Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[PhantasmaNL]

was developed for 5 years and this woman is only part of the team for 1 year and two months.

Maybe they started making face animations 1 year ago?

Judging by the results, they started 2 weeks ago.

 

[Ismaul]

I don't get "they gave it to people without knowledge" thing. Ok, they gave, but no one was curious how're they doing?

EA Montreal studios have been opening up and shutting down at every turn for more than 15 years. Why? Because of obnoxious incompetent management not listening to their competent devs, forcing them to trash their work continually and rework things based on arbitrary criteria, do overtime because of that, etc. Result? the talent doesn't care anymore or leaves. So they're always dismantling and rebooting studios from the ground up with inexperienced people. I know because I have friends that went through this process at different times.

Remember Dead Space? Not my type of game but they had a supposedly good concept at first. Over/mismanagement ran the sequels through the ground.

 

[duke nukem]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

Why she would need video game experience? She has done animations before and doing normal animations are lot harder than making game animations. Good animator can easily make good perfectly looping walking animation in less than half hour that looks good on video games.
She has over 4 year experience of working in animations and about half year experience on 3d modelling. Thats really good considering how young she is.

 

[pippin]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

Why she would need video game experience? She has done animations before and doing normal animations are lot harder than making game animations. Good animator can easily make good perfectly looping walking animation in less than half hour that looks good on video games.
She has over 4 year experience of working in animations and about half year experience on 3d modelling. Thats really good considering how young she is.

Even though I do dislike the Ralph Retort, you're not seeing the problem. This is Todd Howard hiring his school buddy to work for FO3 levels of decadent, espeically considering they prefer to hire this girl instead of a real pro because they can payless money to her.

 

[vdweller]

Alright this is fucking comedy gold.

Who would have thought that a softcore alien sex simulator would turn into such a trollfest!

Preordering now. Fuck those people deserve recognition! They must make more titles like this!

 

[donkeymong]

was developed for 5 years and this woman is only part of the team for 1 year and two months.

Maybe they started making face animations 1 year ago?

No way. It not like there is a chronological order that they first make the locations and then the faces\ facial animations. And one woman for sure isnt responsible for all
facial animations in a game like this. This isnt a small indie title. I call bullshit on this one.

 

[Grif]

You can hear entire video, but it's 0:40 when it gets They went full out with it
I wonder if we are prepared for this. Probably not.

Spoiler

Well, I feel like I need brain bleach after that.

 

[JasonNH]

You guys haven't seen this yet, huh?

A flashback to Alec Ryder talking to his dying wife Ellen...

I was meaning to link to this video earlier. I've changed the link to the 50 second mark because it exemplifies more cringingly bad VO. The intonation sounds like something right out of a high school drama club and that may be generous. The storytelling and presentation in SW:TOR is an order of magnitude better than this tripe - in a flipping MMO!

 

[deranged]

was developed for 5 years and this woman is only part of the team for 1 year and two months.

Maybe they started making face animations 1 year ago?

No way. It not like there is a chronological order that they first make the locations and then the faces\ facial animations. And one woman for sure isnt responsible for all
facial animations in a game like this. This isnt a small indie title. I call bullshit on this one.

It looks as if EA is looking for scapegoats already, but this won't fly. Youtubers noticed it within the first 24 hours of early access and the entire QA of this 60 mil shitfest couldn't ? Also its not as if the rest of the animations are any better...

 

[Pika-Cthulhu]

Its like everyone that goes to andromeda gets an hourly injection of botox, although the animator could be either Autistic or a sociopath, neither of them can recognise human emotion so they wouldnt know how to properly animate them.

 

[Spectacle]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

OK SJWs gonna SJW but hiring a totally unqualified person for a technical position is too weird. Maybe the "lead facial animator" is basically some kind of mo-cap director with no technical skills required?

She's got a couple other animation jobs on her resume so I wouldn't call her "totally unqualified". Seems like a typical case of a junior employee being given too much responsibility for her current skill level.

