The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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Dive into the technical animation pipeline and workflow built for 'Fort Solis,' an indie title created by a small team all within a little over two years. This presentation covers the building blocks of the 'Fort Solis's' character skeletons with approaches that offload deformation calculations to runtime rather than a baked approach, our artist-friendly workflow to face rig development and creation, our animator-first tools and pipelines that empower animators to do what they do best (animate!) and how state-of-the-art technologies inside of Unreal Engine 5 helped breathe life into the characters and truly blurred the lines between cinematic and gameplay through motion matching locomotion. Finally, the session is rounded off with the many character and animation optimisations required to hit 60 frames per second on PlayStation 5. The many hurdles, and lessons learnt will be shared from trying to push the animation envelope with an indie-sized team and resources.
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