Cuphead gets a creepy stop-motion trailer to announce surprise PS4 launch

Cuphead, the hard-as-nails run-and-gun platform game, is coming to the PlayStation 4 today. Studio MDHR announced the game’s arrival on Sony’s console with a fun (and kind of creepy) stop-motion trailer featuring Cuphead and the evil King Dice.

Cuphead was already renowned for its hand-drawn art style that made it feel like a 1930s cartoon you could play. But the new trailer put two of the game’s most iconic characters in a whole new style of animation inspired by the 1933 experimental short The Peanut Vendor, Studio MDHR co-director Chad Moldenhauer said in a PlayStation Blog post.

Studio MDHR worked with Toronto-based studio Stop Motion Department to make the trailer, and they “went the extra mile to ensure that they were holding...

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