“Minecraft Meets Magic” – How we changed machinima with visual effects

Over the past four years, I’ve had the pleasure of working, together with my friends at AREON Pictures, on a project of an then unknown scale. What came to be “SI-BO – A Star Wars Story” was then but a dream we wanted to share. We chose a medium that suited us, and set out to create a machinima movie that – combined – is unlike any before.

Visual Effects played a huge part in that ordeal, introducing industry-leading workflows and techniques into an environment that already was being shaped by our ideas. Now, that the product of our work is finally in your hands, I want to take a moment and showcase my part of what made SI-BO a reality. Enter, magic:

I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone at AREON Pictures for your continued friendship, aswell as my Visual Effects Colleague and friend Chryfi, without whom this project wouldn’t have gone half as good! Thank you, and thank YOU for reading!

– PhoenixMedia