This is really great insight into what environment artists do on a company by company basis. I know Naughty Dog used polypainting within ZBrush for their hero characters, but I'm blown away if everything was truly hand painted. I know you could justify the look, but wouldn't that just take forever..even if your crew had…
Its more of our Art Direction. Uncharted is not a photo realistic game, its stylized realism. Using photos to create our textures would give us the wrong look. All our textures are hand painted to give that stylized realistic look but not photo realistic look. Uncharted's style is not just in the textures but also in the…