SUMMONER

A year later and we finally updated our site. The new SUMMONER Studio. We are SUMMONER, a co-creative games marketing studio that offers everything you would get from a roster of in-house creatives, and everything you (actually) need from a full service marketing agency. We're stoked to finally be able to highlight work from studios and developers who trusted us enough to help launch their games. Check it out and give us a ring if you need some wild dogs on your project. We await your rituals ?? Site by Merlin ??♂? Animation by Jess Bianchi x The Different Folk

We hope everyone is enjoying #GDC! Unfortunately here at SUMMONER, an unnamed sicko asked people to rank Nolan films and now everyone is mad. Memento is mid ??

We hope it's pretty clear what we do, but if you're at #GDC and need a quick reminder, find Dylan Buck ??GDC and Laura Dambuleff (at GDC ??) around Moscone this week. They'll be handing out our GDC cards, inspired by the many junk car business cards littering the streets of our beloved Los Angeles. Shoutout to Laura for the photoshoot. We'd never actually litter duh.

Turns out you need a website with your work on it ??

The name Liminal is filled with endless meaning. It is a place-between and a state of mind. The beginning, middle, and end of a journey turned over and repeated. Finding Liminal Experiences, Inc's graphical identity itself was a process of play — early on, we explored a broad swath of visual metaphors of play and storytelling just to see what stuck, anywhere from: - A campfire to gather and tell stories - Cave markings and hieroglyphs - The art of shadows and shadow play - Visual shorthand of someone’s dreams or vision These all sought to capture the heritage of storytelling, but somehow felt too limiting for Liminal's studio brand. Often in branding development, we talk about the art of capturing lightning in the bottle — but in this case, was the lightning the story being told, or in the magic of telling it? That question led to our truth: Rather than define or capture the essence of what stories have been, we focused on reflecting the infinite potential of a new medium. Liminal's visual identity is constructed with an emphasis on being the gateway between ideas and stories with a spark as our playful guiding light. That spark can represent anything creative: a brilliant new idea, your story blossoming into more than you could have imagined, your ability to craft wonder, or simply just the art of play itself. With Liminal, that light guides you from one turn of the page to the next. The light of creativity flickers organically, often chaotically, as we follow its path, allowing us to play as we create and discover the story in us all.

Since SUMMONER opened its doors a year ago, we’ve had the luck to work on a handful of game trailers for some killer clients even though we never explicitly set out to be a trailer shop. As we continued to grow, we realized that there was a real need in the industry for a creative shop that could create more than technical gameplay showcases and instead start bringing heart, story, and cinematic inspiration back into game trailers. Today we’re launching SUMMONER A/V, part of SUMMONER Studios, to help launch the next generation of game trailers with publishers and developers. Inspired by our mutual love of cinema and storytelling, we hope SUMMONER A/V will become a beacon for how gameplay capture, editing, animation, and motion graphics can bring out the authentic heart and soul of a game or project. We’re stoked to have Ian Enario join us to lead SUMMONER A/V. Ian has been working with us for a while now and we couldn’t be happier to have him in the pack. If you’re a studio, publisher, or brand looking to create a trailer or video assets, hit us up. Our dream of reshaping game marketing is always at the core of our creative - so let’s do this damn thing.

See you at #GDC ?? Hit us up for a chat if you're in games and looking to work with a co-creative marketing studio to support your launch/campaign. Dylan Buck ??GDC (Creative), Laura Dambuleff (Production), and Jordan Schmidt (WoW enthusiast) will be there handing out handfuls of loose hard candy and mini boxes of raisins ??

Coming soon ??

Our Managing Director Jordan Schmidt (Smaugment) shares the rare title of Best MD / WoW pres healer NA. The world, even? Please give?him some kudos for hitting this feat on Friday morning no less. Back to work now, we guess.

Had a lovely time designing a series of Valentine’s Day cards for Riot Games’ Arcane Valentine’s Card Generator. They make our hearts go ????