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Spliced
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Spliced
OVERVIEW
CREDITS
Spliced Inc. is a new video game studio stepping into a highly competitive market. To help communicate its launch and establish a strong visual identity, we worked with an open brief, shaping the creative direction through collaborative brainstorms to develop narratives that added structure to the piece.
The result is a visually striking one-minute launch video that tells the studio’s story by tracing the key technological developments that led to its creation.
Spliced Inc. is a new video game studio stepping into a highly competitive market. To help communicate its launch and establish a strong visual identity, we worked with an open brief, shaping the creative direction through collaborative brainstorms to develop narratives that added structure to the piece.
The result is a visually striking one-minute launch video that tells the studio’s story by tracing the key technological developments that led to its creation.
Tyrone Magnusen — Motion Designer
Chris Sharpe — Creative Director
Phoebe Lane — Producer
Josh Thorpe — 3D Lead
Francise Long — Motion Designer
Pedro Ramos — Motion Designer
Tyrone Magnusen — Motion Designer
Chris Sharpe — Creative Director
Phoebe Lane — Producer
Josh Thorpe — 3D Lead
Francise Long — Motion Designer
Pedro Ramos — Motion Designer
SHOWREEL
Project Overview
Towards the latter stages of the cinematics, the Territory team and I began shifting our focus to the intro load movie. These sequences introduced the main characters and set the tone for the game. With our deconstructed visual style already well established, this was a chance to push it further and have some fun developing fresh assets for the title sequence.
We carried over the same hands-on, tactile approach from earlier stages — creating textures by hand using arts and crafts tools, then scanning them in to build our custom library. Fingerprints, smudges, copier misalignments, scratches, paint splats, and paper grain all made it in. These elements gave the intro that same gritty, grounded aesthetic that tied everything together.
We started with clean, graphic compositions and then broke them down — misaligning elements, adding distortion, layering in wear and imperfections. It gave the UI a sense of weight and history, like it belonged in the world of the game.
The final sequence above is a selection of the work I contributed to — blending 2D and 3D workflows depending on what each moment needed. Below that, there’s a lovely behind-the-scenes video put together by a good friend and colleague at Territory Studio, offering a closer look at the process behind the visuals.
For the Black Ops 6 intro, we built a hand-made visual language from scanned textures, rough type, and layered imperfections.
Project Overview
Spliced was a project from a new games company that approached Territory to create their ident. Their goal was to capture both their capabilities and their passion for technology, visualising the passage of time from the dawn of the internet to the present day. The ident needed to show that the company embodied every stage of this journey, drawing on key cultural and technological moments to anchor each era.
The brief began loosely, which gave us space to explore bold directions before refining the concept into a clear narrative. Working as part of a small team of two motion designers and an art director, with a creative director overseeing, we started with group ideation sessions and then divided the sequence into individual shots. Each designer took ownership of their moments while ensuring the piece remained cohesive.
I was responsible for several shots in the final film, developing them from initial style frames through to animation. This page highlights the shots I worked on, along with some early explorations and developments that shaped the final outcome.
Project Overview
Spliced was a project from a new games company that approached Territory to create their ident. Their goal was to capture both their capabilities and their passion for technology, visualising the passage of time from the dawn of the internet to the present day. The ident needed to show that the company embodied every stage of this journey, drawing on key cultural and technological moments to anchor each era.
The brief began loosely, which gave us space to explore bold directions before refining the concept into a clear narrative. Working as part of a small team of two motion designers and an art director, with a creative director overseeing, we started with group ideation sessions and then divided the sequence into individual shots. Each designer took ownership of their moments while ensuring the piece remained cohesive.
I was responsible for several shots in the final film, developing them from initial style frames through to animation. This page highlights the shots I worked on, along with some early explorations and developments that shaped the final outcome.
Theme
Expanding on the theme of the loading bar as a metaphor for Spliced Inc.’s launch and the world they are inviting players into, the video takes audiences on a journey through key moments in computing and internet history. Packed with references to iconic video games, tech culture, and milestones in computer graphics, it also includes hidden clues for viewers to decode.
The sequence moves from monochrome green “P1” phosphor graphics through the rise of colour, early 3D, the dot-com bubble crash, its subsequent reboot, and into the modern era. The style frames I created illustrate the transitions between these genres, helping to shape the evolving visual language of the piece.
Theme
Expanding on the theme of the loading bar as a metaphor for Spliced Inc.’s launch and the world they are inviting players into, the video takes audiences on a journey through key moments in computing and internet history. Packed with references to iconic video games, tech culture, and milestones in computer graphics, it also includes hidden clues for viewers to decode.
The sequence moves from monochrome green “P1” phosphor graphics through the rise of colour, early 3D, the dot-com bubble crash, its subsequent reboot, and into the modern era. The style frames I created illustrate the transitions between these genres, helping to shape the evolving visual language of the piece.
Theme
Expanding on the theme of the loading bar as a metaphor for Spliced Inc.’s launch and the world they are inviting players into, the video takes audiences on a journey through key moments in computing and internet history. Packed with references to iconic video games, tech culture, and milestones in computer graphics, it also includes hidden clues for viewers to decode.
The sequence moves from monochrome green “P1” phosphor graphics through the rise of colour, early 3D, the dot-com bubble crash, its subsequent reboot, and into the modern era. The style frames I created illustrate the transitions between these genres, helping to shape the evolving visual language of the piece.
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