CHAPTER 2 Understanding the Project Vision
Animation is an art of communicating intent. The intent of a character. The world. The artist. And for games, that means before you can establish a strong animation vision, you need to understand the intent of every part of the project. It is the narrative, design, art, audio and animation that all come together to define and communicate the intent of the characters, the world, the development team and the player. Any animation direction that is established that isn’t aligned to the core intent of those key areas will quickly find itself out of step with the rest of the project, no matter how visually compelling or unique it may be. Your animation vision needs to be resilient ...
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