Getting an early jump on Halloween horrors, the Goodbye Kansas team just released this trailer for Bloober’s third-person survival game Cronos: The New Dawn providing both atmospheric and visceral chills.

From Goodbye Kansas: “This is a story based on time travel and creatures that are bound to give you nightmares. We were incredibly proud to have worked on this realtime, Unreal Engine trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn releasing in 2025.”

Watch the breakdown reel for insights into the real-time production process:
 

 

 
Client: Bloober Team
Team: Yuliya Dublevskaya, Dawid Podgorski, Wojciech Piejko, Jacek Zieba, Klaudia Sewera

Production: Goodbye Kansas
Director: Andree Wallin
VFX Supervisor: Kristian Zarins
Realtime Supervisor: Tim Hermes
Animation Director: Friedl Jooste
Executive Producer: Jan Cafourek
Producer: Daria Zienowicz
Production Coordinator: Ida Ippolito
Character Modeling/Look Development: Sandra Isaksson, Jonas Skoog
Facial Modeler: Jonas Törnqvist
Environment Artist: Jesper Barhamre, Robert Filipowicz, Lukas McBride, Frans Åkerman
Groom Artist: Sandra Isaksson, Jonas Skoog
Rigging Artist: Peter Jemstedt
Character FX Artist: Navjin Khosravi, Ludvig Eliasson
Facial Rigging: John Augustsson
Previz and Creative Editorial: Peter Blomstrand
Layout: Svetoslav Petkov
Animator: Mikael Ohlson, Friedl Jooste
Facial Animator: Mathew Curran
Body Animator: Thomas Obrecht
FX artist: Ilya Vorobev
DMP/Concept Artists: Gabriel Björk Stiernström
Lookdev and Lighting Artist: Sean Kalamgi
Compositing Artist: Peter Blomstrand, Daniel Norlund
Realtime TD: Henrik Melsom, Herman Fredlund
VFX/Online Editor: Mattias Silva Carrasco
Pipeline: Herman Fredlund
System Administrator: Armin Cero, Dean Estcourt, Emil Ferdinandsson, Gabi Gharib, Jonatan Larsson, Jonna Lehtonen, Jonne Ahnér, Nick Hall, Nicky Sumsion, Tiffany Johansson
Color Grade: Mattias Silva Carrasco
Head of Capture: Chris Jestico
Motion Capture Supervisor: Samuel Tyskling
Motion Capture Lead: David Grice
Shoot Production Manager: Axel Gärkman
Shoot Coordinator: Kim Seefried
Motion Capture Operator: Ed Reeler
Motion Capture Technician: Oskar Olsson
Database Management: Jonna Lehtonen
Props & Staging: David Sagesen
Director of Photography: Mattias Silva Carrasco
Realtime Supervisor: Tim Hermes
Realtime Operator: Henrik Melsom
Editor: Peter Blomstrand
Scan Supervisor: David Connely
Scan & Facial Capture Operator: Eva Lindgren
Production Assistance (GBK Frontdesk team): Kara Ingram

GBK Sound Design: Adam Wallin

Motion Capture Performers: Nicklas Hansson, Diana Gardner
Scan Talent: Catherine Bonneviere

Special Thanks: Private Division, Joe Banks