Diablo Immortal - BK Announce Cinematic (Vampire character) | Blizzard (2023)

Such an indescribable emotion for me to be able to work with Blizzard, the dreammakers company of my childhood. What a better start than the awesome Diablo license !

As a character supervisor and artist, here is my work on the Vampire character beside supervising the creation process of the other characters for this trailer. We worked closely with Jeremie Moncomble (Head of Characters), Laura Guerreiro (Groom Supervisor) and the Blizzard Cinematic Art team to achieve this challenge.

On this guy, I was mainly in charge of the organic parts's Look developement (Texturing, shading & additional sculpt), starting from a wonderful sculpt model provided by Blizzard (Artist credit for Leon Enriquez [https://www.artstation.com/leonenriquez] ).
The clothes's look developement was done by my talented collegue Roland Caron [https://www.artstation.com/rolandcaron] who did an awesome job to magnify the essence of this cursed lord.
The amazing vampire's groom is the result of Remy Lao's [https://www.artstation.com/remylao] hard work. What a wonderful job he did !

All of this wouldn't be possible without the great team effort at UNIT-IMAGE between each of our departments such as :

- Character's lead artists : Roland Caron [https://www.artstation.com/rolandcaron] & Timothé Hek [https://www.artstation.com/timty]
- Blendshape & Facial post-animation team (Supervised by Fanny Cabezas [https://ninibezas.artstation.com/projects] )
- Rigging & Setup team (Supervised by Zoe Pelegrin)
- CFX team (Supervised by Tommy toussaint, Laura Guerreiro [https://www.artstation.com/selenaust] & Jean-Philippe Lebrun)
- Animation team (Supervised by Daniel Ly & Rémi Parisse)
- FX team (Supervised by Arthur Loiseau)
- Environment, Lighting & Compositing team (Supervised by Jeremy Ageron [https://www.artstation.com/j-a-g] )
- Production management by Maily Briffaut
- Project manager : Dominique Boidin

Huge congrats to the whole team !