It is difficult to regress 3D models these days, so it is also necessary to design the data while looking ahead to the impact that it may have on the project in the future. Is this silhouette going to be final? Is it created in a way that the animators won’t have a hard time animating? How many bones will it have and how will we control the parts that will move?ĢB was also a character that would become the benchmark for the project, so I had to think about the basis for body proportions and modeling, designing the shader, and even the cost associated with mass production, all while creating this rough model. When we mention a rough model, you may think that it can be very rough, but this is actually where I have to tax my brain quite a bit. I then had our game director Yoko Taro check the model as well and received a “great!” from him! I had referenced many things to create this model, such as games that Yoshida-san had worked on in the past (the character models for Final Fantasy XII are amazing…). I believe it took me about one to two weeks to create this rough model. This was my first job since I joined the NieR:Automata team. I love it.Īnd this is the rough model I created. ![]() Yoshida-san’s tastes were clear to me through the images I hid in the above image (don’t worry, they aren’t weird or anything, they’re just reference images I can’t show), and with that, I understood what he was looking for without even talking to him. I first began by creating a rough model based on the rough design I received from character designer Akihiko Yoshida. Implement into build as a model to be used in game.Create high quality and precision modeling.Predict overall form and its final image with a rough model. ![]() Generally speaking, character modeling follows the flow below: I would like to show you that the process isn’t as simple as changing an illustration into 3D. Hello! My name is Hito Matsudaira and I’m a character modeler for NieR:Automata.ĭoes anyone famous in particular come to mind when you think of a character modeler? No one comes to my mind – character modelers rarely come out in public these days! Fortunately for me, I was given this opportunity so I would like to explain what kind of thoughts I had, and how I modeled the character 2B using some in-progress images of the character.
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