Digic Pictures released three cool videos documenting how it made its share of the episodes for Amazon’s Secret Level game-based films.
If you haven’t watched it yet, Secret Level is an amazing collection of short films based on famous video game intellectual properties.
The 15 shows from Blur Studios and released on Amazon’s Prime provided some amazing backstories to the games they’re based on.
The films captured the worlds of Armored Core, Concord, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, Mega Man, New World: Aeternum, The Outer Worlds 2, Pac-Man, PlayStation, Sifu, Spelunky and Unreal Tournament and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2.
I think my favorites were Sifu, Unreal Tournament, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Armored Core. Check out Secret Level and then watch these films for the magic on how they were made.
Commissioned by Blur, Digic created the film for Armored Core: Asset Management, shot with Keanu Reeves.
Digic also made the Sifu: It takes a Life episode of the Secret Level anthology. It mixed digital animation with hand-painted art. It created the illusion of spatial depth on a crowded city street. The film converged traditional and modern techniques.
And Digic also brought the epic fantasy of Honor of Kings to life in the video Honor of Kings: The Way of All Things. The beings in the film didn’t use any human actors as references for the computer-animated characters.