Ubisoft's new Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier trailer gave Asylum the opportunity to shine at what it does best - making the impossible look possible. Asylum VFX Supervisor Marc Varisco, working closely with Little Minx director Ben Mor via Ubisoft, complemented the future-war world depicted in the latest Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier game with top-notch post and VFX in a trailer that brings the franchise's signature game play into the live-action world. The action, set on the streets of Moscow, portrays the command centers, rooftop sniper outposts, and tunnels of a chaotic warzone, with mayhem ranging from intense gun battles to rolling battle drones to a missile offensive against a pair of Russian tanks as an elite team of Americans target a wicked enemy commander.
From Ubisoft's internal assets, Asylum's CG and compositing teams re-fabricated and animated photo-real US and Russian drones into the trailer's key sequences, developed the subterranean explosions that Ghost Recon character 30k unleashes on the enemy command bunker, and animated the trademark game play Cross-com and Sniper POV graphics.
Additional effects included the major compositing challenge of 30k's cloaking effect - which made him disappear into the background so he could sneak past opposition guards - that translated into a signature live-action effect. At the trailer's climax, when the four soldiers re-group and confront a pair of Russian Attila tanks, Asylum incorporated a combination of matte paintings, composited battle effects, and simulated CG tank explosions complete with secondary parts and debris passes to complete its fiery crescendo.