Looking for someone in Japan who had experience with guns in games, he looked on twitter and found someone posting gun reloading animations
Having interacted with animation studios and being generally pretty embedded in this world, I know that many studios are doing similar things, such as Twitter callouts if they need some contractors fast for some projects. Even established anime studios do this. I know at least two people who got to work on Japanese anime thanks to Twitter interactions.
I hired animators through Twitter myself, using a similar process: I see someone who seems really talented → I reach out → they accept if the offer is good enough for them.
If that’s the case for animation, I’m pretty sure it often applies to video games, too.
As far as Palworld goes and the genius of its founders & character designer go, I would personally hold off on the encomiums until the dust has settled some more—both to see if it’s anything but a gimmick (can ‘unlicensed Pokemon but survival’ really hold players long-term?) and also if they even survive (there’s a reason ‘unlicensed Pokemon but X’ is not a large niche). While Nintendo has not yet formally sued them, the official Nintendo statement was not exactly friendly either… And their ex-head-lawyer seems to expect them to sue:
I asked Don McGowan, who headed the Pokémon Company’s legal team from 2008 to 2020 what he made of Palworld. “This looks like the usual ripoff nonsense that I would see a thousand times a year when I was Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon,” he said. “I’m just surprised it got this far.”
(They are also apparently claiming to make no use of AI despite a history of it and even tweeting generative Pokemon, which seems like something that might backfire on them and undermine any narrative of hypercompetence.)
Having interacted with animation studios and being generally pretty embedded in this world, I know that many studios are doing similar things, such as Twitter callouts if they need some contractors fast for some projects. Even established anime studios do this. I know at least two people who got to work on Japanese anime thanks to Twitter interactions.
I hired animators through Twitter myself, using a similar process: I see someone who seems really talented → I reach out → they accept if the offer is good enough for them.
If that’s the case for animation, I’m pretty sure it often applies to video games, too.
It is a notorious practice.
As far as Palworld goes and the genius of its founders & character designer go, I would personally hold off on the encomiums until the dust has settled some more—both to see if it’s anything but a gimmick (can ‘unlicensed Pokemon but survival’ really hold players long-term?) and also if they even survive (there’s a reason ‘unlicensed Pokemon but X’ is not a large niche). While Nintendo has not yet formally sued them, the official Nintendo statement was not exactly friendly either… And their ex-head-lawyer seems to expect them to sue:
(They are also apparently claiming to make no use of AI despite a history of it and even tweeting generative Pokemon, which seems like something that might backfire on them and undermine any narrative of hypercompetence.)