A Cosplayer With No Video Game Experience was the Lead Facial Animator for Mass Effect: Andromeda - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE] The entire internet has been laughing at Mass Effect: Andromeda over the last couple days. It would take three articles to properly chronicle all the mistakes we’ve seen with the animation in this game, so just watch the latest PewDiePie video instead. How did the facial animations end up so ass, though? Well, maybe it has something to do with the fact that an inexperienced cosplayer was chosen to be the “Lead Facial Animator” on this project. While so does have some background in art, there’s zilch on her résumé when it comes to, ya know, making video games. [IMG]https://i1.wp.com/theralphretort.com/wp-content/uploads/image_uploaded_from_ios.jpg?w=1024[/IMG] [video]https://twitter.com/AdVictoriam1978/status/842886208384512000[/video] And here is her demo reel: [video=vimeo;62556369]https://vimeo.com/62556369[/video] [/QUOTE] Source: [URL="http://theralphretort.com/a-cosplayer-with-no-video-game-experience-was-the-lead-facial-animator-for-mass-effect-andromeda-3017017/"]The Ralph Retort[/URL] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Blogs are not news sources" - Sgt Doom))[/highlight]

Hopefully this will be a good reminder for the future that you should hire people who are good at their jobs, to do important jobs.

there are so many reasons to have such a bad decision but im just gonna go with bioware is fucking retarded

Bioware is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Do you have any better sources? I'm not sure this is exactly the best.

At least the job didnt go to a white male

how embarrassing. but i bet you there'll be no consequences and they'll make up some poor excuse as to why people are lambasting the game and its various animations

I don't want to stereotype and assume that this lady sucked dick to get in this position but I really believe this happened.

While ME:A's animations are obviously hilariously bad this article just makes me feel cringeingly bad for this woman who's clearly now going to be demonised and ousted for doing a bad job. Really people need to blame the mangers that hired her - but also wtf is this source? It literally has a group masturbation (parody) gif to suggest how she got the job? And actually link to pewdiepie to catch you up on the story? I feel like shit-tier witch-hunt journalism like this shouldn't be posted.

[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;51978690]Do you have any better sources? I'm not sure this is exactly the best.[/QUOTE] The whole article is basically a screenshots of various websites. Nothing stops you from googling her name and seeing that nothing was altered. I can see that the source might be offensive to someone but it's the only english source I have atm.

While her twitter bio currently says "CG animator" instead of "ME:A lead facial animator" Google still has the latter cached, so it seems to be legit.

[QUOTE=BarnacleDrive;51978699]While ME:A's animations are obviously hilariously bad this article just makes me feel cringeingly bad for this woman who's clearly now going to be demonised and ousted for doing a bad job. Really people need to blame the mangers that hired her - but also wtf is this source? It literally has a group masturbation (parody) gif to suggest how she got the job? And actually link to pewdiepie to catch you up on the story? I feel like shit-tier witch-hunt journalism like this shouldn't be posted.[/QUOTE] Never should've applied for this job in the first place. But since certain someone wasn't smart enough to see the obvious reactions to job done shitty (all sorts of damage control could've happened from bailing out to just giving a message "so and so, kinda my fault, now eat shit") - I'd say person in charge deserves getting shit for their own incompetence.

No way she should be a Lead Facial Animator, she does have some basic skills as shown by the reel, you can notice some potential there but she should be a junior animator, not a full blown Lead Facial Animator for a AAA project, that is just insane and horribly bad management. To make things worse, this is going to turn into a witch-hunt which also doesn't seem to be fair. Bioware should get the blame here, they are the ones that fucked up.

[QUOTE=BarnacleDrive;51978699]While ME:A's animations are obviously hilariously bad this article just makes me feel cringeingly bad for this woman who's clearly now going to be demonised and ousted for doing a bad job. Really people need to blame the mangers that hired her - but also wtf is this source? It literally has a group masturbation (parody) gif to suggest how she got the job? And actually link to pewdiepie to catch you up on the story? I feel like shit-tier witch-hunt journalism like this shouldn't be posted.[/QUOTE] tbh she may have no actual work down on paper yet but i still feel like its all still hilariously bad, her site says she got a diploma in animation but it looks like she literally started it yesterday with how andromeda looks. at some point you have to be able to step back, look at your work and go "wow holy shit this is fucking terrible, this is going into a triple A game and its my first actual job, so its gonna reflect on me." im not trying to legitimize harassment but she could have been conscious of this whole fuck up too

It should reflect on her resume and future employment options, not by people which hunting her. Bioware and EA's management should be taking all the flak for poor management and hiring.

