Mafia III
M3 Faceshift Evaluation
Faceshift is a facial performance capture and scanning software relying on video and depth information. We evaluating this software for use in a booth or as a portable capture system that can be used to rapidly capture and process our medium fidelity facial capture...
M3 Tools
Asset Template Tool This is a starting point for creating new asset packages for internal and external artists that creates the starting files in properly named and structured maya, photoshop, dds, ires, fbx files and bundles the reference material in the starting...
M3 Skin Tools
Skin Tools Save and load skin deformer weight xml files that have the skin cluster settings additionally stored. Quick setting options for common skinning ( to head, to eye joints, body skeleton, ect).
M3 Facial Rigging Automation and Enhancements
Max to Maya Snappers developed and created the initial facial rig, face rig picker, and facial dx11 shader working closely with the 2K Czech group. I came on board Hangar 13 Novato as that was being finalized. I was there during the migration of the facial rig from...
M3 FaceFX Automation
FaceFX and my custom Maya toolset provided a quick, batchable solution for generating facial animation from audio files. An optional text file of the actors script is used to guide the solve process. 80,000 Lines of dialogue animation were kept up to date by me using...
M3 3D Systems Scanning
Pedestrian Scanning at 3D Systems I went with the lead Character Artist for the project kickoff at 3D Systems for the pedestrian actor scan shoots. I contributed to the specifications document, answered technical questions about asset requirements and best practices,...
M3 Lightstage Scanning
On Mafia 3 I directed the initial scan shoots at OToys Lightstage in Burbank. Main story characters were scanned at this facility. I worked on adjusting the poses we scanned to get the best reference material for the modelers. The order of the poses was important for...