We sat down with three members of the creative production team – Developer Matt Stasinowsky, Animator Scarlett Josephine and Animation Supervisor Tim Mayor, to hear about their experience working on Reframe Your Response.

Matt: 

Seeing the animations come to life. From the actors coming into the studio, the motion capture sessions and our animators cleaning it up. Then just seeing the life come into the characters. I plugged all the pieces together and got to check to see if everything was working and I remember having this moment where I was fully engaged in the experience. The acting was so good, the delivery of the lines was that great that it had a real emotional impact on me.

 

Scarlett:

I worked on a number of aspects from character design to costume but I really liked working on the face animation, that was so much fun. Sometimes the actors’ expressions were too subtle for motion capture. So being able to work on it and refine some of the expressions for the project was quite nice. I also loved working with the different Viewport teams, it was so good working on this project.

 

Tim: 

Working with motion capture was bloody excellent. I did not expect to ever work with it in my lifetime because I didn’t really ever think that I’d have the opportunity in Perth. So I was very excited when I saw that Viewport had a Rokoko suit. I’ve done hundreds of hours of hand animation, so being able to clean up mocap animation was great. This project would not have been possible in the time frame we had if we animated by hand. I loved it. 100%.

Matt:

It happens more often than I realised and that it kind of falls back on the nurses to deal with it obviously, because you can’t really control the patients. Nurses seem like they’re on the backfoot a bit just trying to keep things calm. I just didn’t realise how often it happened and how important it was.

Scarlett:

It’s not good. People do need training with it. There’s lots of hard situations that people have to go through and frontline staff need help. It’s really cool that we are producing work that is going to really help people prevent OVA.

Tim: 

This OVA training program was an eye opener for me. Of course it can happen in all workplaces. In an office workplace it’s rare but if you’re a nurse or a retailer you’re dealing with people that could be under the influence so you never know what you’re dealing with.

Thank you to Matt, Scarlett and Tim for taking the time to chat with us. Please check out Scarlett’s portfolio and Tim’s portfolio on Artstation.