Following up on their striking work for Balenciaga’s Spring 22 Clones Collection, the MPC teams in London and Bangalore draw on a 2010’s videogame aesthetic to build a melancholy love story set in a VR-obsessed future dystopia.

From the team at MPC: “Quantic Dream, the French video game developer, commissioned MPC to create a fully-CG short film to showcase Balenciaga’s Fall 2021 collection.

“Balenciaga referenced the twenty-tens gaming era (The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, and particularly Quantic Dream’s Beyond Two Souls). They wanted to create a film that evoked the same feelings and tonality of past classic interactive gaming.”

MPC 2D lead Jake Nelson: “MPC is used to creating photorealism, so it was a creative challenge to develop this twenty-tens game-quality render and stylization. We all learned a lot in the process. The team also relied on motion capture to create animated versions of real-life people.”
 

Client: Balenciaga

Production: Quantic Dream
Director: Quantic Dream

Animation/post: MPC London
3D Supervisor: Dominic Alderson, Andy Steele, David Bryan
2D Creative Director: Marcus Dryden
2D Supervisor: Jake Nelson
Motion Design Creative Director: Ryan Hays
Executive Producer: James Niklasson
VFX Producer of FA21 film: Jaz Rongokea
VFX Coordinators: Henrietta Frost, Jamie Hughes
Modeller: Silvia Bartoli
Rigger: Amar Chundavadra, Maximilian Mallmann
FX Artist: Arnau Gilabert, Justin Braun, Alessandro Granella
Colorist: Matthieu Toullet
Compositor: Emma Tyler, Pavel Vicik, Mithun Jacob Alex
Motion Designer: Kerim Camdzic
Stills Producers: Saskia Delius, Jaz Rongokea
Stills Retoucher: Daniel Brady
Animation Team Artists: Clementine Supiot, Chris Welsby, Andy Reid, Mack Knights
Generalist Team Artists: Kristian Bonne Jensen, Nick Slade, Matias Heker, Fernando Tortosa, Jessie Amadio, William Laban, Kiril Mirkov

Animation/post: MPC Bangalore
Line Producer: Neela Kumuda Parankusham
Production Coordinator: Taruna Sehgal
3D Supervisor: Kunal Sarkar
Head of 2D: Siju Murugan
Supervisor: Silambarasan R P
Comp Lead: Pratyush Paruchuri
Asset lead: Bibin Balan
Asset Team Artists: Jaspreet Kaur Dua, Palash Ramnaresh Soni, S Shashi Kumar, Sandeep B K, Sandeep Grover, Selva Kumar K, Shreyas Joshi, Ullas Thunga k, Vivek Mayanglambam
Generalist Team Artists: Abhinandan Madhu, Gangadhar Durga Molleti, Sairam Vaddamanu
Animators: Srinivas Rao Rella, Shiny Rajan
Rigger: Kuntal Kanti Bera

3D Scans: Unit Image

Choreography: Ryan Heffington

Music: Nima Fakhrara