It’s not magic, but pure science behind the dialogues of The Witcher 3
This presentation by CD Projekt Red’s Piotr Tomsinski takes a very deep look into the programmers’ work on the cinematic cutscenes and dialogues from The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. The one hour long event shows and explains in great detail the whole process of creating the dialogue animation system for the game. I highly recommend you find the time to watch it. Piotr has a very strong accent, even stronger than Vulkk’s very own one, but once you get used to it, the presentation really grabs you and doesn’t let you go until the very end.
During the even you will learn of the various techniques and methods used by CD Projekt Red designers and programmers to insert, animate, light up and bring to live the characters of the rich world of The Witcher. The event happened during GDC 2016, but for one reason or another was uploaded a full year later to the official GDC YouTube channel. You can watch the full recording embedded below.
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