One of many cinematic animators who labored on the award-winning Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has now joined CD Projekt Purple.
Lucie Hennet labored at Sandfall Interactive from Could 2023 to the top of 2024 as a cinematic animator, the place she refined the uncooked movement seize by enhancing the physique and facial animations.
“Throughout my time at Sandfall Interactive, my fundamental tasks included cleansing up and refining physique and facial movement seize, in addition to managing knowledge from Xsens to UE5,” she posted on her ArtStation web page.
“I additionally supplied help on the movement seize periods and contributed to constructing the animation pipeline for the cinematics.”
Hennet additionally shared a video on Artstation exhibiting an instance of preliminary uncooked movement seize from Clair Obscur, and the way her work turned it from a tough animation – most notably within the character’s faces, which don’t completely match the lip-synching – into a refined, last product.
Now Hennet has moved from France to Poland, the place this month she joined CD Projekt Purple in Warsaw as an on-site cinematic animator.
Though Hennet has not particularly acknowledged that she’s engaged on The Witcher 4, CD Projekt Purple’s Warsaw studio is presently growing The Witcher 4 whereas its North American studios in Vancouver and Boston are engaged on Cyberpunk 2 and Witcher multiplayer sport Venture Sirius.
CD Projekt has beforehand acknowledged that The Witcher 4 is within the full-scale manufacturing section, however has already dominated out a 2026 launch.
In a Q&A final 12 months following the publication of its monetary outcomes, CD Projekt co-CEO Michał Nowakowski was requested to present extra element about how far the sport was in growth, and replied: “As we have now already acknowledged, The Witcher 4 is within the full-scale manufacturing section. We’re not disclosing any particulars relating to the goal launch date, so there’s not a cut-off date I may discuss with when answering such a query.
“”The one factor we’re commenting is that we’re not launching in 2026, and we’re additionally not usually moving into any specifics relating to technical or design issues. There’s nothing out of the atypical, I’d say, in that space occurring with The Witcher 4 – it’s simply full-scale manufacturing continuing at its tempo, as per our inner plans. I feel that’s as a lot as we will say.”
Clair Obscur was 2025’s largest success story, sweeping awards at ceremonies world wide. To this point it’s obtained Recreation of the 12 months awards at The Recreation Awards, the Golden Joystick Awards, the New York Recreation Awards and the D.I.C.E. Awards.
