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what software are you using to analyse animation please?

Nice video thank you! I have worked in film/TV for over 30 years and I don't know ANYONE that makes a good animation without reference. Its almost impossible and people that say they never use ref are prob lying. I have done martial arts since I was 13 (I am 53 now) and even though I have a good idea of certain poses/movements, there is always a little subtle action that you will forget, so reference is 100% essential. They maybe some very rare individuals who have a photographic memory, and don't need reference, but I have never seen or come across one. Even if I am 100% sure of a certain action, I will still glance at reference photos or videos to guide me. I would say 99% of movie/video game and 2D/3D animators in general ALL use reference of some kind or another!

I understand if you can't answer this, but the two scenes at the end with the giant head have me very curious. Was that supposed to be a raid set piece? If it was, then was it just a random head, or was that supposed to be the Gardener? (if you're familiar with the lore)

Music?

I feel bad for cayde, he’s always dying dawg

Are these canon attacks?

DX I don’t care what anyone says. The witness’ animation are peek gaming graphic. They are so smooth and elegant. Alien yet so human. I wish we had gotten more of him before his death. Even more lore of his people story. How his powers of shatter/glass work.

0:42 crab mode

Having that sandbox as a playable map would be wild

super cool~!!!

I'd love to see a breakdown on that witness model, really wanna find out how the character art and vfx team worked on the smoky head figures

So the blue one is either Stasis or Arc, the orange one is probably Solar and the yellow-orange is Resonance. But what did you guys call the red one?

i fucking love how in some the fingers fold and move in abnormal ways, so cool

problem is the tracking sucks.

I wish some of these animations made it into the raid/excision somehow, these are so cool

Very interesting see this stuff relative to the final project. Im guessing they saw the animation of hand folding out into 3 separate hands emerging from the wrist and decided "yeah, everything should be like that"

that's amazing

Absolutely love the witness hands during the raid. They look lovecraftian almost like they have a mind of their own, was really cool to see them in all the encounters too. Just a cool and creepy design

It's a common occurrence that "concept art" is usually "better" than what's in the final product, probably due to the fact that the idea of such a thing is usually better than the execution of said idea. This isn't to bash the final design choices on the Witness or anything, but seeing these animations (which I assume were made to spark ideas or give a better framework for the attacks the Witness would end up using in the end) just makes me wish the Witness's hands (the lone ones, for the record) did more than just use three different attack animations. I get why such a decision may have been made, and it's still such a cool idea and execution, but if we saw the Witness's hands doing even just SOME of the other cool stuff in this showcase... it obviously would've gone so much better. But obviously, coming up with ideas isn't the hard part. It's knowing which ones are the most important to focus on, both in theming and execution.

thats so fucking cool

the witness hands were so goddamn cool dude, incredible job to you and your team

The witness is honestly the coolest designed enemy Bungie has ever made.

My god, i had no idea there were so many iterations

Whenever i first saw the witness back in witch queen i wondered how the flowing effects would look in game on stuff like the arms. It was really cool to see in the raid that the arms that stick out are 3 different arms intersecting.

Legend

all of the animation showcases that have been getting released are honestly so inspiring as an animator

Oh samns thats awesome! Can you guys post more behind the scenes animations from D2?

Song name??

She's bald!

The witness animation is so fucking cool

Seeing the Witness in a bright dev environment is so surreal.

i can't imagine the amount of freedom the witness gives for attack animations, like we dont know anything about this character and the devs kinda killed it (good way)

Nate and team you are legends

“somebody PLEASE get these saviors a seat!”

amazing work. All of this stuff is what makes destiny amazing, the care and attention to detail in every little animation just shows this even in isolation.

So freaking cool, wish we got at least a couple more from these in the live game. Nevertheless, it still came out absolutely amazing!

How isnt this more popular?????

The overlapping hands are so cool!

Me having my lego guys fight my hand

The husk stun animation is kinda hard to read. Really similar to their death animation. Makes me feel like they're going to pop before their health runs out. Really love the rest of their animations though, like their grenade throw and larva spawn

Nate, you are very talented and your work is nothing but masterpieces. Thanks for helping us Destiny fans finally get the dlc we deserve.

Incredible. You animators were always on my mind when I saw the hands throughout Day One and then the Witness at the end. Mind-blowing work!

This is super cool to see! Thank you for your hard work <3 The Witness' animations are INSANELY cool

i would love to see a deconstruction of the witness's model, both raid and campaign ones

Therapist: "The Final Chef isn't real, it can't hurt you." The Final Chef: 1:08

Drawing hands is hard enough, I can't imagine what it's like animating multiple interconnected hands doing fuckin Naruto jutsus at different angles

Incredible. Imagine the Witness in a show animated/directed like Arcane. WHEW.

I absolutely love the Witnesses attack animations, especially his slam! Watching the two arms converge them come down is always so satisfying. You guys really killed it

Dude the way the witness worm things tear out of the enemies and the bodies flop to the ground is frigging amazing. On release day I spent like 10 minutes just trying to make it happen so I could watch it.

The tentacled look makes him look like the weed digging into the traveler that he is. And the face growing out of the hand reminds me of the face stealer from AtLA