The Light of Life from daihei shibata on Vimeo.
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To celebrate last night’s Academy Awards ceremony, today’s issue of The New Yorker pays tribute to the movies that received nods for Best Picture.
Frequent cover artist, Mark Ulriksen, patched together characters from the films, resulting in a mishmash of unlikely bedfellows, all reaching out for the coveted Oscar statue.
Check out who claimed the honor, and a complete listing of Oscar winners here.
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From concept stage on, we incorporated some unique ways to visualize what the final product would be, creating an early cut of the piece constructed from iPhone-shot footage. This proved highly beneficial (and fun!), as it helped us build a structure before any graphics had been created.
An incredibly tight turnaround time required us to conduct a special Motion Capture shoot. The MoCap data gathered from the shoot was then applied to our character rigs, and integrated with the rest of the hand-animated elements of the project.
This game marks the first time a SOCOM installment has specifically highlighted main and supporting characters by name, so the piece was to emphasize our hero, Cullen Gray (OpsCom). We achieved this by creating a storyline that featured the entire team of SEALs, but really allowed him to shine as the leader.
