Every little wrinkle and every little form that you can eke out helps."ĢK Sports used laser scanners to get every single detail for the jerseys just right "It allowed a lot of these likenesses to pop a lot more, and it's a subtle thing, but it helps. "We went back to scan data and we basically doubled the resolution of the face, and it was a ton of work," says NBA 2K18's Art Director Anton Dawson. Every detail matters.Įvery player can't get scanned each year because of their busy schedules, but 2K has a library of player scans it has collected over the years at very high resolutions. Pixelgun Studio's mobile scanner takes a 360-degree scan of Sacramento King rookie point guard De'Aaron Fox.ĢK even virtually scanned Steph Curry with his mouth guard in so they could render the way his lips formed around it when he chewed on it, or when it was positioned up or down in his mouth. Essentially, if a player has a signature expression, the team will get it. They wouldn't give me what they call their "recipe" of expressions, but they did reveal a few of them - like one they call a "scrunch face," where they maximize the compression to get every wrinkle on a player's face. The 2K team captures different facial expressions. It's made up of 146 Canon cameras, updated as new cameras are manufactured, and it captures ultra high detail facial scans and player tattoos with up to 16,000 textures. Twitter: likenesses are captured by a self-powered mobile scanning RV from Pixelgun Studio.
The Celtics' Gordon Hayward in NBA 2K17 (left) and NBA 2K18 (right).
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