Daniel “Stubby” Stubbington
3D World UK|December 2020
The cinematics lead at The TrailerFarm talks us through his work on some incredible, award-winning video game projects
Daniel “Stubby” Stubbington

Since 2011, The TrailerFarm has been making creative content and jaw-dropping trailers for the biggest names in games, hottest indie studios, TV networks and associated businesses. The team is part of Keywords Studios – a technical and creative services provider to the videogames industry, with 50+ operational studios across 21 countries and four continents. In short, The TrailerFarm has incredible reach across the globe, contributing some of the games industry’s most iconic campaigns – whether you’re looking at an amazing trailer, previs/ postvis, key art, marketing collateral, motion graphics, idents or cinematics. The studio’s cinematics lead, Daniel “Stubby” Stubbington, now reveals a little bit more about life at The TrailerFarm and how he uses Unreal Engine to lead projects like Borderlands 3, Shadow Warrior 3 and Serious Sam 4.

Tell us a bit about your background in cinematics.

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