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The first season was brought to life by Vancouver studio Wind Sun Sky Entertainment under CEO Catherine Winder, using a mix of roughly 80% traditional hand-drawn animation and 20% CG. It's part of why the early episodes have such a distinct, slightly old-school comic feel compared to a lot of modern animation.
For one key Season 5 scene, the visual effects crew didn't just rely on computers. They 3D-printed a full-size Demogorgon corpse, cast it in silicone and rigged it with an articulated frame so it would flop convincingly. The finished thing weighed close to 200 pounds and needed a stretcher and four crew members just to carry it around set.
MW2 didn't just beat other games at launch, it beat every form of entertainment period. It pulled in $310 million across the US and UK in its first 24 hours, blowing past Grand Theft Auto IV's previous record and beating out music and film releases too.
In combat you'll occasionally hear an NPC yell 'Jump on my sword while you can!' It's a straight lift from Minsc's battle cry in Baldur's Gate II - 'Jump on my sword while you can, evil, I won't be as gentle!' - a small nod from one RPG legend to another.
Amid the chaos of War Pig, there's a specific trapped soldier called Private Roycewicz stuck on a staircase. Rescuing him specifically is tied to the achievement Rescue Roycewicz, a nice bit of care put into a background character most players would otherwise never notice by name.
Obsidian clearly wanted Elvis all over this game, but they couldn't afford the licensing to actually use his music. Instead you get quest names that nod to his songs and films without ever playing them, like Nothin' But a Hound Dog, Return to Sender, and Viva Las Vegas. It's a clever workaround for a budget problem that ended up becoming its own little easter egg trail for fans who know their Elvis catalogue.
During a Netflix Geeked Week event, the production revealed Steven Ward as the fearsome swordsman Mihawk and Celeste Loots as Kaya, alongside Langley Kirkwood as Captain Morgan, Alexander Maniatis as Klahadore, Craig Fairbrass as chef Zeff and Chioma Umeala as Nojiko.
Right after the movie recreates that cargo plane sequence, Nate and Chloe wash up on a beach and bump into a random sunbather who nods along like he's heard it all before. That's Nolan North himself, the actual voice of Drake in the games, getting a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in a scene lifted from his own game.
That shadowy figure who granted the Barrows Brothers their power and armour and then quietly followed their army into Morytania was Sliske the whole time. He let them believe they were serving Saradomin right up until they'd worn themselves out fighting Lord Drakan's forces, at which point he revealed his true colours and claimed them as his own.
