Magic: The Gathering card set releases are seismic events in the world of fantasy role-playing games, and this new trailer from CD Tosh Kodama and the Imaginary Forces crew marks the occasion with appropriate drama and gravitas.

Tosh Kodama: “By building this immersive world through CG, every scene creatively depicts the uniqueness of this card set’s storyline. Stylistically, the look and lighting embrace a film noir essence.

“The striking mob boss characters are illustrated in different styles, so we constructed unique scenarios for each boss to showcase their strengths while bringing them into the 3D world and creating dimensionality to the story.”
 

 
Client: Wizards of the Coast

Production: Imaginary Forces
Creative Director: Tosh Kodama
Editor: Lexi Gunvaldson
Producer: Nicky Maser
Head of Production: Ryan Burcham
Coordinator: Spencer Ruehl
CG Lead: Jacques Clement
Modeler: Alvaro Zabala, Fynn Grosse-Bley
3D Designer/Animator: Alex Rupert, Christoph Gabathuler, Dave Weinstock, Filipe Carvalho, Henry Chang, Herman Kim, Ilya Tselyutin, Jesse Jones, Merrill Hall, Fernando Lazzari
Houdini: Alec Iselin, Timur Salikov, Alejandro Robledo, Matt Johnson
Writer: Josh Chesler
Storyboards: Gordan Kljucec
Assistant Editor: Pat Silvola

Music: Antfood