Isn't the first time bioware has put incompetent employees in key positions. Makes you wonder whats driving their hiring and appointment decisions.

a couple of "animation" jobs for a few months... how do imbeciles like this get hired into leadership position did she blow someone she had to have is there a link to her portfolio somewhere

look. it definitely is bioware's fault that they proposed the position to her. but i think at some point you need to account for personal responsibility, and in her case she shouldve declined, knowing that her inexperience does not suit a lead position.

[QUOTE=Furnost;51978727]tbh she may have no actual work down on paper yet but i still feel like its all still hilariously bad, her site says she got a diploma in animation but it looks like she literally started it yesterday with how andromeda looks. at some point you have to be able to step back, look at your work and go "wow holy shit this is fucking terrible, this is going into a triple A game and its my first actual job, so its gonna reflect on me."[/QUOTE] And then do what, exactly? It's a AAA game developer, she can't just go to the higher ups and be like "hey guys I think I did kind of a bad job, can we get another year of development so we can redo all the facial animation?". A lot of things about Andromeda seem to point that it's just another case of a big developer hiring a bunch of fresh out of college/university students with zero game experience to work on this massive super complex games simply because it's cheaper to hire them than actual experienced people. I wouldn't put any blame on any individual team members, I'd put all the blame on the people in charge of them and the people that decided to go for cheap workforce rather than proven experienced workforce.

If she's the lead facial animator, shouldn't it say so in the credits for the game? Your source is pretty shit, it'd be nice with something more concrete than simply what she has written herself.

[QUOTE=LeonS;51978746]look. it definitely is bioware's fault that they proposed the position to her. but i think at some point you need to account for personal responsibility, and in her case she shouldve declined, knowing that her inexperience does not suit a lead position.[/QUOTE] Getting a job in the game industry is no easy feat, I can't imagine anyone looking to work there would turn down a huge profile job just because they're not sure they're up to the task.

I think she's hardly to blame for this. The downright awful nature of a lot of the games facial animations could only have gotten through into release via a series of terrible mismanagement, no way this person advocated for their own work so much and got it through quality checks alone.

I would be more surprised if it was someone [I]with[/I] experience making these horrible animations [editline]18th March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=LeonS;51978746]look. it definitely is bioware's fault that they proposed the position to her. but i think at some point you need to account for personal responsibility, and in her case she shouldve declined, knowing that her inexperience does not suit a lead position.[/QUOTE] what kind of logic is "oh I got offered a job as a lead in a triple-A gamedev company, but I will decline because I know I'll be bad at it", it's absolutely the management's fault

Is bioware run by monkeys or something? Did they fire all of the talent?

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;51978768]Is bioware run by monkeys or something? Did they fire all of the talent?[/QUOTE] IIRC Bioware had a huge brain drain around ME3 and DA: Inquisition. A lot of their talent left.

[QUOTE=Nautsabes;51978745]a couple of "animation" jobs for a few months... how do imbeciles like this get hired into leadership position did she blow someone she had to have is there a link to her portfolio somewhere[/QUOTE] This is the kind of unfair shit this girl is going to have to deal with now. Like others said, Bioware is the one who should get flak for it.

The blame lies more with the people that hired her.

How do you fuck up this bad (The people in charge of the hiring) and expect to keep your job?

The source in the OP is pretty stupid, but it's true [url]https://ca.linkedin.com/in/allierosemarie[/url]

Her animation isn't bad tbh its just REALLY cartoony, and I can now see why the animation on ME are so wonky looking, their either way to emotive for a normal human or show none at all But like everyone else is saying, its not her fault she got hired she did her job. This is all on bioware for picking an unsuitable lead