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Giving Purpose to First-Person Animation Ryan Duffin Senior Animator at Electronic Arts Twitter: @AnimationMerc First, second & third person First, second & third person First, second & third person Perspective matters! Why does

  1. Giving Purpose to First-Person Animation Ryan Duffin Senior Animator at Electronic Arts Twitter: @AnimationMerc

  2. First, second & third person

  3. First, second & third person

  4. First, second & third person

  5. Perspective matters!

  6. Why does this matter? ● There are a couple of ways to look at 1 st person (1P) Animation:

  7. What kind of bullets you’re going to shoot the bad guys with…

  8. …or the window through which your player interacts with your world

  10. It’s all about… PLAYER FEEDBACK

  11. Disclaimers ● On first person “philosophy”…

  15. Staging

  16. Staging “The window through which your player will experience your world.”

  17. Staging

  18. Staging

  19. Staging

  20. Staging & the Golden Ratio

  21. The Golden Section/Spiral

  22. Staging & the Golden Ratio

  23. First-Person Personality!

  24. First-Person Personality! ● Pain, strain, exertion and weight

  25. Pain

  26. Pain

  27. Strain and Exertion

  28. Pain

  29. Pain

  30. Weight

  31. Weight

  32. Weight

  33. Weight

  34. Weight

  35. First-Person Personality! ● Pain, exertion and weight ● Quality and proficiency

  36. First-Person Personality! ● Pain, exertion and weight ● Quality and proficiency

  37. First-Person Personality! ● Pain, exertion and weight ● Quality and proficiency ● How stuff works

  38. How stuff works/backstory

  39. How stuff works/backstory

  40. How stuff works

  41. Reference, reference, reference!

  42. Reference, reference, reference!

  43. How stuff works

  44. Realism “Know the rules before you break the rules”

  45. Realism versus… …the unique needs of the first -person perspective.

  46. Realism versus… …the unique needs of the first -person perspective. ● Believability over Realism ● Player Feedback

  47. Realism versus Readability

  48. Realism versus Readability

  49. Realism versus Stylization

  51. Motion Capture “Motion capture is like keyframed animation… but better!”

  52. Motion Capture “Motion capture is like keyframed animation… but different !”

  53. The technical stuff… ● Space-switching

  54. The technical stuff… ● Space-switching ● Left hand, right hand ● Local object space, body space, world space

  55. The technical stuff… ● Space-switching ● Left hand, right hand ● Local object space, body space, world space ● Object ● World, body, left hand, right hand

  56. The technical stuff… ● Space-switching ● Left hand, right hand ● Local object space, body space, world space ● Object ● World, body, left hand, right hand ● Sub-Object ● Object, world, body, left hand, right hand

  57. The technical stuff… ● Space-switching “Don’t build assuming you’ve anticipated every use case!!!”

  58. The technical stuff… ● Space-switching ● IK vs FK

  59. The technical stuff… ● Space-switching ● IK vs FK “Don’t build assuming you’ve anticipated every use case!!!”

  60. The technical stuff… ● Space-switching ● IK vs FK ● Arc-tracking

  61. Camera Field of View

  62. Camera Field of View

  63. Camera Field of View

  64. Camera Field of View

  65. Camera Field of View

  66. Camera Movement

  67. Camera Movement

  68. Camera Movement ● The camera as punctuation

  69. Camera Movement ● The camera as punctuation ● “Can’t shoot anyway”

  70. Camera Movement ● The camera as punctuation ● “Can’t shoot anyway” ● Rotation & Translation axis

  71. Camera Movement ● The camera as punctuation ● “Can’t shoot anyway” ● Rotation & Translation axis

  72. Firearms handling misconceptions

  73. Firearms handling misconceptions ● Trigger discipline

  74. 1 st Person Body Awareness

  75. 1 st Person Body Awareness

  76. Body Awareness & Gameplay

  77. 1 st Person Body Awareness

  78. Body Awareness & Gameplay

  79. 1 st Person Legs

  80. 1 st Person Legs ● “Always on” legs

  81. 1 st Person Legs ● “Always on” legs ● Legs for the occasion

  82. 1 st Person Shadows

  83. 1 st Person Shadows ● Full 1 st Person Rig with body

  84. 1 st Person Shadows ● Full 1 st Person Rig with body ● Synchronized 1 st and 3 rd person animation sets

  85. Body Awareness & Inventory

  86. Cheating Body Awareness

  87. The Future of Body Awareness and the return of Virtual Reality!

  88. The Future of Body Awareness

  89. Acknowledgements ● Breakdown ● Metroid Prime series ● Trespasser ● Star Wars: Republic Commando ● The Thief series ● Battlefield 3 ● Far Cry 2 & 3 ● Bioshock series ● Chronicles of Riddick ● Condemned series ● Dishonored ● Dead Island ● Mirror’s Edge ● Crysis series ● The Darkness

  90. Questions

  91. Thanks! Ryan Duffin Senior Animator at Electronic Arts Twitter: @AnimationMerc www.reanimators.net

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