15 Things You Need To Know Before You Buy The Last Guardian

Key Framed Animations

In creating Trico, Team Ico saw the creature as an “adolescent.” And this lead to unique movements from the massive creature in ways we aren’t use to seeing from, say, a horse or dog. The way Trico translates to screen in that respect is by developing the beast with key frame animations instead of motion capture. Key animations help develop key animation subtleties that motion capture cannot.