Technicolor Animation & Games put their combined artistic and technical experience to the test for Mortal Kombat 11, which called for super heroic actions mixed with realism, in a Gameplay environment where players choose from a roster of fighters with unique abilities and Fatalities. This was the team’s first opportunity to be a part of the iconic fighting video game franchise from NetherRealm Studios. With motion captured data as their starting point, Technicolor animators worked tirelessly to keep the Mortal Kombat style intact. The enhancements and timings on hits and Combo attacks had to be spot-on – without losing their grace, or the brutal feel of the well-choreographed action sequences.

In the world of Anthem, players explore the unknown to protect humanity, with superhuman capabilities given to them through an array of customizable Exo-Suits. At three years, Anthem was the longest engagement so far for Technicolor Animation & Games, as the team handled gameplay animations for ambient characters. As the relationship with game developer BioWare grew, the team took on cinematic sequences as well. Expertise in Motionbuilder enabled them to produce files efficiently while meeting the required quality for assets. Technicolor also developed a tool that could export scenes back to Maya. Additionally, the team received Vanity and Emote files for characters, and total number of game play animations reached 10,000 files.

Following a successful collaboration on Resident Evil 7, Technicolor again joined with Capcom to deliver an epic survival horror game reimagined, based on the classic Resident Evil 2. The remake for a new generation features more realistic, organic motion in the animations as players engage with scary enemy humanoid characters, canine zombie dogs, and other creepily attacking creatures. Technicolor Animation & Games handled body and facial Mo-Cap cleanup and Keyframe Animation for enemy characters and nightmarish creatures such as the Lickers, using Mo-Cap data shot on the ground for the latter to animate them climbing and moving around on both walls and roof. Using Faceware, the team also produced realistic facial animation for player characters, bringing their facial expressions and game characters to life.

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is the 11th major installment (and 20th overall) in the highly popular action role-playing game by Ubisoft. Technicolor Animation & Games spent 20 months engaged with the Ubisoft ACD team to create an amazingly wide variety of assets (numbering more than 2200) for this game, including characters, cloths, boats, biomes, statues, jewels, weapons and other props. The result lets gamers choose their own path as a legendary Spartan hero in the world of ancient Greece. The Technicolor team was proud to work on creating this open-world game that one Games Industry reviewer called “an astonishing creation, extraordinarily generous and solidly crafted.”