Is it true that Eternal Crusades art assets department has been outsourced to a chinese studio? If so, which one?
Yep most (all?) 3D art assets creation has been outsourced but it was not made public to which company they outsourced it. This was during pre-alpha...so >1 year ago. No outsourcing is done currently. The team has the permission to use the Dark Millenium assets, however transferring them to UE4 is apparently very difficult and limits the usage (as well as the different art style). However, some assets have been used...afik the Thunderhawk models were taken from DM.
Yeah, like umm... I'll err have those Terminator 1000's ready soon yeah, I just have to finish my paper mache Wraithgoer on which I'm basing my main model for the Eldars varient. I kinda poured sweet tea on my laptop so I'm a little bit behind but its okay as I can just download a free copy of Blender to start up fresh, I mean I still remember what I'm working with. I may have lost the last work I was doing. Erm, well I hope you guys at Behaviour can forgive me for not contacting you sooner but I kinda lost the email you guys gave me. I knew I shouldn't have written it on a scrap of paper. Hello? can you hear me? So I'll mail you the work on a flash drive as soon as its done. Erm, could I have like a bit more money for the project as I spent my advance, it was a good night out - totes worth it. I er have a feeling I'm being followed. Those guys at Games Workstop seemed a little creepy at that last meeting and every time i look around now I feel like there's a shadowy presence over my shoulder. They hated the last work I showed them but its ok cos I'm working on another draft like I said but like I said I err will make sure you get those files as soon as I do them, I just maybe need a little bit more time...
Tbh outsourcing model creation isnt something new for this industry, after all 3d artists can only work on new content or assets for the game while coders will be constantly needed for bugfixing if nothing else.
I did some digging on Google and found these guys worked on the fancy promo art for this game: https://fr.linkedin.com/company/two-dots And I found the company who made our official launch trailer: https://www.iconcreativestudio.com/warhammereternalcrusade2/ Also obviously Snowed In Studios worked on EC's AI, networking and engine development stuff (their logo is linked on the bottom of the EC site page) Then I found this company that worked on EC too, apparently they have a commerce management platform, like marketing, promotion, distribution: http://www.turbulent.ca/en/case-studies Also I found someone on Linkedin that has listed they are a forum mod on this forum for EC. Um...lol forum mod being listed as a job on Linkedin. I didnt find anything on China though :\
And I shall seceratlu get back at you westerners for putting 1 Asian culture in 40k as marines and barely even using them.
Ok, outsourcing ai and netcode?? things that certainly could use some work were being outsourced, amazing...
