The process starts with concept sculpts created in Zbrush, enhanced in Photoshop, in order to get feedback and approval from the client as quickly as possible. Over the years, we’ve developed a pipeline at Digic to create detailed hero characters, and thus we were able to rely on our previous experience to deal with the leads in Black Flag. Beyond the ‘usual’ hero Assassin, Edward, we also had the legendary pirate Blackbeard narrating the announcement trailer we had Spanish navy soldiers and captains, courtesans naked and clothed, and we also needed to populate bar brawls and shipboard fights with pirates. Tamas Varga, lead character modeler: The challenge with the cast was twofold: we had to build some highly detailed lead characters to be featured in close-ups, and a very large and diverse range of extras able to stand up to the leads – and all at the same time. Adweale wireframeįxg: What were some of the modeling challenges for people, as well as environments and the ships? The action sequences were recorded as body mocap only, as here the head-mounted cameras would’ve gotten in the way, and choreography took priority over facial performance (which can easily be animated by hand on such short, non-speaking shots.) We used our usual team of stuntmen, rehearsing for about a day and a half, then recording over about three days in total, including pick-ups. Two takes were selected to be used in the final shots of Blackbeard – one where the monologue’s beginning was preferred, and one where the performance’s second half was deemed to have more of the desired “chilling” effect. Three additional actors were seated at the table, to aid the lead actor’s performance. wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Blackbeard_turntable1.mp4Blackbeard turntable.Ī number of takes were recorded, with each take spanning the full two-and-a-half minute performance of the actor.

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