An exciting video preview of the work so far! :D
C3Anderson has been making great progress on the project, creating textures, and mesh modding :D. Our vision for these Blur-studios alternative appearance tributes has been getting better, and better as we strive to achieve greater accuracy with new techniques.
See em in action in this video!
How we have collaborated.
My role has been relatively simple. But no less essential... My job is to acquire resources, provide useful critique, and create necessary reference materials that aid in keeping the versions on track visually, and creatively! For example I have been making references like this to help this skilled artist find the best ways to get to our intended result :).
It involves a lot of careful observation, and note taking. Spotting things most normally miss. Then C3Anderon makes all the adjustments, tests, and sends back the results :) .
Mesh modding is a tricky endeavour, especially when you are going about changing the look of an established in-game character. Morphing it into a version seen in a higher fidelity CGI trailer. What I found helped, was drawing a simplified wireframe over an image of the more complex actor to assist the artist in emulating that look in the existing in-game mesh. After that... They make sure that the texture looks just right, so it perfectly resembles the look of this version.
We intend to achieve getting the other characters featured in the marketing campaign to look exactly like these alts too! You have seen the work on the textures for example, and now we are taking that a step further.
Seeing C3Anderson work on these has been really inspiring!, he is a very skilled modder. I’m really honoured to have been able to work with them on such a cool looking texture project. I hope to share more details about it in the near future... But also check in on their platforms often to see the progress!
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrC23Anderson/videos
