I really like Unreal Engine 5 showcase movies. Can’t get sufficient of them. To be clear, I don’t even care how playable any of them ever find yourself being, as a result of that is an artwork characteristic, not a video games assessment part, and so all I care about is how fairly they appear, and tonight’s showcase may be very fairly certainly.

This is Airborn, a video made by Airborn Studios, an artwork studio in Berlin who we’ve featured a couple of occasions beforehand, together with for his or her unbelievable work on a few of Overwatch’s skins:

After a hibernation section of a few years, we made the decision to revisit the mission that our studio is known as after. Wondering what it could be like if we dive again into that world with new concepts, a unique method, a mixture of Airborn veterans and new staff members, and the dedication to make use of the newest know-how to push stylized recreation artwork and keep true to the core pillars of the work that was performed manner again. And with out additional ado, we proudly current the consequence!

When they are saying a “hibernation phase”, they aren’t kidding: Airborn as an concept has been kicking round for over 15 years now, with this newest video simply probably the most up to date expression of the concept that gave the studio its identify.

It’s necessary to notice right here that this isn’t a recreation pitch within the sense that that is one thing that’s actively attempting to be made. Instead—they’ve referred to as it a “visual prototype” on this case—it’s a manner for artists to have the ability to work on one thing that appears like a online game with a purpose to showcase their abilities, all of the whereas creating one thing that’s theirs, not the IP of an employer or a consumer.

To offer you an concept of how a lot work goes into one thing like, right here’s the total credit listing for the mission:

Airborn Studios

Alexander Delagrange – 3D Env/Prop Art

Alexandra Graap – 3D Character Art

Artur Rosário – Tech Art

Benjamin Sauder – Technical Director

Boris Patschull – Managing Director

Ching Rappsilber-Li – Management Assistant

Erik Neubauer – 3D Character Art

Fatos Tahiraj – 3D Character Art

Gabriel Hanna – 3D Env/Prop Art

Ilka Hesche – Concept artwork

Jan Wyss – 3D Env/Prop Art

João Sapiro Josue – 3D Env/Prop Art

Johannes Figlhuber – Art Direction & Concept Art

Jonas Kunert – 3D Env/Prop Art & Concept Art

Julian Dasgupta – Project Management & PR

Kevin Skok – 3D Env/Prop Art

Lennart Berger – 3D Character Art

Malwina Czech – 3D Env/Prop Art

Manuel Sitompul – 3D Character Art

Manuel Virks – 3D Level Lead

Niels Timmerman – 3D Character Art

Simon Kopp – Art Direction & Concept Art

Steffen Unger – 3D Character Lead

Svenja Roesner – 3D Env/Prop Art

Tim Moreels – 3D Character Art

Verena Porcher – Website Relaunch Coordination

Victor Pancrazi – 3D Character Art

Music

Ian Dorsch

Funkeyz Animation Studio

Shuki Gamliel – Animation Supervisor

Sonia Wolfson – Animation

Arthur Kazine – Animation

Michael Fabris – Rigging

SkewSound

Dan Crislip – Audio Director

Christopher Wilson – Sound Design

Nicholas Kallman – Sound Design

Steve Pardo – Sound Design

Production Babies

Joshua (Yoshi)

Special Thanks

Adina Krause

Ezgi Bulut

Josh Dina

Matthieu Schneider

If you’d wish to be taught a bit extra about Airborn and its creation, the staff have written a brief weblog in regards to the course of, however had been additionally form sufficient to share a ton of behind the scenes items from the video’s creation, starting from character designs to airship renders: