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Uncharted: Drakes Fortune models

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#54

Beautifull work !
I really like the whole art direction of the game. Reminds me of the adventure comic books I used to read when I was a kid. The facial animation work as shown in that quicktime on gametrailers is very impressive indeed. That’s based on Jason Osipa’s “Stop Staring” I presume.
Looks amazing with those blended-in normal-crease-maps.
Did you use any normalmap blending on cloth creases as well, or is it just the density of the mesh that makes it deform so convincingly?
I still can’t believe the polycount on those characters !
I guess it’s just very clever game-design!

Thanks for sharing !

#55

tortilla1 - I’m glad you like the art direction of the game. We did try to do something a little different from the norm.

The facial animation was not based on Jason Osipa’s “Stop Staring” actually. Our Lead TD, Judd Simantov, wrote his own facial system for us that is based off of joints instead of blend shapes. He did a GDC talk on it last year and there should be a paper available somewhere online describing it.

The clothes were all done with normal map blending. There really is no deforming geometry besides the basic weighting. Just some clever use of wrinkle maps :slight_smile:

The PS3 really is a beast with handling polygons. I’d say its more our engine then game design that allows us to have that much on screen. We have some extremely smart people working here!

Thanks again!

-Rich

#56

Would a joint based facial rig be harder to implement? It looked really complex from the movies in the game. I’m currently making an animation, and would like to try both styles of facial rigs for my main characters. Shape keys for one, joints for the other.

#57

its a lot harder to impliment dependent on how you implement it. Blend shapes are pretty straight forward. Joints, once you’ve set up and painted the weights, can be sdk’d into poses, etc… however, what we have is a bit more complex. Its an infinite pose based system with fixer shapes. This is all done within a plugin and probably impossible without writing one yourself.

I’d do a search for Judd’s GDC paper and see if you can understand the ideas. Regardless, you might only be able to impliment a portion of it without any API knowledge.

Might be better off sticking with blendshapes. It is the easiest method for quick artist friendly expressions.

#58

My best compliments, you and your guys do a great job and source of inspiration. I’m very happy to see al textures are painted, this give a more deep and personality to the character and the final result is awesome.

Animation and modelling are excellent and I’m sure with a more deeper knowledge on PS3 the art/visual department can include more and more ideas!

At least the game is one of the best of this year, incredible playbility, excellent music/sound and again, great character.

Compliments again, a great work and hope to see more and new Nathan’s chapter :slight_smile:

#59

Hi Diamant,

Great work, excellent details & a great game too…:slight_smile:

…also pls tell Amy Lee to create another Legacy of Kain Game. We fans are eagerly waiting for it. :cry:

#60

Rich,

First off, thanks a lot for replying! As far as a tutorial, I would love to see how you create a realistic character from start to finish. Seeing a professional’s workflow is always a great help when learning how to use and master techniques in different programs.

Hope all is well at the studio, thanks so much.

-Zanrok

#61

Just wanted to congratulate the whole team of Naughty Dog for the great game they’ve made!
(Beating the game for second time, right now:D)
It’s amazing how much detail has been put in this game, it trully is the BEST looking game on the PS 3 or any other platform!
Can’t wait for the part 2;) :+1:

EDIT
oh and the “next gen” effect(great way to mock the games that are overusing glow effects):smiley: :+1: :+1:

#62

great post the models look great i like the female one in scubba gear alot. I have played the game and it looks amazing overall chracters and environments, congrats to a job well done. Thanks for sharing

#63

Hiya Rich, a colleague here at the office showed me this thread and I’m glad he did, great work and I just started playing the game last night. Mesmerizing!

I was wondering about that GDC document tho, I think it might come in handy. If you can locate it, it would be appreciated!

~t

#64

weird that i just saw this thread. i used to work w/ you at naughtydog. my names adam marquis - i did environment art (textures).
i was on uncharted in the early stages, but worked on all the jak games.
good stuff man!

cheers

-Adam

#65

how did you texture the skin. was it drivin by a sub surface scattering shader? what is the best way to pain the skin color on to the zbrush model? do you use the paint tools or is there another program thats better?

#66

Some real quality models here, great work! All the faces have a believable aspect too them which is not an easy task. Thanks for posting these!

#67

The game was absolutely gorgeous.

But god that end sequence made me soooo angrRRRrY!! :angry:

Took me a billion attempts to kill that bastard with the gun on the boat. I really hate games with set pieces.

But still, beautiful graphics!. Well done! :slight_smile:

#68

That game was the best I’ve ever played, and restarted immediately after finishing it.

By the way, I do hope, that they not switched to mudbox, though Rich’ website contains GDC slides suggesting it… :frowning:

#69

thanks again guys… I’m glad people are still enjoying the game!

so the texture of the skin was hand painted. the shader tried to mimick a sss feel but was a complete fake… as are most sss shaders. I painted all the skin inside of zbrush with either poly paint or just texture projection on a map… nothing too crazy…

splodge… i feel your pain :slight_smile:

Jester… We still use zbrush at naughty dog. I was just asked by Autodesk to do a talk on thier behalf. That is why the GDC slides feature Mudbox. Honestly, I’m going to use whatever tool is needed to get the job done. As I’m sure most people will. As of now Zbrush is doing everything we need to do and is the primary tool used at Naughty Dog. Competition is nice though. It’ll only bring innovation!

Thanks again everyone!
-Rich

#70

by hand painting you mean in zbrush or in an app like painter or photoshop. i find that i can’t seem to blend colors very well just on the spay, intensity slider, vairance and stuff alone and it upsets me. Using a roll on skin texture works sometimes but then scaling becomes an issue. any advice?

its its useful for you in the future i found using turtle i can render sss fairly fast. Except they don’t have any tutorials to adjust the slider so it looks like real skin. instead it looks more like a clay surface when i have global illumination with some edge glow.

#71

Awesome models, unique style of art, great game.

#72

wow… just amazing

#73

Hey Rich,

I’m waiting for the next installation of Uncharted! I’m sorry that the girl character is dropped.

By the way, I felt during the game the characters were based upon several actors. For example Drake reminded me to Dean Cain a bit, while the girls has some Jennifer Aniston look, the old guy had a bit of Christopher Walken. That made me feel very good, because I felt that I know these characters.