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Life to Ratchet & Clank: Like all character-driven projects, Ratchet & Clank presented our animation team with a unique set of artistic and technical challenges. Our artistic philosophy was built on the understanding that our characters were the instruments though which a player would experience our universe. We knew that in meeting these challenges, our puppets would transcend mere game space and become the entities that our players would identify with, vilify, and even personify. However, this philosophy needed to be coupled with practical methodology if it was to see our project to its conclusion. From this necessity grew our testing practices, MEL shortcuts, and real-time animation procedures. Throughout production, these methods removed many of the barriers that would otherwise have obstructed the artistic efforts of our animators. As the Insomniac team cycles into our next project, we continue to refine and expand upon the systems and procedures we developed during Ratchet & Clank. Though our procedures continue to evolve, our underlying goals remain unchanged. For in the end, we can only prove a technology's worth by an audience's response to our characters.
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