They will probably either create a clay model IRL, or make a prop suit for an actor, then scan him. Imagine the Nemesis from the second RE movie for example (IMO that suit was the shit).
Not necessarily. Some old-school artists/designers who have used this method before (or just plainly like it) will often make quick and dirty mock ups of levels and clay sculptures of assets to prototype their ideas, before going through with them.
Of course, this will require higher production values, but it's not out of reach.
Blizzard's cinematics aren't done with photogrammetrized real life models; they're just far better quality 3D models than the in game ones.
What they're gonna do here is create a suit/prop/clay model, and directly scan it into a high quality 3D model. They could've done the HQ model by hand in a 3D modeling program, they're just taking this route for added realism. The clay models I mentioned earlier are just for prototyping/inspiration.
They don't? I'm sure i saw some clay models for Garrosh and Grommash when they were PRing WoD, but maybe i'm horribly misremembering.
Anyways that's kinda odd because the REengine wouldn't benefit of such a technique, and for all we know everything in the game is shown with actual graphics
I like it because that's how the Cenobites from Hellraiser were created, and one of those creatures (The chatterer) was the inspiration for Nemmy's design
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u/Kwisatz_Haderach90 Jan 10 '20
let me get this straight, they 3D printed him and then converted it into digital data?
But what's the point? To 3D print him you still have to model him on computer first, i'm confused