The animation director should never have allowed this kind of shoddy work to end up in the game though, if quality was a priority. The fact that they put someone barely out of school in a lead position suggests that EA was looking to keep costs down by hiring cheap kids, with predictable results.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

Just looking on 4chan and someone has posted that Bioware is changing Female Ryders fucked up face and remodeling it to the face at the bottom here...

Dosen't look too bad right? But then later down the thread someone points out that this face isn't a remodel or even possible to create, the face seen at the bottom here was caused by a glitch in the stream...

The fucking game has a glitch for a monent and randomly makes a better lead character model than your animators did over five years which cost millions of dollars and was based off a supermodel....

 

[Raziel]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

Why she would need video game experience? She has done animations before and doing normal animations are lot harder than making game animations. Good animator can easily make good perfectly looping walking animation in less than half hour that looks good on video games.
She has over 4 year experience of working in animations and about half year experience on 3d modelling. Thats really good considering how young she is.

Even though I do dislike the Ralph Retort, you're not seeing the problem. This is Todd Howard hiring his school buddy to work for FO3 levels of decadent, espeically considering they prefer to hire this girl instead of a real pro because they can payless money to her.

Is there any showcase of her work around? Or are you just making up shit, I don't think there's any need to justify ME:A's shortcomings the game's going to be bad no matter what.

 

[Iznaliu]

Dosen't look too bad right? But then later down the thread someone points out that this face isn't a remodel or even possible to create, the face seen at the bottom here was caused by a glitch in the stream...

That still looks shity, just in a different way.

 

[J1M]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

OK SJWs gonna SJW but hiring a totally unqualified person for a technical position is too weird. Maybe the "lead facial animator" is basically some kind of mo-cap director with no technical skills required?

Do you think its not common that good looking women get positions they are completely unqualified for, just by being hot or sucking cock?

Also pretty odd that an animation lead would work in vancouver, with a producer in redmond, and the majority of the team in montreal.

Maybe the worker drones who watched mistresses hired as their bosses decided to phone it in on this project.

"Hey everyone, meet your new boss! She's on the other side of the continent, so just check out her website instead."
http://allierosemarie.com/about.html

 

[donkeymong]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

Why she would need video game experience? She has done animations before and doing normal animations are lot harder than making game animations. Good animator can easily make good perfectly looping walking animation in less than half hour that looks good on video games.
She has over 4 year experience of working in animations and about half year experience on 3d modelling. Thats really good considering how young she is.

Even though I do dislike the Ralph Retort, you're not seeing the problem. This is Todd Howard hiring his school buddy to work for FO3 levels of decadent, espeically considering they prefer to hire this girl instead of a real pro because they can payless money to her.

Is there any showcase of her work around? Or are you just making up shit, I don't think there's any need to justify ME:A's shortcomings the game's going to be bad no matter what.

She has a website: allierosemarie.com

 

[J1M]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

Why she would need video game experience? She has done animations before and doing normal animations are lot harder than making game animations. Good animator can easily make good perfectly looping walking animation in less than half hour that looks good on video games.
She has over 4 year experience of working in animations and about half year experience on 3d modelling. Thats really good considering how young she is.

No. Working on a game is more challenging than working on a pixar film because the audience (player) has control of the camera. There is a whole set of "technical artist" skills that you have to be aware of with regards to the pipeline to take your animations and get them into the game, concerns about performance, making them look good at different quality settings, etc.

Usually quality requirements are higher too, since people expect something like 'Up' to look like hyper-saturated plastic.

 

[an Administrator]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

Why she would need video game experience? She has done animations before and doing normal animations are lot harder than making game animations. Good animator can easily make good perfectly looping walking animation in less than half hour that looks good on video games.
She has over 4 year experience of working in animations and about half year experience on 3d modelling. Thats really good considering how young she is.

