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Sean, will Jake Ross's beard be one of the character DNA options?

TL;DRTracy doesn't commit on Jake Ross's beard ("perhaps") but says his own haircut will be an option, and notes beards are tricky to fit to different faces.

Sean TracyTechnical Director of Content

Perhaps, but I know what definitely will be, and it's the Sean Tracy haircut. Every YouTube video, I at least see three or four comments: somebody tell Sean that he's balding behind. I went home after one of these ATVs, and I read the YouTube thing, and it said, somebody tell Sean. I said, what? So despite all you guys, I'm going to put one in there. And if I had to do it myself, character art was like, no way. I'm like, I'll do it myself. I don't care.

Steve BenderAnimation Director

It's going to be the lowest-poly hair we have in the game.

Sean TracyTechnical Director of Content

But the shiniest. Of course we want nice full beards, and we want some fun ones too. But actually, beards are a tricky thing, and that's something that we definitely need to have a conversation with Vlad about, in terms of how do you adapt the beard to different facial shapes and all this kind of stuff. You can get away with a lot of clipping and stuff, but yeah, that's a very, very nice full beard. And doing beard and hair is just a tricky shading problem too.

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Published on this date.10 Mar 2017