Mikael Persson's Soma animation reel

**Lazoriss** · 01-29-2016, 11:44 PM

This recently went up on Frictional's FB. Sorry if someone has already posted this on the forums. Must've missed it.

Noice.

EDIT: https://www.artstation.com/artist/mikaelpersson/profile
Link to Mikael's Artstation portfolio, which also links out to other social media profiles. Check out his work!

**SlackerinDeNile** · 01-30-2016, 12:14 AM

That was really interesting! Thanks for sharing.

**Lazoriss** · 01-30-2016, 06:01 AM

One thing I find really cool about this is that we finally get to see a clear model of the creature from the 2013 trailer. I always wondered what it looked like! We also get animations and breakdowns of characters that were very detailed or difficult to make out, like the Dunbat and anglerfish. Big Grin

**Radiance** · 01-30-2016, 08:00 AM

When you animate in Maya, how do you export as an animation in editor?

**Statyk** · 01-30-2016, 05:34 PM

The scene at 1:06 was probably one of my favorite things in the game, killer work Big Grin

**Mikael P.** · 02-01-2016, 02:50 PM

Glad to see that the reel has gotten a life of it's own now! I agree, about so much getting lost in the darkness. It's really appropriate but it's a shame on such nice models. So I was happy to be able to do something like this to showcase them a bit more.
Thanks for sharing and the kind words! If you have any questions, I can try and answer...

brus I just export the skeleton hierarchy as a .dae when I export animations. But you'll also be needing the mesh with an attached skeleton.