Woah, what a great opening cinematic.
The game looks great and I like that it had melee combat too.
I am extremely curious about a lot of things, but I don't want to smother you with questions.
I bought a low poly 3d models pack a way back from Synty Studios and modified them quite a bit to suit to the visual feel of the game.
About half of the Hero was remodeled by me.
Everything animation is made by me, using mixamo for character animations and blender for other animations.
The opening cinematic is done with just the Hero walking from waypoint to waypoint and the camera tweened after him always focusing on the Hero.
First I made the cinematic rough timeline and Annette made the fantastic music for it and after that I tweaked that to match the written musical score.