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Animation Summit: Building Kiriko's Ultimate Ability in 'Overwatch 2'

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Building a new Overwatch hero from scratch always comes with a set of unique problems that need to be solved. The ultimate ability of one of Overwatch 2's new heroes at launch, Kiriko, summons an inari gate pathway in front of her and a fox spirit that runs along the path. Kiriko's ultimate ability stands out as a limitless supply of fascinating problems that needed to be solved to deliver a highly polished visual experience. This talk dives in-depth into those problems and how each of them was approachedcovering initial brainstorming, performance considerations, and finding engineering solutions to arrive at a result closely representing vision mockups from artists.

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