Passion Pictures - Rockband Trailer for Harmonix

Pete Candeland's cinematic trailer for the opening of the popular music videogame pays tribute to the classic rock gods Deep Purple, while the facial animation of the lead singer pays tribute to the detail only Image Metrics can bring to an animated character's performance. Here's what Passion Pictures had to say...(click the title to read more) "As the facial animation needed to be very extreme and expressive in keeping with the music track used for the sequence, Passion and Candeland wanted to achieve a very stylistic animation, even though Image Metrics was animating a human character. The expressions needed to be exaggerated beyond what most people could achieve, so Image Metrics worked with Passion to do animation tests and iterations of the facial rig Passion produced to ensure it was up to the challenge. "The shoot was then completed in half a day with just one standard camera at the Passion Pictures studio. An actor lip-synced over the music track while giving an excellent facial performance. Image Metrics' technology then converted the movements of the actor's face into animation data and applied it to the lead character in the ROCK BAND trailer." http://www.passion-pictures.com/flash.html#page=p2