Thursday, March 13, 2014

Monkey Quest "Guardian Knights"




Nathan Love unleashes a new trailer for Monkey Quest, the fun, new multi-player online game from Nickelodeon.
With just 6 weeks to produce, the awesome team of monkeys below knocked it out of the park - great work!

Director: Nathan Love
Executive Producer: James Braddock
Head of Production: Derrick Huang
Producer: Dennis Samatulski
Creative Director: Joe Burrascano
Art Director: Anca Risca
Designer and Concept Artist: Sigmund Lamberto
Storyboards: Sigmund Lamberto
Animation Director: Ryan Moran
3D Animators: Dave Han, Tony Travieso, Kevin Phelps, Doug Litos, Steve Nordt
Rigging: Zhen Zhou, Amy Hay
Lighting and Rendering Leads: Joji Tsuruga, Jon Lee
Lighting and Rendering: Andy Guttormsson, Jina Lee
Compositing Lead: Herculano Fernandes
Compositing: Jon Lee, Jason Tsang, Kristjan Zaklynsky
FX Artist: Kristjan Zaklynsky
Environment Lead: Paul Liaw
Environment Modeling: James Chan, Mary Ibosh
Environment Texturing: Triston Huang, Mary Ibosh, James Chan
Environment Layout: Dave Avetisov, David Soto
Matte Painting: Jina Lee
Character and Prop Modeling: Mary Ibosh, Luis Perez
Character and Prop Texturing: Triston Huang, Jina Lee, Danica Parry, Carl Fong
Additional Texturing: Jim McKenzie
Pipeline Leads: Stephen Mackenzie, Jesse Clemens
The armor and props for the the 4 guardian knights was challenging yet fun to create. Keeping consistency with the concept art and in game assets provided by Nickelodeon directly from the game as the assets created in game were much lower than CG rendered commercial would require, essentially we had to recreate everything from scratch.