Neolithic Dawn

Game trailer · Animated short

The brief

For: Neolithic LLC, makers of Neolithic Dawn, a VR survival game set in 10,000 BC
They needed: A trailer to carry the game into Early Access: something you’d stop scrolling for on YouTube and social.
We made: Terek hunts in a blizzard. He drops from a charging mammoth, hangs off a cliff by his knife, and ends with his hand held out to a wolf. Two minutes, drawn by hand, and the game’s store cover too.

Watch it on YouTube →

Beat board

The key moments, before a frame was animated.

Beat board: Terek by the fire, the leap over the mammoth, the cliff jump, the wolf's eye, the reach, Terek and the wolf at sunset

Concept art

Swipe · 5

Key art · the storm
Mammoth · colour
Terek · turnaround
Terek · body turnaround
Terek · expressions

Credits

Written and directed by: Simon R. Mulligan
Creative director: Renford Alexander
Producer: Renford Alexander
Lead animator: Arnas Khabi
Animation: Jonathan Fontaine, Pau Cantos Simón, Collins Kelvin Momodu, Siddhi Varadkar, Simon R. Mulligan
Character design: Simon R. Mulligan, Jonathan Fontaine
Background art: Simon R. Mulligan
Layout: Simon R. Mulligan, Arnas Khabi
Storyboard: Simon R. Mulligan
Clean-up and colour: Bernie John Isip, Ariff Salehuddin, Ammar Solihin, Cecilia Flores, Elmer Nellasca, Quyet Nguyen, Siddhi Varadkar, Paloma Tellez Toledo, Valeria Salazar, Daniela Trejo Ruiz, Gene Frances Magora
Compositing and editing: Simon R. Mulligan
Sound design: Simon R. Mulligan
Narration: Erin Miller
Executive producers: Renford Alexander, Ziad Magdy

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