In a chilling mix of live-action, CG, and AI, director and CG artist Somei Sun crafts a sci-fi heroine and futurescape for fast-rising Chinese game maker Zilong and their upcoming mobile title 2089: Frontier.

Somei: “For this kind of world view with strong mecha elements, I am very fascinated by the use of hyper-realistic expression techniques to bring players a realistic feeling beyond the game. We tried to use AI to mix the CG face with the real actor to achieve a hyper realistic game character.

“I hope that through the memories of the protagonist Rosa’s dying moments when she was transformed, she can show her bond with her father, friends, and the vision of the game world.”
 

 
Client: Zilong Game Limited

Director: Somei
Producer: Miku, Song Gao
Production Manager: Haofan Zhang、Jiaqing Huang
Executive director: Xiaohan
1st Assistant Director: Ron
2nd Assistant Director: Lexi
Gaffer: Jiangtian Cao
Production Designer: Hang Liu
Wardrobe Supervisor: Baodi Zhang
Property Master: Ningbo Wu
Makeup Artist/Special Makeup: JoJo Zhu、Bensen Zhou
Model design：Zhao pengcheng
Modeling：jipeng huang、JIJI
AI face swapping：合光棱镜（M-Cube）
Animation：Kangddan、Tan Kar Wei、 Panquan Dai
CG Artist: Chiu, M-Cube, shuifx, LeiAlucard, Somei
offline: Zi Long
TC: Agua
online: M-Cube

Facial scanning：Pixel Light

Audio: Kambiz Aghdam
Sound design: Kambiz Aghdam