GDC 2008: 创造星际争霸2的电影艺术
游戏开发者大会2008：创造星际争霸2的电影艺术
暴雪Nick Carpenter：
用了1900万个多边形和688个元件，显然创造星际争霸2宣传动画中的角色Tichus Findlay的人物模型并不是个简单的活。暴雪的电影创作主管Nick Carpenter在GDC 2008上解释了他们的创作过程有多么的紧张。“我们让技术人员生活在噩梦之中。”他说。
预告片的核心概念是进入星际争霸中的用来生产机枪兵的兵营并看到里面到底在做些什么。当预告片首次在韩国首尔的暴雪WWI上亮相时，他说人们都在问他为什么Tichus被焊入制服里。“这个原因是：他回不来了。”他这样解释。
为了找到设计Tichus的装甲和周围的环境的灵感，Carpenter和他的艺术小组参观了一家工厂并拍了照。通过测试光线透过金属臂和残缺外壳的光线反射还有其他的金属器械，小组更好的在Tichus的装甲和建造机器中实践了“未来的沧桑感”（译者注，比如机枪兵盔甲上的涂鸦作品）。“每一个部件诉说一个故事”，Carpenter说他经常这样提醒他的小组。
Zeratul的设计更多的是基于Bruce Lee（李小龙）。Carpenter让他以“忍者风格”出现，并且配备了埃及风格的装甲来给他一个更奇幻的样貌。Carpenter说：“Zeratul没有嘴巴，所以我们要给他一个更能展现内心的眼睛。”
除了展现角色的艺术构想和早期3D模型以及视频完成后的绘制，Carpenter简单的提了Zeratul，Kerrigan和hydralisk是如何创造的。说到Kerrigan，Carpenter希望她展现出“更多一点的令人不寒而栗的感觉，更多一点Zerg的感觉。”他同样指出她的骨骼翅膀是由于她可以从底下伸展出来，并可以像蜘蛛的腿一样使用。
尽管所有工作和计划的都被放入每一步的创造过程中，但并非所有的事情都已经做完了。“我们花了所有时间来给Kerrigan一个漂亮的脊柱”，Carpenter说，“我们还将覆盖上毛发。”
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原文:
Blizzard's Nick Carpenter explains.
With 1.9 million polygons and 688 individual pieces, creating the character model for StarCraft II's Tichus Findlay in StarCraft II's debut cinematic was no easy task. Blizzard's cinematic creative director Nick Carpenter was at GDC 2008 to explain how intensive the creation process really was. "We made the tech guys' lives a nightmare," he said.
The concept for the trailer centered on the idea of getting in and seeing what actually goes on in one of StarCraft's Terran barracks structures, which are used to produce marine units. When the trailer was first shown at Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, South Korea last year, he said people kept asking him why Tichus, the cinematic's star and major character in SCII, was getting welded into the suit. "The idea is, he's not coming back."
For visual inspiration while designing Tichus' armor and the room surrounding him, Carpenter and his team of artists visited and photographed an industrial plant. By examining the way light filtered through metal shafts and reflected against chipped coats of paint and other metallic structures, the team was better able to implement the theme of a "used future" into Tichus' armor and the construction machine seen in video. "Every object tells a story," Carpenter said he would frequently remind his team.
Zeratul's design was based more around Bruce Lee. Carpenter wanted him to appear "ninjaesque," and he was outfitted with Egyptian-styled armor to give him a more exotic appearance. Carpenter added, "The thing about Zeratul is that he doesn't have a mouth, so we need to give him really expressive eyes."
In addition to showing off loads of character art and early 3D modeling and animation for the finished cinematic, Carpenter went briefly into how Zeratul, Kerrigan, and a hydralisk were created. For Kerrigan, Carpenter wanted her to appear, "a little bit more creepy, a little bit more Zergy." He also revealed her bone wings were designed with the idea that she could spread them out underneath her and use them like spider legs.
Yet even with all the work and planning put into every step of the creation process, not everything would make it through to final. "We spent all this time making [Kerrigan] a nice pretty spine," said Carpenter, "and we wound up covering it with all her hair."
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