Principal Animator @InfinityWard working on #MW4 / Former Senior Animator @Respawn | MWIII, MWII, MW 2019, Apex Legends, Titanfall 2 | ✝️
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As far as viewmodels, he was only a consultant and gave plenty of advice on how to handle the manipulation of fire arms. We studied a lot of his movements, techniques and principles to apply them across the board with the viewmodel animations. No mocap!
Unfortunately this is a common misconception. Lucas only did mocap for the 3rd person characters to help create the visual identity of what we were aiming for, and maybe only a remnant of what we captured of him is in game.
Collaboration video that this was a part of:
youtu.be/QCujuXmqi-w?si=itiu…
The base animations were done by @troyirving , and I created the akimbo animations.
Hey thanks! I’ll admit a lot of these aren’t super polished and many were just placeholders to get the animation system working, but I did think that at least getting the run anim to look good was important as that’s what I was doing the most when testing 🙂
I had an idea for a tasteful reimagining of Gamma's storyline, but I don't think I'll go back to this anytime soon. I also thought of making it an animated series instead, which is where this video initially came from. In the end I concluded that it would take way too much time.
One strange and intriguing thing I came across was when I unified Station Square into one whole map. I realized it made the map feel way smaller because in the original game, the loading screens between areas somewhat implied and gave the illusion that it was a much larger city.
While I didn't implement NPCs, I thought to improvise with some monitors and just had a little bit of fun with it.
My favorite and later additions was the Adventure Field transitions. The Egg Carrier level transition was the first one I worked on, and when I first implemented and included the unused audio, it sent chills down my spine. It's the little things that count.