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Session Name: Animation Bootcamp: 'Middle-earth: Shadow of War': Creating Multi-Character Combat Animations
Speaker(s): John Piel, Camille Chu
Company Name(s): Monolith Productions, Monolith Productions
Track / Format: Visual Arts

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Overview: 'Middle-earth: Shadow of War' is an open world action role-playing game developed by Monolith Productions and released in 2017. Thousands of animations were created with love and attention in support of this endeavor, and this talk will focus on one specific area, taking down Orcs. In this session, members of the Monolith animation team will walk through high-level philosophies of the studio, some of the challenges encountered on the project and discuss the process of crafting a multi-character combat kill in the Monolith animation pipeline from start to finish.

GDC 2018

John Piel

Monolith Productions

Camille Chu

Monolith Productions

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Visual Arts

Visual Arts