Magic: The Gathering Dawn of the Phyrexian Invasion

Wizards of the Coast

Skills

Direction Design & Concept Pre Production Full Service CG Production Animation

Senior team

Jon Yeo: Director Laura Yeo: Executive Producer Chris Wenting: Executive Producer Alvaro Montenegro: Producer Vania Alban-Zapata: CG Supervisor Gareth Hector: Art Director

Adeola Sokunbi, Adrien Doussand, Ajay Arunan, Alberto Montalva Garcia, Alejandro More, Alexandre Berger, Amhed Nasri, Amy Ash, Ananda Aran, Andrew Clunes, Andrew Cook, Anna Cowan, Annselie Aberg, Antonio Dios, Bader Badruddin, Bill Yi, Bram Sels, Camille Fourniols, Carl Forsberg, Carlo Kasongo, Cecilia Bermejo, Chloe Paton, Christian Alarcorn, Ciro Cardoso, Claudiu Tanasie, Coline Della Siega, Cyriel Verkuijlen, Dan McCance, Dani Calleja Camero, Daniel Bauer, Daniel Beltrán, Dave Tipper, David Lewander, Diego Llorens, Dulce Segarra López, Dyllan Lu, Elena Distefano, Emma Nathan, Enrique Sierra, Eugene Bobylev, Fiona Lynch, Gaspar Gombos, Hamish Mitchell, Henri Morain, Ibrahim Basha, Ilaria Troullier, Ismael Alcazar, Izabela Poznanska, James Moller, Joey Chongstitwattana, Jon Perez, Jose Domato, Josep Marsal, Joseph Nickson, Justin Dolan, Katarzyna Olszewska, Kelly Jones, Kirill Kononeko, Klara Petrsova, Kristina Vajdova, Laura McMahon, Laurie Jenkins, Lee Croudy, Leopold Prengere, Linda Dussine, Lou Kolodziej, Louise Masse, Lukas Gecas, Luna Corrie, Maf Medina, Marceli Guziewicz, Marcello Ruvolo, Marcin Klusek, Marina Belli, Markus Hadinger, Mateo Bernard, Mohamed Labidi, Narcis Calin, Nina Cohagen, Patryk Stefaniak, Paul Coultard, Pauline Coogans, Piotr Orlinski, Rassul Gaitov, Ronnie Chan, Rory Savage, Roshan Gope, Sai Aparna Ramamurthy, Salah Hussein, Santiago Cabrera, Sebastian Deredas, Sergio Fernández Villabrille, Spike Meesters, Stellan Jordans, Stephen Cunningham, Stevie Gill, Stuart Bunkell, Thales Nathan Souza de Souza, Veronika Vajdova, Viktor Fillo, Waldemar Van Deurse, Yasser Mohsen, Yogi Soelestama

Axis Studios returns with its ninth cinematic trailer for Magic: The Gathering, Dawn of the Phyrexian Invasion. The trailer has everyone talking, trending worldwide at almost 10M views in 24hrs with no signs of letting go of any of its momentum.

Axis stood as a full creative partner in development with Wizards of the Coast which sees the continuation of the successful relationship from the first high-end CG trailer to promote its Magic The Gathering: War of the Spark set.

Set in the ancient plane of Dominaria, the evil Phyrexians through nefarious means have taken root in Dominaria with deadly sleeper agents. Witness the epic battle between two former friends and allies: Ajani Goldmane who was compleated by the Phyrexians into a sleeper agent and Teferi, an ancient planeswalker who has mastered time manipulation.

One of the main challenges of the trailer was to create the powerful and well-known character, Ajani. Creating the one-eyed albino cat warrior required close collaboration and constant communication between many departments and director Jon Yeo to translate human expression and movement into the feline form.