2008 Video Game Awards: Gears of War 2
"Image Metrics' work brings an entirely new level of fidelity to the motion and retains the performance of the voice actors. The results we got exceeded our expectations."
When Epic Games needed facial animation to help promote its new Gears of War 2 Combustible Map Pack at the 2008 VGAs, the company turned to Image Metrics.
Epic and Image Metrics had previously worked together on Unreal Tournament 3. As a result, Epic Games was familiar with their process and knew they could produce commercial-quality facial animation quickly. Rising to the challenge, Image Metrics created sixteen seconds of high-quality, high-powered facial animation for the Augustus "Cole Train" Cole character in just three days.
Watch the video to the right to see the results for yourself.
