Guy - Free Guy

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Character Rigging work I did on Ryan Reynolds character Guy for the movie Free Guy! I was responsible for the facial rigging of all the in game footage, and the CG Double for the VFX shots for the chase sequence inside the skyscraper.

It may not seems like it but there is actually multiple models that were used for the film. Any shots that is using real actors needed a rig that match the actors expressions 1 to 1, were "in game" renders used a slightly more stylized version of the character.
There was actually multiple iterations and attempt at different renders and styles to find what would suit best for the movie.
For any CG double, the actor is swapped at the last second with the model so most of the shots using it are blurry it was an important key to match the facial capture at that given moment. On that I could also work on the facial transfer setup to bring the motion captures of Ryan Reynolds on set to the model. I also helped succinctly on the body/costume rig development at the beginning on the show but the focus shifted quickly on the face.

This work is a small part of what the incredibly talented teams at Digital Domain achieved on this show.

Free Guy is a 2021 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. It stars Ryan Reynolds as Guy, a bank teller who discovers he is actually a non-player character in a massively multiplayer online video game and becomes the hero of the story, trying to save his friends from deletion by the game's creator. Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi also star.

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