I caught the live blog from Kotaku about the Bioware Pax panel and I was not impressed to their answer when they brough up Tali's face. Specifically:
"2.) We often use source material, source art,
for MANY things withing the game -- wanted it to be photorealistic, high
fidelity, correct color -- as close to a picture as possible. Pored
through thousands of images to combine extisting image and artistic
vision to create Tali's face "
Okay, using source material. Like the Samara and Miranda models where you made a 3D image of their faces and imported them into Mass Efffect? No, instead you used a stock photograph and photoshopped it. This is why were unhappy with this. Instead of doing what you always did, which was model your characters off of people where it was artistictly available to do so (Shepard, Miranda, Samara etc.) you found a picture, changed the coloring on it and photoshopped the actress in it to look alien.
One of the reasons we're unhappy is the "job half finished" attitude we are getting from you. What you should have done is found the model, used the same 3D imaging software you used before and copied her face. Then adjusted it in game and then you should have made the picture which would have been fine!
Tali's Face and Biowares reasoning
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Butane9000
, avril 09 2012 08:55
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Posté 09 avril 2012 - 09:21
Allan Schumacher
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Roguekad wrote...
They even had one of the ators there dressed up as her character, Semara.
I just wanted to clarify that it was Rana McNear's initiative to do so and for an absolutely great cause to boot. Just wanted to make sure she gets full credit for the idea.
http://www.indiegogo...the-real-model-
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Posté 10 avril 2012 - 12:06
Allan Schumacher
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daguest wrote...
May I ask why you didn't use a photo or the face of the real voice behind tali ? She is beautiful enough, and with some work to looks alien, she would have made an amazing tali.... I also imagine she would have accepted, I mean, you already used her voices for 3 games...
You already used the face of the voice actor for many characters in game.
Just so no one thinks I'm avoiding the question, I'm actually not involved with ME in anyway so I can't state what went into the decision. I don't know. Sorry.
