Project Info

We’ve worked on a bunch of game trailers now; but when we were approached by Limited Run and Konami to work on this one for Rocket Knight Adventures, we were especially delighted. This was one of our first chances to work with a character we’ve got a lot of nostalgia for.

For this piece, we needed to recreate Sparkster in a smooth anime style that would please both old fans and those new to the adventure. Pretty much right away, we decided we wanted to recreate the iconic intro from the international release of Rocket Knight on the Sega Megadrive.

Our killer pre production team of Adeola Lawal on boards, and Vir Prieto on character design nailed the tone we were going for almost right away.  Redesigning Sparkster, Princess Sherry and the Pig Infantry was just so much fun.

Once Konami and Limited Run were happy with our designs (which didn’t take long!), Vir continued into animation along with another of our regular animators, Elle Power. One of the biggest challenges was cramming in as many unique scenarios and vignettes into such a short runtime.  We needed to include a diverse range of action-packed and comedic shots, that also recreated some key moments from the original game.  

This was all tied together nicely with backgrounds from Mathias Leth, FX animation from Roxanne Nathan, Cleanup by Sabine Jansone and Darragh Herlihy, Colour by Cassandra Sierevogel and Compositing by Olga Selma Egan.

Thanks again to Limited Run and Konami for giving us a shot!