Mill+ directors Lisha Tan and David Lawson just unleashed this spectacular season 2 trailer for Respawn’s battle royale shooter Apex Legends, the follow up to their breakout launch trailer back in February 2019.
Lisha Tan: “We took what we learnt from the previous creative and thought about how we could elevate our approach, specifically on the shoot.
“We came up with ways to make the performance capture more realistic, in particular, the combat scenes. We had our actors and stunt performers fire using blanks, which amped up the intensity of the performances from the actors and it translated seamlessly to the screen.”
David Lawson: “In the first trailer the goal was to create an understanding of the character’s personalities, this time around it was about teasing out a new character whilst, as importantly, explaining the development of the map.”
Client: Respawn Entertainment
Executive Producer: Drew McCoy
Creative Director: Drew Stauffer
Writers: Manny Hagopian, Thomas Casiello
Producer: Jon Judelson
Production: Mill+
Directors: David Lawson, Lisha Tan
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Newman
Senior Producer: Gabriel Blanco
Associate Producer: James Morse
Shoot Supervisors: Chris Bayol, Jacob Bergman
Creative Development: Robert Lewis
Line Producer: Alicia Haldenwang
Production Coordinator: Hector Carranza
Production Assistant: Karina Gonzalez
VFX: The Mill
Senior Producer: Ben Foster
Producer: Daniel Beldy
Production Coordinator: Estelle Matranga
Creative Director: David Lawson, Lisha Tan
VFX Supervisor: Chris Bayol
Art Director/Lead Matte Painting: Ed Laag
Shoot Supervisors: Chris Bayol, Jacob Bergman
2D Lead Artist: Evan Langley
Deputy Head of CG: Chris Bayol
Animation Supervisor: Jacob Bergman
CG Lighting Lead: Ziming Liu
FX Supervisor: Daniel Stern
CG Asset Leads: Samantha Pedregon, Joel Kittle, Melanie Okamura
Rigging Supervisor: Nole Murphy
2D Artists: Evan Langley, Franz Kol, Lenz Kol, Dag Ivarsoy, Dylan Streiff, Roman Ivarsoy, Stephen Holbrook, Stephen Paragone
3D Artists: Chris Bayol, Ziming Liu, Dustin Leon, Samantha Pedregon, Yarin Manes, Jeremy Ramirez, Derrick Sesson, Victor Duncan, Matthew Choy, Chin Tin, Melanie Okamura, Joel Kittle, Michael Kash, Noah Schnapp, Sharlene Yin, Chris Goodrich, Robert Vignone, Anthony Thomas, Daniel Stern, Charles Storniolo, Hiroshi Tsubokawa, Jae Jun Yi, James Robinson, Jason Jansky, Lamarcus Harvey, Malcom Moseley, Matt Bohnert, James Ellis
Matte Painting: Ed Laag, Kevin Moran, Bill Lu, Gary Inloes, Itai Muller, Andy Wheater
Animation: Jacob Bergman, Randy Link, Justin Tirado, John Field, Joshua Delaney, Katie Yancey, Gustavo Gonzales, Dan Warom, Matt Sackley, Riyad Hassan
Design: Taehoon Park
Motion Graphics: William Mendoza
Art Department: Hakob Minasian, Wendy Yoon
Pipeline TD: Phil Mayer
Production Coordinator: Dylan Ptak
Storyboard Artist: Mark Alan Yates
Editorial: The Mill
Editor: Nathaniel Park
Edit Assist: Ryan Burbank
Additional Editor: Natalie Wozniak
Previs: Proof, Inc
Producer: Marcela Coto
Previsualization Supervisor: David Allen
Previsualization Artists: Austin Taylor, Carl Vazquez, Nathan Abreu, David Pritchard, Eddie Kim, Kino Wu
Colour: The Mill
Colourist: Matthew Osborne
Executive Producer, Colour: Linda Jackson
Senior Colour Producer: Liza Kerlin
Production Coordinator, Colour: Jessica Amburgey
Colour Assist: Gemma Parr, Nate Seymour
