1. Is Ubisoft’s Exclusion of Female
Assassins Lazy?
http://www.gamebasin.com/news/is-ubisofts-exclusion-of-female-assassins-
lazy
Yesterday Polygon reported that Ubisoft would not include female assassin charactersin its
upcoming title Assassin’s Creed: Unity. When they were asked why, Ubisoft creative director Alex
Amancio said, “It’s double the animations, it’s double the voices, all that stuff and double the visual
assets. Especially because we have customizable assassins. It was really a lot of extra production
work. It’s not like we could cut our main character, so the only logical option, the only option we
had, was to cut the female avatar.” Ubisoft’s technical director also told Video Gamer “It was on
our feature list until not too long ago, but it’s a question of focus and production. So we wanted to
make sure we had the best experience for the character. A female character means that you have
to redo a lot of animation, a lot of costumes. It would have doubled the work on those things.”

2. But how does 3D animation function and is it really double the work for opposite sexes? “Skeletal
animation is the process of taking a skeleton, which consists of a set of interconnected bones,
animating it, and then attaching the vertices of a mesh model to the skeleton,” writes Marc Soriano,
a professor at the Bourns College of Engineering. “Skeletal animation is typically used for animating
characters that are complex and not amorphic. Humans, mammals, insects, and even invertebrates,
such as worms are suitable candidates.” According to Ubisoft, creating a female character would
require the re‐creation of “over 8,000 animations” and whole new skeletal models. Jonathan
Cooper, the animation director at Naughty Dog, claims the opposite.
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