{"id":589403,"date":"2026-08-11T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589403\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:28:09","slug":"lead-animator-shares-wip-scene-of-assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589403\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Animator Shares WIP Scene of Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a remake of the 2013 original game, and it became <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/assassin-s-creed-black-flag-resynced-sets-franchise-steam-player-record-sells-2-million-copies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the biggest Steam launch in the history of the franchise<\/a>, surpassing 99,000 concurrent players a day after its release.<\/p>\n<p>And now Ave Espelita, Lead Animator at Ubisoft Philippines, shared a behind-the-scenes animation of the game, where he showed how they improved the action of rope-sliding.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that in previous games, characters grabbed the rope bare-handed to slide down, which, realistically, would have caused rope burn.<\/p>\n<p>So the solution in Black Flag Resynced was to give Kenway a second rope to grip, avoiding the injury altogether. Espelita also added more side-to-side movement while swinging, achieving a more chaotic pirate look.<\/p>\n<p>Espelita also led the creation of three takedowns for the El Tibur\u00f3n boss fight in the remake, driving fight choreography, mocap direction, benchmark animations, and camera direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a remake of the 2013 original game, and it became the biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3621,61,60,43,80,14799],"class_list":["post-589403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-animation","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}