14 DAY TRIAL // Comic book artist Tony Moore has emphasized the amount of work that was put into the recently revealed Assassin's Creed Unity animated video from Rob Zombie, saying that the team spent lots of time on special sequences such as a stabbing during the storming of the Bastille.
Assassin's Creed Unity takes place during the French Revolution and focuses on protagonist Arno Dorian, a nobleman who seeks vengeance but soon finds himself in a position to influence the extremely violent factions that are fighting across Paris.
In order to put everything into perspective and show just how gory things were, Ubisoft went to horror director Rob Zombie and comic book artist Tony Moor to create a special animated video about the whole revolution.
The result was a very impressive video, which you can admire above, but also some memorable work, according to Moore, who has talked on the UbiBlog about the amount of time and effort spent on the project.
According to the artist, one specific stabbing required a lot of back and forth work between him and the rest of the team, but in the end, it was completely worth it.
"There’s this one part in the storming of the Bastille where we zoom in on a guy getting stabbed in the eye," Moore describes. "We thought about it a lot and me and the animation team when back and forth with it and we went over the pacing and the viscosity of the blood and we just really dug in on it."
"Then the animation team went in and did this 3D mapping over a section of the face and had all the blood spurting out and all that great stuff. When they turned that in, it just blew my mind because it had been a long time coming with a lot of rough cuts and then when they were like, Here’s what we’ve got. It just blew me away.”
Moore also explains that he went into the project thinking it would be more like an animated comic but ended up realizing that the whole video was much more than that and that his work would be put into motion in a variety of ways.
"I’ve had some stuff turned into motion comics before, so in my head that’s kind of what I anticipated, but I wasn’t really prepared at all for the level of execution that these guys were putting together," Moore mentions.
"I was kind of thinking on that wavelength ahead of time and I was drawing art that was more suited to being cut up into little pieces and moved around. I had no idea how far these guys were going to take it."
Assassin's Creed Unity is set to debut this October for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
