As part of the launch campaign, Tendril had the honour of collaborating on this visually-rich teaser, riddled with clues about the upcoming season. The result was a medley of mysterious, gruesome and tantalizing views that were collated by the network.
The teaser starts off with a living fetus, encased in an hourglass – fed by a beating black heart. The journey takes us through a missile launch, mushroom clouds, a disintegrating mask, mischievous and eerie black hands that seem to control moments throughout the story, rotten figs giving birth to scorpions, birds crashing through gothic windows, a pentagram seared into a coffin, raining death, and a resetting of the hourglass.
Tendril created the fig and scoripion sequenece that simulates the nail of a demonic finger slicing through the paper thin skin of a fig. As the nail contacts the delicate skin, the juicy reddish purple flesh from within pushes through the widening split like guts spilling out of a Tauntaun or bloated whale carcass. At the same time — in keeping with the theme of duality — two scorpions, one a deep glossy black, the other a translucent ghostly white emerge and entangle, stabbing at one other viciously with their venom bulbs.
Process
Credits
FX NETWORKS
President, Marketing & Promotions,
Multi-Platform Marketing
Stephanie Gibbons
EVP, Content & Editorial,
Multi-platform Marketing
John Varvi
SVP, Motion & Digital Design
Steve Viola
VP, Motion Design
Amie Nguyen
VP, Production, Motion Design
Dara Barton
FX DESIGN
Creative Directors
Steve Viola, Michael Parks,
Amie Nguyen, Synderela Peng
Executive Producer
Dara Barton
Associate Producer
Mel Reeck
Visual Effects Supervisor
Michael Viscione
Modeling / Animation
Jamie Sawyer, Sa Kim
FX Artists
Michael Viscione, Jean Chiu,
Ryan Coster
Pre-Visualization
Kay Park
Compositing
Jason Heinze, Ryan Hunnewell,
Alex Yoon, John Kim, Michael Parks
Editorial
Michael Parks
Color
Steve Viola, Austin Wallender
Design
Jane Ro, Ryan Hunnewell, Ayung Yu
Sound Design & Mixing
Ronnie Buder
FX DESIGN
Seamless Sequence, Missile Silo, Gas Mask & Skull, Coffin & Incinerator
METHOD STUDIOS
Hourglass Sequences
KORB
Blast & Mushroom Cloud
TENDRIL
Fig & Scorpions
TRIZZ
Birds & Window
Live-Action Production
THE JOELSONS
Directed By
Steve Viola, Michael Parks
Director of Photography
Kevin Joelson
Production Coordinator
Cody Howell
1st Assistant Camera
Marq Castagna, Carlos de Varona
Jib Operator
Dave Stewart
DIT
Kyle Hoekstra
Gaffer
Chris Tonkovich
Key Grip
Joe McKenna
Best Boy Grip
Bruce Wolfe
Production Designer
Alessandro Marvelli
Art Director
Luis G. Diaz
Prop Master & Set Decorator
Roberta Troncarelli
Hair & Make-up
Carole Soueidan
SFX Pyro
Craig Olser
SFX Water Tank
Simon W White
Talent “Gas mask”
Delaney Smith
Shot at ReelEFX
Shot on Panavision DXL2
TENDRIL
Executive Producer
Ashley Monaghan
Creative Director
Chris Bahry
Producer
John Szebegyinszki
Coordinator
Brittany Sheahan
Head of 3D
Ben Pilgrim
TD Support:
Martin Gunnarsson
Design
Rodrigo Rezende
Rigging
Tyrel Scott
3D Animation
Will Sharkey, Matt Walker
Lookdev
Marcelo Souza
Sculpt & Texturing
Christian Hecht
Lookdev, Lighting and Render:
Christian Hecht
FX
Ben Watts
