Agenda
The Fight Never Ends: 10 Years of For Honor Animation
Vanessa Fillion-Tremblay (Associate Animation Director, Ubisoft)
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Track:
Visual Art, Production & Team Leadership
Audience Level:
Intermediate
Format:
Lecture
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: Intermediate
For Honor just celebrated 10 years of live operation and its 40th Hero release.
Over a decade, we faced many challenges from major team realignment to tighter production cycles. How did we maintain strong creative vision and high-quality animation?
This talk breaks down how For Honor's Animation team preserved a distinct visual identity through a decade of constant change. We'll explore the challenges and solutions taken through three pillars: a fighting-game inspired animation workflow that delivers realistic and grounded animation, an early and evolving Motion Matching pipeline, and the production strategies taken to turn hard constraints into creative focus, all while shipping content.
Over a decade, we faced many challenges from major team realignment to tighter production cycles. How did we maintain strong creative vision and high-quality animation?
This talk breaks down how For Honor's Animation team preserved a distinct visual identity through a decade of constant change. We'll explore the challenges and solutions taken through three pillars: a fighting-game inspired animation workflow that delivers realistic and grounded animation, an early and evolving Motion Matching pipeline, and the production strategies taken to turn hard constraints into creative focus, all while shipping content.
Takeaway
Attendees will gain concrete techniques for sustaining live-game animation quality with technical examples and production-oriented solutions: achieving animation fidelity within tight fighting-game 'frame budgets', insight on how the use of Motion Matching was optimized since its creation and how to approach constraints with open mind through smart prioritization and organization.
Intended Audience
Core audience: Gameplay Animators, Technical Animators, Animation Directors & Leads
Secondary Audience: Producers/Production Leads, Creative Directors, Game Designer
Prerequisite: None but knowledge and experience on a Live Game production can gives better insight on some reality and challenges exposed.
Secondary Audience: Producers/Production Leads, Creative Directors, Game Designer
Prerequisite: None but knowledge and experience on a Live Game production can gives better insight on some reality and challenges exposed.