Christopher Schlierf | Mercedes Benz - New Decade New Heroes - League of Legends

Director

Christopher Schlierf

Client

Mercedes Benz

Agency

Locavi

Agency

Dr. Ferdinand Froning, Tobias Haasis, Sarah Heimerdinger

Production Company

Hawkins & Cross

Cast

Katharina Ronja Brusa, Daniel Hesse, Matthias Mayer, Arnold Tok, Anamika

Writer

Christopher Schlierf

DOP

Benjamin Kratzin

Editor

Christopher Schlierf

Producer

Bruno Fritzsche

Josefin Dobirr, Ansgar Wörner

Gaffer

Christian Slezak

Nicolas Jansky, Tino Richter

Music

Jakob Balogh

Sound Design

Nicolas Jansky

Post Production

Directors Duo

Creature Animations

Christopher Schlierf

VFX + Compositing

Benjamin Kratzin

Mattepaintings

Christopher Schlierf

Color

Benjamin Kratzin

This is the final trailer of Christopher Schlierf’s Mercedes eSports campaign. Daimler AG is a sponsor for ESL events for MOBA games like League of Legends and DOTA2. This is the official trailer for the eSport events 2020. Christopher Schlierf was responsible for creating the story, world, characters and also the 3D shadow creatures that are based on famous characters from the games DOTA 2 and League of Legends. Christopher Schlierf shot the spot in Berlin with production company Hawkins & Cross in two nights. The biggest challenge was to prepare the huge amount of sets in a short amount of time with challenging setups in high altitude with dangerous stunts. To make sure all VFX shots could be built in a photoreal approach they captured a lot of material to reproject the environment onto the real shot plates and reproduce shadows and lighting with their animated 3D character shadows. The film was a huge success in the gaming audience and was loved by gamers. This was crucial for Mercedes Benz to win over a complete new audience for their brand and position them as a modern cool brand in the multi billion dollar gaming industry.

Mercedes New Heroes

Hawkins & Cross