Activision
Call of Duty: Extinction - DLC 2 (Outro)
The Mill and Mill+ continue their collaboration with Neversoft and Infinity Ward for a DLC outro in Activision's 'Call of Duty: Extinction.'
This sequence provides a visual overview of major plot points in the game using military intelligence-style graphics. Whilst the intro throws the player into the action, the outro takes a step back for a bigger-picture perspective. 3D lead artist Felix Urquiza of The Mill and creative director Paul Mitchell of Mill+ led the CG animation and design teams.
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Paul Mitchell
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Mitchell comments: "The style of the outro very much centers around the user interface (UI) design. It's a military communications tool into which we insert graphical CG sequences. This was used to help tell the story in a visual way."
Adds Urquiza: "A lot of the CG work went into modeling the alien and the environment at the end of the sequence. Clients provided concepts and work-in-progress models, which helped speed up the process in building these elements from scratch. We then set the tone, look and feel through lighting and rendering."
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CreditsCredits
VFX & Design
VFX & Design: Mill+
Executive Producer: Kim Wildenburg
Director & Creative Director: Paul Mitchell
Senior VFX Producer: Will Lemmon
VFX Coordinators: Antonio Hardy, Jacqueline Sand
Art Directors & Lead Compositors: Eugene Gauran, Ed Laag
3D Lead Artist: Felix Urquiza
Storyboard Artists: Max Forward, Brian Yang
Matte Painters: Peggy Chung, Gizem Ersavas, Darin Hilton, Thom Price, Rasha Shalaby, Andy Wheater
After Effects Artist: Justin Demetrician, Ben Hurand, Joe Kutilek
Compositors: Victor Duncan, Kevin Flores, Eugene Gauran, Asif Haque, Patrick Heinen, Scott Johnson, Ed Laag, Robin McGloin, Tim Robbins, Daniel Thuresson,
Effects Artists: Hartwell Durfor, Denis Gauthier, Ashraf Ghoniem, Jenna Kind
Lighting & Rendering: Simon Brown, Robert Chapman, Kenzie Chen, Kelvin Lian, James Ma, Milton Ramirez, Felix Urquiza, Kim Vongbunyong
Modeling & Texture: Charlotte Akeurst, Matt Bohnert, Krystal Sae Eua, David Fleet, Chris Goodrich, Margaux Huneau, Kristan Kelly, Leo Krajden, Kelvin Lian, Siran Liu, James Ma, James Mulholland, Blake Sullivan, Maggie Toh, Jose Trujillo, Felix Urquiza, Danny Yoon,
Rigging: Jacob Bergman, Fabian Elmers, Blake Guest, Steven Olson
Animators: Alfonso Alpuerto, Ed Boldero, Scott Beharrel Bono, Tracie Cotta, Kiel Figgins, Blake Guest, Daniel Kmet, Billy Vu Lam, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley McLaughlin, Josh Sterling, Sauce Villas, Juan Zavala
Editors: Luke Kraman, Victor Jory
Game Development
Developer: Neversoft, Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision Publishing Inc.
Director: Scott Pease, Peter Day
Cinematic Director: Sylvain Doreau
Story: Brad Santos
Audio: Stephen Miller, Charles Deenen
Colour
Colour: The Mill
Executive Producer Colour: LaRue Anderson
Colour Producer: Natalie Westerfield
Colorist: Shane Reed