Alex Cook

Cleanup Crew: A Helldivers 2 Animation

Follow the mission of a team of four Helldivers who have been stationed indefinitely onto a hostile planet.

Meet the Team

Marksman

Clears out flanking routes to keep their team from being surrounded.

Demolitionist

Machinist

Clears a path to the objective through sheer force.

Gets everyone in and out of the mission area with the Fast Recon Vehicle.

Rookie

A new recruit picked up by the team to help them stay alive.

Watch the animation here on May 8th, 5 PM EST:

Storyboard Sketches

Demolitionist aiming a GP-20 Ultimatum pistol

Planet Biome choice

Early idea for an introduction scene, prior to the Machinist

Animation Keyframes

For my senior thesis, I experimented with animating with Blender. I faced struggles with the viewport rendering, where my computer could not render fast enough for me to accurately preview the speed of animation as I worked.