Did you correct Mark Hamill's nose? As a character artist you could also feel like a plastic surgeon :)asked by Farewell-Red
TL;DRNo, Mark Hamill's scan was kept as is, asymmetry included, and adding scars to scanned characters is, in Jeremiah Lee's words, the plan, though they asked not to be quoted on it.
No we did not. That is an actual, legitimate Mark Hamill scan. The texture to the geo that is straight up Mark Hamill. We wanted to really capture the soul of Mark Hamill. And I tend to see a lot of games where they fix scans and make it symmetrical and everything, they don't look as real.
Yeah. A little weirdness.
You need that off, that asymmetry and sometimes those weird things like Owen Wilson's nose: he won't look like Owen Wilson without that nose! So there are specific things but, yeah, we kept it the same.
[refers back to question] As a character artist you could also feel like a plastic surgeon. I'm a character concept artist and I do that all the time. And actually that might not be a good habit. Like for instance the John Rhys-Davies character I made him a lot slimmer initially I think. Right?
[laughs]
I mean he's a very husky guy but I made him look like an Abercrombie model. And they're like "no, no he's bigger than that" and I was like "alright". So I do do that because I've been trained to draw visually pleasing ...
More idealised ...
Yeah, I mean ... it's society ... anyways that's a whole different topic! But, yeah, as a concept artist we want to make images look very sexy, very visually pleasing so sometimes I do fix a lot of the imperfections but specifically for the scans and all that it's going to be ...
Are we going to be doing stuff like adding scars onto people? And messing them up a little more?
Don't quote me on this but that is the plan I think.
Cool.