Making the DENMARK Short Film: How Preymaker Animated Their Latest Project Brick-by-Brick
This Webinar originally aired on December 9, 2025.
Preymaker Creative Rune Holst Månsson joined Resilio’s Demand Marketing Manager, Kathy Zhong for a Webinar which did a deep dive into how Preymaker’s team tackled the technical challenges of creating DENMARK (https://denmarkmovie.com), the original animated real-time short film inspired by the LEGO® fan community and the classic heist film, HEAT.
The session takes the audience through the cutting-edge techniques behind modern animation production, from building custom Python libraries for 25,000 unique brick types to developing innovative Houdini-to-Unreal pipelines. Rune shares how the team managed the rigging, modeling and effects process across Preymaker’s Los Angeles, New York and Cape Town studios while syncing terabytes of artist data without sacrificing creative flexibility or deadlines.
The talk offers VFX artists and supervisors, technical directors and studio ops managers useful tips for massive scale management, real-time collaboration and pipeline innovation.
Watch the full webinar here