We were tasked with creating the trailer entirely from concept to completion. To do this, we had to take care of all gameplay capture, writing, directing,  editing, motion graphics, VO, mixing, sound design, and overall production polish.

Echoes really captured us with its world but also its feeling. When you start the game, you get a breakdown of the history of the world, and it feels mythological, ancient, and fantastical. We really felt it was important to translate that to the trailer, so we took the murals shown in the opening and animated them slightly to include them in the trailer, which involved breaking them up into pieces in 3D and create some depth to them. We then wrote a VO that plays throughout the trailer, talking about the history and how the world of Elysium came to be.

We also wanted to capture the cinematic nature of the gameplay, moments of being shot out of the sky or being attacked. So we created an entire sequence in the opening depicting a ship silently fleeing in the night, before being bombarded and eventually destroyed. This leads us into the start of the game for players, waking up on a floating island with the wreckage of their ship, before they set off to discover a new place with nothing but the clothes on their back. We combined all this with full gameplay capture end-to-end, all done live. We felt it was important to capture in this way so we can say every shot of a character in-game or a ship is actually being controlled in real-time without any scripted animations. 

We created the title sequences in 3D, as well as did full sound design across the trailer, alongside mixing and final production polish. We also created a custom track from the ground up, taking the base melodies of the game's theme and extracting those into a dynamic and powerful piece of music that helped drive the trailer forward. 

The trailer debuted for the early access launch of Echoes of Elysium.