In celebration of the release of American McGee’s video game sequel (by Electronic Arts and Spicy Horse Games), we offer this live-action movie teaser trailer. (Also available on YouTube.) (I could probably tinker with this thing forever, but with the game’s release — it’s time. I’ll try to update with a little more backstory/info soon. In the meantime, hope you enjoy…) An HD version of the original game trailer...
Back in 2000 I had the extreme pleasure of designing and directing the trailer for Electronic Arts’ “American McGee’s ALICE,” a dark and twisted original PC game. In addition to pitching and directing the trailer (with Matt Fassberg at Little Beast), we built several sequences used throughout, and also directed and animated the opening and closing sequences for the game. For many years, this Alice trailer was one of...
I’m not sure this trailer was ever seen. It was produced for E3, but at the last minute play-testing intervened and the lead character got suddenly redesigned (a decision I totally agreed with, in spite of the negative effect on showcasing our work). Basically she got changed from a rather homely female pirate to a more attractive one. (And I think the title became “Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat”...
Here’s the opening cut-scene we produced for American McGee’s “Alice” game. The final trailer came out a bit nicer, I think, but our constraints on the open were rather huge. We had something like a 10-page script worth of information to distill down to a couple of minutes, and a rather meager budget and time-table to boot. So I dreamed up a creative way to tell the story mostly through...