World of Warcraft: Shadow & Fury

World of Warcraft: Shadow & Fury

Client
Blizzard Entertainment
Production
NICE!
My role
Director

The Shadow and Fury trailer for World of Warcraft: The War Within is my first collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment, and the first trailer we made at NICE! for the current retail version of WoW. It was a fascinating look behind the scenes of a legendary game studio, and an experiment in a completely new style of storytelling.

Together with our team, we had to precisely match the strictly defined in-game visual style of WoW. A big part of that success is thanks to Blizzard legend Chris Metzen, Creative Director and the spiritual father of WoW, who wrote the script.

3D lead
Ondřej Skalník
Supervisor
Radim Zeifart
3D supporting artists
Šimon Lánský, Martina Svojíková
Project management
Lenka Reiterová, Julie Czigle
Animation
Tom Stockinger
Rigger
Pavel Oliva
VFX
Anya Bazhenova
World of Warcraft: Shadow & Fury, video 2
World of Warcraft: Shadow & Fury, video 3