One of the most infamous warlords of all time, Napoleon, has been immortalized by Sega in the production of their new game, Napoleon: Total War. Sega enlisted the help of our team to produce a life-like character piece to promote the game in a unique Marketing Trailer.
We started by building an intricate 3D model of Napoleon's head and filming a French actor to capture his facial movements. The HD film footage was then sent to US based Image Metrics who used their facial recognition software to pick up the slight movements of the actors face for us to use as facial capture to drive our CG head. We then created various lighting solutions for Napoleon to fit into our four exciting CG battle scenes in Italy, Russia, Egypt and England.