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Alan Wake 2

We were honoured to produce the teaser trailer for the survival horror game Alan Wake 2, developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing. In addition to producing the teaser trailer, Goodbye Kansas Studios contributed to animation and lighting assets and did in-engine compositing work for the gameplay.

The game is a sequel to Alan Wake and was released in 2023.
The trailer was produced with AKQA and Remedy and won Gold at the Clio Awards 2022.

Alan Wake, a bestselling writer from New York City, disappeared in 2010 while on vacation in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Alice Wake. 

During their trip, they encountered a supernatural force of darkness that brought one of Alan’s horror stories to life. He fought against this mysterious darkness and succeeded in banishing it back to a nightmarish dark place under a caldera lake outside the small town of Bright Falls. In doing so, he also freed his wife from the darkness. However, in the process, Alan became trapped under the lake, writing an ending to his horror story and leaving his fate unknown.

Alan Wake is alive despite having wished for death many times. He has been trapped in the Dark Place for 13 years, where his nightmares, fears, and stories come to life around him. During this time, he has fought to keep his sanity and create an account that could alter reality and free him from his prison. However, he has yet to succeed.

Credits

Client: Remedy Entertainment / Epic Games Publishing

Production
Executive Producer: Jörgen Lilja
Producer: Adam Vadi Dris

Director: Mattias Häggström

Animation
Lead Animator: Guilherme Martins
Animators:
Christina Sidoti
Robert Babenko
Luke Smith
Marko Marinkovic
Emiliano Nanfaro

Lighting
Yen Cheong
Rodrigo Vivendes
Sean Kalamgi
Mica Olsson

Motion Capture
Head of Capture: Chris Jestico
Motion Capture Supervisor: Samuel Tyskling
Motion Capture Lead: David Grice
First Assistant Director: Axel Gärkman
Mocap Operator: Ed Reeler
Database Manager: Oskar Olsson
Props & Staging: David Sagesen
Facial Capture Operator: Eva Lindgren
Audio Engineer: Simon Brynte

Motion Capture Performers
Mark Heenehan
Todd Boyce
Nneka Okoye
Fab Leigh Fisher

GOODBYE KANSAS STUDIOS CREDIT LIST - GAME TRAILER

Goodbye Kansas Cinematic Team
Director: Fredrik Löfberg
VFX Supervisor: Kristian Zarins
CG Supervisor: Joakim Eriksson, Alexis Andersson
Animation Director: Jonas Ekman
Art Director: Jesper Bardhamre
Executive Producer: Anton Söderhäll
Producer: La-Râ Hinckeldeyn,Rebeca Cervantes
Production Coordinator: Jona Wedholm

Head of Face Modeling: Jonas Tornqvist
Head of Face Rigging: Nils Lerin

Character Modeling: Sandra Isaksson
Character Look Development: Sandra Isaksson,Johan Vikström

Lead Environment Artist: Jesper Bardhamre
Environment Modelers: Frans Åkerman, Lukas McBride, Fabian Zackrisson, Josef Bergström

Look Development Artists:
Frans Åkerman, Lukas McBride, Fabian Zackrisson, Josef Bergström, Fabian Schaper

Lead Lighting Artist : Johan Vikström
Lighting and Rendering: Rodrigo Vivedes, Joakim Eriksson, Pete Saeger, Alexis Andersson

Lead Rigging: Stephanie Holder
Head of Rigging: Peter Jemstedt

Lead Character FX : Viktor Lanner
Head of Face Animation: Goran Milic
Face Animation: Antonija Milic
Animation: Jonas Ekman

FX Lead: Max Öberg
FX artists: Victor Wagner
DMP Artist: Mikael Widegren

Concept Artist: Till-Valentin Holder
Lead Compositing: Karl Rydhe
Compositing Artists: Olov Samuelsson, Hannah-Marjut Myllyoja, Johan Vikström, Denys Holovyanko

Layout: Souvik Mitra, Svetoslav Petkov
Previs: Till Holder, Jonas Ekman, Fredrik Löfberg

Conform: Jimmy Zhu, Conor Byrne
Head of Pipeline: Erik Johansson

Stockholm Pipeline Team: Dan Englesson, Dane Bettis, Joakim Johansson, Stephen Hada, Linus Fredriksson

System Administrators: Thomas Ericsson, Armin Cero, Gabi Gharib, Johan Agurén, Kaja Michalak

Department Coordinator: Tiffany Johansson

Grading: Jimmy Zhu

Goodbye Kansas Studios Capture Division

Head of Motion Capture: Samuel Tyskling
Motion Capture Lead: David Grice
Motion Capture Coordinator: Franziska Ewigleben
Motion Capture Data Artist: Nils Aulin, Jan Germala
Motion Capture Technician: Oskar Olsson
Motion Capture Operator: Ed Reeler
Motion Capture Generalist: Charlie Stern
Stage Coordinator: Jonathan Forefält
Stage Assistant: David Sagesen
Audio Operator: Simon Brynte
Facial Motion Capture Operator: Stuart MacBean, Eva Lindgren
Make-up Artist: Emelie Svarq
Cast: Ilkka Villi

Goodbye Kansas Studios Scan Division
Head of Scanning: David Connely
RnD Technical Lead: Roger Sundberg

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