Accurate human rendering in game [2014-2016]

[Billy Idol]

Btw, Nate's hair can get wet and flattens...just walk through a waterfall

 

[London Geezer]

And his comments when you drive under a waterfall - love!

 

[nightshade]

A pity it doesn't burn in fire and make him bald/partially bald though...maybe next gen.

 

[AlNom]

Is it still Elena Fisher?

It may not be that uncommon nowadays for a spouse to not change surnames (big hassle with accounts etc.). The child could take on the surname of either parent (my nieces have the father's, for example).

Rafe Adler

Has a bit of the Robert Patrick T-1000 look there.

 

[Boxercide]

One thing that impressed me is that light can shine through the characters' ears. It's super subtle, but a nice touch to see.

 

[Clukos]

Nate closeup

 

[Clukos]

Sully

Nate closeup again

Nate/Sully

Sam closeup

Sam hands

Elena various

 

[DieH@rd]

Xperia Z5 Premium?

 

[Nesh]

These guts are nuts. They accurately model objects that you wouldnt expect they would care

 

[Clukos]

Xperia Z5 Premium?

Yep

I also think ND did an excellent job with the facial animation, their best job yet! Really impressive result given that characters are not scanned real-life people

 

[Karamazov]

One thing that impressed me is that light can shine through the characters' ears. It's super subtle, but a nice touch to see.

http://i.imgur.com/dJsR4hq.jpg

 

[Laa-Yosh]

Lots of Sam Drake here:
http://www.formsintris.com/blog/

Particularly liked this one:

 

[Clukos]

Info on character hair and images here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JOY4A

I guess now ND/Sony allow the artists to share their work

 

[London Geezer]

Kid Sam was also a very realistic face. But Nadine. Damn!

 

[Laa-Yosh]

The most impressive is that you can accept the three characters as the same person at various ages; same goes for Drake as well.

As for sharing work, ND's artists used to post a lot of stuff from the previous games as well. UC2, 3, TLOU, all had threads on for example the ZbrushCentral forum. I'll look around to see if there are some; but then again we've already had a very close look at Drake a long time ago, so it's now mostly about some high quality renders.

 

[nightshade]

I didn't even notice that the flashback Sam/Nate from Prison had younger model than the ones that we see in the rest of the game, I thought they were the same.

 

[Clukos]

Rafe

From this: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1X9LL

Elena

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oZkxz

 

[hesido]

Elena getting dirty is spoilerish

 

[ultragpu]

I wonder when we can get those realistic lighting from the renders in game? I think the next step up is to work on the character lighting solution in gameplay than subdivide more polys or higher res textures. Of course more complex shaders is always a plus. Perhaps PS5 would have enough power to render those cutscene lighting in game?

 

[London Geezer]

I wonder when we can get those realistic lighting from the renders in game? I think the next step up is to work on the character lighting solution in gameplay than subdivide more polys or higher res textures. Of course more complex shaders is always a plus. Perhaps PS5 would have enough power to render those cutscene lighting in game?

I'd hope something like PS5 will be able to render a lot more than what we basically get today in realtime. Talk about diminishing returns!