Lights, camera, cut: content creation for a TV police series broadcast in Germany and Austria
Character creation and animations for TV series
During my career, I have created many types of content for many different media and applications. In this work, I developed the characters used in a simulation of a video game that was used in one of the episodes of the police series SOKO Linz. SOKO is a police operations series franchise that chronicles the activities of a police cooperation center operating in the border triangle of Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic. The series is co-produced by the German ZDF channel and the Austrian ORF channel and produced by Gebhardt Productions. SOKO stands for "Sonderkommission" ("Special Commission") in German. The spinoff SOKO Linz began broadcasting in 2021.
In this work, I was responsible for the digital recreation of a real samurai armor that is used by the criminal during the episode and that also appears in the game. Besides recreating the armor and the sword used by the main character—a wakizashi—I also created the character—a ninja—that composes the horde of enemies that attacks the main character. For both characters, I was responsible for modeling, texturing, rigging, and animations. The recreation of the armor, as well as the sword, demanded a lot of care and attention to detail since the digital version needed to resemble as much as possible the real version used by the actor.
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Key Points
I was responsible for the digital recreation of a real samurai armor that is used by the criminal during the episode and that also appears in the game. Besides recreating the armor and the sword used by the main character—a wakizashi—I also created the character—a ninja—that composes the horde of enemies that attacks the main character.
What I Learned
This work was technically challenging, and the crucial point was the participation of many people with different knowledge in their fields. This work helped me put into practice a workflow that I have been perfecting for a few years now and allows me to create characters faster than I did a few years ago.
