The Darkly Dark Darkness of Dark Souls II

Packing enough hardcore tropes to anchor four video game trailers, this full CG film from Tokyo-based director Alessandro Pacciani and VFX house From Software for Namco Bandai’s Dark Souls II holds together with artful rendering, believable mocap and ambitious scope. File under Guilty Pleasure.

Director: Alessandro Pacciani
Producer: Masanori Takeuchi
Executive producer: Eiichi Nakajima
Co-producer: Hiroki Nakasone
Music: Lorenzo Piggici
Marketing dep: Yasunori Ogura
Game director(s): Yui Tanimura & Tomohiro Shibuya
Lead concept artist: Daisuke Satake
VFX: FROM SOFTWARE
CG team lead: Muro Takayuki
Supervisor: Hidetaka Miyazaki
Animation director: Takayuki Imazu
Project manager(s): Shinichiro Nishida & Yuzo Kojima
Lead programmer: Yoshitaka Suzuki
Lead game designer: Natoshi Zin

Immediate Byte