NBA 2K15 project artwork

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NBA 2K15

Facial animation for the digital athletes of NBA 2K15.

01 / The project

NBA 2K15

In a sports game, the athletes are the characters. Our published NBA 2K15 credit is facial animation, bringing expressive detail to players represented on screen.

Mimic Productions’ sports motion-capture showcase names NBA 2K15 specifically as a facial-animation game credit and illustrates it with an in-game basketball athlete.

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Athletes with a presence of their own.

Sports games put familiar players in front of the camera. Their digital counterparts need more than a recognisable silhouette; the face is part of how an athlete reads on screen. Our NBA 2K15 credit centres on facial animation for those digital players.

Mimic Productions’ sports portfolio places NBA 2K15 alongside other athlete-focused character work and labels the game credit as facial animation. Its wider sports production material discusses the care needed when translating human performance into digital form. On this title, the documented contribution is the animation of the athletes’ faces.

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03 / Inside the work

What we made.

01

The players

The work focuses on the faces of digital athletes, where player likeness and expression are part of the on-screen performance.

02

The credit

Our work was facial animation for NBA 2K15, focused on the digital athletes on screen.

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