HALO 5: Guardians

An opportunity that no one wants to turn down is exactly what rising VFX Studio Blacksmith contacted us with when they asked us to join them in creating 2 live action TVC’s for Halo directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White & The Huntsman).

The first spot “All Hail” highlights Spartan Locke hunting down the heroic Master Chief, who’s now compromised. The second spot, titled “The Cost” shows the Master Chief delivering a manifesto about the price of being a hero, wilding the upper hand over Spartan Locke, who’s injured.

The guys and gals over there provided our team with a whole bunch of cool looking assets from the upcoming game and asked us to build and extend the ‘real’ location environment. Production design was handled by James Chinlund (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and so the stakes were high and the set was incredible with the principal challenge being coverage of as many angles as possible.

However we rose to the challenge as you can see and even worked on the huge scale spaceship also seen in the spot. Check out the awesome TVC’s below.

Halo 5 Guardians Master Chief Ad
https://youtu.be/9rd8FWUCCZk

Halo 5 Guardians Spartan Locke Ad
https://youtu.be/tHQiYPiNVEE