There are a few minor details I've noticed in FFXV that I found particularly neat and/or impressive, so I figured it'd be nice to have a place to discuss them.
Let's start with something that I'm pretty sure most people didn't pay much attention to in the ending -- Noct takes off his gloves on-screen! It's not the sort of thing that'd normally make an impression of course, but taking off clothing is one of those things that's so fiddly in 3D animation that it's usually just avoided altogether. And the funny thing is, there's no real need for it, so it kind of reminds me of some of the stuff I'd heard about Nomura adding Squall's fur collar to challenge the animators, just done to the in-engine animators instead of the off-line CG staff.
The way everyone's expressions were handled in the lead-up to Noct's sacrifice was really impressive, too. The game did more to sell the idea that the guys were fighting back tears in real-time than I've seen from most off-line CG.
On a more lighthearted note -- anyone notice the Cactuars on the "Walk/Don't Walk" signs in Insomnia? Or the joke about parents suing Vyv if he put the picture of Chardanook in his magazine?
Let's start with something that I'm pretty sure most people didn't pay much attention to in the ending -- Noct takes off his gloves on-screen! It's not the sort of thing that'd normally make an impression of course, but taking off clothing is one of those things that's so fiddly in 3D animation that it's usually just avoided altogether. And the funny thing is, there's no real need for it, so it kind of reminds me of some of the stuff I'd heard about Nomura adding Squall's fur collar to challenge the animators, just done to the in-engine animators instead of the off-line CG staff.
The way everyone's expressions were handled in the lead-up to Noct's sacrifice was really impressive, too. The game did more to sell the idea that the guys were fighting back tears in real-time than I've seen from most off-line CG.
On a more lighthearted note -- anyone notice the Cactuars on the "Walk/Don't Walk" signs in Insomnia? Or the joke about parents suing Vyv if he put the picture of Chardanook in his magazine?