Following their collab on Legends of Runeterra in 2021, directing duo Mike Tyler and Richard Payne re-team with Danish animation masters Sun Creature on this visual blast for the Midnight Suns game from Marvel and Firaxis.

Mike&Payne: “We had the honor of working on an inspiring marvel project with our friends over at 2K Games who tasked us with directing an action-packed title sequence and the first episode of their series of prequel shorts that gives some context and backstory to their new game Midnight Suns, which features some of the most awesome heroes from the Marvel universe.

“At Disney’s D23 Expo the title sequence was revealed as a teaser for the series, with the first episode looking to be released on October 31st.”
 

 
Client: 2K Games
Senior Marketing Director: David Silverman
Art Director: David Peixoto
Senior Global Creative Director: Adrien De Tray
Global Marketing Producer: Jordan Gassner

Production: Sun Creature
Director: Mike&Payne
Executive Producer: Christine Burmeister
Producer: Toni Andrews
Production Manager: Suzanne Clavairoly
Art Director (Dvpt): Fanny Marguerie
Art Director (Animation): Thibaud Petitpas
Color Supervisor: Fanny Marguerie
Layout Supervisor: Stéphane Jouannic
Animation Supervisor: Bishoy Gendi
Assist Supervisor: Kay Sales, Maria Sandvig
FX Supervisor: Mouloud Oussid
Compositing Supervisor: Gabi Locre
Storyboard: Jeffrey Luu, Maxime Delalande, Antoine Tran, Vince Lee, Kenneth, Myke Bakich, Lawrence Marvit
Editor: Nicolai Vielwerth
Character Design: Santosh Moses, Guillem Ferrer
Concept Artist: Bruno Couchinho, Petter Faustino
Colorscript: Jonathan Livslyst
Layout BG: Vincent Rouzière, Cedric Leger, Antonia Hartwell, Bruno Couchinho, Martin Bonnin, Ed Gibbes
Character Animator: Pierre Rutz, Xavier Ramonede, Bishoy Gendi, Antoine Tran, Cyrille Chauvin, David Da Silva, Charles Badiller, Pierre Butet, Marlène Beaube, Jeremie Becquer, Christoffer Kramme, Peter Lowey, Uriel Mimran, Duncan Gist
Layout Camera: Jean-Baptiste Escary
BG Painter: Jonathan Livslyst, Surendra Rajawat, Lawrence Marvit, Cristina Moreda, Edward Chee Kok Seang, Milo Pottier, Thomas Widmer
FX Animator: Erwin Rieffel, Touraj Khosravi, Steve McDermott, Husain Untoro, Rachid Guendouze, Sixtine James, Julien Pingault, Dan McNaughton
Assist Animator: Ugo Offner, Amélie Coquelet, Maria Sandvig, Anna Sagadin, Michael Douglas, Louise Gregersen, Laura Buchert Schjødt, Heidi Christiansen, Haiqi Zhou, Sofia Wilson, Zelun Xue
Compositor: Jeremy Carlen, Rémy Bonnin, Tom Fisher, John Tatevosyan, Rasmus Møbius

Audio post: Soundsmiths
Supervising sound editor: Tom Smith
Sound Designer: Menikmusic
Sound mixer: Megat Sazali Rhoimi