Contrasting the tranquil present with the trauma of very recent (and bloody) events, the teams at Feed Me Light in London and Elastic in LA put a new spin on zombie apocalypse scenarios with this opening for Dead Island 2.

Denis Bodart director/ECD at Feed Me Light: “We wanted to allude to the presence of zombies, without showing them outright and show the horrors that could happen in a quiet yet beautiful stillness.

“The film’s bleak end is counterbalanced with a playful delivery. We find humor in contrasting leisure with disaster. Skewered eyeballs in an abandoned martini, an echoing voice that billows over explosive destruction and most notably, a fry cook that meets an unsavory end. Beyond the mirage of Hollywood glamour lies something much more sinister.”

Developed by Deep Silver and Dambuster studios, Dead Island 2 is available for pre-order and is set to release on April 21, 2023, for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.
 
 

 
Client: Deepsilver, Dambuster

Production: Feed Me Light
ECD: Andy Hall, Denis Bodart
Director: Denis Bodart
Art Director: Nadia Tzuo
EP: Ryan Goodwin-Smith
Managing Director: Kiri Haggart
Producer: Daniela Hornksov Sun, Dai Davison, David Botchey
Storyboard Artist: Simon Duclos, Maxence Henry, Denis Bodart
Animator: Simon Duclos

Production: Elastic
EP: Luke Colson
Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall
Producer: Paul Makowski
Head of Production: Zach Wakefield

Post/VFX: Feed Me Light
CG Supervisor: Olivier Pirard
Designer: Fred Colin, Cian McKenna, Min Shi, Nadia Tzuo
CG Lead: Fred Colin
CG Artist: David Calvet, Olivier Pirard, Simon Duclos
Animator: Julien Becquer, Frederic Colin
Compositor: Florent Bizec, Chris Sayer, David Calvet, Olivier Pirard, Andrew Young
Editor: Simon Duclos, Denis Bodart

Music/Sound design: Feed Good Music
Music: Ben Sumner, Glenn Herweijer