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Keith Paciello (Former Emotional Systemic Facial Animator, Naughty Dog)
Christian Wohlwend (Game Designer, Naughty Dog)
Date: Thursday, July 22
Time: 1:20pm - 2:20pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Topic: Design
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: N/A: I prefer to present live on-site but I am open to delivering a virtual presentation
As graphic fidelity in video games has rapidly accelerated, one aspect of development has overwhelmingly remained stagnant; in-game character emotions. In this talk, Naughty Dog explores how they addressed this industry wide limitation in The Last of Us Part II. Represented by team members from character rigging, animation, dialogue, and design; this talk comprehensively covers how character emotion was brought into gameplay ranging from nuanced narrative moments to adrenaline charged melee combat. Learn about the challenges, implementation, and innovation that occurred to develop the systemic emotion system that brought over 65 characters speaking 13 languages with up to 20 individual emotions to life.
Attendees will walk away with an in-depth look at and understanding of the Emotional Systemic Facial System. From conception through development, viewers will be familiar with the tech, design, and implementation from various departments at Naughty Dog that allowed all in-game characters to have wide ranges of emotion game wide.
Character TD's, Animators, Audio, Designers, Programmers. Talk is comprehensive and does not require any prerequisite knowledge, though a familiarity with AAA game development pipelines may help.