DJ Hero Cinematic Intro Video

by Staff, October 15, 2009

Framestore has delivered a dynamic, animated HD introduction for Activision’s new DJ Hero console game. Briefed by Freestyle Games, Simon Whalley and Mike Woods from Framestore commissioned director Marco Puig, from Warp Films, to help visualize the animation for this highly anticipated game. Marco’s thirst for something unique generated a fantastic treatment and VFX Supervisor, Diarmid Harrison-Murray, developed a look that was part photoreal, part hyper-real and part nod to game play. The result is an epic visual feast, in which a giant record needle terrorises a vinyl planet and its DJ inhabitants.

Realizing Marco’s vision was a huge technical undertaking for Framestore. Using a team of 25 3D artists, they worked on 76 shots in HD over a solid 15 week period. Apart from the central work of rebuilding and polishing the 5 main DJ characters (Cooky, GMF, HHH, Itch & Shadow), there was also a plethora of props, vehicles, environments, and other characters to create – the final scene alone boasting a retina-clenching 4800 individual dancers. A major challenge of the project was the execution of the music and sound editing.  Framestore’s Mike Woods worked closely with Freestyle’s musical director, Daniel Neil, and sound FX house Pepper to create a sonic mix in 5.1 Dolby Surround sound that fits every aspect of the video narrative. Once all the elements were brought together, a final grade was added by Simon Bourne, creating an intro that is truly out of this world.

15 Responses

  1. Posted by:dj hero renegade on October 22, 2009 at 3:52 am

    The trailer looks dope and this should be a fun game. Dj Hero will be coming out real soon and Activision just released a couple ads that I saw on the comedy channel. Next week i think.

  2. Posted by:panda666 on October 18, 2009 at 4:15 am

    that’s DJ shadow right?

  3. Posted by:Dhova on October 16, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    horrid

  4. Posted by:YungOne on October 16, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    i was looking up some of the mixes in this game
    and i heard a lot of them
    this game is gonna have the nut in ur pants playlist
    im so serious
    Day N Night vs. Boom Boom Pow?…wow
    Genesis vs. Fix Up Look Sharp….cmon now
    and they have some duets with the turntables and guitar
    O_O
    …like i said…nut in ur pants

  5. Posted by:hyper on October 16, 2009 at 10:19 am

    FIX UP LOOK SHARRRRP!

  6. Posted by:mehdi13 on October 15, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    dj hero?, fuck it i love it

  7. Posted by:word is bond - thats whats up on October 15, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    just remembered…
    genesis by justice

  8. Posted by:word is bond - thats whats up on October 15, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    what song is that?
    obviously that’s dizzee over top, i can’t think of the name of the song they put him over though

  9. Posted by:fitty on October 15, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    awesome animation.

  10. Posted by:tone on October 15, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    Pretty fucking Intense, that’s for sure.

  11. Posted by:joose on October 15, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    one of the only video games i’d drop $60 bucks on

  12. Posted by:Zayd Bigavelli on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    lmao, my nigga Shadow lookin sinister as hell

  13. Posted by:Benjamin on October 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    Boooooyaaah!

  14. Posted by:P.Jilla on October 15, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    This is so raw !! I can’t wait to get this

  15. Posted by:BBManik on October 15, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    Incredible.