Working with pre-vis created by Raw Power to ensure we were aligned on the creative vision, we handled the animation, VFX and some of the modelling on this legendary project.

For animation, we got hands-on with a motion capture shoot to recreate all the actions shown in the pre-vis shot-by-shot, down to the finest detail. After the shoot, we took all the body capture and re-targeted it onto Raw Power's animation rigs to bring the characters to life. Our artists worked some hand key animation magic to add realism, with characters holding swords, sitting on horses, and throwing accurate punches, and gave the characters personalities of their own with a sprinkle of facial animation.

Once we'd finalised the animation side, we jumped into VFX, simulating fire, sparks, mud splooshes, fabric movement and more, to bring each shot to life. We modelled time-accurate props for specific shots and really loved how much detail we had the opportunity to go into for each shot. It was a medieval honour to work on this trailer, some of our team's highlights included:

• Simulating horse movement in the mocap studio
• Rigging a trebuchet!
• Burning EVERYTHING in Houdini
• Getting squelchy with the mud sims