Sehsucht director Hans-Christoph Schultheiss (aka HANZOHANZO) stages a massive CG martial arts battle to launch Netease’s inaugural international e-sports tournament for the new Naraka: Bladepoint game.

Hans-Christoph Schultheiss: “Naraka features epic world-building and a wide range of big characters so we wanted to capture that in our film.

“Since the film promotes the first world championship tournament, it had to convey the ultimate sense of ‘there can only be one’. That led us to the idea of creating a story around two of the most iconic characters of the game, Viper Ning and Tian Hai, each championing one of the god-like creatures that rule over the Naraka world.

“This has been a project from the heart from start to finish. All parties involved, from the developers to all producers and artists, invested an incredible amount of passion, skill, and energy.”
 

 
Client: 24 Entertainment, Netease

Production: Final Frontier
Exec. Producer: Chris Colman, Gustavo Karam, Julieta Zajaczkowski
Project Manager: Yeeman Lin

Animation: Sehsucht Hamburg
Director: Hans-Christoph Schultheiss (HANZOHANZO)
Producer: Nikola Stahl
Designers: Axel Brötje, Caroline Goehner, Timo Noack
Storyboard Artist: Jörn Peper
3D Lead: Timo von Wittken
Animators: Julia Fritsch, Jakob Schulze-Rohr, Lucas Wendler
3D Artists: Torben Dirksmeyer, Jannes Kreyenberg, Heinrich Löwe, Tim Rech, Tobias Sprengart, Sebastian Welti, Max Zachner
Compositing: Florian Dehmel, Jona Maluck
Motion Design: Hannes Geiger

Music/Sound Design: Antfood
Music Director: Lou Schmidt and Fernando Rojo
Composers: Lou Schmidt, Fernando Rojo, Luis Bergmann, Pedro Curvello, Vinicius Nunes
Executive Production: Christiane Rachel, Renato Castro
Coordinator: Monique Munhoz
Sound Engineers: Bruno Broaska, Fabian Jorge, Pablo Homem de Mello, Tiago Lins