Four years in the making, Thrive: Heavy Lies the crown is a narrative-focused RTS/City Builder game set in an original fantasy world. As Animation Director on the project, I was responsible for all cinematic and in-game animations.
To promote the game and act as an introduction to the world's lore, we created this motion comic.With writing by Kat Aylor and paintings by Pouya Moayedi, I used a blend of 2D animated motion design and 3D simulated effects to create the story of how the mysterious and dangerious "Waelgrim fog" pervades the kingdom of Nysamor.
When your game calls for an epic opening cinematic and you have a video production team of [checks notes] one person...this is what you do.