Backed up by an orchestral cover of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”, a massive VFX team at The Mill bring director Nicole Ackermann’s sweeping tale of hope and aspiration to life in this game trailer for Bethesda Softworks’ Starfield.

CD Jimmy Bullard at The Mill: “As a keen gamer, this was such an amazing project to be involved in. Everyone from Nicole Ackermann and her amazing production team at Merman, the AKQA agency crew and of course BSW were all on board from the get go to make something truly memorable.

“On the VFX side were striving to make sure our work was grounded in reality and that we focused on using VFX to support Nicole’s story ideas of exploration and hope and the relationship between the captain and young girl characters.”
 
 

 
Client: Bethesda Softworks

Agency: AKQA

Production: Merman
Director: Nicole Ackermann

VFX: The Mill
CD: Jimmy Bullard
EP: Chris Connolly
Producer: Katherine Miccio
Associate Producers: Stephen Dierks, Claire Stiefel
2D Lead: Ruairi Twohig
3D Lead: Ajit Menon, Karim Moussa
2D Team: Vi Nguyen, Varshini Kumar, Renato Carone, Yashvardhan Jain, David Forcada, Felipe Passarini, Ankit Mishra, Shaik Abdul Adil, Camilo Gutierrez, Ben Morse
Asset Artists: James Chan, Jemmy Molero, Quinn Thompson
Rigging Artist: Daishi Takishima
Animators: John Wilson, Sam Crees, Arsen Arzumanyan
Associate Production Manager (Mill India): Anjalika Jain
Animation Lead (Mill India): Aniruddhya Chang
Animation Supervisor (Mill India): Sukanta Chakraborty
Animation Artist (Mill India): Badireddy Sri Charan
FX/Sim Artists: Dave Barosin, Chris Wachter
FX Supervisor (Mill India): Biswajit Tarafder
FX Artists (Mill India): Kamaljeet Singh, M Kannan
Lighting: Arman Matin, Natasha Saenko, Mohammed Sinbaway
Matte Painting: Charles Lee
Matte Painting (Mill India): Gowri Sankar Velusamy D, Winnie Sharma, Mohan Rao, Paresh Kumar Swain
DFX Supervisor (Mill India): Sachin S Kadbane
Project Lead (Mill India): Redin Kumar M K
CG Asset Lead (Mill India): Nishant Kumar
CG Asset Artists (Mill India): Anchal Lahri, Brijul Venugopalan Nair, Dinesh Kanakaraj, Guntur Kamal Kepha, Jagdish Singh Yadav, Joydip Sarkar, Madhusudan Patel, Manukuru Manikanteswara, Prakhar Kulshreshtha, Pritika Sethi, Raj Sandeep Kadam, Ravishankar N, Ritika Das, Sandeep Kumar Yadav, Sandip Dhole, Sarjana Datta, Shahid Hussain, Sudalai Muthu Ramesh Pillai, Surendhar Stalin, Thiyagarajan, Guntur Kamal Kepha, Ram Yogeshwaran, Harsh Chaturvedi, Dinesh Kumar Lakshminarayan, Samir Solomon
Rigging Lead (Mill India): Garlapati Yeswanth
Rigging Artists (Mill India): Vivekkumar Shobhnath Pal
DMP Supervisor (Mill India): Gowri Sankar Velusamy D
DMP Artists (Mill India): Winnie Sharma, Mohan Rao, Paresh Kumar Swain
Compositing Lead (Mill India): Shaik Abdul Adil
Compositing Artist (Mill India): Ankit Mishra
Roto Leads (Mill India): Vikas Vikram, Kiran Jondhale
Roto Supervisor (Mill India): Kunal Bendke
Roto Jr. Supervisor (Mill India): Rohit Charde
Roto Artists (Mill India): Amit Chavan, Dayanand Sinha, Deepak Gupta, Harshad Rane, Imrojul Khan, Hrushikesh Tarade, Kamlesh Chauhan, Jegadeesan Velayutham, Pratik Prakash Sawant, Radha Kumari, Reddy Battula Durgarajesh Reddy, Sagar Adivarekar, Shaik Ravoof Basha, Shamim Zamir Khan, Shashi Sundarraj, Suhas Sitaram Jadhav, Tushar Suresh Bhat
Prep Leads (Mill India): Devappa Hadpad, Guthikonda Venkateswara Rao
Prep Supervisor (Mill India): Sugumar Selvaraj
Prep Artists (Mill India): Alex Johnsundaram, Anand Balvant Khawaskhane, Baljinder Singh, Dixit Kumar, Ritesh Patil, Prajakta Rajendra Nagarkar, Sagar Paswan, Tushar Tulsidas Burse, Shubham Pawar, Laxman Janardhan Pawar
Matchmove Leads (Mill India): Elangovan Ganeshan, Smijumon Viswanathan, Manoj Ravi
Matchmove Artists (Mill India): Asif Mohammad, Avaneetharan Karuppasamy, Bhushan Ghurade, Chetan Balasaheb Kadam, Dongili Varaprasad, Mubin Munaf Qureshi, Nallur Suhas Bhat, Nirgun Gawade, Paras Pareshkumar Shah, Sushant Lavhande, Tirupati Bhavani Shankar Derangula, Upasana Choudhary, Vedant Jagdish Mutrak, Verru Ramesh, Vijay Bapu Chavan, Vivek Yogesh Kamble, Vurukuti Siva Sarweswar

Music: Elton John “Rocket Man”