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Anonymous05/11/25, 12:57No.1011815
how the fuck does a studio of 30 people total (including programmers, managers) create such a massive game with unique environments and character models?
I struggle to create any environment in less than a month that is going to be rendered in a still frame. what kind of magic do these people do?
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Anon05/11/25, 14:10No.1011820
by outsorcing and ending up with 400+ people in the credits. the "made by 30 people" is literally a lie and a marketing stunt
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Anon05/11/25, 17:53No.1011831
Not familiar with the work in question but one artist can make assets that on the surface looks like it'd be an impossible workload requiring large teams if you recycle content cleverly.'stacked modularity' such that you can dramatically alter and customize the look of existing assets of combine them in novel ways that they in context looks different depending on their adjacency.Tile pieces that snap together. trimsheet texture swaps such that same geometry can have dramatically different look for low cost effort on part of the artist.The upfront cost is the R&D and time you spend assembling a deep enough bag of tricks to be able to do something like that. Like you can do something in 1 year that looks like it'd take you 10 years to do. But only because you probably already spent some years practicing developing the skills that goes into being able to do that.Like take GTAO as an example, there are vehicles you can customize swapping body kits and liveries around such that same vehicle can have numberous builds that all look dramatically different.
You can do that same level of deep customization for architecture and generic looking but highly intentional terrain features etc.
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Anon05/11/25, 22:49No.1011847
buying pajeets for 2 cents on the dollar doing work for you
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Anon05/12/25, 09:04No.1011871
Jesus, Fromsoftware's success really sucked out the creativity out of gaming industry
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Anon05/12/25, 10:09No.1011877
they used store assets for things like rocks, foliage, textures etc. of standard environmental features. still, this game has so many unique assets in it, that it becomes almost impossible to believe they did it all in 5 years.
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Anon05/13/25, 22:20No.1011982
For the past few decades, the French have been cultivating artists. Their art schools are really good, and so they produce a lot of highly talented people.
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Anon05/16/25, 08:17No.1012128
get millions of daddy money to fund the game for 3+ years, outsource part of the game, "it was made by 33 people!' profitwhat they did is super impressive, but "it was made by 30 people" is just wrong. If anything, it just shows that if a company can use money smartly can make great games, any game company that get shit on like EA, blizzard and so on are capable of making a game this good and even better because they have more money. When you have to bend over to stakeholder, pay the 15 blue hair HR people and the one chinese and indian guy that is part of the company but does fuck all but actually make the company pay them money instead of paying their core artist more, you get shit games
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Anon05/16/25, 23:48No.1012190
Simple answer really, they use blender, blender speed up your workflow 1000% faster than Maya, your average mayatard took 1 month to create a single props, meanwhile Chad blender user could produce 10 times much more in the same amount of time
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Anon05/24/25, 16:39No.1012593
Games, in theory, should be faster than ever to produce especially since a lot of the baking processes like lightmaps are gone which lets artists put together worlds extremely quickly. Expedition 33 has the luxury of not having bureaucracy get in the way. Other companies like Acitivision and Bethesda have too many employees, politics, and metrics to make an efficient product.
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Anon05/24/25, 17:04No.1012594
>>HOUDINI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXC5VhXxTA&t=4448s
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Anon05/28/25, 04:19No.1012786
UE5 stock terrain generation
+ stock photogrammetry packs these include tons of photoscanned rocks, and mountains
UE5 is basically designed around making huge rocky, forest, outdoor areas easy as fuck
tutourial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJXw8oQcjTU
probably what their process looked like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urTYEBBQbY4UE5 Meta humans for all human characters they used i can tell by the hair this character creator makes making human characters a breeze no riging just a little sculpting if at all. plus it has hair already figured out for you too.
you can also just scan your face and viola new character that looks like you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy2GpNHObv0Ue5 does so much solo dudes can even make stuff like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edVPug0ehE4
that entire thing was made by a single dudePeople who are impressed by what few devs do with UE5 don't understand, how much ue5 already does for you, how many photoreal asset packs etc. are available.
you hardly have to make anything from scratch like the old days.
Just download UE5 and see for yourselves.
Hell you don't even have to be a big boy and code to use UE5 you can just use node graphs.
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Anon07/17/25, 06:29No.1015438
Contracted hundreds
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Anon07/21/25, 05:42No.1015586
>what kind of magic do these people do?
lidar, 3d scanning and AI
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Anon08/28/25, 05:41No.1017689
>expedition33.
fuck this shitty fucking game with its shitty fucking off centered camera
looks and feels like dogshit
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Anon08/28/25, 10:58No.1017695
>I struggle to create any environment in less than a month that is going to be rendered in a still frame. what kind of magic do these people do?Bruh...
>go to Unreal Engine asset store (now known as FAB)
>search for [whatever]
>buy
>import in your scene
DONEYou want caracters?
>get CC4 or Daz Studio or MetaHuman
>search around in their asset store
>buy
>import in your scene
DONEThis is why Clair Obscur has no coherent artistic style. It's a smorgasbord of "cool shit" they found online. Ever wondered why there are so many realistic military shooters? Ever wondered why in a sci-fi game like Death Stranding you have this whole WW2/ModernWarfare sections? It's because there's a shit ton of top quality war assets out there that you can just drag and drop in your scene for pennies.Of course you have to create custom assets like the clothes on the main characters but that's easy to do. It's easier to start with a AAA rig like MetaHuman than from zero.Btw, AAA studios do the same exact thing. Their development team consists of also around 30 people yet they have so much money given to them by the publishers that instead of buying FAB assets they choose to hire FAB artists on commission.When they say "only 30 people" they only count the coders, and the subtext is "if you don't like certain aspects of the game please be kind cause only so little people worked on it".When AAA studios say "over 400 people worked on the game", the subtext is "our game is expensive because we have a lot of mouths to feed".The visual assets in a game are the least important part in the development but also the most expensive. Visual assets are there to mask boring basic shit like "if (button_press) then (character_walk)". Look at a game like TLoU 1&2. There's hardly any gameplay but the visuals are so amazing that players don't even notice that all you do is just walk and and point your cursor from time to time. BioShock: Infinite is a literal rail-shooter.
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Anon08/28/25, 16:34No.1017708
I'm honestly not and never have been impressed by messy post apocalyptic jumbles of props like this. I mean, congrats, it looks cool enough, but it's not that amazing and requires far less work than nature and habitations that look like they could actually exist.
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Anon08/28/25, 21:41No.1017715
By not actually being massive? Its a JRPG in the style of plder JRPGs where you have vast backgrounds but the actual walkable space is pretty small
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Anon08/30/25, 02:33No.1017790
Do employees come with no resources tied to them? Like, a portfolio doubles as an asset library. A company is very likely to hire someone who has a massive asset library that belongs to that 1 person.Getting hired can boil down to already completing years worth of work.
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Anon09/04/25, 15:08No.1018057
Saar I am in the credits, this is very outrageous. Do the needful and remember there would be no game assets without me, saar.
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Anon09/04/25, 18:40No.1018063
I've seen gameplay and it looks like an asset flip, dont see the hype, avg gamer will eat up anything their favorite streamer tells them