YoYo Games wanted me to create a bit of a hype video to announce and drum up some excitement for the GameMaker Showcase Game of the Year Awards in 2014.
For this, I animated the glass trophy in Blender and created text slates for each of the nominees in After Effects.
I had to familiarise myself with each game so that I could capture the essence of each nominees’ game, in the short time they’d be on-screen.
This was achieved by a combination of manipulating existing marketing assets for each game, as well as being able to isolate game assets from GameMaker projects that the nominees had submitted and animating them in After Effects.
Hyper Light Drifter was one of those games that people were really surprised was achievable in GameMaker
Me and a colleague had fun trying to capture this from in-game so that I could then key out the background
The eventual winner of the public vote after running a fun campaign themselves