![]() This was no longer the case, so Ben, Jake, Matt, and the storyboard team could let the piece breathe as needed. In the earlier iteration, we were limited by running time. When we decided to pick it back up, Ben Dai was available to take over as director of the project and bring it home. Through their relationship and how Bastion interacts with the forest, we were still able to explore his dangerous potential and how it would affect the world around him.ĭue to events outside of our control, the intended use for this short fell apart and it was shelved. We ended up removing the girl and her father, shifting our focus entirely on Bastion and his bird companion, Ganymede. ![]() We saw this moment as a chance to explore how humans perceive Bastion as a dangerous weapon of war. In the original version, a young girl and her father stumble across the inert, moss-covered Bastion while hiking in the woods. It then went to our talented storyboard artists, who created an animatic alongside our Editor, Jake Patton, who continued to improve the story.Īs often happens in development, the story evolved in small ways as time went on. Matt Burns had a few great ideas to add and took over the writing responsibilities. When I got home I wrote out a description of what I was imagining and sent it to the crew. I ended up going with my son for a several hour long walk (luckily, he had fallen asleep in his stroller), and got lost in the challenge of trying to mentally create the whole short shot by shot. I had to take off work early that day and got fixated on this story. It was a wandering robot of war that had lost its original purpose and found an interest in nature.įor the short, a few of us in the writers’ room came up with the foundation for the story in the last few minutes of another short’s creative jam session. Arnold Tsang, Assistant Art Director for Overwatch, created the original concept for the title character. The story for Bastion developed fairly quickly and, like most things here at Blizzard, it was a great collaborative effort. How did you come up with the idea for the video?
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