Even though I do dislike the Ralph Retort, you're not seeing the problem. This is Todd Howard hiring his school buddy to work for FO3 levels of decadent, espeically considering they prefer to hire this girl instead of a real pro because they can payless money to her.

Is there any showcase of her work around? Or are you just making up shit, I don't think there's any need to justify ME:A's shortcomings the game's going to be bad no matter what.

She has a website: allierosemarie.com

>Using hotmail in 2017

 

[Raziel]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

Why she would need video game experience? She has done animations before and doing normal animations are lot harder than making game animations. Good animator can easily make good perfectly looping walking animation in less than half hour that looks good on video games.
She has over 4 year experience of working in animations and about half year experience on 3d modelling. Thats really good considering how young she is.

Even though I do dislike the Ralph Retort, you're not seeing the problem. This is Todd Howard hiring his school buddy to work for FO3 levels of decadent, espeically considering they prefer to hire this girl instead of a real pro because they can payless money to her.

Is there any showcase of her work around? Or are you just making up shit, I don't think there's any need to justify ME:A's shortcomings the game's going to be bad no matter what.

She has a website: allierosemarie.com

That does look pretty meh, but that website hasn't been updated since 2013.

 

[Luckmann]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

Why she would need video game experience? She has done animations before and doing normal animations are lot harder than making game animations. Good animator can easily make good perfectly looping walking animation in less than half hour that looks good on video games.
She has over 4 year experience of working in animations and about half year experience on 3d modelling. Thats really good considering how young she is.

Even though I do dislike the Ralph Retort, you're not seeing the problem. This is Todd Howard hiring his school buddy to work for FO3 levels of decadent, espeically considering they prefer to hire this girl instead of a real pro because they can payless money to her.

Is there any showcase of her work around? Or are you just making up shit, I don't think there's any need to justify ME:A's shortcomings the game's going to be bad no matter what.

She has a website: allierosemarie.com

>Using hotmail in 2017

I have a hotmail address. You can't get them anymore, as far as I'm aware, so I'm sure as hell not giving it up.

 

[salaciousbcrumb]

So the antagonists are teletubbies? First class design, Bioderp, first class. The more I see of this turd the more I am reminded of this old video about EA:

I like the way he wears a cape. Can't be a head baddie without a cape or cloak. That's where Mugabe and Assad are going wrong, need to wear a cape to be a proper overlord. Just a bit of a shame he doesn't have mustachios to twirl, Bio must have found it too difficult to animate mustachios.

Basically they have just ripped off the aliens from Saints row 4.

The difference though was their boss Zin was a good character who liked to read Jane Austin and play classical music on his own in game radio station.

 

[Seethe]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

There's no way nepotism isn't involved in this.

 

[Jarmaro]

The fucking game has a glitch for a monent and randomly makes a better lead character model than your animators did over five years which cost millions of dollars and was based off a supermodel....

I am 100% sure someony already spoke there about glitch being better than developers.

 

[Padzi]

A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda

http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplay...l-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/

OK SJWs gonna SJW but hiring a totally unqualified person for a technical position is too weird. Maybe the "lead facial animator" is basically some kind of mo-cap director with no technical skills required?

Bioware, Bioware what are you doing? So many talented people are looking for work. But it seems that nowadays only nepotism and cronyism matters.

You can hear entire video, but it's 0:40 when it gets They went full out with it
I wonder if we are prepared for this. Probably not.

I trolled myself watching this video. I was watching it on my tablet 2 hours ago. I wasn't aware what awaits me so the volume was set almost to full. After reaching 0:40
I started to cringe so hard I had to walk around the room with my tablet in hand. Only after it ended I regained my senses... Now I'm wondering if my neighbours think I'm watching porn, which wouldn't be that far from the truth.
I just can't wait the see the animation that matches this. I think I will need a galon of bleach for my eyes and brain. Edit: But this might be made out of combat sounds. God I hope so.

 

[an Administrator]