Dive or Die: Children of Rain
Client
Drop Rate Studio
Role
Compositing, Camera Animation
Studio
Compost Creative
Year
2025
Reveal trailer by Compost Creative. My shots below.
My contribution
I worked on the camera and compositing across three shots, the main one a slow track past the survivors that opens out to the Rainmaker in the lightning. The artwork came in as separate layers, which I spread across depth in After Effects and moved a camera through: no 3D, just planes. Fog, rain and atmosphere are stock elements placed on their own planes between them, and I lit the figures and the houses so they sat in the same dark, then graded the shot to match the ones on either side.
I precomped every character and element before the final artwork existed, working the camera and the timing on the rough versions. When the finished designs arrived, they went inside the precomps, and the whole move stayed intact.
About the project
Game cinematics for Dive or Die, a Lovecraftian survival game by Drop Rate Studio, published by DearVillagers. Animation, branding and key art by Compost Creative, who also designed the world and its characters, including the Rainmaker.
Cinematics by Compost Creative
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