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Rust (2013)

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Unofficial, unfinished concept, not for release.

This is something I've been tooling around for a long, long time - since Destiny 1, in fact. As we don't know anyone in Activision or Bungie these days, it seemed like another interesting work in progress to share. If we ever had the chance, I'd jump on this in a heartbeat. (Please note this model is an unfinished placeholder, with no texture data. I needed something to serve as a basis for the script.)

The concept behind this theme is an AI companion that lives on your dashboard. the Ghost here is not one object - every single individual component is a separate entity, whose animations are governed entirely by script and a relative coordinate system. I've programmed some basic expressions based on eyeballing some of the cinematics - some with the horns open at various intervals, some of them closed. Additionally, the aperture of the iris changes accurate to the game as well, and governs the glow from the inner light.

When the user goes from the Content to the function screens, then, the interactive elements come into play - the ghost changes layers from the foreground to the background, and zooms in on the menu - effectively watching you navigate the settings area and reading your notifications. I've tried to make the eye motions realistic in this sense, although I'd say there's still room for improvement. Again, all motion was created after eyeballing some cinematics from Destiny 1.

Because everything is governed by script, we've come up with a range of expressions and behaviors - freeing the theme up from being tied to any pre-canned animation. This creates a plethora of potential opportunities to make every startup unique.

Thoughts are welcome. Again, if the opportunity ever arose to do something like this officially, I'd jump at the chance - at present this is using less than 1/12 of the available memory, so there'd still be a ton of potential polish.

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