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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