Badass - Free Guy

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Character Rigging work I did on Channing Tatum character Badass for the movie Free Guy! I was responsible for the facial rigging of all his in game footage, and the CG Double for the opening VFX shot, a chase sequence !

On this character I was in charge of the facial rigging, to be as close as possible to Channing's facial expressions during the few shots were he appear in video game render but also in the opening sequence where a CG double of the actor had to be used for obvious reasons :p
I also worked on the parachute setup/costume that only appears for a few seconds but is truly badass.

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.

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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