The Deep Above

The Deep Above

A cross-media student project

The Project

The Deep Above is a cross-media project made by students of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH. Cross-media means that out of the IP two projects emerged: a game and a film.

My Role

In this very big cross-media student project, I was the Lead Technical Director. I was leading a team of 5 programmers, communicating with directors and producers, and implementing mechanics and the animation system into the game. Additionally, I supervised the MoCap shoot for Locomotion data and researched ways to implement (Learned) Motion Matching algorithms into the Engine, trained on our own MoCap data.

Below, there is a trailer of the movie, which was released on YouTube. The Game Trailer is not released yet.

Facts (Game)

Production Time
May 2023 - May 2024

Platform
PC

Engine
Unreal Engine 5.3

Genre
3D Open World Exploration

Producers
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Constantin Schraps

Directors
Nina Weilbächer, Anita Kerbel