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"OLDMAN" COLTON
Steve Colton AKA "Oldman", as portrayed by Mark Hamill, is one of the hero characters of Squadron 42. It has been a privilege to work on Mark Hamill and his likeness now for over 4 years, as I have been in charge of him now through several iterations of his likeness/ appearance since 2018. His head and hair have been featured as a test asset due to the nature of his importance in the game etc.
2018 - First MajorTexture/ Shading/ Likeness Pass with Spline Hair Testing
In preparation for our 2018 trailer, our team was tasked with drastically improving the likenesses and shading of the games primary characters. I was given most of the faces and hairs to complete for the new trailer, but the primary one that would be the show piece for the CAT would be Oldman. I improved the likeness of his base sculpt as well as custom updates and/or complete revamps of textures and materials. I created a new XGen hair based on new ideations about his character and worked with tech to figure out how we were going to get this in game. The last image here shows before and after of this pass.
2020 - Texture / Shading Update with New Card Hair
After all of the work on spline hairs, and the RnD that followed in 2018, CAT and tech settled that it would be too heavy for us to go full spline hair on most characters. Over the next year we developed a very robust new Card Hair Creation Tool and a new hair shader. Of course a new card hair was up first for Oldman.
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