GameSpot Interviews Rockstar Animator Mondo Ghulam about Bringing GTAIV Characters to Life

GameSpot recently interviewed Rockstar North's animator Mondo Ghulam about how the characters in GTAIV have been brought to life. Here is what Mondo had to say about Image Metrics' facial animation..."Image Metrics handles all of the facial animation. Characters created here by Mike Kane and his team were rigged for animation by Image Metrics. Early on in cutscene production we took the plunge and went for full blend shape and bone animation for faces. It was a tough piece of tech to realize and took the combined efforts of people here at Rockstar North, Rockstar San Diego, and Image Metrics. It has more than paid off."

Read the full interview here: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/grandtheftauto4/news.html?sid=618...