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Sports Illustrated Article: Talks Beards & Facial Expressions


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Quoted the bits that caught my attention as the rest was recycled information. Hopefully the same attention to detail will be had for long hair and created beards, but if NBA 2K14 is anything to go by, I think we'll be fine (at least for beards anyway).

 

“It’s incredible what they can do now. The detail they capture is amazing. My beard looks perfect in the game. It looks exactly how it does in real life. But they also have small details like the scar on the top of Randy Orton’s head. He has this small little knick, and it’s detailed perfectly. I know when I was playing the game, when I saw the little things like Randy’s scar, when I saw how my beard looked, I was blown away.”

 

To get Bryan’s beard exact, Little says that they actually needed to move beyond scans and experiment with what he calls “all new beard tech.”

 

“Scanning doesn’t do beards or hair well, so for guys like Daniel Bryan, we needed to use this new beard tech to get him just right,” explains Little. “There is this specific code of technology that we use to get the beards just right, and no beard is alike. Daniel Bryan’s is more open and scraggily, where if you look at a guy like Mark Henry, he has a big beard, but it’s thick and solid. We had to create technology to be able to capture both in a way that not only looked great still, but animated.”

The characters look so real, in fact, during one gameplay session, Randy Orton slapped John Cena across the face then even flashed his signature, sinister smirk, showing off that emotion that until this point, has been so elusive in previous WWE games.

“I think all the facial stuff is bad-ass,” says Stone Cold Steve Austin, who appears in 2K15 as one of the game’s legends. “I went down to the studio and there were damn near 100 cameras mounted on these vertical posts, and you went through a range of emotions for them to capture. Now when you punch Stone Cold in the game, you’re going to see just how bad it hurts because I gave them all my pain and angry faces.”

“They got me from head to toe, every detail down to the way I furrow my eyebrows,” says Sting. “I’ve seen myself in a lot of video games, but this is the best quality I’ve ever seen.”

 

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Looks like they got Batista's look from after Mania when Evolution reformed. :D

What makes you say that?
I was just about to ask this.

Well, he says he got a beard. He kinda had one before Mania, but he didn't really start growing it out til after Mania.

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I'm so happy they scanned Austin. We haven't had a decent looking Austin in years. So no more skinny neck hopefully. :)

As happy as I am to finally have a perfect Austin model this time around, I'm concerned about The Rock as I have to wonder if they managed to get ahold of him for scanning given his busy schedule. His modern models have looked pretty good in the last 2 games, but his retro versions were awful. I can't even remember the last game where we actually got a picture perfect People's Eyebrow without it looking completely creepy

 

 

 

 

Looks like they got Batista's look from after Mania when Evolution reformed. :D

What makes you say that?
I was just about to ask this.

Well, he says he got a beard. He kinda had one before Mania, but he didn't really start growing it out til after Mania.

 

That was Daniel Bryan that was being quoted, not Batista. Would be nice if Batista ends up with his beard though.

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