a stone material rather than ivory.
The final assets hopefully look like pieces a strategist would use on a military map for planning - or for a game of chess.
Unfortunately, the assets did not make it into a close-up in the final cut-scene.
The Skaven and Chaos pieces in the key moment of the cut-scene when a dark pact between the two evil factions has been forged.
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