Working closely with De Thurah and the BBH team, The Mill’s VFX team led by Nathan Kane and Christian Nielsen worked to generate of host of explosive effects throughout the four vignettes in order to take the action packed story into a new dimension.
 
Each vignette was treated with meticulous detail in order to give the look and feel of separate game environments. The Mill’s CG team rigged and custom animated 45 character assets supplied by a host of game developers, before these were seamlessly integrated into a series of environments, which were created using a combination of live action footage and matte paintings, with the addition of CG smoke simulations, explosions and CG soldiers.
 
The film culminates in an ultimate battle of gaming characters, segueing into the brand’s tagline ‘Greatness Awaits’.
 
Lead 2D Artist Nathan Kane comments, “It was really great to collaborate with Martin de Thurah and BBH on such a special and ambitious project, from the moment we read the script we knew this had the potential to be an epic spot. Having worked with Martin on previous projects we knew he’d bring his own unique style to the job, everything that was shot had a real cinematic feel to it, we knew all of our VFX work had to be of a really high level to complement the film. The whole team here at the Mill really enjoyed the challenge, it’s not every day you get to work with exploding robotic dinosaurs, huge trolls pouring with lava and create an infinite battle scene with hundreds of the best characters in the PlayStation world.”