Alive is the second in a series of animated shorts released for Overwatch. It focuses on the character Widowmaker and takes place in King's Row.
Concept art for King's Row.
Block out vs. final frame. [drag slider to compare]
A still from the storyboard.
Some of the team members going over shots in the film.
Storyboard vs. final frame.
In-game and cinematic mesh differences of the stage in Alive.
Senior Vice President, Story & Franchise Development Operations:
Chris Metzen,
Michael Ryder
Vice President, Art and Cinematic Development:
Nicholas S. Carpenter
Senior Director, Audio:
Russell Brower
Project Music Director:
Derek Duke
Additional Composers:
Neal Acree,
Jaroslav Beck,
Sam Cardon,
Chris Velasco
Supervising Sound Designer, Cinematics:
Paul Menichini
Audio, Cinematics:
Alexander L. Ephraim,
Isaac Hammons,
John Thomas,
Kyle Webb
Audio, Sound Design:
Shawn Minoux,
Jacob Rhein
Audio, Production:
Carlos Almeida,
Tony Blackwell,
Dennis Crabtree,
Caroline Hernandez,
Lyndsey Koehler,
Michael Roache,
David Seeholzer
Senior Casting & Voice Director:
Andrea Toyias
Audio, Voice Over:
Peter Steinbach
Blizzard Animation, Director of Technology:
Mark A. Brown
Blizzard Animation, Show Leadership:
Stephane Belin,
Angela Blake,
Aaron Chan,
Shimon Cohen,
Ben Dai,
Jeramiah Johnson,
David Satchwell,
Kevin Vanderjagt,
Mathias Verhasselt
Blizzard Animation, Show Leads:
Samuel Alicea,
Nathan Boyd,
Toni Bratincevic,
Graham Cunningham,
Ben Deda,
Drew Dobernecker,
Frank Du,
Anthony Eftekhari,
Joe Frayne,
Mike Hardison,
Jason Huang,
Joe Jackman,
Jim Jiang,
Bill La Barge,
Mark Lai,
Hung Le,
Vincent Lee,
Chris Luce,
Meg Morris,
Enrique Munoz,
Andrew Paules,
Corey Pelton,
Laurent Pierlot,
Glenn Ramos,
Fabio Stabel,
Peter Starostin,
Don Ta,
Jon Teer,
Nelson Wang,
Wey Wong,
Kenson Yu
Blizzard Animation, Leadership:
Jonathan Berube,
Ricardo Biriba,
Tok Braun,
Ted Burge,
John Burnett,
Laurent Charbonnel,
Steven Chen,
Dan Cox,
Michael Eizenberg,
Chris Evans,
Hunter Grant,
Doug Gregory,
Terran Gregory,
Steeg Haskell,
Parag Havaldar,
Jason J. Hill,
Sheng Jin,
Mike Kelleher,
Jared Keller,
James McCoy,
Matthew Mead,
Marc Messenger,
Matthew M. Robinson,
Michael Sandrik,
Steven S. Shapiro,
Peter Shinners,
David J. Stephens,
Seth Thompson,
Chris Thunig,
Joey Tobiska,
Xin Wang,
Taka Yasuda
Blizzard Animation, Artists:
Jeffrey Arnold,
Jongha Baik,
Recca Baldwin,
Tom Banker,
Ben Barker,
Jason Barlow,
Michael Bomagat,
Jeremy Butler,
Chris Capel,
Neil Carter,
Ray Chih,
Craig Chung,
Paul Cohen,
Matt Cordner,
Doug Creel,
Stuart Cripps,
James Crowson,
Donnachada Daly,
Barret Davis,
Eric Degner,
Michael Diaz,
Brittany Drew,
Mustazar Essa,
Kent Estep,
Ken Faiman,
Chad Fehmie,
Jason Fleming,
