Gollum is one of the iconic The Lord of the Rings characters, and what really sets him apart and makes him memorable, is his extreme ambiguity. The latter reflects in the split personality of Gollum/Sméagol which is going to impact and even define the game experience. We were to communicate that to the audience. Also a very important requirement was showing Gollum in such a way that he wouldn’t resemble the one from the movies.
Next we will tell you how this fantastic project was made.
CONCEPT ART
CHARACTERS DESIGN
ENVIRONMENT CREATION
To underline the duality of the central character, we used the interplay of light and shadow. The setting (a huge, dimly lit cave) suits it ideally. Plus, the soundscape of the cave adds to the effect: there are no environment sounds to drown out the internal monologue of Gollum/Sméagol which is in sharp contrast with his/their actions.
MAKING OF
CINEMATIC TRAILER
C R E D I T S :
Alexey Zhdanovich Creative Supervisor
Igor Klimovskiy Trailer Producer
Igor Klimovskiy Trailer Producer
Alexandr Slyusarev Producer
Anna Nguyen Client manager
Aleksandra Osaulenko Project manager
Viktar Shakun Director
Alexandr Bashkirov Screenwriter
Dzmitry Lutsko Art Director
Andrey Bogdanovich CG Supervisor
Hanna Kucherevich Animation \ Pipeline TD
Aleksandr Antoshuk Pipeline TD
Konstantin Brailov Concept art \ Compositing
Dzmitry Halavach DOP \ СС
Nikita Ratnikov Animation \ Rigging
Pavel Kotliar Animation \ Rigging
Aleksey Kozyrev Environment \ Lighting
Tykhon Stepanchenko Environment \ Lighting \ Grooming
Yuriy Kirnarskiy Environment \ Lighting \ Compositing
Andrei Liustsiber Enviroment \ Lighting
Andrey Andrushevich Environment \ Lighting \ Compositing
Dzmitry Udovenko Modeling \ Texturing \ Grooming
Nikolay Skolkov AWS TD
Oleg Patonich Compositing \ Cloth \ FX
Roman Mazur Modeling \ Texturing
Viacheslav Cho-Din-Cho Compositing \ FX
Vladimir Reshetnik Compositing \ Lighting
Andrei Baranau FX
Ilya Klishin Modeling \ Texturing \ Grooming
Sergey Dorokhin Concept art
Eugene Suhovei Sound Design \ Music
C R E A T E D B Y
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