The Witcher 4 <\/em>director. Mioni saying goodbye to her father feels very personal to her because she senses the same thing she has been struggling with all her life, the almost constant weight of other people\u2019s expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cCiri practically feels what Mioni probably does,\u201d continued Tomek Suwalski, director at Platige Image. \u201cDuty, something she had grown up with, and the sense that you should act in a certain way, even though deep inside you feel that it is wrong. Their short interaction in the woods, when Ciri tells her \u2018Save yourself!\u2019 are the words that could have been spoken by an older sister, a friend, or someone equally close. She speaks those words because she knows perfectly well how Mioni feels and that her life is much more important than the sense of duty with which she had been brought up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The project started with a story created jointly by CD PROJEKT RED and Platige Image, followed by a 14-day-long mocap session, stunt team coordination, and the entire production process. Special care was taken with the creation of the monster animation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted the Bauk to look just right, so we created an animation bible for its character,\u201d said Maciej Pietras, animation director at CD PROJEKT RED. \u201cWe divided it into several parts: the head resembling a goblin\u2019s, a snakelike neck, front paws similar to a jaguar\u2019s but with scorpion pincers, and hind legs and the tail of a dinosaur.\u00a0 That allowed us to prepare documentation and make sure that the result will match the initial premise.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe created a physical model of Bauk\u2019s head and arms that required four operators,\u201d added Maciej Kwiatkowski, stunt coordinator at Alpha 7. \u201cYou could say that we\u2019ve recreated the entire monster. We prepared a sequence of movements, we did test choreography and it was a success \u2014 it looks fantastic on the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Check out the full behind the scenes video now:<\/p>\n
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