Julien Forest,
Shuntaro Furukawa,
Kyle Gaulin,
Scott Giegler,
Taso Gionis,
Keith Glass,
Yvain Gnabro,
Eric Grimenstein,
Jeremy Gritton,
Scott Gudahl,
Steven Guevara,
Justin Hammond,
Alon Helman,
Cole Higgins,
Chikako Hoffman,
Mike Horning,
Steve Horrocks,
Ray Hsu,
Kenny Huang,
Yong-Ha Hwang,
Atsushi Ikarashi,
Shawn Janik,
Darryl Johnson,
Jessica Dru Johnson,
Chung Kan,
Morgan Kelly,
Robin Khamsi,
Ren Kikuchi,
Eddie Yonghyun Kim,
Ronny Kim,
Yohei Koike,
Ross Krothe,
Marissa Krupen,
Dan Kruse,
Billy Lam,
Scott Lange,
Crystal Leal,
Moonsung Lee,
Yeon-Ho Lee,
Shawn Liang,
Kent Lidke,
Christian Liliedahl,
Kuan Lin,
Tianshu Liu,
David Luong,
James Ma,
Pravin Mahtani,
James Maloney,
Mark Mancewicz,
Brett McConnel,
Casey McDermott,
Stephen Melagrano,
Andrew Melnychuk-Oseen,
Jihyun Nam,
Sada Namiki,
Jeremy Nelligan,
Adrian Niu,
Sherman Ohms,
Matthew Onheiber,
Mark Orme,
Andrew Page,
Luca Pataracchia,
Trevor Payne,
Jason Pethtel,
Jamie Pilgrim,
Kirti Pillai,
Zachary Podratz,
Alan Precourt,
Justin Rasch,
Bryan Repka,
Gregory Reynolds,
Danielle Romero,
Davy Sabbe,
Rosendo Salazar,
Kaz Shimada,
Douglas Smith,
Karen Soh,
Sharmishtha Sohoni,
Joon Shik Song,
Joon Soo Song,
Sengjoon Song,
Curt Stewart,
Jonathan Styles,
Takuya Suzuki,
Geordie Swainbank,
Paul Taylor,
Shannon Thomas,
Selig Tobiason,
Quang Tran,
Ellen Trinh,
Miurika Valery,
Brandan Vanderpool,
Kelly Vawter,
Roger Vizard,
Joerg Volk,
Jung In Wang,
Wei Wang,
Les Watters,
Brian Wells,
James Wright,
Chris Yang,
Anthony Zalinka,
Boyang Zhu,
Fabio Zungrone
Blizzard Animation, Technology:
Johann Helgi Agnarsson,
Chris Allen,
Kenneth Lloyd Ayers III,
Zachary Bauer,
Michael Beal,
David Biggs,
Cathy E. Blanco,
Julie Anne Brame,
Jud Bumpas,
Rudy Cortes,
Tom Craigen Jr.,
Chrstopher Garcia,
Vimanyu Jain,
Saber Jlassi,
Piotrek Krawczyk,
Maxim Lazarov,
Jami Levesque,
Xiyang Robert Luo,
Vinod Melapudi,
Huong Thuy Nguyen,
Lucas Panian,
Chris Rock,
Billy Shih,
Funshing Sin,
Michael Su,
Thomas V. Thompson II,
Rob Tomson,
Theresa Wolf
Blizzard Animation, Production:
Wendy Berry Campbell,
Leonard C. Chang,
Jennifer Conn,
Tony Cosanella,
Eric Kieron Davis,
Jake Fenske,
Shu Fujita,
Casey Glenn,
Kim Kotfis Horn,
Stephanie Marroquin,
Melissa Morris,
Rachel Richmond,
Bobbak Sabet,
Brandy Stiles,
Jessica Ponte Thomas,
Gurpreet Singh Wahla,
Sarah White
Director of Production, Blizzard Animation & Creative Development:
Phillip Hillenbrand Jr.
Cinematic Re-Recording Mixers:
Juan Peralta,
Gary Rizzo
Foley Artist:
Gregg Barbanell
Additional Cinematic Sound Design:
Timothy Nielsen
Voice of Widowmaker:
Chloe Hollings
Voice of Tracer
Cara Theobold
Voice of Tekhartha Mondatta:
[unknown]
Voice of Tekhartha Mondatta's bodyguard:
[unknown]