Animex

Animex was this past week, well still going on but I only go for the Animex Games bit really. But continuing my success of getting the nerve to talk to the legend that is Sir Ian Livingstone, the founder of Games Workshop and the importer of D&D – as well as President of Eidos (or Sqaure Enix Europe now?).

I managed to speak to Scott Campbell, awesome dude, from Double Fine who is the Art Director of Brutal Legend and Psychonauts.

Eric Baldwin Lead Animator at Naughty Dog, learned that all the animation on the characters faces was actually hand animated. Which blew my mind because of the animation in Uncharted is soo amazing especially with the characters faces; there’s soo many little movements in there that most people don’t notice but need to be there to make the characters feel alive.

And probably my highlight of the night, John Palamarchuk from Sony Santa Moncia, Lead Cinematic Environment Artist on God Of WAR 3!, whom told me some little technical details about GOW3 which just shocked the hell out of me, there’s no trickery with the titans one screen, they’re on the screen in real time! Like if you found a bug that teleported you over to the Titan you’ll be able to run on them as they’re just as big as the entire level.

SOOO looking forward to the GOW3 Trailer appearing on GamertrailersTV Tonight.